Nova Presents: Lightning!

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Lightning! takes you on a high voltage trip into the most electrically charged weather in the world -- culmination in a dazzling lightning show set to music that rivals the most extraordinary fireworks display. The program also visits with some of lightning's tragic victims who thought they were out of harm's way.

Lightning's fleeting rivers of electricity strike Earth 6,000 times a minute; jolt every commercial airplane one to two times a year; wipe out power to entire cities; hit 1,000 people annually; and account for more deaths than hurricanes and tornadoes put together. Join scientists as they tempt nature by creating the world's tallest lightning rod, a wire leading thousands of feet into storm clouds, which triggers awe-inspiring thunderbolts a few hundred feet from the observer -- and creates a chunk of "petrified" lightning. "I think lightning fascinates everyone" says "stormchaser" Dan Davis. "It's a personification of the intensity, the chaos and the unpredictability of nature."

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Nova

Language

English

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