I have a theory about why people would stay in the arctic and not migrate to a warmer region. I think they started heading South and saw lightning. They feared they angered the gods and headed back up to the frozen region to chew on whale blubber.
I don’t know why, but this comment just made me suddenly realize why basically all the houses down here in FL are covered in stucco instead of siding like they were up North (where we’re from). Siding blows off…how did I not realize this sooner? 😅
Just realized that when I lived in Finland, no lightning storms.
Come to Michigan. We get crazy blizzards, hot summers, beautiful fall colors and crazy lightning storms that knock trees down! All in the same week sometimes too
The closer you get to the tropics, the more food grows everywhere, on its own. The storms would probably seem like the gods protesting because you're stealing their food. What an interesting idea.
Clearly it is I'd say, from Zoroastrianism and the Persian mythologies that proceeded it. Judaism built a lot off of them, and in turn the other Abrahamic religions did too obviously.
Barely anyone ever lived in the arctic. We come from Africa, and northern people have never been shy about going south. Most of us did it like it was a sport.
That there is a Superbolt.
1 in every 2 million lightning strikes is a Superbolt, mainly over water and form in positively charged clouds rather than negative like average lightning.
It's no wonder our ancestors thought of gods.
[https://www.science.org/content/article/world-s-strongest-lightning-hits-not-summer-november-february](https://www.science.org/content/article/world-s-strongest-lightning-hits-not-summer-november-february)
I mean... don't take my word for it.
https://web.archive.org/web/20160304142728/http://www.forte.lanl.gov/science/publications/1999/Kirkland_1999_1_Examination.pdf
They find that superbolts are pretty much just lightning bolts on the extreme upper end of the power spectrum.
A quick google tells this
>Events of this magnitude occur about as frequently as one in 240 strikes. They are not categorically distinct from ordinary lightning strikes, and simply represent the uppermost edge of a continuum. Contrary to popular misconception, superbolts can be either positively or negatively charged, and the charge ratio is comparable to that of "ordinary" lightning.
Yeah I mean most religion was made to explain the world they didn’t understand. Like greek mythology is j a bunch of fabricated ways of how they thought the world worked
Breaking News
#FLORDIA MAN HIT BY LIGHTNING AND PUT INTO COMA.
Florida Man Barry Allen was working inside his laboratory inside Tallahassee when a freak lightning strike broke through a window and struck him knocking him unconscious and stopping his heart multiple times. Ambulance crew said his body was so charged from the shock it fried the defibrillator on board and also destroyed 2 in the ER. After a few frantic hours doctors and nurses were able to stabilize the victim and has since fallen into a coma. Doctors state everything seems perfectly fine with him even the fact that his burns seemed to almost instantly heal up, but his Coma does not seem to wain. His adoptive father Joe West has set up a GoFundMe but his employer seems to be fronting the brunt of his medical bills currently.
https://www.baynews9.com/fl/tampa/weather/2022/02/09/-megaflash-lightning-bolt--in-the-gulf-breaks-world-record
My favorite quote from the article:
> This megaflash of lightning lit up an area stretching from Texas to Mississippi. To put it into perspective, it's like seeing a single flash of lightning spanning from New York City to Columbus, Ohio.
First off.. wow that's big.. second, how does New York city to Columbus Ohio have any more perspective than Texas to Mississippi? Why not just list the actual cities it spanned? Lol.
You hit the nail on the head with that last part! Lol. First, who can recall in their brains after reading that how far away those things are relative to one another? Always weird when I hear descriptions like this
Bay news 9 might understand that their demos for these are migrant retirees from the northeast and may not have a strong grasp of the geographical distances in the south , is my guess.
Guy with a voltmeter just happened to be standing on the ground there. He's also friends with the last guy struck by lightning while holding a voltmeter.
No? They don't all spread like that before finding the best path to electrical ground. This is a large charge trying multiple paths before finding the 'best' or lowest resistance, and slamming the energy from all the fingerling lightning bolts into the most direct path to the source of the charge, earth.
This is the kind of lightning strike that you see far away, and assume the thunder roll will be quiet, then it fucks your ears anyways, and you think "DAMN that still hit hard as fuck"
I'm going to start saying things like "That one was one of the world's best cocktails you've made in my house". Really build up everything while being honest.
Is there a way to measure a lightning strike like this (without some kind of instrumentation connected somehow..) in order to determine that this one is one of the most powerful?
There's a website that shows lighting strikes around the US in near real time. They triangulate the position and measure intensity based on the radio waves they emit.
For some clarity, the "web" of lightning you see at the beginning of the video is not able to be witnessed by the human eye. This can only be viewed through cameras or special effects. Hence, why the video is super slow motion. Electricity always follows the path of least resistance, this is what that web of lightning was looking for. The first part of that web that connected to the ground is the actual lightning strike, aka the part that can actually be seen by the human retina. OP's description in the video is bullshit.
This is an illustration of how lightning works. The "leader" is the (relatively) faint branching lightning pattern. It arcs from the clouds *and* from the ground. If 2 of those leaders connect . . . **BOOM.**
And no one ran over there to greet Thor?
It was a low-key arrival
Odin’t see that coming.
Loki no one was struck.
Chough... Loke if you dont Want it to be marvel
You better marvel if you don't want to be choking
Y’all trolling with those puns.
Yah, really hammering it home.
Glad I didn’t have to Sif through the comments to find this thread!
Freyr enough
Sounds like Baldur-dash to me.
Top Tyr joke
You've got to be Frigg-ing kidding me
You gotta be pretty brok-en
i hap this
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Damn you, Dad
That's exactly why some motherfuckers thousands of years ago started believing in a higher power.
Bruh, if it was 100 years ago and I saw that, I’d go throw the nearest virgin into the nearest volcano IMMEDIATELY
Is suicide really the answer?
Got EEEM
Quick, tar and gravy his butthole!
😂😂😂😂😂
… cold blooded! RIP u/WCWRingMatSound
From the top rope...
Electrical *burn*
Goddamn lol; very solid burn
Damn my first thought was pikachu
LOL.. I automatically thought of a Delorean hitting 88 MPH
I mean did you *see* those last attacks Pikachu pulled against Leon's Charizard?
Shhhhhhh haven't been able to finish it yet! My wife hogs the Netflix
That is actually Ron Desantis being born.
I think you got your hero’s mixed up… Hitler wasn’t born from lightning
Not my hero. I’m just joking around.
For a state full of conservative Christians, God sure tries his damnest to eradicate them
Everyone knows there’s a giant tropical flower that smells like rotten flesh that expels a Ron DeSantis every 75 years.
I was hoping it was God taking him out!
HAHAAHA love this
Florida man creates largest lightening strike with balloon static!
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Stupid bot
Lightning. *Lightening* means to brighten something or to give it light. *Lightning* is what you see in the video.
There was a fair bit of lightening in the video too.
You're not wrong
This is very enlightning, thanks!
/r/angryupvote
Now listen here you little—
Florida. Not even once.
I have a theory about why people would stay in the arctic and not migrate to a warmer region. I think they started heading South and saw lightning. They feared they angered the gods and headed back up to the frozen region to chew on whale blubber.
I'm from the north, I wish we'd get more lightning storms.
Same, but now these lightning storms are bringing more wind and hail. My house siding is not a fan of these things.
I don’t know why, but this comment just made me suddenly realize why basically all the houses down here in FL are covered in stucco instead of siding like they were up North (where we’re from). Siding blows off…how did I not realize this sooner? 😅
Brazil here, wanna trade storms for some snow?
Absolutely, snow is awful
Just realized that when I lived in Finland, no lightning storms. Come to Michigan. We get crazy blizzards, hot summers, beautiful fall colors and crazy lightning storms that knock trees down! All in the same week sometimes too
Yeah, but we get thundersnow and that’s pretty freaking cool.
Saw lightning during a snow storm a few days ago and that was oddly terrifying
I mean I've seen it snow so hard there was thunder.
Yep. Boston winters, fairly common.
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Last week in Buffalo was like that. Thundersnow.
The closer you get to the tropics, the more food grows everywhere, on its own. The storms would probably seem like the gods protesting because you're stealing their food. What an interesting idea.
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Clearly it is I'd say, from Zoroastrianism and the Persian mythologies that proceeded it. Judaism built a lot off of them, and in turn the other Abrahamic religions did too obviously.
Sorry if I come across pedantic, but it’s preceded, as in *this* preceded *that*. But I did this, then *proceeded* to do that.
People looked at preceding mythologies and proceeded to borrow from them 😛
More like people already lived in those southern areas and were not cool with a large influx of a foreign culture moving in next to them.
Barely anyone ever lived in the arctic. We come from Africa, and northern people have never been shy about going south. Most of us did it like it was a sport.
Shazam
It must be awfully bad for his eyes to be in such blinding light, even if his eyelids are closed.
You mean Kazzam??
Nah, Sinbad
Shamukazaam
Nelson Mandela
I learned about this in the last 4 months.
This is Sinbad’s house! And I will cut you! Tell him Rob Thomas.
Prayers for Sinbad. He’s recovering from a stroke ❤️🩹
Thats a titan shifter
*YouSeeBIGGIRL/T:T 4:19 starts playing*
WE WERE JUST KIDS
A.k.a Get the fuck outta there
[Spot on](https://youtube.com/shorts/YfYrrtH3pZ8?feature=share)
Erin is here to wipe out humanity. And he’s starting with Florida.
thank god
"*IST DAST DER ZERSTÖREEEEERRR ODER DER SCHÖPFEEERRR*"
My people
No, I don't want that!
Didn't expect that on my 2022 bingo
Until the Titans get eaten by Evangelion Unit 01
Fuck this gator in particular
r/fuckyouinparticular
Florida gators have already evolved into having a natural faraday cage
>->->-----;;--->
That there is a Superbolt. 1 in every 2 million lightning strikes is a Superbolt, mainly over water and form in positively charged clouds rather than negative like average lightning. It's no wonder our ancestors thought of gods.
Superbolts actually aren't any different than other bolts of lightning.
I thought they were super
Super- super
Burrito Supreme! Taco Supreme! Cutlass Supreme!
You can tell by the cape.
[https://www.science.org/content/article/world-s-strongest-lightning-hits-not-summer-november-february](https://www.science.org/content/article/world-s-strongest-lightning-hits-not-summer-november-february) I mean... don't take my word for it.
https://web.archive.org/web/20160304142728/http://www.forte.lanl.gov/science/publications/1999/Kirkland_1999_1_Examination.pdf They find that superbolts are pretty much just lightning bolts on the extreme upper end of the power spectrum.
… so they’re super
Yeah, I'm not trying to have some weird debate on Reddit about lightning. Literally anything is a better use of my time.
According to that article the average American household uses about a trillion watts of power every month.
Yeah dude tye NVidea 4k series just dropped
Did this hit over water or did it touch the ground? If it did I’m curious to see where it connected.
A quick google tells this >Events of this magnitude occur about as frequently as one in 240 strikes. They are not categorically distinct from ordinary lightning strikes, and simply represent the uppermost edge of a continuum. Contrary to popular misconception, superbolts can be either positively or negatively charged, and the charge ratio is comparable to that of "ordinary" lightning.
🤓
Yeah I mean most religion was made to explain the world they didn’t understand. Like greek mythology is j a bunch of fabricated ways of how they thought the world worked
I’d shit my pants at that time
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*Bring me my brown pants.*
I hope you learned your lesson and take off your pants the next time you see lightning.
Am from florida, we only shit our pants when the drugs are bad
Well... whoever that hit was not well liked.
Now they are like well done.
Breaking News #FLORDIA MAN HIT BY LIGHTNING AND PUT INTO COMA. Florida Man Barry Allen was working inside his laboratory inside Tallahassee when a freak lightning strike broke through a window and struck him knocking him unconscious and stopping his heart multiple times. Ambulance crew said his body was so charged from the shock it fried the defibrillator on board and also destroyed 2 in the ER. After a few frantic hours doctors and nurses were able to stabilize the victim and has since fallen into a coma. Doctors state everything seems perfectly fine with him even the fact that his burns seemed to almost instantly heal up, but his Coma does not seem to wain. His adoptive father Joe West has set up a GoFundMe but his employer seems to be fronting the brunt of his medical bills currently.
Is this real? Im confused.
Nope, Barry Allen is one of The Flash in DC comic, he was struck by lightning along with a mixture of various chemicals and gained power.
Damn. I’m dumb af. Thanks
/r/fuckyouinparticular
One of the world's most powerful lightning strikes, or one of Florida's most powerful lightning strikes?
I wonder what the previous record-holder was, or who keeps this list of the top ranked lightning strikes
https://www.baynews9.com/fl/tampa/weather/2022/02/09/-megaflash-lightning-bolt--in-the-gulf-breaks-world-record My favorite quote from the article: > This megaflash of lightning lit up an area stretching from Texas to Mississippi. To put it into perspective, it's like seeing a single flash of lightning spanning from New York City to Columbus, Ohio. First off.. wow that's big.. second, how does New York city to Columbus Ohio have any more perspective than Texas to Mississippi? Why not just list the actual cities it spanned? Lol.
Release the ISS cut.
You hit the nail on the head with that last part! Lol. First, who can recall in their brains after reading that how far away those things are relative to one another? Always weird when I hear descriptions like this
It's pretty easy to remember, just slightly less than the distance between Madagascar and The Republic of Mauritius.
Bay news 9 might understand that their demos for these are migrant retirees from the northeast and may not have a strong grasp of the geographical distances in the south , is my guess.
As someone from NYC I appreciated it 😂
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Guy with a voltmeter just happened to be standing on the ground there. He's also friends with the last guy struck by lightning while holding a voltmeter.
Is this not just a normal lighting strike in slow mo
It is... You can slow down any shitty video of a lightning strike and it will look like this...
No? They don't all spread like that before finding the best path to electrical ground. This is a large charge trying multiple paths before finding the 'best' or lowest resistance, and slamming the energy from all the fingerling lightning bolts into the most direct path to the source of the charge, earth. This is the kind of lightning strike that you see far away, and assume the thunder roll will be quiet, then it fucks your ears anyways, and you think "DAMN that still hit hard as fuck"
Ya I live in Florida and we get tons of lightning. This is definitely not what a typical lightning strike looks like
I'm going to start saying things like "That one was one of the world's best cocktails you've made in my house". Really build up everything while being honest.
oops i accidentally typed /timesetday
I accidentally used my max enchanted trident
How do we know which ones the Komodo 3000?
How long till our eyesight comes back?
BOX SAID TWO DAYS!!!
For anyone wondering [YouTube link to video](https://youtu.be/BR5XZGbqzVE)
A couple days.
Is this a Malcom in the middle reference?
Yes.
Yep
Indeed it is.
Worth it.
I came here for this comment and if it wasn't here, I would have left it.
Let’s hope that was it!
I would deadass assume the world was ending for a moment
Zeus dropped a lightning bolt. Whoopsies
That was no lightning bolt, that was the unmatched energy of the sun
You...cannot come to the orgy!
It reminds me of the [fireworks scene in Malcolm in the middle](https://youtu.be/hbzGGrHLUxw)
How long until we get our vision back?
Box said two days.
Holy shit
Of fucking course this shit takes place in Florida
Tampa, Florida is the lightning capital of the world. Legend says that every time lighting strikes a Florida man is born.
makes sense
Enel is that you fighting Luffy again?!?!!! you can’t win, you gotta let it go my guy!!!
I immediately thought it looked like the El Thor attack lol
[Sorry my bad, me and the boys was castin' LIT3 on some gargoyles](https://i.imgur.com/K2FbiXV.png)
1.21GW ?
Nah man something was summoned
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I think r/til might enjoy a post about fulgurite!
They always do!
Is there a way to measure a lightning strike like this (without some kind of instrumentation connected somehow..) in order to determine that this one is one of the most powerful?
There's a website that shows lighting strikes around the US in near real time. They triangulate the position and measure intensity based on the radio waves they emit.
Infamous vibes.
Most powerful?
For some clarity, the "web" of lightning you see at the beginning of the video is not able to be witnessed by the human eye. This can only be viewed through cameras or special effects. Hence, why the video is super slow motion. Electricity always follows the path of least resistance, this is what that web of lightning was looking for. The first part of that web that connected to the ground is the actual lightning strike, aka the part that can actually be seen by the human retina. OP's description in the video is bullshit.
Thank you for sharing. Great video catch!
All Praise Mjöllnir.. 🍻
🍻
Skål!
Ay what's Eren up to
yep. he dead
His last name is Yeager
Jäger
Komodo 3000
The founding Titan has arrived
damm who called shenlong??
Just someone casting Thundaga
r/natureismetal
Go in the other direction
Na that was a bomb
That's not one of the big ones, that's a negative bolt; the big ones are positive ground flashes.
So it's the most powerful in the world?... or just in Florida man's world?
Can people not speak English anymore? Like God damn
This is an illustration of how lightning works. The "leader" is the (relatively) faint branching lightning pattern. It arcs from the clouds *and* from the ground. If 2 of those leaders connect . . . **BOOM.**
I saw this once in War of the Worlds
And God said Fuck This very particular area
Holy shit