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\"Zap!\"
\nPretty spectacular footage of a power substation and a huge electrical arc in its equipment<\/a>. The page includes technical analysis of what’s probably happening.<\/p>\n

It’s the kind of thing we’ve seen a zillion times in movies, but seeing it in “real life” is … daunting.<\/p>\n

(via Doyce<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pretty spectacular footage of a power substation and a huge electrical arc in its equipment. The page includes technical analysis of what’s probably happening. It’s the kind of thing…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4717,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/01\/19\/science_marches.html","url_meta":{"origin":4718,"position":0},"title":"Science Marches On!","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 19-Jan-04 11:25am","format":false,"excerpt":"Not quite as spectacular as the electrical arc stuff, but this study of Dropping Large Quantities of Silly Putty from a High Building had a lot of impact on me....","rel":"","context":"In "Science & Nature"","block_context":{"text":"Science & Nature","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/science"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":15275,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/07\/22\/if-man-first-walked-on-the-moon-today.html","url_meta":{"origin":4718,"position":1},"title":"If Man first walked on the Moon today","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 22-Jul-09 7:28am","format":false,"excerpt":"A nice video (via Les, with good commentary) put together by Slate, speculating on what media coverage of the first Moon Landing would have looked like if it were 2009, not 1969. \u00a0 Yeah, I suspect so.\u00a0 While there may be some \"Golden Age of News\" blinders in our memory,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Fourth Estate"","block_context":{"text":"Fourth Estate","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/media\/fourth-estate"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":27527,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/04\/23\/possible-leap-forward-for-fusion.html","url_meta":{"origin":4718,"position":2},"title":"Possible leap forward for fusion","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 23-Apr-12 8:22pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I've been hep on fusion as a power source since high school debate about alternative energy sources. 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