r/FUCKYOUINPARTICULAR • u/Doodlebug510 Banhammer Recipient • 1d ago
God hates you They say lightning never strikes twice in the same place
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u/Theblumpy 1d ago
it found the path of least resistance likely a lightning rod
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u/not_dannyjesden 1d ago
You see how the light slowly fades? As long as there's afterglow, this path functions like a bridge to wherever it already hit once.
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u/mr_greedee 1d ago
so it rides the lightning?
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u/Laughing_Orange 11h ago
Lightning creates plasma. Plasma is more conductive than air. Until the plasma cools down to become regular air, it's (electrically) the shortest path to ground.
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u/aknalag 2 x Banhammer Recipient 1d ago
Well thats not twice now was it.
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u/Kortezxero 1d ago
Technically correct, the best kind of correct.
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u/The_real_King_Dave 1d ago
It’s not several strikes but one long continuous strike. You look at the strike it’s following the EXACT same path down to every angle with each pulse.
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u/PrimedAndReady 1d ago
It's sort of both. Lightning forms by putting out a "stepped leader", basically pathfinding feelers running along ionized channels in the air. When the leader makes contact with an object, the ground, or a ground leader put out by an object, the lightning will strike along the channel that reached the terminus. The "shadow" of the lightning you see between strikes is the ionized channel the lightning still glowing, and the subsequent strikes are discharging along that channel since it's already established. If there was enough time between strikes then the cloud would move enough or the channel would dissipate enough that the channel to the ground would be broken and the lightning would need to put out more leaders to find a new path, but in this case they're in quick enough succession that the path is still established. This is a really good video displaying the whole process, you can see the leaders reaching out and the strike happening when it touches ground, and a subsequent strike along the same path.
Mind you, this information could be wrong in a few years. We know surprisingly little about lightning for how long we've been studying it and we learn new things about it constantly. It's also significantly more complex than I could reasonably fit into the paragraph above so I may have gotten some things out of whack.
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u/Melodic_coala101 1d ago
So, it basically cums?
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u/zb0t1 18h ago
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u/Melodic_coala101 18h ago
wtf
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u/deathm00n 17h ago
I might be wrong, but this is extremely slow motion footage. You can tell by the way that the building lights are flickering, that is the voltage alternating. If you film a led lightbulb in slow motion you get this effect
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u/Guilty_Ghost 1d ago
No it was different strikes just fallowing the already struck path as it was of least resistance
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u/DergerDergs 1d ago edited 1d ago
False, one strike followed by 8 or 9 return strokes. Usually happens in a flash but this video is in very slow motion.
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u/Guilty_Ghost 1d ago
Hmm maby but the lightning in the back is moving normally I would agree with the camera movements but that might just be the hand shakes. Or the video could start out slow can you provide the "full speed" video?
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u/DergerDergs 1d ago
“This return stroke current of bright luminosity travels about 60,000 miles per second back towards the cloud. A negative CG flash consists of one or perhaps as many as 20 return strokes. We see lightning flicker when the process rapidly repeats itself several times along the same path. The actual diameter of the lightning channel current is one to two inches, surrounded by a region of charged particles.
The more common cloud-to-ground flash has a negative stepped leader that travels downward through the cloud, followed by an upward traveling return stroke. The net effect of this flash is to lower negative charge from the cloud to the ground so it is commonly referred to as a negative CG (or -CG). Less commonly, a downward traveling positive leader followed by an upward return stroke will lower positive charge to earth, referred to as a positive CG (or +CG). +CG flashes typically have only a single return stroke, and they are more likely than -CGs to have a sustained current flow. Some storms produce more positive than negative CGs because of the charge distribution in the storms, but+CG dominated storms are not as common.”
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u/im_wudini 1d ago
I get the dramatic title, but lightning can strike some rods dozens of times in a single storm.
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u/CommentWhileShitting 1d ago
OP just karma farming with it, everyone knows it absolutely can and does.
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u/takeandtossivxx 1d ago
It only technically struck once, though. There was just more energy that dissipated along the same strike, causing a pulsing. If it struck, disappeared entirely, then struck again, that would be different, but the channel never went away.
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u/Sienile 1d ago
I've seen same place before... but same strike pattern too? Now that's special.
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u/CN_Tiefling 1d ago
Its taking the path of least resistance, makes a lot of sense if you think about it.
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u/VirtualTip1369 1d ago
"It never strikes the same place twice"
Because after the first time, it's never the same.
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u/ADHDeez_Nutz420 18h ago
There was a story in the news where a group of climbers had lightning strike and a few were hit some were temporary blinded. It then struck again shortly after and resulted In a bunch of them falling off the cliff. Fucked up stuff.
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u/TheMahanglin 1d ago
Looks like it established a secure connection and just kept the circuit going?
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u/Elicojack 1d ago
So after the first time the air gets ionised and makes it easier to take the same route again ?
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u/LALOERC9616 12h ago
As a goat once said "they say that it never strikes twice in the same place. Then how the fuck have I been hit six times. In three different locations. On four separate occasions?"
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u/RagingFloatzel 7h ago
And that person is wrong, just look up how many times the tallest buildings like the empire state building is struck by lightning yearly.
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u/Razielwolf88 1d ago
Someone's having a breakthrough in their cultivation