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When lightning strikes a lake why dont all the fish die?
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Date: November 15th, 2025 5:14 PM Author: vermilion chad (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5798550&forum_id=2#49433803) |
Date: November 15th, 2025 5:24 PM Author: insane big parlour dingle berry Why doesn't it kill all the fish in the ocean? It's got more electrolytes (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5798550&forum_id=2#49433845) |
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Date: November 15th, 2025 5:25 PM Author: mind-boggling rambunctious ape mental disorder That’s salt water (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5798550&forum_id=2#49433849) |
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Date: November 15th, 2025 5:25 PM Author: insane big parlour dingle berry Yeah that should enhance the effect of the lightning. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5798550&forum_id=2#49433850) |
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Date: November 15th, 2025 5:27 PM Author: Bearded swashbuckling ceo Lightning doesn't kill all fish because the electrical current mainly spreads out along the water's surface, not down into the depths. Fish that are deep enough to be below the surface remain unaffected, while only those very close to the surface are at risk of being harmed. This is because water's conductivity causes the electricity to travel horizontally rather than penetrate deeply.
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Date: November 15th, 2025 5:35 PM Author: Alcoholic brindle old irish cottage point this is also how sharks got lazers and how electric eels were invented (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5798550&forum_id=2#49433895) |
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Date: November 15th, 2025 5:35 PM Author: insane big parlour dingle berry Fresh water, sure because it's very dense. But ocean water is significantly less dense, so the electrons should be able to penetrate deep
Edit I got it backwards fresh water is less dense |
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Date: November 15th, 2025 6:24 PM Author: vermilion chad Ph wow. So youre saying the lightning only affects the surface because the water makes it only affect the waters surface. Very insightful. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5798550&forum_id=2#49434056) |
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Date: November 15th, 2025 8:08 PM Author: Sexy Boiling Water Church (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5798550&forum_id=2#49434337) |
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Date: November 15th, 2025 8:03 PM Author: passionate stage So if you are swimming and lighting strikes you should be able to dive and be okay? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5798550&forum_id=2#49434325) |
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Date: November 15th, 2025 8:08 PM Author: Sexy Boiling Water Church (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5798550&forum_id=2#49434338) |
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Date: November 16th, 2025 1:59 AM Author: very tactful dull theater (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5798550&forum_id=2#49434962) |
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Date: November 16th, 2025 8:01 AM Author: vermilion chad Ideally you jump out of the water. But if you dont have time just dive. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5798550&forum_id=2#49435091) |
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Date: November 16th, 2025 10:34 AM Author: very tactful dull theater How I survived 180 days of biglaw tp (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5798550&forum_id=2#49435300) |
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Date: November 16th, 2025 10:54 AM Author: dead sanctuary A dive is just a reverse jump, same kinetic energy (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5798550&forum_id=2#49435357) |
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Date: November 16th, 2025 10:55 AM Author: very tactful dull theater Something about this poast-moniker synergy (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5798550&forum_id=2#49435360) |
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Date: November 15th, 2025 7:35 PM Author: hot liquid oxygen Fish are able to absorb, store, and discharge small amounts of electricity via their electrophores. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5798550&forum_id=2#49434238) |
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Date: November 15th, 2025 8:09 PM Author: Sexy Boiling Water Church (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5798550&forum_id=2#49434339) |
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Date: November 16th, 2025 8:04 AM Author: crawly carnelian den death wish (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5798550&forum_id=2#49435092) |
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Date: November 16th, 2025 4:05 PM Author: crawly carnelian den death wish (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5798550&forum_id=2#49436028) |
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Date: November 20th, 2025 4:34 AM Author: Reinhard Heydrich Uunona (✅🍑) it's amazing how after all these years I still learn something new every day on xo (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5798550&forum_id=2#49445544) |
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Date: November 15th, 2025 8:00 PM Author: rose razzle-dazzle mediation cumskin Enjoy your trash fish (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5798550&forum_id=2#49434320) |
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Date: November 15th, 2025 8:03 PM Author: beady-eyed market fanboi niggers (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5798550&forum_id=2#49434324) |
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Date: November 15th, 2025 8:03 PM Author: Floppy striped hyena lmao at this schoolbus thread (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5798550&forum_id=2#49434326) |
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Date: November 16th, 2025 2:00 AM Author: very tactful dull theater We really like it here. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5798550&forum_id=2#49434963) |
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Date: November 15th, 2025 10:06 PM Author: Ruby Fighting Trust Fund They do wtf are you talking about? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5798550&forum_id=2#49434628) |
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Date: November 15th, 2025 10:11 PM Author: hot liquid oxygen Incorrect. Did you not read the thread? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5798550&forum_id=2#49434637) |
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Date: November 15th, 2025 10:26 PM Author: Ruby Fighting Trust Fund I don’t need to read the thread I’ve seen this on lakes a million times (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5798550&forum_id=2#49434668) |
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Date: November 15th, 2025 10:29 PM Author: hot liquid oxygen You're witnessed all the fish in a lake die after lightning strikes? And witnessed the event occur a million times?
Impressive. |
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Date: November 15th, 2025 10:32 PM Author: Ruby Fighting Trust Fund Obviously I’m being a little rhetorical it hasn’t been a million times but it’s a well known phenomenon up here. We even have a phrase for it: “Lightning Dead” lakes. It can take years to reboot and restore a lake after a major lightning strike especially if it cascades through an underwater stump system. In those interim years, the lake is a real waste land. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5798550&forum_id=2#49434692) |
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Date: November 15th, 2025 10:41 PM Author: hot liquid oxygen And you weren't fudging the number of fish deaths even a little bit by including batrachians?
I think this thread demonstrates that a combination of electrical spread on the surface of the water, electrophoric activity, protective slime, and carefully timed jumps keeps the fish very much alive during lightning strikes. |
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Date: November 16th, 2025 1:30 AM Author: Sexy Boiling Water Church cr (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5798550&forum_id=2#49434947) |
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Date: November 15th, 2025 10:12 PM Author: sable pervert brunch they all jump right before the lightning strikes. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5798550&forum_id=2#49434638) |
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Date: November 15th, 2025 10:20 PM Author: sienna self-absorbed trailer park it's not enough juice. that's like trying to power an entire city with an extension cord plugged into a home wall outlet. the power dissipates in accordance with current/voltage/time/area/etc. you would need a massive jolt of power to remain strong enough to kill stuff spread throughout a large body of water. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5798550&forum_id=2#49434650) |
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Date: November 15th, 2025 10:25 PM Author: ungodly laughsome halford dilemma protective fish slime (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5798550&forum_id=2#49434665) |
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Date: November 16th, 2025 7:55 AM Author: cerebral jewess tp (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5798550&forum_id=2#49435088) |
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Date: November 16th, 2025 10:42 AM Author: very tactful dull theater (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5798550&forum_id=2#49435325) |
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Date: November 16th, 2025 10:43 AM Author: burgundy motley mad cow disease (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5798550&forum_id=2#49435330) |
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Date: November 16th, 2025 10:46 AM Author: very tactful dull theater 9838838388374783747782737388837378383 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5798550&forum_id=2#49435340) |
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Date: November 16th, 2025 10:47 AM Author: very tactful dull theater We had a golden whose FAVORITE pastime by far was leaping into swimming pools after tennis balls, rain or shine at any time of year, and always opted to fly through the air rather than use the steps on the way in 😹😹😹 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5798550&forum_id=2#49435341) |
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Date: November 16th, 2025 11:07 AM Author: Sexy Boiling Water Church (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5798550&forum_id=2#49435386) |
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Date: November 16th, 2025 3:29 PM Author: very tactful dull theater (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5798550&forum_id=2#49435962) |
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Date: November 16th, 2025 1:53 AM Author: insane big parlour dingle berry https://youtu.be/C-TSvxZ40RQ?si=QsAT_JyuY5QoLmko (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5798550&forum_id=2#49434960) |
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Date: November 16th, 2025 11:29 AM Author: Gay chapel ladyboy A lightning strike consists of one or more short duration electrical pulses. The fourier transform of a lightning pulse will show that much of the energy consists of high frequency alternating current. This is why when lightning strikes you hear static on an analog a.m. radio. In a conductor alternating current tends to flow on the surface in proportion to the frequency of the current and the electrical conductivity of the conductor. This is called skin effect. Salt water is much more conductive than fresh water, so the electric field around a strike will be more intense toward the surface and will spread out radially from the strike point. In the case of a fresh water strike, the penetration below the surface will be greater and the spread more resembles a sphere than a disk. If you are floating in the water the current that will flow through you depends upon the electric field gradient across your body. In most cases the field gradient will not be enough to hurt you if you are more than 20 or so feet away. However, if you are standing, the field gradient will be relative to ground, so the lethal distance will be greater. Fish aren't usually in contact with the ground, though. However, electricity is not the only problem. Lightning generates an intense sound wave (thunder). Close in it can be deadly or at least deafening - maybe 250 db, which is like a bomb - think of a stick of dynamite going off. Underwater the concussion can be deadly to fish at a much greater distance than the electrical effect. Maybe 5-10 times greater. In addition, the lightning will flash boil water at the impact point, so if you are too close you can be cooked. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5798550&forum_id=2#49435411) |
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Date: November 16th, 2025 11:45 AM Author: Claret Heady Property Old man assuming lolyers know the Fourier (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5798550&forum_id=2#49435434) |
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Date: November 16th, 2025 12:04 PM Author: Gay chapel ladyboy For all the non engineers on the bort the Fourier transform just converts time domain into frequency domain. Maybe that doesn't make any sense either. It's just one of those things you learn in engineering and math classes. It's tedious to calculate, so you just have a computer or instrument do it for you so it becomes a black box. It is one of the most useful tools in signal and image processing, but it's also used in many other ways. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5798550&forum_id=2#49435484) |
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Date: November 16th, 2025 1:02 PM Author: hot liquid oxygen Or pronounce it.
This block of text would be much easier to read if we had LaTeX and he could just simplify it with equations. |
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Date: November 16th, 2025 5:32 PM Author: Claret Heady Property Not the weirdest feature Rach's been asked (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5798550&forum_id=2#49436270) |
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Date: November 16th, 2025 3:32 PM Author: crawly carnelian den death wish damn I'll be happy if I can just remember who the President is in my mid 70s (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5798550&forum_id=2#49435974) |
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Date: November 16th, 2025 3:58 PM Author: Gay chapel ladyboy Sadly now late 70s. Hope to do 79 on New Year’s Eve per the bort tradition. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5798550&forum_id=2#49436018) |
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Date: November 16th, 2025 4:47 PM Author: very tactful dull theater (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5798550&forum_id=2#49436140) |
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Date: November 20th, 2025 4:35 AM Author: Reinhard Heydrich Uunona (✅🍑) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5798550&forum_id=2#49445545) |
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Date: November 20th, 2025 9:32 AM Author: ethereal \\(> ' v ' <)// tp (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5798550&forum_id=2#49445951) |
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Date: November 17th, 2025 7:41 PM Author: Bearded swashbuckling ceo (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5798550&forum_id=2#49439361) |
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Date: November 20th, 2025 9:31 AM Author: ethereal \\(> ' v ' <)// tp (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5798550&forum_id=2#49445950) |
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Date: November 16th, 2025 1:04 PM Author: dark learning disabled library newt fish instinctively jump at the right time (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5798550&forum_id=2#49435639) |
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Date: November 16th, 2025 1:05 PM Author: Sick Stead Mother Because they’re not grounded. If one of their little fins was touching the bottom at the time then ZAP dead (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5798550&forum_id=2#49435642) |
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Date: November 20th, 2025 4:02 AM Author: tats fish have slimy skin that acts as a plasma shield (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5798550&forum_id=2#49445532) |
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Date: November 20th, 2025 4:46 AM Author: Patel Philippe Pike can feel it coming back again (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5798550&forum_id=2#49445553) |