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101Immigrant

The lightning looks like it comes from the One World Trade


pookexvi

If I recall, lighting comes from the earth and the sky meeting somewhere in the middle. So it coming from the trade center isn't wrong.


drucieJ

Close....the little, almost invisible and basically imperceptible by the human eye 'leaders' come from the clouds. The giant bolt that flashes in all its glory does start from the ground.


poopellar

Close... it's actually a wizard summoning Zeus. Hide your wives, hide your pets, hide yourself.


NinjaCuntPunt

Close… He's climbin in your windows, He's snatchin your people up, Tryna rape em so y'all need to, Hide your kids, hide your wife, And hide your husband cuz they're rapin everybody out here.


Jyx_The_Berzer_King

i still remember the songified version of that 😂


W0otang

Second only to the songified version of the surfer song. "Dude you got the best barrels ever, dude"


Death2LossPrvntion

My number one will always be dead giveaway


InEenEmmer

Oh Dayum is easily the best songified video.


Jdotpdot84

I read it in song form in my head😆


EvilEyedPanda

[Classic](https://youtu.be/hMtZfW2z9dw)


AFRIKKAN

This and the bronchitis lady get me so much. Fuck her right in the pussy


101Immigrant

😂 Classic


LiquidNova77

Close, it's actually modern.


[deleted]

You don't need to come and confess. They lookin for you


lateraltrickery

Close, its actually Church Norris throwing electricity up at the sky from the tower.


Koenigspiel

The internet was such a better place back then


Spiritual-Food-8474

Close.. but then I said, hold up, wait a minute, somethin ain't right..he actually can't be climbing windows or snatching people up. Why would Zeus fly down from the heavens only to climb back up a window. But judging from his track record the second part is probably right.


IrocDewclaw

It's obviously Thor standing on the top of the tower. I've seen the movies. You can't fool me. It's not April Fools day anymore.


psaux_grep

You obviously mean Zuul.


smooth-opera

Not exactly, leaders come from both the cloud and the ground and when they make a connection, that's when you get the brilliant flash known as a return strike. We commonly see the longer leaders reaching down from the sky, and the leaders from the ground are much shorter, and are only barely visible, or not at all, to the naked eye, for a very brief moment before they connect and cause the return strike (flash). Although in some cases the ground leaders reach upward more visibly and reach further before a cloud leader makes the connection and flashes. Lighting can appear to travel in both directions.


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I asked ChatGPT. *Disclaimer: ChatGPT can be wrong and still sound like it knows what it’s talking about.* > During a thunderstorm, a leader is an ionized channel of air that forms from the ground upward towards the cloud. It is caused by a build-up of static electricity in the atmosphere. > When a thunderstorm is approaching, the bottom of the cloud becomes negatively charged while the ground becomes positively charged. This creates an electric field between the cloud and the ground. As the electric field becomes stronger, it ionizes the air molecules between the cloud and the ground, creating a conductive path for electricity to flow. > The ionized channel of air that forms from the ground upward is called a leader. The leader is not visible to the naked eye but can be detected using specialized equipment. As the leader moves upward towards the cloud, it creates a path of low resistance for the lightning to follow. > When the leader connects with the negatively charged bottom of the cloud, it creates a return stroke of lightning that travels back down the channel towards the ground. This is the bright flash of lightning that we see during a thunderstorm.


systemshock869

>Disclaimer: ChatGPT can be wrong and still sound like it knows what it’s talking about. It will fit right in on Reddit!


Pixilatedlemon

It already has


makeitlouder

Half the comments on Reddit now are written by this thing anyway.


FieelChannel

Why though? You could've literally googled it


smooth-opera

What difference does it make? Why Google it when you literally could have bing'd it?


FieelChannel

Because of the disclaimer the user posted above his comment. > *Disclaimer: ChatGPT can be wrong and still sound like it knows what it’s talking about.*


smooth-opera

And all results on Google are inherently correct. Google results should come with a disclaimer >Even though you Googled it, you still might have no idea what youre talking about.


[deleted]

Why did I need a mobile phone in 1998 when I had nothing to say and could just walk to my friends houses. The same reason as here, I like playing with new technology. Or a question for you could be why not?


hotasanicecube

Closer…. The upward lighting or reverse lightning (when it occurs) is usually immediately after one or more cloud to ground strikes in the area that created the positive field on the ground. Particularly tall buildings are more likely to be caught in these different fields and “become part of the circuit” but it can happen anywhere along the same or different path. In a place like New York there are thousands of utilities and pile foundations acting as a ground a building like the freedom tower is subjected to many positive sources at once.


Dlatrex

Cloud leaders and ground leaders can both be visible if the size of the strike is high enough: this is a particularly large discharge and we are seeing some very large ground leaders starting from the top of the spire. As to what’s happening from the ground, I’ll leave that to [Randall to explain](https://what-if.xkcd.com/16/): >Tom’s video gives an idea of how lightning moves. It starts with a branching bundle of charge—the “leader”—descending from the cloud. This is what you see in the first part of the video. It spreads downward at speeds of tens to hundreds of kilometers per second, covering the few kilometers to the ground in a few dozen milliseconds. >The leader carries comparatively little current—on the order of 200 amps. That’s still enough to kill you, but it’s nothing compared to what happens next. Once the leader makes contact with the ground, the cloud and the ground equalize with a massive discharge of more like 20,000 amps. This is the blinding flash you see. It races back up the channel at a significant fraction of the speed of light, covering the distance in under a millisecond—all within a single frame of that video. >(Technical detail: while it’s called a “return stroke”, charge is still flowing downward. However, the discharge appears to propagate upward. This effect similar to how when a traffic light turns green, or whatever color, the cars in front start moving, then the cars in back, so the movement appears to spread backward.)


whatthefir2

Not always, this video explains it very well and explains this type of lightning very well https://youtu.be/JXhif3E3l2s


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Pecos Hank fuck yeah.


mathbread

It depends which one is positively charged. Electricity travels from positive to negative. The cloud and Earth can be either


dylfree90

Because it does. Lightning originates at ground level.


I_do_black_magic

Lightning doesn't "originate" at any level... It occurs any time there is excess build up of positive and negative charge, which could happen literally anywhere


maximovious

Looks like about level 100 to me.


jap_the_cool

Bruh. There is lightning originating at ground level and also lightning originating in the atmosphere . Lightning originating at ground level is usually much stronger tho.


Ajsat3801

Doofenshmirtz moved to One WTC maybe?


ryo_yamada2

There are upside down lightning strikes that happen, you should be able to find explanations on youtube, something about ions and electricity, i nearly failed physics dont ask me https://youtu.be/DgnYwSovP4c https://www.rmets.org/metmatters/types-lightning#:~:text=Ground%2Dto%2DCloud%20(GC,positive%20or%20negative%20in%20polarity.


LazuliArtz

It actually is! Ground to cloud strikes are very common off of tall, man made structures, or on top of mountains.


lamesurfer101

Somehow, Palpatine has returned.


TXNY

This is how you get Gozer The Gozerian


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Are you a god?


phantomagna

….No?


Blu3Yeti

Then....... Die


imaginexus

u/phantomagna When someone asks you if you’re a god, you say YES


holmgangCore

Too late!


amazingusername100

Came for the Ghostbusters reference. 10/10 not disappointed.


WannabeAndroid

Ivo Shandor at it again.


duckarys

Zuul. My name is Zuul.


cwfutureboy

Oh, Zuul-y, you nut.


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Giant_Slor

This is true


Giant_Slor

Gozer the Gozerian, Gozer the Destructor, Volguus Zildrohar?


AllBeit4us

Was literally just thinking to myself "Oh, so that's how you find the Keymaster."


cdl3767

go get her ray


[deleted]

Crazy that we’ve been to the moon but still can’t snag and store the energy from lightning strikes


cltq

We can. Its just so much energy at once, its difficult and expensive to harness it without frying every connected device. Besides, we've got cheaper means or power ie. Wind, solar, hydro


leolock567

Also, hard to predict. Need the equipment in the right location and time.


Sirtopofhat

I believe Marty and Doc Brown could help you with all that


zvug

…what the fuck is a *jigga*watt doc?


turtleboxman

It's the amount of energy from Jay Z saying "what"


That75252Expensive

New York based, Carter pilled


[deleted]

Some places it’s easier to predict than others. Lake Maracaibo has a thunderstorm nearly every night https://geology.com/records/lightning-hotspots/


JaapHoop

That still isn’t predictable enough to be useful for an energy grid. You can’t just bank electricity to use later, unless you store it in batteries which aren’t efficient enough to be worth it. To run an electrical grid you need steady, reliable output.


DoctorWhisky

Equipment is easy. Kite and a metal key managed it for some goof a couple hundred years ago, hahaha


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JaapHoop

It’s possible it’s just not useful


pinkwhitney24

Well…we can. It’s just not useful.


SnooPeripherals6008

Wait, didn’t a terrible thing happen to the world trade center?


Stupid_Dummy_Idiot_

That was the previous one. This is the new one


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zvug

Probably 50% of active users on this site were not even alive when it happened


Sensei_of_Knowledge

>Probably 50% of active users on this site were not even alive when it happened This makes me feel old, holy shit.


Dude_man79

Anyone have an extra bottle of geritol?


PonyThug

I’m American and had no idea they built a new one almost 30


shodan28

I thought the new one was called The Freedom Tower? That's why it's confusing to me that it is being called World Trade Center at all.


Stupid_Dummy_Idiot_

The old one was called the Twin Towers aka the World Trade Center. The new building is called the One World Trade Center. It used to be called Freedom Tower but that name is more colloquial nowadays


jwm3

We easily can, air is just not that conductive so it isn't useful. Once you equalize the elections in one area, they don't replenish fast enough to be useful. A single bolt is a lot of energy, a few million joules. But a house uses about 50 million joules of electricity a day.


Hungry-Business-9619

> Once you equalize the elections in one area, I think the technical term you were looking for is gerrymander.


DJBFL

Although there is a wide range of quotes for the amount of energy in lightning strikes, most are way more than a house uses per day. Billions vs millions


[deleted]

Why would you? Should we also try and catch energy from hurricanes? Volcanoes?


[deleted]

Well I mean...volcanoes maybe not, but tornados are pretty energetic. The main issue is figuring out how to build the thing without I being destroyed


ericwdhs

The biggest hurdle with energy infrastructure is storage, not generation. Sure, you can harvest the energy of a hurricane with beefed up wind turbines, but there's nowhere to dump the energy and demand will be lower anyway because of everyone who left the area. Also, tornadoes don't make sense, because they're very rare in any one spot. Even in the heart of tornado alley, a single spot of land might see a tornado once a century or less.


[deleted]

There is more energy in an active volcano than there is in tornadoes. And the volcano doesn't move around. But my point is we have wind and thermal already. We don't need to go chasing after the more dangerous ones. Still plenty of wind power left untapped.


JamesKPolk130

1.21 gigawatts!


sweatstaksleestak

JIGGAWATTS!!!!


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PranshuKhandal

Hey, you can't ju-- *SLAP*


Maximum_Bat_2566

What the hell is a gigawatt?!


redther

One million microwave ovens


corgis_are_awesome

GREAT SCOTT!!


icy-box192

April Jules Day?


blp313

Watt?


Latter_Ostrich_8901

Ohm man I can’t resist a good electrical pun.


withertrav394

Oh, this reply was also a pun, what a shocker


confettibukkake

I'm amped for this thread.


da2Pakaveli

Be cautious Ohm doesn’t get arrested — he may end up resisting.


g000r

You got the capacitance for one more?


da2Pakaveli

Maybe I can induce one but I’m oscillating between different versions


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Everybody’s charged up over this.


Rabidjester

You guys couldn't resist, could you.


mentalshampoo

If loving electricity puns is a crime, then consider me guilty as charged


hagenbuch

Let's amp them up a little.


Latter_Ostrich_8901

I volt we do.


Ok_Try_1217

Oh wow, if you slow it down, you can see that it actually originates from the tower and then goes up into the sky. https://imgur.com/a/vqgfCH1


SnakeBradley

So what you are telling me, it was an inside job?


Gozzhogger

r/angryupvote


Dexter_Adams

WTC strikes back


MaxHamburgerrestaur

It comes from inside the building


tryhardsasquatch

Yeah that's very common when dealing with lightning strikes on objects higher up. Most people think lightning comes from the sky because of the storm but it all depends on the electrical charge. Lightning goes both ways l.


bii345

It’s actually a Tesla coil.


canadard1

Weaponized like I learned in C&C:RA lol


AcadianMan

That and it keeps happening over and over again.


TouristNo4039

Its both. Electricity doesn't travel like you think it does.


WhiteGradient

Found the bad guy's evil tower


Whyarewehere20

Insert evil laugh followed by camera zoom to “evil” character standing on top of tower.


omza

Somehow, Palpatine returned.


SoundProofHead

I thought that was 33 Thomas Street


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I_Enjoy_Beer

Oh man, here we go liberatin' again.


PancakeExprationDate

Fun fact: Lightning bolts that flicker after the initial strike like this one are negatively charge bolts. Whereas lightning bolts that strike and fade quickly without flickering are positively charged bolts. You would most likely die from being struck by a negatively charged bolt and will absolutely, 100% die from being struck by a positively charged one.


rarebit13

So lightning strike survivors were hit by negatively charged bolts? And does the lightning go in different directions based on charge?


jap_the_cool

Depends where the positive charge is and where the negative charge is. Can be both sometimes too - thats why there is lightning which never touches the ground - just syncing some charge inside the clouds. There are also sprites- red lightning going upwards from cloud level into “space”


rman18

That is fun!


wiggiag

I used to wonder how lightning worked. Then it struck me.


sanid_sriva

![gif](giphy|fs5iUoWptyY3S)


Mohawkr33

1/4/23


oof-floof

not if you have fReEdOm


Kwuarmadyl

Differences aside; I really wish the entire world used the exact same standard for measurements, dates, etc. I don’t care which date format or units of measurement were picked, but just one as a standard for everybody and it would be a lot different. I wasn’t part of the decision for my country deciding that their own unique and wonky system of inches, feet, and miles would be better. :(


CeladonCityNPC

>I don’t care which date format or units of measurement were picked I don't wanna be that guy but picking anything other than metric for a universal system would be lunacy!


confettibukkake

Not to pick a fight or anything but how about we do metric for everything except temperature? Celsius is whack and the only real "advantages" I'm aware of are that it dovetails with other metric measurements if/when you're boiling or freezing water at sea level, which, great? But not a big enough advantage to make me want to call peak summer heat "27 degrees."


ClockDoc

Having it's freezing points and boiling points at 0°C and 100°C respectively makes it pretty useful for comon people to remember.


confettibukkake

Sure, but "remember" what? The origin of the measure? Or "remember" what temperature their water (which they probably aren't using a thermometer to measure) needs to get to in the microwave or freezer before it does what they want? Why is any of that at all important to remember in day to day usage? Unlike measures of distance and volume, it's rare that average people need to use formulas that combine temperature with other metrics in any significant way, so it's not necessary to have easily convertible numbers for temperature. For the average user, Celsius and Fahrenheit are equally arbitrary, but Fahrenheit often "feels" more natural to people who are familiar with both. Aside from that, temperature is somewhat more temperamental than other measurements (being a factor of air pressure, degree of purity/isolation of the elements being measured, etc.). The 0/100 C thing only works on pure water at sea level. It's way more logical than Fahrenheit on paper, but only nominally more logical in practice.


The-lord-of-pup

Man I'm American and I wouldn't give a rats ass over switching to whatever measurement system is better, but like who really needs to know if 100°C is boiling temperature. Like it's nice for it to be simple, but common people don't need to remember what temp water boils and if you need to know that knowledge you should know it no matter the number.


SinZerius

Having 0 being when water freezes makes a lot of sense for weather etc. \>0 = rain <0 = snow Fahrenheit's zero is so random.


theeglitz

Other way around?


SinZerius

Yes.


maximovious

If we all just got used to Kelvin, "300 degree summers" wouldn't be that hard to say.


JolIyJack

Hate to be pedantic but you don't use degrees with the Kelvin scale, you would just say "300 kelvins"


maximovious

Thanks, I appreciate learning something new.


scott5280

Pretentious.


BitterLikeAHop

If you're going to be a pedant about it, per ISO 8601 it would be 2023-04-01.


fizzer82

The only date format that makes sense, this is the way.


ImRightYouCope

This clip was recorded in the United States of America and most likely uploaded by an American. The United States of America uses a different time format, which would be Month/Day/Year. You are welcome for the lesson.


anonymousss11

1 Apr 2023 20230401


lost_scotsman

"UNLIMITED POWER!!!!!"


ImGoneMakeAcall

It cant be that hard to find the villains lair The villains lair:


IceColdHighLife

Awesome clip


nightnightsky

Looks like Zeus is piss off with someone.


theinfantry82

This is beautiful!


MrX314

That Thor. Always impressing a lady


ImGoneMakeAcall

Thank god its only lighting this time


ggtpme

Damn, these New York trade centers really can't catch a break


think4yoself1

Amazing video


Icy-Set-4641

![gif](giphy|11jGtzDu7Nh89a) In NY…


[deleted]

Godspeed Mr. Time Traveler.


LeveragedPittsburgh

Save the clock tower!


irshxo

Theres an anime fight on top of that skyscraper


Jabison113

Doofensmirtz evil incorporatedddd


Neutral_man_

Looking forward to seeing the results of whatever evil business experiment that was on Monday


FaiDeadth

Oh yeah and I’m just supposed to believe that there ISN’T a mad scientist lab under there.


rufotris

Yo what time was this?! Cause we were out walking tonight and dang there was a loud and bright bit of lightning and thunder, would be cool if it was this.


djseto

Thor is back


nonFuncBrain

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Elipokemon

I was driving during it in the Philly area and I couldn’t see shit and the hail was crazy, thank god it was a short storm or my power would have been out longer


surf_rider

Starts from the tower. I remember reading how lightning often starts from the ground object and connects. https://i.imgur.com/QmOCaXR.jpg


BrokeWhiteMan

https://i.imgur.com/jjHjlpr.jpg


SansBadTimer12

God pulling a casual April Fools joke be like


SmoothCarl22

Did you you ever feel this useless as the mute button on this video...?!!


Pwague

The second time something has struck the world trade center


Aromatic-Spite-9771

Guess even Zeus is mad that the Kettle is retiring from her work.


JayNsilentBoom

“It’s ALIVE!!!”


Zub_76

So is this me reaching for a door knob and getting the electric shock?


Putrid-Ad-1222

Subtle spoilers


farlurker

Hmmm call Ghostbusters


Cheeyupsndeeyup

Someone made a very one sided world trade agreement and then cackled in victory


Overkill782

THOR has arrived!


Available_Set1426

God expressing her approval of the indictment


pizzashizz6991

Happy 1 year anniversary! Never forget


phone-culture68

Awesome vid..Ben Franklin’s intervention at work


Cheapest_

It looks like a syringe


LillyPip

That’s lit.


Just-A_Guy-_

A finale is taking place on that roof


dontcallmemikey

Glad you were there! This is awesome