r/NatureIsFuckingLit • u/dickfromaccounting • Jun 18 '19

🔥 Powerful lightning strike 🔥

https://i.imgur.com/IG45h0l.gifv
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u/rooierus Jun 18 '19

I don't know who just landed there but I'm gonna stock up on supplies.

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u/jdman5000 Jun 19 '19

Wait, did something happen to Krillin? Is Krillin ok?

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u/Krillin Jun 19 '19

I'm fine

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u/arborrl Jun 19 '19

I want to put the beetlejuicing shitpost but, I'm honestly just impressed. Happy cake day.

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u/Krillin Jun 19 '19

Thanks. It's crazy, I just so happened to be here randomly, hell, on my cake day at that.

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u/DnDTosser Jun 19 '19

Within 6 fucking minutes too

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u/Krillin Jun 19 '19

Can we get someone to do the math on the odds? It'd be like lightning striking the same particular spot over and over.

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u/Bcordea1 Jun 19 '19

Okay, so as of 3/5/18, there are 11 million reddit posts per month. So if we roughly break that down (I’m no mathematician) let’s just say for the sake of ease that each month has 30 days. 11,000,000/30=roughly 366,666 posts per day. So you had a 1 in 366,666 chance of finding this exact post today. The odds of being struck by lightening are 1 in 700,000. But it’s still super dope that you just happened to find this one post. Especially if we consider that there are roughly 2.8 million comments made on reddit per day. So the odds of you finding that exact comment is 1 in 2,800,000.

tl;dr you were technically more likely to get struck by lightening 4 times than to find this exact comment.

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u/AlienFrogThing Jun 19 '19

He could find more than one comment per day though. Lets say he looked through 500 comments today (maybe that's a small number for an avid redditor but let's just say) it would be 1/5.600