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Amazing moment the world's biggest Christ was struck by lightning




Topic started on 12-2-2008 @ 06:23 AM by Enceladus


Amazing moment the world's biggest Christ was struck by lightning


www.mailonsunday.co.uk

This amazing photograph gives whole new meaning to the phrase "May God strike me with lightning if ..."

Rio de Janeiro's world famous statue of Christ the Redeemer was struck by lightning during a thunderstorm over the Brazilian city on Sunday.
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reply posted on 12-2-2008 @ 06:23 AM by Enceladus


I really don't know under which category i should post this news; so i am posting it here so that lots of people can have a look at it. Please have look at this amazing picture; wow

www.mailonsunday.co.uk
(visit the link for the full news article)




For bigger picture please click on the image posted in the news article.

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reply posted on 12-2-2008 @ 10:47 AM by Nyorai


I would have liked to see that first hand. Who photographed it? Or maybe it was a security camera.



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reply posted on 12-2-2008 @ 02:21 PM by anxietydisorder


Very cool picture.

Being such a high point you would think this kind of thing happens pretty frequently though, wouldn't you ?



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reply posted on 12-2-2008 @ 03:28 PM by Nyorai


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The statue is 130ft tall, is made of 700 tons of reinforced concrete and stands atop the 2,296ft Corcovado mountain overlooking the city.



I don't know how much concrete attracts lightning, or if "reinforced" means there is steal in it, but you wouldn't want to be hanging around that 2,296ft pillar of Jesus in a thunder storm. How ironic.

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reply posted on 12-2-2008 @ 07:29 PM by TheoOne


Photoshop.

It's obvious that it's photoshop, looks fake.



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reply posted on 12-2-2008 @ 08:11 PM by whatukno


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Reinforced concrete indeed does have steel in it and you would be amazed how shallow that steel is to the surface of the structure.

In order to make a statue like this one they probably had to create a silhouette of Jesus. and then pour and shape the concrete around the steel.

So it is quite probable that this statue gets hit hard by lightning often as it is a high point and probably quite conductive.



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reply posted on 19-11-2008 @ 06:03 AM by Good Wolf


Originally posted by Nyorai
I would have liked to see that first hand. Who photographed it? Or maybe it was a security camera.


Why would a security camera be train on Jesus? In case someone steals it?



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