That’s what they get for never letting poor Rudolph join in any of their reindeer games
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
…along with you and your posse
My bad.
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.”
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.
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.
Small correction: this was in southwestern Norway; Lapland is in the far north of Finland.
Lapland is in Finland. Hardangervidda is in Norway. It is flat as well though.
Thank you, I didn’t know that.
Part of the problem is that we have two feet. When lightning strikes the ground nearby, it creates a difference in electric potential between the foot that’s closest to the impact point and the more distant one. If that potential is great enough, then an electric currect can jump through one’s shoe, go up into the body then down the other leg and back to ground.
Laying down only increases the surface area in contact with the ground, so the best thing to do is get inside.
Can I just stand on one foot then?
Feet have non-zero surface area so there’s still room for an electric potential between the near and far side of the foot. It’d be smaller so that isn’t an entirely terrible idea, but it is by no means foolproof.
Incidentally the plateau is a great hiking spot, it’s obviously beautiful, not particularly overrun (compared to the Alps it’s almost comically empty), there are reasonably many dnt huts - typically self service -, and free camping is explicitly allowed in Norway.
Thor got drunk and decided he needed a steak
What kind of ritual were they doing
The one that seals the elder Gods into a soul cage for 1000 years.
Sadly, the humans will never understand the necessity and impact of the caribou’s sacrifice.
They just be like that
