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static charge from kite video check it out

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Created by vader > 9 months ago, 21 Apr 2010
vader
NSW, 418 posts
21 Apr 2010 9:24PM
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is it real, looks the goods

Jr Walks
WA, 284 posts
21 Apr 2010 7:30PM
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Looks real to me

xSAVx
QLD, 40 posts
21 Apr 2010 10:05PM
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Have heard of this happening before but never seen it...looks real tho

BoDiddly
VIC, 622 posts
21 Apr 2010 10:42PM
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Adobe After Effects, 3DS Max, Nuke or Maya?!

darylkiter
WA, 42 posts
21 Apr 2010 9:27PM
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BoDiddly said...

Adobe After Effects, 3DS Max, Nuke or Maya?!


yeah thats so fake
there is no sign or any other lightning just from the kite to the rider pfft!

wishy
WA, 1501 posts
21 Apr 2010 9:50PM
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the timing is all wrong - the static builds up when you jump and exits when you land through your feet, if you could see the arc im pretty sure it would only be from the board to the water, or from your feet to the water.

I have been zapped before.

GalahOnTheBay
NSW, 4188 posts
22 Apr 2010 12:24AM
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^^^ What he said - anyone who has been zapped knows the timing...

Neill
VIC, 484 posts
22 Apr 2010 12:29AM
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i cannot even believe any of you guys are seriously considering this to be real. you have any idea how much power you would need to create a 25m long arc like that for even a fraction of a second? or can anyone explain why it's arcing along the lines which are already connected to the kiter via the bar? or why it's so poorly photoshopped that even an autistic monkey with a lobotomy could see that it's fake?

Charl dv
WA, 2485 posts
21 Apr 2010 10:38PM
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i was there, you werent. its real. trust me

Bigwavedave
QLD, 2057 posts
22 Apr 2010 12:39AM
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Dead giveaway is that there's no reaction from the riders or the camera operator.

tgladman
WA, 500 posts
21 Apr 2010 10:55PM
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make this thread go away. it hurts my head to think somebody considered it was possible.

jarvo
NSW, 86 posts
22 Apr 2010 7:38AM
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those guys are charging

flano
WA, 113 posts
22 Apr 2010 6:23AM
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If any one belives this or things this could be real they are stupid

peanuticus
NSW, 341 posts
22 Apr 2010 10:14AM
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I believe it not probs, had it happen to me and a friend witness the spark. conditions were a bit spoky with that lightning feel to the air and low cloud and wet. not sure i buy the dust theory but then again this can happen.

However (I've not watched the movie) that is a crock of &$*(. You can only build up a charge in the kite when off the water as you are constantly earthing the static charge on the water.

Think school, think vadnagraph(?) generator and you had to stand on a plasic sheet to make it work.



skiddz
NT, 237 posts
22 Apr 2010 11:04AM
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if you built up enough static to make an arc that big, your lines would burn, your kite would have a hole in it and you would be dead.

Static build ups and discharges do happen, but as stated above you need to be off the water for it to happen. And the sparks (if you can even see them) are tiny

ewan kite
VIC, 928 posts
22 Apr 2010 12:04PM
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failure at trying to make dangle passes in 15 knots exiting

Spacemonkey!
SA, 2288 posts
22 Apr 2010 11:41AM
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Not to mention the sparks in the video are blue and last for almost a second and go from the kite to the rider instead of to the earth. That said I think OP - troll

getfunky
WA, 4485 posts
22 Apr 2010 11:01AM
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And Pammy Anderson's cans are real too.

wishy
WA, 1501 posts
22 Apr 2010 11:30AM
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getfunky said...

And Pammy Anderson's cans are real too.




If you can touch them they're real.

gruezi
WA, 3464 posts
22 Apr 2010 1:48PM
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Wish it were real as I've always wanted to go to a Euro Barbie.

kitecroc
SA, 513 posts
22 Apr 2010 5:03PM
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Thanks for waisting 2 mins of my life.

orynoco
QLD, 271 posts
23 Apr 2010 10:41PM
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Yea thats real!!

Ohh, so is osama bin laden in my cupboard!!

Puetz
NT, 2183 posts
24 Apr 2010 8:42AM
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every wet season in the tropics we get zapped, the higher and longer you jump, the bigger the zap.

What this fake arse vid is showing is a lightning strike. The dude would be very dead with the size we see here.

Nice effect but you made it too big and now it looks fake, tone it down and you could have gotten us going.

YoMoFo
NSW, 240 posts
24 Apr 2010 9:15AM
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Sick spot tho



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