Lightning strike scars
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Not doubting the ******* exit wound. I'm just saying that rubber soles don't make any difference.
Thumpetto, it is safe to be in a vehicle in a storm or in the case of downed wires because of Faraday shielding.
Thumpetto, it is safe to be in a vehicle in a storm or in the case of downed wires because of Faraday shielding.
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Again, I'm not doubting the lightning exited her *******, especially if she was inside and the structure lessened the strike.
I am saying that if you are directly struck by lightening, rubber soles will not help you.
NWS JetStream - Lightning Frequently Asked Questions
I am saying that if you are directly struck by lightening, rubber soles will not help you.
NWS JetStream - Lightning Frequently Asked Questions
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Again, I'm not doubting the lightning exited her *******, especially if she was inside and the structure lessened the strike.
I am saying that if you are directly struck by lightening, rubber soles will not help you.
NWS JetStream - Lightning Frequently Asked Questions
I am saying that if you are directly struck by lightening, rubber soles will not help you.
NWS JetStream - Lightning Frequently Asked Questions
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* Yes, down. While the initiating stroke does travel upwards, it is the return stroke which conveys the majority of the energy and produces the visible flash.
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A sense of perspective is called for here.
Lightning is powerful. Amazingly powerful. Really, mind-blowingly, immensely powerful. Hundreds of megavolts.
Mankind simply does not possess materials capable of functioning at those levels. You know those high-voltage overhead power lines you see running massive distances across the plains? The most powerful of them run at only a few hundred thousand volts, and those have ceramic insulators several meters long suspending the cable from the mast.
Lightning is several orders of magnitude more powerful than that.
A bolt of lightning which has already traveled through miles of one of the better insulators known to man (air) isn't even going to notice an inch of rubber, or a foot of rubber, or a block of rubber larger than Hustler's ego. You simply cannot insulate against lightning. All you can do is redirect it around the things you wish to protect, by providing it with a more ideal path. This is why people in cars survive lightning strikes. It has nothing to do with the rubber tires, and everything to do with the metal body of the car offering the lightning a more attractive path than through the meat inside.
Lightning is powerful. Amazingly powerful. Really, mind-blowingly, immensely powerful. Hundreds of megavolts.
Mankind simply does not possess materials capable of functioning at those levels. You know those high-voltage overhead power lines you see running massive distances across the plains? The most powerful of them run at only a few hundred thousand volts, and those have ceramic insulators several meters long suspending the cable from the mast.
Lightning is several orders of magnitude more powerful than that.
A bolt of lightning which has already traveled through miles of one of the better insulators known to man (air) isn't even going to notice an inch of rubber, or a foot of rubber, or a block of rubber larger than Hustler's ego. You simply cannot insulate against lightning. All you can do is redirect it around the things you wish to protect, by providing it with a more ideal path. This is why people in cars survive lightning strikes. It has nothing to do with the rubber tires, and everything to do with the metal body of the car offering the lightning a more attractive path than through the meat inside.
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Just a reminder of how powerful like lightning is:
Trigger warning for PITA pussies.
PHOTO: 21 Cows Were Killed by a Single Lightning Strike | Fox News Insider
Trigger warning for PITA pussies.
PHOTO: 21 Cows Were Killed by a Single Lightning Strike | Fox News Insider
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Lightning strikes all sorts of interesting things from time to time.
Airplane strikes in flight are pretty common (according to this source, every single airplane in the US commercial fleet is struck an average of once per year), and there is some concern about the growing use of composite airframe materials in this context.
The Apollo 12 spacecraft (complete stack including Saturn V rocket) was struck by lightning twice, 36 and 52 seconds after liftoff, and provided what may be the coolest picture ever to come out of the US space program:
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But I couldn't find any data at all about what happens when lightning strikes something like a Corvette convertible or a Zenvo ST1. If history is any indicator, the Zenvo is quite likely to burst into flame and kill you just from normal driving around, but what about the Corvette? My suspicion is that the metal in the windshield frame would probably be sufficient to act as a lightning rod, though I'm going to abstain from gathering empirical evidence to support this.
I'm wondering more about medieval knights in full armor on horseback right now.
Last edited by Joe Perez; 05-28-2016 at 03:59 PM.