What if all the lightning on Earth struck the same place at once?

Published: 07 May 2024
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If all the lightning that occurs worldwide on any given day all struck the same place at once, what would happen to that place?

Randall Munroe is the author of the New York Times bestsellers What If? 2, How To, What If?, and Thing Explainer; the science question-and-answer blog What If?; and the popular web comic xkcd (https://xkcd.com). A former NASA roboticist, he left the agency in 2006 to draw comics on the internet full time.

Henry Reich is the creator of MinutePhysics and executive producer of MinuteEarth and MinuteFood and founder of Neptune Studios (the parent company for all three youtube channels).

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Narrated by and based on "What If?" by Randall Munroe
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Illustration and Video Editing by Lizah van der Aart
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What If? The Video Series is the official adaptation of the What If? books by Randall Munroe and is produced by Neptune Studios LLC.

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