There are only five well-documented fatal lightning strikes on giraffes between 1996 and 2010. But due to the population of the species being just 140,000 during this time, it makes for about 0.003 lightning deaths per thousand giraffes each year. This is 30 times the equivalent fatality rate for humans.
Pic by Luca Galuzzi
I highly doubt that...you give me like, I dunno, let's say 5 people, and a catapult, and I bet you I can hit a giraffe before it gets struck by lightning.
Even more confident if you give me a people-sized potato cannon.
Ah, the new Lemmy giraffaroo?
Hold my can of beans!
I'm going in!
We should start a chain on Lemmy
Already started: !lemmaroo@lemmy.world
The head of the chain is currently here: https://feddit.org/comment/1716202
Cool
It's the old !lemmaroo@lemmy.world at this point.
You can edit your giraffaroo to point to this link: https://feddit.org/comment/1716202
can we catapult people in order of their current wealth hoarding?
Only into an active volcano
But that's the thing, you're NOT out there with your catapult, so the statistics still hold true. Assuming you were given the catapult and I was given a giant tesla coil, I believe I would still be able to zap 30x more giraffes than you could hit with your pathetic catapult.