An amazing photo of the Statue of Liberty getting stuck by lightning.
Before anyone accuses me of being Anti-American or putting any other symbolic significance on this, just stop and calm the hell down. The Statue of Liberty is a tall, metal structure in the middle of a harbor. New York City gets thunderstorms. And so she is going to get hit by lightning from time to time. That's just how it works.
comorin From United States of America, joined May 2005, 4671 posts, RR: 17 Reply 1, posted (2 years 7 months 1 week 16 hours ago) and read 2967 times:
Quoting DocLightning (Thread starter): The Statue of Liberty is a tall, metal structure in the middle of a harbor. New York City gets thunderstorms. And so she is going to get hit by lightning from time to time. That's just how it works.
Right. And next you'll have us believing in Evolution. Anyone can see that the lightning is actually a bolt emerging from Lady Liberty (like in X-Men) that warns evildoers everywhere to keep out.
JBirdAV8r From United States of America, joined Jun 2001, 4459 posts, RR: 22 Reply 2, posted (2 years 7 months 1 week 16 hours ago) and read 2965 times:
I really don't mean to be a wet blanket but it looks like the bolt hit somewhere behind the Statue of Liberty in New Jersey there.
ZANL188 From United States of America, joined Oct 2006, 3247 posts, RR: 0 Reply 3, posted (2 years 7 months 1 week 16 hours ago) and read 2945 times:
Quoting JBirdAV8r (Reply 2): I really don't mean to be a wet blanket but it looks like the bolt hit somewhere behind the Statue of Liberty in New Jersey there.
yeah it would pretty well blow to go "Back To the Future" and then find out the 1.21 gigawatts you need for the ride home went to Jersey instead of Lady Liberty...
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comorin From United States of America, joined May 2005, 4671 posts, RR: 17 Reply 5, posted (2 years 7 months 1 week 15 hours ago) and read 2903 times:
When I saw that picture, the first thing that came to mind was "How may kilos of Nitrogen got fixed to Ammonium Hydroxide here?"- to help fertilize the Earth.
Lowrider From United States of America, joined Jun 2004, 3220 posts, RR: 11 Reply 6, posted (2 years 7 months 1 week 12 hours ago) and read 2815 times:
Quoting JBirdAV8r (Reply 2): looks like the bolt hit somewhere behind the Statue of Liberty in New Jersey there.
Quoting MD11Engineer (Reply 4): his is a sure sign that the US has become much to decadent and liberal. This was God´s last warning before the smiting!
After spending some time around EWR, I think it has been smote a few times already. They probably won't notice one more.
DocLightning From United States of America, joined Nov 2005, 16812 posts, RR: 57 Reply 7, posted (2 years 7 months 1 week 11 hours ago) and read 2780 times:
Quoting JBirdAV8r (Reply 2): I really don't mean to be a wet blanket but it looks like the bolt hit somewhere behind the Statue of Liberty in New Jersey there.
It looks like that because it's not hitting her in the torch, but in the chest (read: boobies! ).
DocLightning From United States of America, joined Nov 2005, 16812 posts, RR: 57 Reply 9, posted (2 years 7 months 1 week 8 hours ago) and read 2723 times:
Quoting NIKV69 (Reply 8):
What would you know about those Doc? Unless you've been holding out on us?
RussianJet From Kazakhstan, joined Jul 2007, 6276 posts, RR: 23 Reply 10, posted (2 years 7 months 1 week 7 hours ago) and read 2689 times:
Quoting comorin (Reply 5): When I saw that picture, the first thing that came to mind was "How may kilos of Nitrogen got fixed to Ammonium Hydroxide here?"- to help fertilize the Earth.
And my first thought on reading that question was hearing Homer Simpson shouting "NEEEEEERRRRRRD!"
MadameConcorde From San Marino, joined Feb 2007, 10243 posts, RR: 40 Reply 11, posted (2 years 7 months 1 week 2 hours ago) and read 2604 times:
Good on the photographer. He was rewarded for his 40 years waiting to get the shot at the right time.
The Lady Liberty's real name ist "La Lilberté éclairant le monde" (Freedom shining her light on the world - or else Liberty enlightening the world) the name given to her by her creator Frederic Bartholdi, a gift to the United States from the people of France.
From Wiki:
"a robed female figure representing Libertas, the Roman goddess of freedom, who bears a torch and a tabula ansata (a tablet evoking the law) upon which is inscribed the date of the American Declaration of Independence. A broken chain lies at her feet. The statue has become an iconic symbol of freedom and of the United States."
Thank you for posting this.
Oh and I forgot... Paris also has the Satue of Liberty, the bronze original of a size 4 times smaller than the one in New York harbour. She is placed on a small island on the Seine river nearby Pont de Grenelle (15th district) not far from the Eiffel Tower and facing in the direction of New York City.
GrahamHill From France, joined Mar 2007, 2511 posts, RR: 2 Reply 12, posted (2 years 7 months 1 week ago) and read 2565 times:
Quoting DocLightning (Reply 7): It looks like that because it's not hitting her in the torch, but in the chest
I thought lightnings were always hitting the hightest point in their environment? A lightning hitting the chest and not the torch few meters above does not seem plausible.
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MD11Engineer From Germany, joined Oct 2003, 13334 posts, RR: 64 Reply 13, posted (2 years 7 months 1 week ago) and read 2561 times:
Quoting GrahamHill (Reply 12): Quoting DocLightning (Reply 7):
It looks like that because it's not hitting her in the torch, but in the chest
I thought lightnings were always hitting the hightest point in their environment? A lightning hitting the chest and not the torch few meters above does not seem plausible.
Lightning hits the point of the highest electrical field stregth at the given moment. Since pointed objects concentrate the electrical field, they usually attract lightning, but the local fieldstrength can vary due to external influences (e.g. wind can affact the ionised gas).
GrahamHill From France, joined Mar 2007, 2511 posts, RR: 2 Reply 14, posted (2 years 7 months 1 week ago) and read 2553 times:
Quoting MD11Engineer (Reply 13): Lightning hits the point of the highest electrical field stregth at the given moment. Since pointed objects concentrate the electrical field, they usually attract lightning, but the local fieldstrength can vary due to external influences (e.g. wind can affact the ionised gas).
ok, thanks for the explanation
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comorin From United States of America, joined May 2005, 4671 posts, RR: 17 Reply 16, posted (2 years 7 months 6 days 23 hours ago) and read 2510 times:
Quoting RussianJet (Reply 10): Quoting comorin (Reply 5):
When I saw that picture, the first thing that came to mind was "How may kilos of Nitrogen got fixed to Ammonium Hydroxide here?"- to help fertilize the Earth.
And my first thought on reading that question was hearing Homer Simpson shouting "NEEEEEERRRRRRD!"
Well, there's not much else going on in that picture, is there?
EA CO AS From United States of America, joined Nov 2001, 12559 posts, RR: 64 Reply 18, posted (2 years 7 months 6 days 20 hours ago) and read 2422 times:
If you read the article there are actually more than a few people pointing out that the bolt is actually striking somewhere in the background, and not striking the statue itself. Still a great photo, though!
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