My wife's best friend was killed by lightning in Houston in 2001. A storm had passed though about a half hour before and it appeard to be clearing.
She went into the front yard to do some weeding in a flower bed beside the driveway.
Her house was in the middle of a bunch of very large pines. They probably had 2 dozen 75-100' pine trees throughout the yard and the entire lot was under the canopy. Not to mention that there were 2 aluminum light poles within 25 yards of where she was struck.
Examining the damage afterwards, a tree was struck. The lightning travelled along the tree for about 15 feet and then must have travelled through the air, through her body and into the rebar in the driveway (or reverse that since lightning supposedly travels up).
A neighbor began cpr within 2 minutes and they had her to a hospital within 15-20 minutes. They got her heart working again eventually, but never any brain activity.
I kinda like to think that she died immediatly. From what I was told, there wasn't any visible damage to her body except for some blood from her nose and mouth (that was third hand since the neighbor wouldn't talk about it).
Agree... As soon as I saw this story, I immediately said a quick little prayer of thanks for Proxomitron.
Even if I can't get rid of the ad altogether if I want to still read the story, Proxomitron will prevent the ad from coming up full screen and I can easily enough replace 300k flash ads from this advertiser to be replaced with an innocent gif or something.
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My wife's best friend was killed by lightning in Houston in 2001. A storm had passed though about a half hour before and it appeard to be clearing. She went into the front yard to do some weeding in a flower bed beside the driveway. Her house was in the middle of a bunch of very large pines. They probably had 2 dozen 75-100' pine trees throughout the yard and the entire lot was under the canopy. Not to mention that there were 2 aluminum light poles within 25 yards of where she was struck. Examining the damage afterwards, a tree was struck. The lightning travelled along the tree for about 15 feet and then must have travelled through the air, through her body and into the rebar in the driveway (or reverse that since lightning supposedly travels up). A neighbor began cpr within 2 minutes and they had her to a hospital within 15-20 minutes. They got her heart working again eventually, but never any brain activity. I kinda like to think that she died immediatly. From what I was told, there wasn't any visible damage to her body except for some blood from her nose and mouth (that was third hand since the neighbor wouldn't talk about it).
They've found sugar on the MOON!!!
More like 'Math' Fiction.
I love how some trilogies have at least 4 parts.
It will end up being a 'just wanna be friends' detector.
I guess we've found yet another use for micropayments.
Agree... As soon as I saw this story, I immediately said a quick little prayer of thanks for Proxomitron.
Even if I can't get rid of the ad altogether if I want to still read the story, Proxomitron will prevent the ad from coming up full screen and I can easily enough replace 300k flash ads from this advertiser to be replaced with an innocent gif or something.
Can't they just track the IP address of the scraper program and either feed it bogus information or block it all together?
Unless they break away to commercials between innings, I'm not interested.
Being bombarded by ads (either at home or at the game) has become as much a part of the beloved pasttime as the game itself.
If they're not gonna let me be a part of that, then NO THANKS!
I looked down and saw the ants on my computer.
I was like... hnuh...
The ants de-voured my computer.
It was a really good computer.
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Ellen, once you feel the ants crawling on your skin, darling, it's time to seek help.
This will be of no use to me until it automatically deletes any Word Doc and .exe files that my co workers try to email to me.
It obviously didn't work to prevent all of the Britney Spears and New Kids on the Block copycats.
Mostly, when you were at the grocery store before cell phones, you had an inkling that other folks were dumb, but they mostly kept silent.
Now with phones, you actually can hear them talk and they've removed any doubt about their intellect.
Most of all of you other Slashdot posters must have been posting from a internet enabled cell phone these past few months.
Now finally, the average surfing session will get back to 90 minutes where it should be!
Did AOL shorten the amount of time you could be idle with your connection before they boot you?
My guess is that most of it will be coming from nightclubs in Boston.
Please don't shatter my fantasy of flying through earth orbit millennium-falcon-through-the-asteroid-field stle dodging satellites...