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Veh1
"Well you can tell by the way I use my walk I'm a lightning bolt, no time to talk..."
mygodhasabiggerdick
On my birthday, no less ! ! !
ThatSonOfaBitch
WRONG!!! First time life caught still frame was on friend Grug who stood with stick in rain and died. Grug back show light from sky clear as day. Much more clear than first time caught still that you claim!
sundaymondayhippyday
I think I grug now
WeMistbornsNeedNotMakeSense
Thanks to this guy that we have realistic forked lightning spells in RPG games
Uonnay
Why didn't scientists use their eyes? Where they to scared to watch the sky when a storm was raging?
Why did they need a photo?
valen00
you ever try to measure how long the straight bits are or count the branches of a lightning strike with your eyes?
WackyWavingFlailingArmTubeMan
#1 and its like, the MOST lightning, lightning can be
AlexanderElcazorro
Guy who finally managed to photograph lightning on Sept. 3, 1882 finally seeing the previous day's headline: "Fuck!"
insanitycontinuum
Um.. people have been always able to see forked lightnings in the distance with their bare eyes. I have many times. It's good to have photographs of lightnings but I don't see how that one needed proving
scotswahey
Yeah. This text is probably getting confused between fork and sheet lightning. Sheet lightning is just a flash...I believe from my limited understanding of the subject.
scotswahey
Follow up: Having done the work to google it, it appears sheet lightning is actually a fork, but just hidden in the cloud or upper atmosphere.
Totallyscrewedinaustin
Neat! And excellent penmanship by the photographer
Twinklepot
I was taught to write in a copperplate script. Then I changed school and we were encouraged to print in block letters. I have done a mishmash of the two ever since.
ThatSonOfaBitch
It's a lost art.
Snooj
If you look at a lot of notations on old photographs it feels like everyone had badass handwriting back them.
Totallyscrewedinaustin
Dude, I found my grandmother's report cards from the 1920s...you are correct!
valen00
I'm kinda shitty that they called it a "font" in the post tbh. Like, what?
valen00
https://petapixel.com/2020/08/05/these-are-the-worlds-first-photos-of-lightning/ for some actual history on it. I'm going to say "precise timing" wasn't really a part of it. With the struggle of getting plates fast (sensitive) enough to even pick it up odds are he opened the shutter when the storm was cooking off and waited for a bolt, then closed the shutter after without any great rush. He could probably have had the shutter open for minutes waiting. Now the dude making a Daguerreotype of it/
valen00
that is friggin baller, and on hard mode. Though I guess at least for that process the blue/uv the lightning gives off plays to the strengths of it. Even so. Damn. (I may have a personal bias for Daguerreotype, because I think they are cool AF)
shalafi71
LOVE Daguerreotypes! Haven't seen one in many years.
TheRicM
#1 Sept. 2, 1882 was a Saturday, if anyone was wondering like I was
Leonon
"What did you do with your weekend?" "Oh, I just took the first ever photograph of lightning and advanced humanity's knowledge of how it works. You?"
justfillingthespace
There's always that one coworker...
sundaymondayhippyday
I got hit by lightning and gained super powers
Cayowin
Barry is that you?
pr0t34n
Ok but why is the lightning walking away like bigfoot
Tomigami
"Just got done fuckin'." - Kyle Kinane
Cranbananarama
Got tired of posing for the camera.
HotSauceNCereal
That's an Ent.
DragonThunderUndertaking
There is no man in the lightning, you are mistaken.
DecapodianSaysWoopWoopWoopWoop
BAM! Half Life 3 confirmed.
SeeMyVests
It’s making its way downtown…
Pulsahr
Because "Ok I'm done here".
StrokeFlavoured
It is a guy in a lightning costume. Even if DragonThunderUndertaking likes to make you think differently.
Distractus
That's what Big Sky wants you to think
demosteness
He’s walking a forked path
vosuraekira
It's got places to be.
DarthGoodguy
MikeRInternetTraveler
It looks like Bigfoot is flipping off the UFO.
DarthGoodguy
HashMaster9k
DarthGoodguy
HashMaster9k
DarthGoodguy