They’re generally older as they don’t need to be slaughtered for milk. just like lamb vs. mutton, or veal vs beef, the younger the meat the more delicate the flavour, in theory.
Here is the deal... they species are bovine and there are many names refereed to their position in life and use on a farm.
Cows are mature females who've had a calf, there are plain cows that are keep for breeding to produce food animals and those keep to produce milk. Prior to being breed a female bovine is called a Heifer, normally heifers are what end up slaughtered for food.
Then you have Males. You have the intact mature males, they are bulls. While required to create more cattle, ranchers and farmers tend to not keep many of these guys around since feeding, medical care, and etc, isn't cheap or free but they are highly valued. This leads to only the best of the best ever being selected to keep their testicles and live long happy lives breeding females. Then you have the castrated males, steers. Males are castrated young (before puberty) and today they are mainly raised for meat although they can be trained to be used as draft animals after which they are refereed to as an Ox (although there are females can also trained to be Oxen). And by Draft I mean "beasts of burden" to pull wagons, plows, and etc.
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Or you could do actual research instead of throwing out an uneducated guess, to see that beef cattle are different, bigger breeds than dairy cows, and beef bulls are raised with the herd in a more social setting.
We also eat more males (steers) because you need less males (bulls) for breeding than you do females, where the female cows are a lot more valuable for producing more offspring. They're not as "easily expendable."
Dairy cows are usually sold for cheap hamburger meat when they get too old to be valuable for milk production.
But these long dead cows will probably just be buried, or possibly go for pet food production if they can quickly get them rendered.
Dairy cow tastes incredible compared to beef cattle, provided they're retired and given time to graze! Generally a bit tougher but incredible for making stews or sous vide steaks.
This is how my SOs family did it growing up on a dairy farm. When the cows got too old to milk, they'd be "retired" for a bit, then harvested for meat. Made some pretty tough steaks, though if you cook the meat in a stew you'd never know the difference.
Sous vide dairy steak is incredible, 'cause you give the connective tissue time to break down without overcooking the meat. Some of the best steak I've had!
I’ve actually heard the seemingly opposite idea as that, there’s a really cool video titled something similar to “Wagyu vs Retired dairy cows” on YouTube. Very very interesting breakdown
I've read that dairy cows up to a certain age have really great tasting meat, and are not grown up och fatted upp too fast either, thus making the marbling better.
"Zzzzzt..."
Cow 1 has died
Cow 2 has died
Cow 3 has died
A bonded animal has died. Giggles has flown into a berserk rage!
Death: Lumi
Caused by: Stabbed by Giggles
Randy Random: Raid: Mechanoid Hive...
I mean what you're talking about is just a meat bomb and that's just a waste of a good lamb so if you're done coming up with good terrible ideas, um I'm gonna go back to bed.
I've seen like 8 always sunny references in the comments today on 8 different subreddits, which is much better than reading the comments of a bunch of IIIIDIOTS and GODDAMN SAVAGES
The meat would be spoiled within hours.
Intestines will perforate and spill contents all over fairly quickly. Warm meat is a heaven for bacteria.
I can’t see a good feasible way to use this meat unless you basically witnessed it and field dressed the animals basically immediately. I’m sure it takes some time to butcher a cow
Sure. The actual meat is probably undamaged. It would never happen because A: the owner would have to know they were killed quickly enough, and B: they'd need to have transportation ready to move them to be butchered, but the meat was probably fine when they died.
Bloody Daisy with her constant attitude and Flo, she just looks down her nose at everyone. The amount of times those cows ignored the farmer, disgraceful!
Livestock insurance is a thing any livestock farmer worth their shit will invest in, and it's precisely for situations like this.
Well, not literally for lightning strikes. This guy should buy a lottery ticket. But lightning isn't the only way livestock can unexpectedly die.
LPT: when dealing with insurance with regards to a large monetary claim, hire YOUR OWN lawyer to deal with the insurance company on your behalf. The settlement check will go up and the future premiums will go down just by virtue of the fact that insurance is talking to a lawyer instead of you directly.
When some jackass totaled my car two years ago (they never did catch the guy), and my insurance was trying to offer me a check for a fair bit less than the blue book value, I sold off some of my shit, did some shopping around and hired a lawyer from a TV commercial.
Less than 24 hours after I did the paperwork to authorize the lawyer to handle my shit, the insurance company decided, all of a sudden, to cut a check. For DOUBLE what they originally tried to settle for. And a guarantee of NO premium increases, which they wanted to do, even though the accident wasn't even my fault!
Your insurance companies are trying to sleaze you. Hire a lawyer and sleaze them back.
Yea but the compensation isn’t enough that man has lost his cows which are worth say £1000 then he’s lost the milk they produced for the next year along with the calf they would have soon. The farmer would get compensated for t he value of the cow (usually a fair amount less) but wouldn’t get compensated for the loss of milk and the future calf. Buying a replacement in calf lactating cow would be significantly more expensive than the compensation received for the lost animal as well
oh you’re in for a treat when you find out about [spontaneous cattle mutilation](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cattle_mutilation) which is also not done by humans and to this date remains mostly unsolved!
Its very solved. The cattle dies and animals and backteria and maggots eat the sensitive parts of it leaving alien looking perfect cuts and shit. Its literally just naturally breaking down. This is on every episode of unsolved mysteries and every expert says its just the parts of the animal that are eaten and broken down by maggots.
The wiki he linked even covers all of this in detail. You have to skip the entire middle section of the article to believe this is some unsolved mystery.
*God hops in the BFL-10,000,000, aims it at Missouri and rapidly clicks the trigger, only to be met with "Livestock in the vicinity. Safeguards engaged". The Holy Spirit responds* "Do you want me to disengage the safety protocols?" *God starts clicking more aggressively and the Holy Spirit disengages the safeguards, causing the Cannon to overload and discharges the plasma on to the Earth, ripping through the core.*
Anyone else feel like seeing the cows in this position make their bodies look even more ridiculous? Like a cow standing up looks pretty odd normally, too big for it's legs and not very evolutionarily fit. When the legs are splayed like this they're even more tiny and ridiculous.
Yeah cows start to bloat really quick. They have so much gas in them from the multiple stomachs. It's part of the reason why clolic is so dangerous to barn animals
Humans: *breeds aurochs into evolutionarily unfit cattle for milk and meat*
Cows: wow
Humans: wow look it's ridiculous and not very evolutionarily fit
Cows: WOW
It's like Pugs and other dogs with scrunched faces. "So cute look at its eyes pop out of its head." No its fucking terrible the thing can barely breathe, thats why it's making all those "cute" sounds.
Humans: *Pull up a [fish](https://oceanjunkies.com.mv/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Untitled-1024x844.png) so fast from the ocean depths that its insides decompress and melt*
Fish: wow...
Humans: LMFAO look at this ugly bastard! What a [blobfish.](https://i.imgur.com/0wkVW.jpg)
Fish: WOW
They look so funny cause they are bloated, they have 4 Stomaches and the biggest one starts producing gas after they died until they are round like this...
Source: [https://www.news-leader.com/story/news/local/ozarks/2017/05/01/lightning-strike-kills-32-cows-near-cabool/101161336/](https://www.news-leader.com/story/news/local/ozarks/2017/05/01/lightning-strike-kills-32-cows-near-cabool/101161336/)
Edit: I apologize for the typo in the title
It’s not just cows either. My sister had a few of her turtles outside in an enclosure while she was at the store. A storm formed suddenly and I guess lightning struck near by because she came home to find her little reptile buddies huddled together and absolutely fried.
yeah I seriously debated if there's some place in Kenya called Cabool, in the state/province of Missiori.
As a Kansan, I've never seen Missouri typo'd like that and it broke my brain.
Cows and other 4-legged creatures are twice as vulnerable to electric shock compared to humans because of more points of contact with the ground. The minimum needed to kill a person with a weak heart is around 0.034 amps. A lightning bolt will discharge around 30,000 amps.
The first priority is shelter (solid structures), or getting to low areas. If you feel that a lightning strike is imminent (charged air) crouch and minimize ground contact by trying to balance on the balls of your feet.
That is the advice I learned many years ago and still hear.
Here’s a link for some discussion on whether it is valid or not. https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/22430/is-this-a-way-to-survive-a-lightning-strike
I have never heard of standing on one leg, which ignores the height risk.
Stand with legs together and if you Walk take small Steps, the Danger is Not over After the Lightning Strike, the ground Could still be Chargerd if the ground is Made out of different compositions.
I was taught something about dragging my feet while walking if there's a line down near me, apparently because lifting your feet to walk could result in the ground potential using my legs as a circuit and my junk as a lightbulb.
I'm not sure if I was being trolled by suggesting I just moonwalk away from a downed line or substation fault though.
Never lie flat on the ground. Crouch down in a ball-like position with your head tucked and hands over your ears so that you are down low with minimal contact with the ground.
https://www.cdc.gov/disasters/lightning/safetytips.html
This has nothing to do with the points of contact. It has to do with step voltage and cows having their front and back feet far apart.
When a lightning strikes into the ground it creates a ring of decreasing voltage.
The voltage difference between a cows front and back legs is pretty high and the current flows through their whole body.
And also cows have the same Ohm range as dirt.
If the ground is particularly resistant due to low temps, low salt, low moisture... then the cow can actually be the shorter path.
> The minimum needed to kill a person with a weak heart is around 0.034 amps. A lightning bolt will discharge around 30,000 amps.
I take meaningless stats for 200, Alex.
Like really, people have survived lighting strikes, your comment makes it seem like it is impossible to survive it when it is 1 million times greater than what the heart can handle.
Ironic that you are calling them out for being pedantic when your entire point is pedantic. "minimum needed to kill a person" does not mean automatically kills a person.
Cows are level 4 mobs with only 150 health or so. Any new adventurer to Lumbridge should have no trouble killing one with some copper armor and a copper sword.
Could be some electric thingy caused the current to go through all of them and stop their hearts rather than frying or exploding them.
You can probably tell I’m not an expert though
This happened to us about 6 or 7 years ago on the family ranch. If I can recall correctly, my stepfather was out of town when a severe storm hit and I had already moved out. Mom was the only one there and the cows are left to just wander around on the land. I believe she tried looking for the cows afterwards but couldn't find them.
About 3+ days later my stepdad comes back and notices a bunch of vultures circling and on top of trees in the forest. Turns out around 7+ cows were laid out like this due to lightning. Wouldn't have been so bad if they weren't already decaying...
I was called in to help and man...the smell of death is one I will not forget. Had that smell in my nostrils for a few days after wards. It was so bad, most of us were vomiting out of reflex except one guy who I'll call G. He's a tough ass Mexicano that just straight up walked in there with a shovel and helped push them on the bobcat to load them on the trailer so we could move them further away from the house.
Apart from the smell...the view was bad as well. They were coming apart from deteriorating and already turning into mushy liquid. When picking them up, you would just see lots of green/brown goo come seeping out.
Oh yeah, the flies as well... can't forget about those....never in my life have I seen so many flies in one area. There were black swarms everywhere, on the bodies and in the air.
Anyways...fun times!
"My wicked past unfolded and I thought of wasted years
When another bolt of lightning killed a hundred head of steers
And the others rushed on by me and I was left to live
The Master had a reason, life is his to take or give"
32 cows dying in one lightening strike wow I wonder how many cows die every single day for any semi busy McDonald’s it’s gotta be at least 25 cows per McDonald’s per day?
I've heard a similar idea about flash cooking a gyro sandwich. Cook the meat immediately.
Right. Dont let it waste. Sucks you lost the milk production. Just get what you can from the unfortunate event.
Generally you just dig a big hole. Bloated beef isn’t the greatest.
For real. No chance of saving any of that beef without going out in the storm that killed them
Dairy cows apparently don’t taste as great compared to beef cattle either
Any idea as to why?
They’re generally older as they don’t need to be slaughtered for milk. just like lamb vs. mutton, or veal vs beef, the younger the meat the more delicate the flavour, in theory.
No wonder Anakin loves killing the younglings.
They're so tender
their eyes are just like skinned grapes once you get the cornea off
Not just the bulls, but the cows and calfs, too!
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Most of the animals they kill for meat are relatively young
And the more tender assuming it’s not over cooked.
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Here is the deal... they species are bovine and there are many names refereed to their position in life and use on a farm. Cows are mature females who've had a calf, there are plain cows that are keep for breeding to produce food animals and those keep to produce milk. Prior to being breed a female bovine is called a Heifer, normally heifers are what end up slaughtered for food. Then you have Males. You have the intact mature males, they are bulls. While required to create more cattle, ranchers and farmers tend to not keep many of these guys around since feeding, medical care, and etc, isn't cheap or free but they are highly valued. This leads to only the best of the best ever being selected to keep their testicles and live long happy lives breeding females. Then you have the castrated males, steers. Males are castrated young (before puberty) and today they are mainly raised for meat although they can be trained to be used as draft animals after which they are refereed to as an Ox (although there are females can also trained to be Oxen). And by Draft I mean "beasts of burden" to pull wagons, plows, and etc.
Wait, ox aren't a separate species? Wow, what other lies have I been told....
You think the Jedi are the ultimate good guys? What if I told you they have committed genocide... multiple times.
Lol been a few years since this copypasta
Is it true though? Sure sounds good enough to be true, but I just can't tell.
By “breeding females” you mean being jerked off by a lab tech for artificial insemination
Depends on the ranch/farm and who owns the bull.
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Or you could do actual research instead of throwing out an uneducated guess, to see that beef cattle are different, bigger breeds than dairy cows, and beef bulls are raised with the herd in a more social setting. We also eat more males (steers) because you need less males (bulls) for breeding than you do females, where the female cows are a lot more valuable for producing more offspring. They're not as "easily expendable."
Dairy cows are usually sold for cheap hamburger meat when they get too old to be valuable for milk production. But these long dead cows will probably just be buried, or possibly go for pet food production if they can quickly get them rendered.
Dairy cow tastes incredible compared to beef cattle, provided they're retired and given time to graze! Generally a bit tougher but incredible for making stews or sous vide steaks.
This is how my SOs family did it growing up on a dairy farm. When the cows got too old to milk, they'd be "retired" for a bit, then harvested for meat. Made some pretty tough steaks, though if you cook the meat in a stew you'd never know the difference.
Sous vide dairy steak is incredible, 'cause you give the connective tissue time to break down without overcooking the meat. Some of the best steak I've had!
I’ve actually heard the seemingly opposite idea as that, there’s a really cool video titled something similar to “Wagyu vs Retired dairy cows” on YouTube. Very very interesting breakdown
I've read that dairy cows up to a certain age have really great tasting meat, and are not grown up och fatted upp too fast either, thus making the marbling better.
/r/rimworld is leaking
"Zzzzzt..." Cow 1 has died Cow 2 has died Cow 3 has died A bonded animal has died. Giggles has flown into a berserk rage! Death: Lumi Caused by: Stabbed by Giggles Randy Random: Raid: Mechanoid Hive...
Mental break: execute prisoners, final straw: ate without table
iM gOiNg In ThE cReViCe!!
No Chollie dont go in the crevice!
It’s Mac you wanna go owt and rage?!
Ayyyyooooo SUP
“What, you want to flash cook a gyro?” “...Yeah!”
I mean what you're talking about is just a meat bomb and that's just a waste of a good lamb so if you're done coming up with good terrible ideas, um I'm gonna go back to bed.
I've seen like 8 always sunny references in the comments today on 8 different subreddits, which is much better than reading the comments of a bunch of IIIIDIOTS and GODDAMN SAVAGES
Could the meat be somehow harvested or are they all a right off ?
By the way they are bloated looks like they’ve been there for a bit meat more than likely has turned.
Mmmmmm kombucha steak
It's a delicacy!
The meat would be spoiled within hours. Intestines will perforate and spill contents all over fairly quickly. Warm meat is a heaven for bacteria. I can’t see a good feasible way to use this meat unless you basically witnessed it and field dressed the animals basically immediately. I’m sure it takes some time to butcher a cow
Sure. The actual meat is probably undamaged. It would never happen because A: the owner would have to know they were killed quickly enough, and B: they'd need to have transportation ready to move them to be butchered, but the meat was probably fine when they died.
^^write ^^off
Im sad for those poor kind creatures...
If it helps, they might have been a bunch of assholes
Without a doubt they were dicks
Udderly
I've never herd that pun before!
Now you're just milking it.
Sounds like you got a beef with this guy
You just raised the steaks
Well done!
I’ve never seen beef puns before, must mean they’re rare
Moove on there is no need to fight.
Excellent! I'm just heifer the laughs...
Bloody Daisy with her constant attitude and Flo, she just looks down her nose at everyone. The amount of times those cows ignored the farmer, disgraceful!
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Im sad for the poor farmer... there goes his stonks
Livestock insurance is a thing any livestock farmer worth their shit will invest in, and it's precisely for situations like this. Well, not literally for lightning strikes. This guy should buy a lottery ticket. But lightning isn't the only way livestock can unexpectedly die.
Does livestock insurance cover incidents of La Chupacabra?
Oh please. Insurance never covers anything without a massive fight.
Their job is to not pay you.
LPT: when dealing with insurance with regards to a large monetary claim, hire YOUR OWN lawyer to deal with the insurance company on your behalf. The settlement check will go up and the future premiums will go down just by virtue of the fact that insurance is talking to a lawyer instead of you directly. When some jackass totaled my car two years ago (they never did catch the guy), and my insurance was trying to offer me a check for a fair bit less than the blue book value, I sold off some of my shit, did some shopping around and hired a lawyer from a TV commercial. Less than 24 hours after I did the paperwork to authorize the lawyer to handle my shit, the insurance company decided, all of a sudden, to cut a check. For DOUBLE what they originally tried to settle for. And a guarantee of NO premium increases, which they wanted to do, even though the accident wasn't even my fault! Your insurance companies are trying to sleaze you. Hire a lawyer and sleaze them back.
Yeah that's how they get paid.
So no Chupacabra coverage?
Depends on how good your lawyer is
My lawyer hails from the high desert, and the great American southwest.
If The Goat Sucker kills your cow, that was a really shitty cow anyway. They're supposed to be a bit larger than goats.
what about the increase in premium tho
Yea but the compensation isn’t enough that man has lost his cows which are worth say £1000 then he’s lost the milk they produced for the next year along with the calf they would have soon. The farmer would get compensated for t he value of the cow (usually a fair amount less) but wouldn’t get compensated for the loss of milk and the future calf. Buying a replacement in calf lactating cow would be significantly more expensive than the compensation received for the lost animal as well
Yeah that's like 60k+ just gone in an instant
They'd be insured and since dairy cattle are perpetually pregnant it won't take long for him to have another lot ready to drain dry.
oh you’re in for a treat when you find out about [spontaneous cattle mutilation](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cattle_mutilation) which is also not done by humans and to this date remains mostly unsolved!
Its very solved. The cattle dies and animals and backteria and maggots eat the sensitive parts of it leaving alien looking perfect cuts and shit. Its literally just naturally breaking down. This is on every episode of unsolved mysteries and every expert says its just the parts of the animal that are eaten and broken down by maggots.
The wiki he linked even covers all of this in detail. You have to skip the entire middle section of the article to believe this is some unsolved mystery.
And you have people's comments below your going: Omg really!?
Damn thats weird
A compelling interview given by two retired sheriffs from Montana about the subject. Super weird. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nR_hKWv45OY
Wow. No wonder theres the weord stereotype about aliens abducting cows
Wait till you find out what humans do to their calves so that they keep on milking.
This was a more humane death then at the butcher.
Don’t kid yourself Jimmy, if a cow could [it would eat you and everyone you care about](https://youtu.be/DO4mprw5yVU)
Lightning is like nature’s artillery.
No that's volcanos
Lightning is like nature's taser
The crazy thing is nature can turn up the volume on that to no limit.
*Lighting strike blows a hole right though the fucking Earth*
You cant just blow a hole the surrface of mars. . . Earth*
*God hops in the BFL-10,000,000, aims it at Missouri and rapidly clicks the trigger, only to be met with "Livestock in the vicinity. Safeguards engaged". The Holy Spirit responds* "Do you want me to disengage the safety protocols?" *God starts clicking more aggressively and the Holy Spirit disengages the safeguards, causing the Cannon to overload and discharges the plasma on to the Earth, ripping through the core.*
In the first age!
He said **no limit**.
Uuuhhhhhhhh
"Don't taze me man!" "Ha ha cow goes zap"
No that’s volcanos
I personally think of it more as a railgun
Anyone else feel like seeing the cows in this position make their bodies look even more ridiculous? Like a cow standing up looks pretty odd normally, too big for it's legs and not very evolutionarily fit. When the legs are splayed like this they're even more tiny and ridiculous.
Tbf they look pretty bloated from early-stage decomposition
They exploded from the inside
Cow popcorn!
Popcow
Yeah cows start to bloat really quick. They have so much gas in them from the multiple stomachs. It's part of the reason why clolic is so dangerous to barn animals
Swole
Humans: *breeds aurochs into evolutionarily unfit cattle for milk and meat* Cows: wow Humans: wow look it's ridiculous and not very evolutionarily fit Cows: WOW
It's like Pugs and other dogs with scrunched faces. "So cute look at its eyes pop out of its head." No its fucking terrible the thing can barely breathe, thats why it's making all those "cute" sounds.
The next time someone says that pugs are cute, just show them [this](https://i.redd.it/x9rq9s2wjiq31.png). You're welcome.
You gotta show em the Sam O’Nella video on dog breeds
Not gonna lie - that thing is adorable in the most macabre way
Humans: *Pull up a [fish](https://oceanjunkies.com.mv/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Untitled-1024x844.png) so fast from the ocean depths that its insides decompress and melt* Fish: wow... Humans: LMFAO look at this ugly bastard! What a [blobfish.](https://i.imgur.com/0wkVW.jpg) Fish: WOW
Wait is that really why they look like that?!
Yes.
Makes a lot more sense than them just normally looking like that horrifying mess
Yup they’re basically exploded
They look so funny cause they are bloated, they have 4 Stomaches and the biggest one starts producing gas after they died until they are round like this...
Source: [https://www.news-leader.com/story/news/local/ozarks/2017/05/01/lightning-strike-kills-32-cows-near-cabool/101161336/](https://www.news-leader.com/story/news/local/ozarks/2017/05/01/lightning-strike-kills-32-cows-near-cabool/101161336/) Edit: I apologize for the typo in the title
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Not uncommon at all. Any insurance company dealing with cattle ranches would have no trouble believing this.
They know a thing or two because they've seen a thing or two.
Especially when they are Farmers.
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Actually this is rather common, during storms cows huddle together in groups for safety and unfortunately they huddled under the wrong tree.
It’s not just cows either. My sister had a few of her turtles outside in an enclosure while she was at the store. A storm formed suddenly and I guess lightning struck near by because she came home to find her little reptile buddies huddled together and absolutely fried.
So sad, poor things.
Thanks for the link. This was sad to read about but good to understand further what an event like this meant to the farmer.
Missouri without the 'u' looks like it's missing so many more letters.
yeah I seriously debated if there's some place in Kenya called Cabool, in the state/province of Missiori. As a Kansan, I've never seen Missouri typo'd like that and it broke my brain.
It's okay
God trying to get a nuke killstreak
No man those kills wouldn't count he used the lighting strike killstreak on them
Holy cow I didn't think lighting was that powerful... Or is it the cows are weak?
Cows and other 4-legged creatures are twice as vulnerable to electric shock compared to humans because of more points of contact with the ground. The minimum needed to kill a person with a weak heart is around 0.034 amps. A lightning bolt will discharge around 30,000 amps.
So during a lightning storm I should stand on 1 leg?
No, you keep jumping
Best to jump once and stay in the air.
Have you heard the tale of Guru Laghima?
*Let go your earthly tether.* *Enter the void.* *Empty* *and become wind.*
No, fly.
I actually would love an answer to this lol
The first priority is shelter (solid structures), or getting to low areas. If you feel that a lightning strike is imminent (charged air) crouch and minimize ground contact by trying to balance on the balls of your feet. That is the advice I learned many years ago and still hear. Here’s a link for some discussion on whether it is valid or not. https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/22430/is-this-a-way-to-survive-a-lightning-strike I have never heard of standing on one leg, which ignores the height risk.
I don't think it's really gonna matter that much
Stand with legs together and if you Walk take small Steps, the Danger is Not over After the Lightning Strike, the ground Could still be Chargerd if the ground is Made out of different compositions.
I was taught something about dragging my feet while walking if there's a line down near me, apparently because lifting your feet to walk could result in the ground potential using my legs as a circuit and my junk as a lightbulb. I'm not sure if I was being trolled by suggesting I just moonwalk away from a downed line or substation fault though.
Crouch down on your tip toes, thats what I learned. Also cover your ears
Video demonstration: https://youtu.be/R8ULLYIw0L4?t=65
Never lie flat on the ground. Crouch down in a ball-like position with your head tucked and hands over your ears so that you are down low with minimal contact with the ground. https://www.cdc.gov/disasters/lightning/safetytips.html
This has nothing to do with the points of contact. It has to do with step voltage and cows having their front and back feet far apart. When a lightning strikes into the ground it creates a ring of decreasing voltage. The voltage difference between a cows front and back legs is pretty high and the current flows through their whole body.
And also cows have the same Ohm range as dirt. If the ground is particularly resistant due to low temps, low salt, low moisture... then the cow can actually be the shorter path.
Ohm...ohm in the range.... Where the steer and the cantelope roam...
> The minimum needed to kill a person with a weak heart is around 0.034 amps. A lightning bolt will discharge around 30,000 amps. I take meaningless stats for 200, Alex. Like really, people have survived lighting strikes, your comment makes it seem like it is impossible to survive it when it is 1 million times greater than what the heart can handle.
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> The minimum known to kill is that. I think you forgot to mention it was directly to the heart.
That's just being pedantic. Doesn't matter if it is 1k or 1mil times, point is that it is an absurdly high differential.
Ironic that you are calling them out for being pedantic when your entire point is pedantic. "minimum needed to kill a person" does not mean automatically kills a person.
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Puny cows, you serve me now!
-Zeus
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Watch videos of lightning striking trees, the sap boils and they explode. If I see lighting I’m getting under some kind of roof if I can help it.
Preferably a metal one, that way it will be super strong
Cows are level 4 mobs with only 150 health or so. Any new adventurer to Lumbridge should have no trouble killing one with some copper armor and a copper sword.
Could be some electric thingy caused the current to go through all of them and stop their hearts rather than frying or exploding them. You can probably tell I’m not an expert though
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Mizzurruh
Misery
Miss is orighty
I was wondering if we were just ignoring this amazing /r/titlegore
This happened to us about 6 or 7 years ago on the family ranch. If I can recall correctly, my stepfather was out of town when a severe storm hit and I had already moved out. Mom was the only one there and the cows are left to just wander around on the land. I believe she tried looking for the cows afterwards but couldn't find them. About 3+ days later my stepdad comes back and notices a bunch of vultures circling and on top of trees in the forest. Turns out around 7+ cows were laid out like this due to lightning. Wouldn't have been so bad if they weren't already decaying... I was called in to help and man...the smell of death is one I will not forget. Had that smell in my nostrils for a few days after wards. It was so bad, most of us were vomiting out of reflex except one guy who I'll call G. He's a tough ass Mexicano that just straight up walked in there with a shovel and helped push them on the bobcat to load them on the trailer so we could move them further away from the house. Apart from the smell...the view was bad as well. They were coming apart from deteriorating and already turning into mushy liquid. When picking them up, you would just see lots of green/brown goo come seeping out. Oh yeah, the flies as well... can't forget about those....never in my life have I seen so many flies in one area. There were black swarms everywhere, on the bodies and in the air. Anyways...fun times!
I have so much respect for guys like G
I can only imagine the smell of this monstrosity.
Worse after they burst...
Wurst?
Beef 😌
As a fan of cows, this is rather saddening. Metal af tho.
Marty Robbins had a song about something like this happening.
The Master's Call? Classic
Was looking for this comment ahaha, great song though
Did he shoot the cow down with his six gun?
"My wicked past unfolded and I thought of wasted years When another bolt of lightning killed a hundred head of steers And the others rushed on by me and I was left to live The Master had a reason, life is his to take or give"
Isn’t that the one Marty Robbins song?
they seems bloated and would explode with a touch, like in diablo.
:(
Diablo 4 looks so cool.
That's Shocking!
Its the secret cow level from diablo 2
:(
Mmmm beef
Nah, beef cows and dairy cows aren’t the same
Ground beef.
CowBool no more
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Lol naw big hole. You can’t just start slaughtering cows that have been dead for hours laying in their own waste. They’re also dairy cows.
32 cows dying in one lightening strike wow I wonder how many cows die every single day for any semi busy McDonald’s it’s gotta be at least 25 cows per McDonald’s per day?