It's the revision. Originally was the story about the #lads who "accidentally" got a boat from Cyprus to Syria. But appears to be fake.
How did you guess.........up in the Trudos mountains to be exact..........Another story for another day..........
I could find out nothing more than what you saw. The black marks on the road can only be heat burn marks from the lightning, I would say. From the light soles, the chap looked as though he was wearing trainers, so the soles might have been synthetic rubber, which would have insulated him from earth. Which may have meant that the lightning didn't actually pass through him. I'm reaching, as you can probably work out. I can't really work it out. From the look of things, after two lightning strikes, the guy should be dead. But he gets up and walks away. Seems to be dragging a foot though, if you look carefully. You get electricity burns at the point of entry and exit within the body. It's all a bit astonishing.
Or you could all stop worrying as it's fake... http://www.snopes.com/photos/accident/lightning.asp http://www.livescience.com/13946-lightning-strike-survivor-video-hoax.html
Well the thought did pass through my mind, but I wanted to just look at it on the basis of it not being fake. There's no actual guarantee that it isn't genuine. The trouble with cynicism is that it immediately makes everything questionable. At some point one has to proceed on the basis that something is possible. By the way, nobody is worrying. Just being curious.
Yeah, I do hear you. Of course it's possible, but seems to be pretty much unfeasible, particularly when you consider that it's nigh on impossible to survive one strike of that nature.
But people have. And it has been reported before that people have survived two strikes. If a giant worm had burst out of the ground [Tremors] and eaten him afterwards, then we could definitely have said it was fake.
yeah, but side-strikes rather than full strike like that. Sounds like that is about as likely as winning the lottery ten times in a row, or fat Dutch people being honourable.
Actually, the chances of being struck by lightning are much higher than winning the National Lottery. Even being struck twice. In my case, infinitely higher as I have to buy a ticket first.
I have an explanation for the video [lets put aside the fake conclusion for a moment]. Does lightning strike from the sky down, or the ground up? The answer is both. Cloud-to-ground lightning comes from the sky down, but the part you see comes from the ground up. Which accounts for the burn marks on the road as the lightning exited the ground. It's also why the man could have been struck twice as he could have been acting as a lightning conductor. How he survived is another matter. Anyway, end of story.
Indeed, I might actually watch some women's tennis with a confidence that either player may not scream the place down. It was the grunting and screaming that finally stopped me watching. That and actually deciding to do things again rather than watch things.
Fantastic! So glad they had the guts to ban Shriekapova though I think it should have been longer. As for your hope of watching quiet women's tennis, TSS, keep away from Serena (especially when she's losing) and Victoria Azarenka and you may be OK.
plenty of people have survived multiple lightning strikes, it all depends on what you're wearing and where it enters/leaves the body, if it enters and exits down the same side you'll probably survive, if it passes through the heart good chance you'll die of a heart attack. and, contrary to the saying, lightning pretty much always strikes the same place.
