You guys are smart

I know right? It's preposterous to think that a lightning bolt could be that big without divine intervention.

I guess Jesus came back and drove another herd of animals to suicide.

If the lightning bolt hits the wet ground it's already earthed. So it wouldn't hurt the deer.

It would have to branch out before it hit the ground. If the deer were wet, then they would have a lower resistance than the air around them.

Also, the deer would have to all be roughly the same size. That means they would draw an equal amount of current from the lightning strike, encouraging it to distribute current between them (because none of the deer is the "weak link")

or a small possibility of
E. some human autismo went around electrocuting deer

Look at where it is: big open field. The deer where the best paths to ground and they where all pretty much the same so they made a huge resistor network for the lightning.

I think I've seen enough horror movies to know to calmly GTFO of there.

(Or look for a flat mountain top with an alien ship landing on it.)

F. More than one lightning bolt.

(I know I know, "cuz the same place isn't there anymore," yadda yadda...)

G. One of the deer was advocating for gay marriage.

I'd fuck one and so would you. So would all of us. So would the guy who took that picture.

Lightning is an AoE magic

they were all touching each other roughly and it went through all of them.

I'm gonna roll with this one

Last words of deer leader.
"Now, everybody hold hands!"

xDDD

Gary Larson, is that you?

Because I'd like to return a mug. And a t-shirt.

>herd huddled up
>soaked fur
>herd gets hit by lightning
>fucks up their heart conduction
>dead

Pretty simple, desu

Why do you keep calling people Desu?

To be honest, I have no idea senpai.

It's one underage b& autist. They post in that Veeky Forums slack thing.

desu i have no idea what you're talking about senpai

desu idk what word filters are either senpai tho

>100,000,000 volts traveling radially across the ground
>travels up one leg and down the other

unfortunately for quadrupeds, the heart is right in the middle of the electrical pathway.

G-good t-thing we're bipeds r-right guys?

>saw this in international news
hard to imagine a lightning strike
(must have been multiple) killing
all those animals

Yeah, cuz then it's just your balls that get welded together.

this, its highly unlikely that the deer would all be together the chances at an amount that high doesnt make sense since when are lightning bolts this large either. Definitely smells covert op

>More than 320 wild reindeer have been found dead after a single lightning strike struck a mountain plateau
>More than 320 wild reindeer
>have been found dead
>after a single lightning strike struck
>a mountain plateau

where there black helicopters in the area

here is your (You), you massive attention whore

Santa went Satan

Someone put their names on Death Note.

anthrax from under perfmaforst

>Imagine being the dude who happened to come across them.
Oh, deer.

I'd tell you but I don't wanna get abducted

Swamp gas reflected off of venus

Did you not play CoD: Black Ops 2? Lightning Strike = name for 'bombs dropped from planes'

>B. They all had simulataenous heart attacks due to how close and loud it was
fucking kek

Conductivity

Is someone had put a portable Tesla coil out there and fired it up when the deer were chilling around it, would scientists ever be able to figure it out?

Or would it be impossible for them to tell the difference between something that got fucked up by lightning and something that got fucked up by a Tesla coil?

Full disclosure: my entire knowledge of Tesla Coils is based on how they behave in Command and Conquer: Red Alert.

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>300 deer dead
>10,000 deer in entire herd

That's because the red deers don't get zapped

Maybe their antlers acted like lightning rods and the lightning zapped them all dead?

They pissed off Thor.

And likes to stay in and dissipate through the earth, seeing as it's a ground (in other words, current won't flow back up through you).

I imagine it was a massive orgy, with deer tongues and willies in anuses, vagoos, and mouths, with no deer being excluded. There's your circuit.

It's scary, I had a bolt hit bout fiddy feet away once and spilt my tea, semlt the burnin ozone and almost died of heart attack. They were obviously horded out of fright and the bolt done kilt them.

My grams (RIP) was watching a storm out a window, saw a lightning bolt hit a tree, from which it bounded, went through the window, and melted the frame on her glasses when she was young. Knocked her on her ass and left a scar, but she lived.

Lightning does shit you wouldn't expect it to sometimes.