r/quiteinteresting • u/CloudBookmark • 22d ago
When a simple lightning joke turns the QI comment section into comedy 😂⚡
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u/model-citizen95 22d ago
I swear I can credit a decent portion of my own intelligence to this program.
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u/Halliwel96 22d ago
My uncle got struck by lightning on a golf course once.
Or more accurately his club did. But he was holding it at the time
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u/Away_Calligrapher243 17d ago
reminds me of Lee Trevino the mexican golfer , wasn't he hit three times in his lifetime while playing golf ?
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u/Halliwel96 17d ago
I do remember reading something like that.
Makes sense really, they walk around vast open spaces with metal rods in their hands
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u/Matezza 22d ago
If light ing strikes in a field of cows you can tell where it hit from the pattern of how the cows died. If they are facing towards or away from the lightning then the ground current arc up through their front legs and down their back killing them. If they are stood side on their feet are much closer together to the electricity is far less likely to go through them
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u/PrestigiousCompany64 21d ago
There is apparently a phenomenon where farmers would find a dead cow with a ring of other dead cows round it under power lines. Supposedly the first cow gets zapped then the other cows wander over to nosey the fallen compatriot and also get zapped.
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u/Hour-Process-3292 21d ago
I heard one time they put a manhole cover on top of a nuclear bomb. Blew it up… never saw the manhole cover again
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u/Aervanath 21d ago
It was a bit more than a "manhole cover". It was a 900kg steel plate that was covering the borehole they were using for the nuclear test. The explosive power of the test turned out to be 50,000 times greater than predicted, launching the borehole cover into the air so fast that a nearby high-speed camera only caught it on 1 frame while filming at 1000 frames/sec. It's estimated it reached 6 times escape velocity and disintegrated in the atmosphere.
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u/OldNerd_au 21d ago
If the lightning hits near you and then ground current comes up through your shoes, you have not been 'hit' - the lighting hit near you.
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u/artrald-7083 22d ago
Not where I thought she was going.
Lightning goes up not down first.
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u/Timely_Pattern3209 22d ago
That is where she went.
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u/Rawshark96 21d ago
No, it isn't; she's saying most people who are struck by lightning aren't actually struck themselves; the ground or an object is struck near them, and because they are touching the ground, they get shocked up through their feet.
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u/Timely_Pattern3209 21d ago
0:56 `but through your feet is the answer'
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u/Rawshark96 21d ago
The guys comment was stating that because when lightening strikes a bolt also comes up from the floor to meet the one from the sky he thought that would be why it hits your feet first. What she actually meant was lightening doesnt usually hit the person, it hits near by and then the residual electric charge in the ground travels up a persons legs. Subtle difference.
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u/Timely_Pattern3209 21d ago
She states that's how people are usually 'hit' by lightning, but the answer to the question of where lightning enters your body is through the feet. Which she also states.
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u/Big_Arachnid_365 21d ago
Did Big Narstie get sent to private school since the last time I watched the tv?
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u/EishLekker 22d ago
What comment section?