why the lightning hits only to coconut tree?
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because lightnings always  hit the tallest part of all if you stand in the middle of a meadow and it is rainning you will get  electric shock so that is also why lightning hit buildings.
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Because the ocean is really big.  And a charge that carries enough juice to zap all the creatures would need to be a lot bigger than a typical lightning bolt charge..  When it hits a person with a direct hit has a very low likelyhood of actually killing that person.  Think about it like electricity.  One lightnning strike is like sticking your wet finger into an outlet....ok now if everyone in a city where to stick their finger into a wet socket that's like 500,000 lightnining bolts.  You'd have to drop a nuclear power plant into the water to kill all the fish.
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A car's frame is made of metal.  If lightning strikes the car, the metal will conduct around you through the metal because metal is a better conductor than your body is.  Unsafe is electricity going through you.  Do not stand upright in a storm or even under a tree.  Also don't lay flat on the ground because if lightening strikes near you, the conduction through the ground may offer more resistence than your body and the electricity may take a shortcut through your body.  Best thing without a car is to squat down.
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Lightning is one of the oldest observed natural phenomena on earth. At the same time, it also is one of the least understood. While lightning is simply a gigantic spark of static electricity (the same kind of electricity that sometimes shocks you when you touch a doorknob), scientists do not have a complete grasp on how it works, or how it interacts with solar flares impacting the upper atmosphere or the earth's electromagnetic field.\nLightning has been seen in volcanic eruptions, extremely intense forest fires, surface nuclear detonations, heavy snowstorms, and in large hurricanes. However, it is most often seen in thunderstorms.At any given moment, there can be as many as 2,000 thunderstorms occurring across the globe. This translates to more than 14.5 MILLION storms each year. NASA satellite research indicated these storms produce lightning flashes about 40 times a second worldwide.This is a change from the commonly accepted value of 100 flashes per second which was an estimate from 1925. Whether it is 40, 100, or somewhere in between, we live on an electrified planet.\n\nThe Sound of Thunder\nRegardless of whether lightning is positive or negative, thunder is produced the same way. Thunder is the acoustic shock wave resulting from the extreme heat generated by a lightning flash. Lightning can be as hot as 54,000°F (30,000°C), a temperature that is five times the surface of the sun! When lightning occurs, it heats the air surrounding its channel to that same incredible temperature in a fraction of a second.\n\nLike all gases, when air molecules are heated, they expand. The faster they are heated, the faster their rate of expansion. But when air is heated to 54,000°F in a fraction of a second, a phenomenon known as "explosive expansion" occurs. This is where air expands so rapidly that it compresses the air in front of it, forming a shock wave similar to a sonic boom. Exploding fireworks produce a similar result.\n\nWhat is the difference between a thundershower and a thunderstorm?  \nTechnically, there is none. In general, the term "thundershower" tends to denote a fairly weak storm with light to moderate rainfall and low levels of lightning activity. However, there are no defined parameters that distinguish between a thundershower and a thunderstorm. In fact, in order to avoid confusion, we in the National Weather Service do not use the term "thundershower". If a shower is strong enough to produce lightning, even just one single bolt, it's called a thunderstorm.\n\nTo Learn More about Lightning and Thunder go to \nhttp://www.srh.weather.gov/jetstream/lightning/lightning_intro.htm\n\nLIGHTNING SAFETY A MUST READ\nLightning is the MOST UNDERRATED weather hazard. On average, only floods kill more people. Lightning makes every single thunderstorm a potential killer, whether the storm produces one single bolt or ten thousand bolts.\n\nIn the United States, lightning routinely kills more people each year than tornadoes and hurricanes COMBINED. Tornadoes, hail, and wind gusts get the most attention, but only lightning can strike outside the storm itself. Lightning is the first thunderstorm hazard to arrive and the last to leave.\n\nLightning is one of the most capricious and unpredictable characteristics of a thunderstorm. Because of this, no one can guarantee an individual or group absolute protection from lightning. However, knowing and following proven lightning safety guidelines can greatly reduce the risk of injury or death. Remember, YOU are ultimately responsible for your personal safety, and should take appropriate action when threatened by lightning.\n\nWhile no place is 100% safe from lightning, some places are much safer than others.\nWhere to Go Where NOT to Go \nThe safest location during a thunderstorm is inside a large enclosed structure with plumbing and electrical wiring. These include shopping centers, schools, office buildings, and private residences.\n\nIf lightning st
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It is difficult to say with any degree of certainty due to the way deaths are reported in differ ant countries. In the U S only 14 were killed in 2005. World wide, it is estimated to be about 300. It is interesting to note that about ten times as many people are killed world wide by falling Coconuts as by lightning.
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Hurricanes typically don't produce much lightning, but sometimes they can.\n\nHere is a website with some investigation about this.\n\n http://science.nasa.gov/newhome/headlines/essd16jun99_1.htm
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You might find this interesting,about how lightning works \nand the myths about how/what it strikes\n\nhttp://www.wvlightning.com/lmwn3.shtml
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READ PATEINTLY.. IT MAY APPEAR LONG BUT I GURANTEE YOU SATISFACTION....\n\nyes it is safe....\n\n\nBUT NOT BECAUSE OF RUBBER TYRES..... REMEMBER...\n    \n    NOT BECAUSE OF RUBBER TYRES...\n\nActually when lightening strikes earth surface the charge is in search of the shortest path (least resistance path) to reach the zero potential surface that is earth. Now a car with metallic body is a very good thing to provide that short route to the ground. Same concept as that of a "lighting rod" placed at the top of high rise buildings which attract the lightning towards it instead of the building concrete.\n\nI assume that you know that A PERSON WILL NOT FEEL ANY SHOCK UNTILL AND UNLESS THERE IS FLOW OF CURRENT THROUGH HIS BODY PARTS...\n\nWhen light strikes on the car top, it will get dispersed in all directions and flow through the frame to the wheel frames and then jump from there to the road through the wet tyres. This short jump (of around 8 cm height), in any case, requires less work than conducting electricity through highly non conductive air for height of about a car (120 cm).. or pass through you head and get out from your shoes...\n\nNow imagine yourself sitting in car... you are not in contact from the top... so when light strikes it has 2 options... either to jump  to your head or flow through the conducting car body... answer is obvious and it will pass through the car body...\n\nNow if my legs are touching the car floor then why not i get a shock then..? so answer again is that now when charge is at the floor it is having a zero potential surface below it and there is no point entering into your body and move unneccesarily upwards...\n\nHope you got it...
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During an electrical storm, all objects in the area send up streamers.  The first object whose streamer connects with the streamer from the clouds will complete the circuit and the discharge or lightning bolt will flash.  Usually, the tallest & most conductive object will be the one whose streamer wins the prize of the electifying experience.  So, if there are tall buildings in the area, then a tree has a lesser chance.  If it is forest or woods area, then the first tree whose streamer gets there has the best odds.  Just don't stand close to the tree if it is a pine tree.  When piine sap is instantly heated, it rapidly expands and causes the tree to explode.
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There was a mysterious explosion.  The explosion was extreamly powerful (on the scale of atomic bombs I believe), flatting trees all around.  But it wasnt for a number of years that people were able to get up there and try find out what happened.\n\nIt possible could have been a meteor explosion right before it hit the ground, but there is no other evidence to support this.  I dont think we really know what happened, but the meteor idea is pretty likely I think.
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NO.\n\nIt is only an effect of a cloud being illuminated by a distant lightning flash.
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You are holding a metal rod...there is lightning all around. Metal rods attract lighting. You are holding a metal rod.
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there's a phenomena called Virga, that occurs frequently that could be the cause of this...Virga is rain that doesn't actually reach the surface, and its possible if the thunderstorm just doesn't have enough moisture in them..but..most likely..is that the thunderstorm isn't mature enough to start raining yet..and will most likely start a few miles down the road\n\nThunder occurs anytime theres lightning, and Cloud to cloud lightning is very frequent, and isn't affected by the amount of precipitation in the cloud (although more precip will mean a stronger storm).\n\nYou're most likely hearing the thunder caused by cloud to cloud lighting..and the storm is not yet strong enough to begin precipitation at the surface
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Electricity from trees
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Everything has to be perfect for you to be struck, even if you are made of titanium.\n\n80% of lightning goes from cloud to cloud. The 20% that is between the ground and sky, 75% of it goes up, meaning the ground strikes the cloud. \n\nAnd to make it even tougher for a metal person to be struck, they have to be one of the highest points in an open field, rooftop, whatever. Which is why trees are more often struck than anything else, even if it is next to a house with a metal pole, or a car on the road....\n\nisn't that interesting?
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A Center for Disease Control report found that the threat of lightning strikes increases with the amount of time spent outdoors.  Another report in the Journal of Environmental Health found that a greater number of lightning strikes occur in work related activities.  The industries with the highest number of lightning strikes were agriculture and construction, fields of work dominated by males.\n\nThis would seem to indicate that there is less of a biological reason for men being hit by lightning more often and more of a social reason.  Men tend to have outdoor jobs at a much higher percentage than women and thus are more likely to be in a position to be hit by lightning.
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Of course, something creating tons of sunspots on the Sun and boy doesn't it look so much brighter these days?  Something's going that's pulling a ton of energized particles off the Earth through these hurricanes.  I mean God, why don't people realize what the hell hurricanes are?  They're not just warm water creations, there's a LOT more going on than that.\n\nYou got to think about the storm surge under a storm like Hurricane Wilma of last year.  This thing was a pile of water about 30 feet high, covering an ellipse 200 by 500 or more miles wide.  That weighs a LOT.  These hurricanes are essentially boiling off hundreds of thousands of tons of water into the atmosphere and quick freezing it.\n\nSomething we saw last hurricane season in all of our extraordinary hurricanes was lots of lightning in the eye wall.  All of the massive storms were trying to make incredibly small eyes for themselves, and had some of the lowest eye pressures ever recorded in a storm.  They also had some of the strongest electric fields above them.  Look at this picture of Katrina on the left and Rita on the right.\n\nhttp://s43.photobucket.com/albums/e397/Bigpappadiaz/?action=view&current=GulfMonsters_graphic.jpg\n\nDuring a time which is normally quiet for the solar cycle, the Sun was setting off some amazing flares.  While the mechanisms are supposedly not fully understood (someone knows, but it's too important for the public to know) those solar flares are what were definitely causing the storms.  Look at those perfectly circular eye walls.  They are massive electron discharges to the ionosphere.\n\nPeople who have been under an eye when it has passed over land have reported seeing a red glow in it.  This can only be a discharge to the ionosphere, one of the outerboundaries of our electric field.  It is precisely at the same altitude that our ionosphere exists where Elves occur, glowing rings that ripple outwards above powerful storms.  This shows us where the energy for lightning really comes from:\n\nhttp://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e397/Bigpappadiaz/discharge.gif\n\nTo understand the mechanisms behind these energy transfers going on that create hurricanes, you need a crash course on how the Sun REALLY works:\n\nhttp://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AnNbwjgJYTHVBjL665c5dlzsy6IX?qid=20060617151816AAs0bXO\n\nSo what happens is that the massive current energizes all the elements that are in the Sun so much so that they actually lose some of their electrons, and these electrons fly out towards Earth and all the other planets on the solar "wind" (or current like it really is).  ASStronomers think the solar wind is electrically neutral, since it has protons AND electrons in it, but the difference in electrons per cubic foot is way too small a difference for our satellites to detect.  The solar wind is so big though that it adds up really fast, and we get things like aurora's on our MAGNETIC poles when it really gets going, so you just got to know it's electrified.\n\nhttp://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e397/Bigpappadiaz/050617penumbra.jpg\n\nBut we see on sunspots that the Sun is having its own massive tornadoes that are sucking excess electrons off of it.  So something has to be pulling them off of the Sun, what I don't know but this Planet X some crazy ass people talk about sounds like a strong possibility.  So electrons get pulled off the Sun, and the solar system has to catch up so we get our hurricanes and tornadoes and lightning.  What happens when more are getting pulled off the Sun than the Earth and planets can keep up with is a solar flare.  This is an eruption of hot plasma that forms an electric bridge between the Sun and anything it hits.\n\nYou think those are impact craters on the Moon? Look at these pictures:\nLightning on a gold course:\nhttp://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e397/Bigpappadiaz/060309lightning.jpg\n\nLightning on the Moon:\nhttp://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e397/Bigpap