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.

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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.

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can we catapult people in order of their current wealth hoarding?

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7 points

Only into an active volcano

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Ah, the new Lemmy giraffaroo?

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Hold my can of beans!

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We should start a chain on Lemmy

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Already started: !lemmaroo@lemmy.world

The head of the chain is currently here: https://feddit.org/comment/1716202

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It’s the old lemmaroo!lemmaroo@lemmy.world at this point.

You can edit your giraffaroo to point to this link: https://feddit.org/comment/1716202

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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.

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Who’s out here punching giraffes?

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Kyle.

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RFJ JR

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6 points

Is it because of the spots?

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It’s their feet. They have four, so have twice as many as humans. But lightning works exponentially.

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what kind of lightning works exponentially?

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Also, according to many big game hunters, they are the tastiest animal. Apparently giraffe meat has a delightful sweetness to it.

Sadly, giraffe ranching hasn’t caught on. But maybe once lab grown meat is widely available someone will finally bring it to the masses.

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What an evil and selfish thing to say.

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They taste something like bald eagle, with a hint of condor.

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Fun nature fact: Their horns act like lighting rods to provide a safe path to ground so as to keep the electricity away from their internal wiring and plumbing.

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Please let this be true.

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If you didn’t wire your giraffes like this I don’t know how you made it past apprenticeship and into the union. Imagine.

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