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One of the Luckiest Lightning Strikes Ever Recorded
- electric_mayhem 4y agoTo save some of you the trouble of clicking on the link, I can report that this is not about the clock tower strike in Back to the Future.
- CharlesW 4y agoTo be fair, it's not really luck if you have newspaper reports, a broken clock, and a time machine.
- electric_mayhem 4y agoHow accurate do we think a clock tower is? Or was the one in 1955 connected through its own time machine to an ntp server or gps or something? I mean, it’s fiction. But it still feels pretty lucky.
- toomanyrichies 4y agohttps://archive.ph/RL1UT https://archive.ph/RL1UT
- docandrew 4y agoIf only we had a RC network big enough to store these and feed them into a battery bank.
- justinclift 4y agoPeople have worked out the amount of energy in lightning strikes, with the result being that it's not enough to be worthwhile.
- totetsu 4y ago> "Any person standing in an open area can similarly launch an upward connecting discharge from their head or shoulders and be injured by lightning even when not directly struck by it,” Ive got a little zap from an umbrella when lightning hit a building near by before.
- throw0101b 4y agoSame event from 5 days ago, "Image obtained with high-speed camera shows how lightning rods work": * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35240820 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35240820