What is this? - Page 31

BigV · 02-25-2008, 05:31 PM

A couple more pics of the tree. The lightning hit the tree much farther up (of course) and followed the highly conductive (wet) path of least resistance to earth along this line. Under the bark, where the sap was instantly turned to steam, exploding this strip of bark right off the tree. Very very cool! It's Science!

Pic 01 -- Looking upward at the path of the strike.

Pic 02 -- The puddle of bark like an enormous woolly noodle.

glatt · 02-25-2008, 05:35 PM

It seemed to miss a spot. A small stretch of bark is still intact.

HungLikeJesus · 02-25-2008, 05:42 PM

How do we know it wasn't just a really big deer?

OK, I was wrong. I've paid the piper.

(P.S. On the paypal site, it says,
Your order is being shipped to

and it lists my home address. So I guess I now own the Cellar. I wonder how they'll ship it.)

BigV · 02-25-2008, 06:21 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by glatt

It seemed to miss a spot. A small stretch of bark is still intact.

I noticed that too. A drier spot? The bark was more tightly adhered there? The conductive path was deeper? A vent / crack in the bark we can't see that relieved the pressure? I don't know.

Quote:

Originally Posted by HungLikeJesus

How do we know it wasn't just a really big deer?

OK, I was wrong. I've paid the piper.

(P.S. On the paypal site, it says,
Your order is being shipped to

and it lists my home address. So I guess I now own the Cellar. I wonder how they'll ship it.)

You, sir, are the man, and a helluva good sport too. I'll try to find some more pictures with deer strikes in them just for you.

barefoot serpent · 02-25-2008, 05:48 PM

you should dig around the base of the tree to see if there are any fulgerites.

BigV · 02-25-2008, 06:57 PM

What is this? A pretty easy one, I admit. The follow ups will be interesting.

BigV · 05-05-2008, 07:17 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BigV

What is this? A pretty easy one, I admit. The follow ups will be interesting.

Sorry for the long delay.... Yes. This is a picture of a tv screen whose camera is pointed at my eye. SonofV and I went to the Pacific Science Center and one of the hands on displays had a tethered video microscope, with this ring of leds. I held it up to my eye, watched the image on the television, and snapped this picture. It was cooler in person, I must admit.

More (different subject) what is it tomorrow!

Undertoad · 02-25-2008, 07:18 PM

Oh look the tip mug is full...! Well done gents, and thanks.

Clodfobble · 02-25-2008, 07:27 PM

It's a circle of lights reflected in someone's eyeball... now, if you're looking for me to tell you what the lights are, you're out of luck.

shina · 02-25-2008, 08:39 PM

Looks like warp speed captain! Beam me up Scotty.

Elspode · 02-25-2008, 11:31 PM

How'd you get a pic of my last abduction by aliens?

Flint · 02-25-2008, 11:34 PM

Quote:

My God, it's full of stars!

glatt · 02-26-2008, 08:38 AM

It looks a photograph of the video monitor displaying someone's eye. Those lights are like the lights of an LED light ring used in macro photography.

Didn't you post this picture a few years ago in a thread about Tink's lasik eye surgery?

Edit: So I went back and searched for that old thread, and found it, but the pictures from back then are different. So it's not necessarily Tink's eye.

Trilby · 02-26-2008, 09:24 AM

a bug.

TheMercenary · 02-26-2008, 09:52 AM

Yea, I'm with the thought that it is an eyeball close up too.

02-25-2008, 05:31 PM	#1
BigV Goon Squad Leader Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Seattle Posts: 27,063	A couple more pics of the tree. The lightning hit the tree much farther up (of course) and followed the highly conductive (wet) path of least resistance to earth along this line. Under the bark, where the sap was instantly turned to steam, exploding this strip of bark right off the tree. Very very cool! It's Science! Pic 01 -- Looking upward at the path of the strike. Pic 02 -- The puddle of bark like an enormous woolly noodle. Attached Images __________________ Be Just and Fear Not.

02-25-2008, 05:42 PM	#3
HungLikeJesus Only looks like a disaster tourist Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: above 7,000 feet Posts: 7,208	How do we know it wasn't just a really big deer? OK, I was wrong. I've paid the piper. (P.S. On the paypal site, it says, Your order is being shipped to and it lists my home address. So I guess I now own the Cellar. I wonder how they'll ship it.) __________________ Keep Your Bodies Off My Lawn SteveDallas's Random Thread Picker.

02-25-2008, 05:48 PM	#5
barefoot serpent go ahead, abbrev. it Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Lawrence, KS Posts: 2,623	you should dig around the base of the tree to see if there are any fulgerites. __________________ Chooses rowing vs. wading

02-25-2008, 06:57 PM	#6
BigV Goon Squad Leader Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Seattle Posts: 27,063	What is this? A pretty easy one, I admit. The follow ups will be interesting. Attached Images __________________ Be Just and Fear Not.

02-25-2008, 11:31 PM	#11
Elspode When Do I Get Virtual Unreality? Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Raytown, Missouri Posts: 12,719	How'd you get a pic of my last abduction by aliens? __________________ "To those of you who are wearing ties, I think my dad would appreciate it if you took them off." - Robert Moog

02-25-2008, 05:35 PM	#2
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	It seemed to miss a spot. A small stretch of bark is still intact.

02-25-2008, 07:18 PM	#8
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	Oh look the tip mug is full...! Well done gents, and thanks.

02-25-2008, 07:27 PM	#9
Clodfobble UNDER CONDITIONAL MITIGATION Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Austin, TX Posts: 20,012	It's a circle of lights reflected in someone's eyeball... now, if you're looking for me to tell you what the lights are, you're out of luck.

02-25-2008, 08:39 PM	#10
shina Hopeful Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Sammamish, WA Posts: 232	Looks like warp speed captain! Beam me up Scotty.

02-26-2008, 08:38 AM	#13
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	It looks a photograph of the video monitor displaying someone's eye. Those lights are like the lights of an LED light ring used in macro photography. Didn't you post this picture a few years ago in a thread about Tink's lasik eye surgery? Edit: So I went back and searched for that old thread, and found it, but the pictures from back then are different. So it's not necessarily Tink's eye.

02-26-2008, 09:24 AM	#14
Trilby Slattern of the Swail Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 15,654	a bug.

02-26-2008, 09:52 AM	#15
TheMercenary “Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo” Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Savannah, Georgia Posts: 21,393	Yea, I'm with the thought that it is an eyeball close up too. __________________ Anyone but the this most fuked up President in History in 2012!

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