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Re:A New Explanation for Ball Lightning by tim333 on Wednesday August 02, 2017 @08:19AM (#14909891)
Tesla's gear kicked out a lot of power in a way that I'm not sure has really been done since. At least I haven't seen photos looking as impressive as the ones of him in his lab https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e5/Tesla_co...

https://thevelvetrocket.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/nikola-t...

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Re:A New Explanation for Ball Lightning by iplaw on Wednesday August 02, 2017 @09:32AM (#14910376)
These are very likely long exposures that captured groundings over time. It'd look much less impressive in person, and more in line with what you've seen reproduced.
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