• Dorkyd68@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    So how in the ever loving fuck can someone survive a strike???

    Does the lighting not actually make contact and it’s more like an arc of sorts?

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      4 months ago

      If you put a single drop of boiling water in the palm of your hand you’ll be fine. If you pour a cup of boiling water in the palm of your hand you might need to go to urgent care.

      Lightning superheats the air around it, but not in a sustaining way. Given the speed of the discharge the heat of a strike isn’t necessarily fatal.

      There are indirect strikes where lightning hits near you and electricity flows back up through your body, but direct strikes can also be survived.

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      4 months ago

      Skin effect if I’m not wrong, and other effect that with more voltage, less of that voltage enter the object, so with a fucking strike only your outer layer of your skin get fucked, I watched this in a styropyro video so I don’t remember exactly