Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-31810758-20170423043658/@comment-25093611-20170430080350

Lorenzo.r.1st wrote: @greatestsin, actually the lightning that we SEE is 50% light speed because it goes down to the ground, and up to the clouds, which gives us enough time to see it (even if its just lees than a glimpse). so, yeah, actual lighting, is light speed. see? science class in 8th grade just helped me win in life. fuck yeah. the movement of electrons between atoms is lightspeed but the speed of lightning is slowed down by various stuff, here two pages regarding this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_of_electricity and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drift_velocity