AWWW FUCK YEA
DEER SEASON IS LOOKIN GOOOOOOOD
Lightning is one of those things that makes it easy to see why people invented Gods to explain the phenomena.
had this happened 2000 years ago a local village would be absolutely losing their SHIT.
- look at all that fucking MEAT
- god has blessed us with a bountiful harvest
- did you see all that fucking MEAT?!
I don’t think they would go near that.
Americans would
Hard to know.
Could go either way.
I can certainly imagine people avoiding it because of implied danger.
… but I can also imagine people evaluating it and concluding that “they don’t look sick, and they taste fine”.
I guess the decision depends on how hungry you are.
I think it’s important to point out that anyone making this decision was probably using the herd as a primary source of food…it’s pretty clearly a sign that you should hit the road.
Way back there weren’t any settlements, only nomadic tribes. They’d loose their shit alright. “Oh no, our transport and future food resources!”
They turned it into a study of how the rotting carcasses impact the environment!
Oh deer…
wizards
OP since original D&D.
how does lightning work? I’ve seen videos of people being struck like 5 times and they are fine with some scars and minor nerve trauma. What causes that person to be ok, but 300 reindeer just die?
You get a circular voltage gradient away from the strike spot. A human with their two legs doesn’t spread along that as far as a deer’s four legs do, so they catch more voltage drop across that, which also runs through their body (along their heart etc). It just depends a lot on how and where a body is affected by electricity.
that’s a good explanation thank you
mildly horrifying
Electrocuted, basically:
“Lightning does not strike a point, it strikes an area,” said John Jensenius, a lightning safety specialist with the National Weather Service. “The physical flash you see strikes a point, but that lightning is radiating out as ground current and it’s very deadly.”
That’s interesting. I have seen lightning split a tree and then follow wires into a house blowing out the wall all long the path of the wires. I have also seen it lift up decking when following underground wires.
But if lightning hits with no lightning rod and ground is equally everywhere I guess I could imagine this result.
I read somewhere that the induced electical field shift near a lightning strike is - while orders of magnitude calmer than the strike itself - still powerful enough to burn, maim and kill.
I think it’s what Wikipedia calls “side splash” in the article on lightning injury?
and ground is equally everywhere
You make an interesting point; Lapland is known for being relatively flat, often stony and pretty much treeless. I’m sure that contributed to an increased radius.
Small correction: this was in southwestern Norway; Lapland is in the far north of Finland.
Oh, sorry I just assumed Lapland when I saw reindeer.
Lapland - or Sápmi to be precise, but that’s an even larger area - is in the North of Finland, Sweden and Norway.
When you correct people, double-check that you’re correct.
I spent several weeks in Lapland, and I was nowhere close to Finland at any pointI did, and I suppose you did as well which would have shown you what I meant and the differences between the Lapland of Finland and the general Sápmi region which is not often referred to as Lapland any more.
I hope you put more effort and nuance into discussions you have elsewhere!
Lapland is in Finland. Hardangervidda is in Norway. It is flat as well though.
Oh, sorry I just assumed Lapland when I saw reindeer.
Lapland - or Sápmi to be precise, but that’s an even larger area - is in the North of Finland, Sweden and Norway.
Here’s a question with a non-intuitive answer, do you think lightning rods attract lightning or ….
Thank you, I didn’t know that.
Part of the problem is that we have two feet. When lightning strikes the ground nearby, it creates a difference in electric potential between the foot that’s closest to the impact point and the more distant one. If that potential is great enough, then an electric currect can jump through one’s shoe, go up into the body then down the other leg and back to ground.
Laying down only increases the surface area in contact with the ground, so the best thing to do is get inside.
Can I just stand on one foot then?
Feet have non-zero surface area so there’s still room for an electric potential between the near and far side of the foot. It’d be smaller so that isn’t an entirely terrible idea, but it is by no means foolproof.
I think as long as it doesn’t pass through your heart,you’ll be fine with some cooked flesh
“Fine”. Burns are very serious injuries prone to infection. Internal injuries are way harder to diagnose and treat. That’s a rough combination.
Damnit Thor
He does love murder
Have you read the marvel comics? I never read much avengers as a kid. Recently read some 90s Thor. Messed up man.
Imagine in prehistoric times you and your posse are stalking a herd of those when all of a sudden ZAP and they just lie there medium rare
…along with you and your posse
This Practical Engineering video explains the concepts behind how this happened
TLDR: The electricity is trying to flow through the Earth, but a reindeer is a better conductor, so it flows up into the nearest leg and down out the furthest leg. If they were standing on one foot they might’ve been ok
Don’t they have four legs? The day I see a reindeer sitting on one leg I’m getting glasses
Yes, a reindeer standing on one leg would be unusual, and it’s the only way they could’ve survived this 😂
Also if it were hovering
If only they all jumped right at the same time.
Christmas is fucked this year
Why?
All the Rudolfs are roasted
My dude, that happened in 2016…
And Santa is not real
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How many survived? How big was this herd? That’s pretty insane, no matter how you cut it
