• Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.orgEnglish
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    12 days ago

    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

  • A_norny_mousse@feddit.org
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    12 days ago

    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.”

    • AugustWest@lemm.eeEnglish
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      12 days ago

      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.

      • A_norny_mousse@feddit.org
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        12 days ago

        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.

            • virku@lemmy.world
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              10 days ago

              In Norway we don’t use the lappland term for that area. That is just the area the sapmi originates for us. I knew that lappland was an official region in Finland, but didn’t know until now that it was an official region in Sweden as well. In Norway however the outlined area roughly consists of Finnmark, Troms, Nordland and Trøndelag.

              I guess we didn’t learn Sweden and Finlands regions in elementary school here in Norway in the 90s. I didn’t at least.

              • Dasus@lemmy.world
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                10 days ago

                Its just a different name for the same region.

                Lapland (Sápmi in Northern Sami, Sää’mjânnam in Koltan Sami, Säämi in Inari Sami, Norwegian and Swedish Lappland, Russian Лапландия, Laplandija) is a historical region in the northern part of Fennoscandia in Finland, Sweden, Norway and Russia. [1] The Sámi are the indigenous people of the region.

                Lapland does not form a unified administrative region

                It’s just that collectively there’s a change trying to stop using any terms with “lapp” in the due to its connotations, but since our language is very different, the connotation didn’t ever transfer and people have no idea it’s offensive in origin. So se do talk about the Sami people, when talking about the indigenous people, but anyone living in that area would be reasonably called “a lapplander”.

                Or idk, at least some people I’ve seen online have said it’s been used as an ethnic slur against the indigenous peoples at times, but I can’t find anything of that in Finnish. Which would explain why you call it Sapmi, because that’s the indigenous name for the people and the area and there may have been historical connotations with “lapp”, which we don’t have.

                I thought you we’re Finnish from the username sounding a tad Finnish and being on sopuli. And I thought Finns ought to know that despite it being also an administrative region in Finland, it also refers to the whole area.

                My mistake.

                • virku@lemmy.world
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                  10 days ago

                  No worries!

                  Lapp is a slur in Norwegian and not much used but I don’t know if it is used as an insult.

                  What does sopuli mean?

  • GreenKnight23@lemmy.world
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    10 days ago

    had this happened 2000 years ago a local village would be absolutely losing their SHIT.

    1. look at all that fucking MEAT
    2. god has blessed us with a bountiful harvest
    3. did you see all that fucking MEAT?!
  • protist@mander.xyzEnglish
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    12 days ago

    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

    • jnod4@lemmy.caEnglish
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      12 days ago

      Don’t they have four legs? The day I see a reindeer sitting on one leg I’m getting glasses