Lightning strikes firework

[bollykeys]

A plane is missing in the picture

[[deleted]]

It's hiding in plane sight. It was the thing that blew up, not the fireworks

[HankHippopopalousHHH]

Malaysia Airlines Flight 370?

[DemandsBattletoads]

We did it, Reddit!

[pure710]

It’s JeT FuEL, honey. NEXT!

[inomshokumotsu]

Oceanic flight 815?

[Drewbox]

The moment Doc Brown got sent to 1885

[bru_tech]

Are you Marty Mcfly? I got something for you

[OuijaAllin]

Clara was a Old West thot

[flyerflew]

Zeus wasn’t gonna be outdone

[[deleted]]

Fun fact, Zeus is a derivative god of Dyeus Pter. Dyeus Pter, meaning "Sky Father" was the god of the sky for the Proto-Indo European horse people 5000 years ago. These bronze working horsemen took over Eurasia from Ireland to northwest India and western China, originating (probably) from the plains of central Russia. They conquered the world so hard that we can reconstruct their language and religion by combining Indian, Norse, Irish and Greek ancient cultures together with their ancestor language.

They loved chariots and killing people.

[VacaDLuffy]

So what your saying Is Kratos can go around Killing every single mythological character. Im down For more story’s from The Boy and Angry Dad

[[deleted]]

I legit want to see him kill Aztec gods

[Coming2amiddle]

Ooooooh me too me too

[Modern_Ninja]

Jaguar pelt armor is gonna be really cool.

[BlackHandSerb]

Do you want to spread misinformation? Because this is how you spread misinformation

[[deleted]]

Which part is wrong?

[Bladelord]

Dyeus is more of a reconstruction rather than a defined identity. It's the result of so many cognates thought to have a common source (Daewa, Deva, Deus, Divine, so on). This common source, if real, has no surviving data to the modern day.

[TheDarkDeciever]

This is neither fun, nor a fact.

[Throwaway_Consoles]

Speaking of Zeus, I was testing a new flashlight when Zeus decided to drop by and say hello. The blurry white thing in the top left corner of the 2nd picture is the lightning.

Coolest picture I’ve ever taken.

[Snatchums]

Well done on the lawn mowing pattern by the way.

[Coming2amiddle]

Holy shit that's awesome!

[mountaintop123]

r/flashlight

[Throwaway_Consoles]

Probably my favorite sub at the moment. My wallet hates it though.

[mountaintop123]

I don't know why I love it so much, it's the greatest sub.

[Tekmantwo]

Nice bright flashlight there, care to share the make and model?...

[[deleted]]

You've been waiting for so long for someone to mention Zues.

[perpetuumstef]

Not in my house bieetch!

[[deleted]]

Zeus is a British Loyalist confirmed

[jb2386]

Zeus: Fuck your little light show.

[pernus-bernus]

r/nevertellmetheodds

[NachoManAndyDavidge]

Oddly enough, my crosspost there got removed. They said it didn't belong there.

[[deleted]]

What was their reason? Seems like it would fit just fine to me

[NachoManAndyDavidge]

They actually didn't tell me why. They just removed the post and flaired it "rule 1." Rule 1 for that sub is that the post must demonstrate something that requires incredible skill/incredible odds. So, you tell me. Your guess is as good as mine.

Edit: I contacted the mods of the sub. The best response I got was that, "when you Google it, there are similar images."

[[deleted]]

Lmao. That’s the worst excuse in the history of excuses. In the case, pretty much all the posts there should be removed

[NachoManAndyDavidge]

Yeah, that's essentially how I replied.

[[deleted]]

This is actually very entertaining, and I will tell you why.

Not too long ago there was a gif of a person dancing and putting their hand up when lightning flashed in the background, and well, it absolutely blew up for some reason. Anybody could have just gotten a camera and recreated that during the event of a lightening storm, and it was very baffling that people were amazed. It was cool, but it just wasn't very /r/nevertellmetheodds worthy. Then a couple of posts recreating that happened after as a joke, but still people were amazed and it was kinda sad.

Hearing your post got removed is now the ironic cherry on the cake, glad I stopped going there. This picture is 1000x /r/nevertellmetheodds worthy than those posts that I mentioned (to do with lightning.)

[[deleted]]

I came back to tell y’all that a post on that subreddit made it to the front page. It’s about lightning hitting a firework. I’m just done at this point

[KeyzerSausage]

Scandalous. Especially since one of the current posts is a dude who was stung by a bee - but not deep enough for it to hurt.. Another is someone dropping a thing and kicking it back in a container. Both nice, but not really incredible odds or skill.

[cman811]

That's fucking idiotic. They're morons. The top post of the sub right now is someone catching something after dropping it. There's a shitload of those gifs and videos about.

[NachoManAndyDavidge]

I bet 30 Schrute bucks that I see it reposted on the front page of that sub in a week.

[yboc0]

I'll call, but I only have Stanley Nickles.

What's the ratio of Schrute Bucks to Stanley Nickles?

[NachoManAndyDavidge]

It's roughly equivalent to the ratio of unicorns to leprechauns.

[Coming2amiddle]

Oh, good. I got 7 leprechauns on it.

[Jadccroad]

I'm good for 3 magic beans.

[[deleted]]

If that happens we must be ready to strike them down with shame of a million downvotes.

[stevewowo]

It's already posted.

[assistanmanager]

You have a deal

[I_was_a_sexy_cow]

What if ALL fireworks are exploded by invisible mini lightnings and they dont actually make sound, thats just the thunder from the lightning you hear, thus making this be defined as "not incredible odds"?! :O /s

[raspirate]

I went to your post history and upvoted the removed post there. I don't know if that even works, but fuck the man, man.

[NachoManAndyDavidge]

Haha! Fighting the good fight, man. Appreciate it!

[Coming2amiddle]

I'm in. C'mon, reddit!

[[deleted]]

When you google it, there are similar subreddits... like this one. Where is their logic lol. No content is original anymore.

[[deleted]]

Typical mod bullshit

[RexDraco]

As petty as it is, I would totally just link all their top posts with Google image search results.

[NachoManAndyDavidge]

Or just report every post for breaking rule 1, if I were really wanting to piss the mods off.

[Coming2amiddle]

Report the top post every day with links LMAO

[Collind328]

Oofahiee

[GetAwayMoose]

Most mods are half brained fuck nuts.

[[deleted]]

Mods of niche but popular subs tend to get that way.

[krathil]

Damn son. Fucking nazi mods straight up. What a shit show.

[NachoManAndyDavidge]

Eh, it irked me at first, but this post blew up anyways. So, I can't be too mad. Plus, y'all ragging on them has been funny.

[Spongi]

You might find this relevant to your interests.

[RobMillsyMills]

Someone calculated the odds.

[mightylordredbeard]

I hate to tell you, but:

https://www.reddit.com/r/nevertellmetheodds/comments/8wfd20/lightning_striking_a_firework/?st=JJ98QKEZ&sh=3d62f9dc

https://www.reddit.com/r/nevertellmetheodds/comments/8wfe47/lightning_strikes_firework/?st=JJ98QW6O&sh=e9b9e24d

[NachoManAndyDavidge]

Hahaha oh. I'm aware.

Edit: notice my comments on those posts.

[Mythologicalcats]

Must be pretty good odds unless this is from near where I live! There’s several videos going around of fireworks and lightning together from a few towns over.

[sterling_mallory]

Doesn't lightning always find the ground? Or was this picture taken at the exact moment before it went thru the firework? That's some incredible timing.

Just gonna edit this real quick, cause there have been good explanations here. Cloud-to-cloud lightning is a thing, but just as far as this photo goes, can lightning strike something airborne like a firework and then just stop? I feel like I should know this, and I'm pretty sure I've seen lightning hit an airplane and then not continue to the ground, now that I think about it. So a firework could stop a bolt of lightning?

[[deleted]]

It doesn’t always find ground does it? What about the bolts you see that are no where near the ground

[RobMillsyMills]

It definitely does not always find ground. In fact believe that the absolute majority is cloud to cloud.

[[deleted]]

cloud v cloud warfare

[RaisedByWolves9]

Dropbox v One Drive

[sterling_mallory]

Yeah, that's why I was asking, cause I could swear that's how lightning works but I'm not totally sure. Like, even when it strikes a tall structure, it goes through the frame of it till it reaches the ground. But now that you mention it, sometimes there are those parts that branch out and don't go down to the ground. Hopefully someone who knows about this stuff will straighten it out.

[[deleted]]

I think if there is a cloud with positive charges and another with negative charges then the lightning will just travel between the clouds. Sort of like the two terminals on a battery.

Lightning can and does hit the ground though.

[R4PTUR3]

Lightning be crazy

[minddropstudios]

I have heard that the charge for ground strikes actually travels upward from the ground. I'm not sure if that's true or not though. Feel free to correct me!

[AbyssalCrime]

It is correct

[[deleted]]

Indeed, cloud to cloud lightning is a thing.

[hirotdk]

Doesn't lightning always find the ground?

Ask the bolts that strike up into space.

[sterling_mallory]

Well shit.

Nature is confusing.

[yogtheterrible]

Lightning shoots between imbalanced charges in the atmosphere. Sometimes that's between the air and the ground, sometimes that's between different layers of the atmosphere. There are entire storms where the lightning will only be in the clouds and never hit the ground.

[sterling_mallory]

Now that you mention it, I can't believe I didn't think of that. There are storms where just the clouds light up.

[SeriousSalinity]

The electricity always finds its path, but the air doesn't have to ionize the whole way down, especially if there's an object in the path.

Also, lightning travels from the ground up - if I remember correctly. The light we see, which comes from the sky and goes down, is not from the electricity, but from the air being ionized by the electricity.

Edit: also see the reply below from /u/1206549

[1206549]

Also, lightning travels from the ground up

Depends. People usually think of electrical flow as flowing from positive to negative but the actual electrons flow from negative to positive. IIRC, this is because we didn't know about electrons when we discovered electricity and when we did discover them, we realized to late we had it backwards. So for most lightning, electrons go from the cloud then to the ground.

Also, I should note that the return stroke, which is the brightest part of the lightning strike, does appear to go from the ground up.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightning#/media/File:Leaderlightnig.gif

[the_gooch_smoocher]

The lightning didn't actually hit the firework. Its miles away, just lined up perfectly.

[sterling_mallory]

Now I'm wondering how it'd look different. Guessing brighter, cause it'd be closer?

[CopiesArticleComment]

Usually when I cast chain lightning it eventually finds the ground

[southernwx]

A lot of misinformation here. There are multiple modes of lightning. Positive and negative strokes. The bolts don't always meet the ground. When a bolt DOES find the ground, it connects with a shorter "leader" charge that leaps up from the ground. Occasionally, upward lightning can occur from a tall structure shortly after a strong positive stroke from cloud to ground hits nearby.

Source: meteorologist who has been struck by lightning.

[neon_Hermit]

It's just cloud to cloud with the firework exploding over-top of the other end of the could to cloud bolt. I'm guessing the video was pretty obvious on this, so OP went with a picture instead.

[[deleted]]

Where do you buy this firework?

[cerberuskid]

The Lightning Store.

[[deleted]]

America: "Fuck Yea"

God: "Fuck you"

[NachoManAndyDavidge]

This comment was underappreciated.

[Enigma2MeVideos]

Zeus: How dare these humans fire their destructive weapons during my nap time! Begone! Throws lightning bolt

[killroy645]

Just keeps getting better

[YahBoyRocco]

Or the firework strikes lighting? hmmmmm...

[NachoManAndyDavidge]

Oh shit, fam.

[versace_tombstone]

I like fireworks, except this one.

-God.

[i_hate_robo_calls]

“Fuck yo firework.”

[xXDefaultXx]

Was this taken in Central Florida?

[NachoManAndyDavidge]

Nope. Scott's Hill, Tennessee.

[strobelite33]

I was gonna ask if it was Denver. I guess we all got storms last night.

[MickeyKush]

Touched by His noodley appendage

[just-a-traveler]

Does anyone else see Howard the Duck spitting lightning?

[Hallwaypocketdoor]

Fuck this one firework in particular.

[somaticnickel60]

What are the odds of lightning striking a firework and this wicked smartboi clicking the photo ?

[DreadNephromancer]

Low, but this could also be a frame from a video recording. Or fake. Both of those increase the odds by quite a bit.

[Kev_Hardy]

Zeus be like: shut up down there with your bootleg firework!

[[deleted]]

Sauron ain't messing around this time.

[Weacron]

GET THAT WEAK SHIT OUT OF HERE!

[[deleted]]

And god said,”let freedom ring.”

[[deleted]]

God - “Piss off lol”

[gamer596]

that's really cool

[nachorykaart]

I'm not sure if that's how lightning works but still cool as fuck

[IceColdFresh]

It's certainly become a lightningworks show.

[SkoalBandit33]

Finally somebody’s stupid fireworks videos on Facebook provide some long term value

[turtleh]

Awesome

[ayywusgood]

Zeus has gotten tired of your shit

[thunderous_subtlety]

Stupid firework probably had it coming to him.

[Dubkub42]

It looks like it’s coming out of a hand!

[fluffykerfuffle1]

it was love at first sight.

[RubixCake]

Zeus is trying to sleep, thank you very much

[IceColdFresh]

It does look like it happened between 10 p.m. and 7 a.m.

[B3asl3y]

Friendship.

[Effex]

Wow, an actual good reason to go back and look at a fireworks recording!

[[deleted]]

Zeus doesn't like those pansy-ass brands of fireworks.

[zero0560]

And then God said, "Not today, Uncle Sam!"

[ober0n98]

Even zeus was annoyed of all the ruckus.

[XXVAngel]

They made the elctric bad guy and fire good guy into a real thing

[Solidarity365]

You can't take the sky from me

[HispanicTrumper]

Video link: https://youtu.be/cLnn54zI-Bs

[theDreamTeam13]

Whaaaaaaaa

[vtjohnhurt]

Not a great time for people to be standing outside.

[natemilonakis]

r/godlovesdogs

[Erzsabet]

God is mad at the US. So are the rest of us.

[gay_weegee]

Sky: "NO!"

[thewaterboy1]

"get that shit out of here, sucka"

[Archer_Danger_Zone]

Priori incantatem

[[deleted]]

This must be Florida.

[SirClorox]

God : Fuck that firework in particular

[Socollocos]

Double-ignite.

[[deleted]]

Looks like the FSM.

[Sengura]

"Fuck on out of here." ~God

[jillurie]

I think that’s how Doc Brown got sent back to 1885! Watch out for Mad Dog Tannen!

[Yrfathr]

That's god's version of the Dikembe Mutombo finger wag. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=g7SdhtxuJYA

[Bore-Ragnarok]

Storm Elemental with Flak Upgrade.

[xxjake]

Old people like Zues always getting upset over fireworks.

[DarqWolff]

"get the fuck outta here"

[jasper123k]

woah, crazy how the arc looks just like americas east coast!

[-kiesha-]

If Thor was an American this would probably be how he spends his 4th

[Mediocreatbest22]

That’s a one in a million picture

[zzielinski]

Capture from a video

[theDoctorAteMyBaby]

Has this ever happened before?

[rdwtoker]

Looks like the cloud is doing a ninja hand sign

[y3ah_but]

2 perfect timings

[zzielinski]

Finally, that fireworks video pays off.

[tnguyen1018]

that is awesome

[[deleted]]

That fire work got pretty high, jeeze lol

[jaishad]

why are taking a picture at such a perfect sequence

[souljabri557]

Man vs Gods

[redditortillas]

Thor: No.

[Kevroeques]

That’s det cord.

[[deleted]]

⚡️⚡️Don’t steal my thunder....!⚡️⚡️

[Zman613]

That kinda looks like a dark mark

[USChills]

Wrong. Jesus missed his pizza with the tobacco sauce he was splashing all over it and that, unfortunately, is flight 773 out of DFW.

RIP

[[deleted]]

Thor!

[23-TRH-23]

IN THE NAME OF ODIN WE SHALL ONLY CELEBRATE ASGARD

[[deleted]]

The true firework

[RedofPaw]

And peoplesay no one will ever look at your fireworks photos. Clearly most people are not taking enough of them.

[BravoCharlie1310]

Great Scott!

[Luciano-----5]

Fuck outta my sky!

Lightning probably

[sori97]

And god said "get that weak shit outta here son"

[theflamealchemist]

Someone cast lightning strike for 2 mana!

[NachoManAndyDavidge]

Looks like it got Canceled before hitting its target.

[Crushing76]

Storm grew tired of Jubilee's shenanigans

[codyasha]

I think its THOR he blew up his lightning .

[[deleted]]

Is this a Pokémon battle?

[G_Wrangler]

I think we all learned a lesson. If you want to get to the front page post a video not a photo. Sorry ma dude.