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Footage of Lightning Very Neatly Stripping a Tree
It's like if Zeus worked for a lumber supplier
The ancient Greeks were extremely clever people who developed architectural, mathematical and philosophical principles that we still use today. However, they also believed that when lightning struck, it was because this guy was standing up on a cloud throwing the stuff down at us:
The ancient Greeks also apparently invented P90x Of course that seems silly today, but imagine that you don't know anything about meteorology, you're standing outside the Temple of Athena or whatever during a rainstorm and suddenly you see something like this happen:
— Cedric Haynes KLTV (@CedricKLTV) January 22, 2016">It seems almost natural that they'd invent a bunch of Avengers to explain the phenomena they couldn't possibly deconstruct.
By the way, is it not impressive how cleanly the lightning bolt stripped that tree of branches while leaving the trunk largely intact? And does anyone know what the hell that puff of smoke to the right of the tree is? Here's the same scene in GIF, courtesy of Sploid, so that you can study it:
GIF via SploidIt's either a secondary strike, or there was an overwhelmed squirrel watching the whole thing and its brain just exploded.
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Re: the second puff. My guess is underground electric box of some sort. There is a light on the building to the left that blows out, and one center screen that does too. Squirrel is more likely though.
I think Aaron may be right with his comment about the second tree -
"By the way, is it not impressive how cleanly the lightning bolt stripped that tree of branches while leaving the trunk largely intact?"
I think that might be where the bolt arced out, but i know zero about the physics of electricity. I do know that I want that trunk so i can make Wonderboy bats and sell them for $5k a pop.