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Nova: Lightning
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Standard 1.33:1 Color / Production Year: 2004 / Region 1
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All-Time Sales Rank: 20729
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Nature's Most Dazzling andiDangerous Display
Lightning! takes you on a high-voltage trip into the most electrically charge 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 or 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."
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Features:
| Printable Materials for Educators
Access to the NOVA Web Site
Scene Selection
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| | Standard 1.33:1 Color | | Audio: (more info) | ENGLISH: Dolby Digital Stereo [CC]
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| Studio: WGBH Boston Video
Production Year: 2004
Release Date: 6/29/2004
Length: 60 mins
Rating: NR
| Packaging: Keep Case
Number of Discs: 1
Disc: SS-SL
Item Code: WG26719
UPC Code: 783421267190
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