NOVA - Lightning!
from: WGBH Boston
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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9781593751739
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, NTSC, Widescreen
ISBN: 1593751737
Label: WGBH Boston
Manufacturer: WGBH Boston
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: WGBH Boston
Region Code: 1
Release Date: June 29, 2004
Running Time: 60 minutes
Sales Rank: 23456
Studio: WGBH Boston
Theatrical Release Date: 1996
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Lightning! takes you on a high-voltage trip into the most electrically charged weather in the world—culminating 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 on average for more deaths than hurricanes and tornadoes put together.
Join the 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 observers—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.' On one DVD5 disc. Region coding: All regions. Audio: Dolby stereo. Screen format: 4 x 3 full frame.
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