Oh deer…
mildly horrifying
Here’s a good post-event article.
They turned it into a study of how the rotting carcasses impact the environment!
Christmas is fucked this year
Why?
All the Rudolfs are roasted
My dude, that happened in 2016…
had this happened 2000 years ago a local village would be absolutely losing their SHIT.
- look at all that fucking MEAT
- god has blessed us with a bountiful harvest
- did you see all that fucking MEAT?!
Way back there weren’t any settlements, only nomadic tribes. They’d loose their shit alright. “Oh no, our transport and future food resources!”
I don’t think they would go near that.
Hard to know.
Could go either way.
I can certainly imagine people avoiding it because of implied danger.
… but I can also imagine people evaluating it and concluding that “they don’t look sick, and they taste fine”.
I guess the decision depends on how hungry you are.
I think it’s important to point out that anyone making this decision was probably using the herd as a primary source of food…it’s pretty clearly a sign that you should hit the road.
wizards
Area of effect what’s that
OP since original D&D.
Lightning is one of those things that makes it easy to see why people invented Gods to explain the phenomena.
How many survived? How big was this herd? That’s pretty insane, no matter how you cut it
how does lightning work? I’ve seen videos of people being struck like 5 times and they are fine with some scars and minor nerve trauma. What causes that person to be ok, but 300 reindeer just die?
You get a circular voltage gradient away from the strike spot. A human with their two legs doesn’t spread along that as far as a deer’s four legs do, so they catch more voltage drop across that, which also runs through their body (along their heart etc). It just depends a lot on how and where a body is affected by electricity.
that’s a good explanation thank you
Also, when the lighting struck, it was probably not from a clear sky. And reindeer can huddle. So if they’re all pretty much already touching each other…
Or even if they’re not huddled, they have a sort of defense mechanism where they just running in circles when threatened.
https://www.livescience.com/64778-vikings-reindeer-cyclone.html
So I imagine a thunderstorm might elicit that response. It’s just a guess though.
I just keep watching this. It’s fascinating to see how the “eye” of the herd forms, strengthens, and moves. The individual actions of dozens, if not hundreds, of reindeer coalesce into the same pattern as a hurricane… Fucking beautiful. Thank you for sharing this.
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My god the smell
Yes, the smell of venison is hunger inducing, rotten flesh, not so much
Damnit Thor
He does love murder
Poor creatures. That’s Norway to go.
Cernunnos descent failed.
