Växẍ Säbbäth on Nostr: nah, that looked like some kind of tethered projectile for which the arc followed the ...

nah, that looked like some kind of tethered projectile for which the arc followed the tether (probably not the best idea to be firing one of those towards a power line, fam)

a laser would have the same problem (at least the initial arc has a pretty good chance of following the path back down to source/ground, so make sure that isn't "you"), and it has the other problem that lasers aren't exactly cheap, but they have the virtue of being undetectable, long-range, and reusable