Tag: Lightning
Lightning Strikes Car, Then it Gets Creepy
A car is moving down the street when it is struck by lightning. It seems like forever before the vehicle stops and people get out. It looks like everyone’s okay. The car is still smoking, and so is the spot where the strike hit. Then a huge mob of zombies dressed in black appears out of nowhere and approaches the car to consume the lightly-fried occupants.
How To Of The Day: How To Survive A Lightning Strike
The Art of Manliness has produced an illustrated guide on how to survive a lightning strike that offers a few tips and tricks like placing your hands over your ears to minimize hearing loss.
via Laughing Squid
How To Of The Day: How to Survive a Lightning Strike
Minute Earth explains what is best to wear and to do during lightning storms.
Most people have heard the safety tip that the car is a safe place to survive a lightning storm because it rides on rubber tires, but ironically it is the metal body of the car that protects you from the high voltage.
As Minute Earth explains in this new science video, metal is such a good conductor of electricity that the electrons merely glide on the surface of the metal, keeping anyone or anything inside the metal fairly safe.
This concept is actually applied in real life as linemen working on high voltage wires wear literal suits of metal to help protect them in case of an accident.
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