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So many people being struck by lightning !

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  • #32
    bodhrandude
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,321 ✭✭✭✭bodhrandude


    Probably the most unluckiest festival of last weekend. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/dozens-hospitalised-after-lightning-strikes-at-germanys-rock-am-ring-festival-for-second-year-in-a-a7065191.html

    If you want to get into it, you got to get out of it. (Hawkwind 1982)



  • #33
    Mint Aero
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,570 ✭✭✭Mint Aero


    Timberrrrrrrr wrote: »
    Lightening will take the least path of resistance to the ground, if the man was in the open then he would have been struck no matter as he was the tallest thing in the area, it's why you never shelter under trees during lightening. Hopefully they all make a full recovery.

    How does lightning determine the least path? God?


  • #34
    Your Face
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,275 ✭✭✭Your Face


    You tube.


  • #35
    CFlat
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    SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »
    Hopefully that piece of information will save lives

    Id like to think it would, but I'm not holding out much hope.


  • #36
    pajor
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    bodhrandude wrote: »
    Probably the most unluckiest festival of last weekend. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/dozens-hospitalised-after-lightning-strikes-at-germanys-rock-am-ring-festival-for-second-year-in-a-a7065191.html

    On Friday night I was at a big fundraiser in the town I live in (east NL) for the Dutch cancer foundation (KWF). Event was a 24 hour thing on a football pitch in town. At around 10pm a mad storm began. Thunder and lightning from three sides. And then it began to pour rain. And I really mean pour down. The nighttime event was just about to start. Survivors of cancer and families of the deceased were to give speeches about experiences. Pathetic fallacy if I ever saw it. At 11pm it was decided by organisers that it was too dangerous with the lightning and everything was called off until the next morning.

    Saw then on Saturday morning about the Rock am Ring. Was so glad the decision was made here to postpone. Wasn't a risk worth taking.


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  • #37
    jimgoose
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    Ficheall wrote: »
    I've never understood how lightning/electricity "knows" which is the path of least resistance route. Like, if you stood a 120m tall rubber dildo beside the spire in Dublin, how would the lightning pick which was easier to get through? Does it send out little feelers or somesuch somehow?

    Lighting takes the path of least impedance, not resistance. Lightning is not DC. And it splits air into plasma by sheer horsepower, eventually bulldozing it's own electrical circuit. Stay out of it's way.


  • #38
    Renegade Mechanic
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    jimgoose wrote: »
    Lighting takes the path of least impedance, not resistance. Lightning is not DC. And it splits air into plasma by sheer horsepower, eventually bulldozing it's own electrical circuit. Stay out of it's way.

    Hotter than the sun. That's why you hear the bang, it's the air suddenly expanding because of that heat, way faster than the sound barrier.

    Like most things, they expand when heated, and expand a lot when heated a lot.
    Look at this tree, for example. Nowhere for the expansion to go, so it just explodes.
    https://youtu.be/pBwkGtroA-I

    What I want to know is how in the name of God do people not just burst when the same happens to them!?


  • #39
    Pherekydes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 16,339 ✭✭✭✭Pherekydes


    Ficheall wrote: »
    I've never understood how lightning/electricity "knows" which is the path of least resistance route. Like, if you stood a 120m tall rubber dildo beside the spire in Dublin, how would the lightning pick which was easier to get through? Does it send out little feelers or somesuch somehow?
    Mint Aero wrote: »
    How does lightning determine the least path? God?

    Water flows downhill. How does it know which way is downhill?


  • #40
    Broken Hearted Road
    Closed Accounts Posts: 694 ✭✭✭Broken Hearted Road


    failinis wrote: »
    I remember being told to do this, if I was out on flat ground or on a hill/mountain and no chance of getting inside a car or a house at the time.
    Might be bull **** but sure might help someone.

    http://media.mercola.com/ImageServer/Public/2014/May/lightning-strike.jpg

    I took a screenshot of the image you put up and I'm fairly tempted to practise this position as a just in case measure.

    There's no details with this image. If you are out and thunder and lightening happens, with no house or car to get in to, and it's close to you, do you get into this position and wait for the lightening and thunder to pass.


    I remember as a child walking with my mother to the village in a thunderstorm and lightening struck before us. It was very bright.


  • #41
    failinis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,691 ✭✭✭failinis


    Broken Hearted Road wrote: »
    I took a screenshot of the image you put up and I'm fairly tempted to practise this position as a just in case measure.

    There's no details with this image. If you are out and thunder and lightening happens, with no house or car to get in to, and it's close to you, do you get into this position and wait for the lightening and thunder to pass.


    I remember as a child walking with my mother to the village in a thunderstorm and lightening struck before us. It was very bright.

    Had a google to see when you should and gave me this:
    Seems when it is very close and you get certain signs its a good idea to do that pose.
    Which is all well and good, but none of this is of much use if you have no idea what to look for pre-electric-touchdown. So what are the signs of an impending strike? According to the Art of Manliness:

    Use the 30/30 Rule: If, after seeing lightning, you can't count to 30 before hearing thunder, get inside a building or car. Don't go outside until 30 minutes after the last clap of thunder...

    If you're caught outdoors and see signs that a lightning strike is imminent (your hair stands on end, your skin tingles, you hear a buzzing, clicking, hissing, or cracking sound, or see metal objects emitting a soft, blue-white glow) or you simply think you're in danger, immediately assume the position above to increase your chances of surviving, should the lightning strike you directly, or close to you.

    http://gizmodo.com/how-to-survive-getting-struck-by-lightning-1568413388

    The logic behind it, what I was told anyway, is that if lightening hits the ground near you (say a tree or whatever) or hits you directly, it will go from one foot, through the ankles, and down the other foot.
    Instead of up a leg, around the heart and back down the other leg.
    So you give a safe "circuit" and less chance of it blowing your heart into confusion.

    I know its unlikely it will happen (and not sure how strong the science behind it is).


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  • #42
    Broken Hearted Road
    Closed Accounts Posts: 694 ✭✭✭Broken Hearted Road


    I got into the position above. I don't know how I will be at keeping the position for a few minutes but something to practice all the the same.

    Some tips for others who would like to practise this.

    -Stand with your feet together.
    -Move feet apart while keeping the heels together
    -Bend down
    -Lift heels off ground.


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