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See lightning damage buildings in ultra-slow motion video

Popkin
May 22, 2025
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This high-speed camera captured an extremely detailed video of lightning striking residential buildings in Brazil. While a regular video is taken at 30 frames per second, the high-speed version is a whopping 40,000 frames per second. When slowed down, the high-speed version shows the lightning in an incredible way.

If you pause the…

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