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Lightning/standing hair: Why do people still react this way?
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plateshutoverlock
Oct 16, 2023, 9:04:12 PM10/16/23
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This video shows a group of young people in a parking lot with their hair standing on end while some nasty looking lightning flashes through the clouds above:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Z04bJPoiIlk
And if you search "lightning hair standing on end" (without quotes) you see the same damn thing in every thumbnail, and that is people smiling and giggling, with their hair standing on end.
How come it's not triggering the "oh fuck, something is VERY WRONG HERE" instinct? Are people so primitive, so clueless to their own survival instincts that they automatically do the reverse of GTFO? Even supposed lower animals have more sense than this!
The only video of this kind I've seen where common sense was displayed was of a bunch of hikers at what appeared to be a canyon under heavy overcast skies going through the same thing. At first, they too we're giggling, holding their hands up and causing the acoustic electric buzz in the air to intensify to the point that it created an EMP buzz in the audio circuit of the camera. After a minute or so, one of the hikers finally spoke up, saying that he felt that the situation they were in was dangerous.
That infamous photograph of the two smiling kids with hair standing on end right before they were struck is 50 years old now
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Z04bJPoiIlk
And if you search "lightning hair standing on end" (without quotes) you see the same damn thing in every thumbnail, and that is people smiling and giggling, with their hair standing on end.
How come it's not triggering the "oh fuck, something is VERY WRONG HERE" instinct? Are people so primitive, so clueless to their own survival instincts that they automatically do the reverse of GTFO? Even supposed lower animals have more sense than this!
The only video of this kind I've seen where common sense was displayed was of a bunch of hikers at what appeared to be a canyon under heavy overcast skies going through the same thing. At first, they too we're giggling, holding their hands up and causing the acoustic electric buzz in the air to intensify to the point that it created an EMP buzz in the audio circuit of the camera. After a minute or so, one of the hikers finally spoke up, saying that he felt that the situation they were in was dangerous.
That infamous photograph of the two smiling kids with hair standing on end right before they were struck is 50 years old now
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