With Power Ball jackpots routinely exceeding several hundred million dollars, you’ve probably heard or read the following mantra several hundred times: “Your chance of hitting Power Ball is less than getting struck by lightning, twice in the same day!” A video clip which has circulated for several years shows a local street surveillance camera which allegedly captures one unlucky individual getting struck by lightning twice in 60 seconds. Is this real or fake? It’s a hoax. Let’s first take a look at the video, which was originally posted back in 2011. The first bolt from the heavens knocks the poor guy down and even leaves a char mark on the pavement. The poor son-of-a-gun gets up dazed and confused, brushes himself off, takes a couple of steps and gets struck again. Livescience debunked the video, noting that ”The chance of survival in the case of a direct strike is essentially zero.” On a more technical note, it is pointed out: ”Each flash appears in only one frame of the video, with no saturation or blooming of the camera. A lightning flash at nighttime, when the lens is wide open, would probably saturate the camera.” The following video takes a closer look at the technical reasons this [...]
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