can a person with titanium inserted in the body, can he be struck by lightning?
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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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Hey Brian.  I work for the largest jewelry company in the world so here you go.  Titanium rings are extremely tough and I recommend them to people who work a lot with their hands ie: construction workers, mechanics and so on.  However they can not be sized up or down if you should gain or lose weight.  They do still scratch and can not be polished.  Also, if you are in a major accident and there is heavy trauma that causes your hands to swell,  EMT's can not defibrilate your heart with metal on your body.  The titanium is too strong to cut off so they must remove your finger instead.  Kind of morbid huh?  Good luck!
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I think water you know that the tap wtaer is hard water i.e it contains excess of Ca++ ions and also the water is made up up of h20 which is ionic in nature and now the the original part when the person touches the switch cause the person is covered all of his body with hard water which is a 98.456% conductor of electricity he gets a svere shock also you should be knowing humanbody is also a conductor of electricity blood is acetic so both media media make good conductors of electricity and no obstruction is observed. In this way the person may also die.\n so always when working with electricity wear rubber slippers which are insulators (dont conduct current).\n GO ON KEEP ASKING
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There is no reason why you could not be struck by lightning while parachuting but the likelihood of it happening is extremely slim.  As for not "touching the ground", I have personally been in an aircraft as a passenger that was struck by lightning while in flight.  If an aircraft can be hit in flight (ie not touching the ground) then logically, you could be struck.  But, what are the chances that you would be parachuting in weather bad enough to create lightning?
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Yes you can.  You can also be electrocuted if you are washing dishes during a thunderstorm and your house is hit by lightning.
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No\n\nThe car shields you because the charge of the electricity resides on the surface of the metal. This is why it is dangerous to touch it.\n\nThis is the same reason you get shocked touching a 'live', bare wire.\n\nIf in that situation just hunker down, sit tight and call help on your cell...IF......you can get a signal thru the electron-screen surrounding your car. You could probably open a window a little tho.\n\nMore than likely the sunroof is made of glass and that is an insulator. So it the rubber seal between it and the metal chassis of the car on which it seals.\n\nHowever......\n\n......if the lightning is bent on being directed to something inside the car, or under the car, the car probably won't afford you much help. Lightning would burn a hole right thru it and anything in it's path. Don't know if that's ever happened, but I think it's more unlikely than likely.
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An electric shock can occur upon contact of a human or animal body with any source of voltage high enough to cause sufficient current flow through the muscles or nerves. The minimum detectable current in humans is thought to be about 1 mA. The current may cause tissue damage or heart fibrillation if it is sufficiently high. When (and only when) an electric shock is fatal, it is called electrocution.\n\nAn electric shock is usually painful and can be lethal. The level of voltage is not a direct guide to the level of injury or danger of death, despite the common misconception that it is. A small shock from static electricity may contain thousands of volts but has very little current behind it due to high internal resistance. Physiological effects and damage are generally determined by current and duration. Even a low voltage causing a current of extended duration can be fatal. Ohm's Law directly correlates voltage and current for a given resistance; thus, for a particular path through the body under a particular set of conditions, a higher voltage will produce a higher current flow.\n\nShock effects:-\nPsychological\nThe perception of electric shock can be different depending on the voltage, duration, current, path taken, frequency, etc. Current entering the hand has a threshold of perception of about 5 to 10 milliamperes (mA) for DC and about 1 to 10 mA for AC at 60 Hz. Shock perception declines with increasing frequency, ultimately disappearing at frequencies above 15-20 kHz.\n\nPhysiological:-\n\nBurns:- Tissue heating due to resistance can cause extensive and deep burns. High-voltage (> 500 to 1000 V) shocks tend to cause internal burns due to the large energy (which is proportional to the square of the voltage) available from the source. Damage due to current is through tissue heating.\n\nVentricular fibrillation:- A low-voltage (110 to 220 V), 60-Hz AC current traveling through the chest for a fraction of a second may induce ventricular fibrillation at currents as low as 60mA. With DC, 300 to 500 mA is required. If the current has a direct pathway to the heart (e.g., via a cardiac catheter or other electrodes), a much lower current of less than 1 mA, (AC or DC) can cause fibrillation. Fibrillations are usually lethal because all the heart muscle cells move independently. Above 200mA, muscle contractions are so strong that the heart muscles cannot move at all.\n\nNeurological effects:- Current can cause interference with nervous control, especially over the heart and lungs. When the current path is through the head, it appears that, with sufficient current, loss of consciousness almost always occurs swiftly. (This is borne out by some limited self-experimentation by early designers of the electric chair. and by research from the field of animal husbandry, where electric stunning has been extensively studied)\n\nPoint of Entry:-\n\nMacroshock Current flowing across intact skin and through the body. Current traveling from arm to arm, or between an arm and a foot, is likely to traverse the heart, and so is much more dangerous than current traveling between a leg and the ground.\n\nMicroshock Direct current path to the heart tissue
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Yes. Try the manufacturer of the implant.  The Dr. can probably tell you that..or the Medical supplier.
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Surgically insert dozens of titanium ball bearings under the skin.\nLet me know how it goes.
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My husband they sent to physical therapy & they used light electrical shocks on that side of his face. It worked great & varily quickly. No sign of it now.
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no....human bodies carry electric current very well and when you touch something with too much static, it goes thru that point in your body, and out another (into the earth). You're basically the earthing-wire.
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no, its a myth.  lightning is attracted to tall objects and metal objects (like lightning rods) so these get hit more often.
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No it isn't!\n\nWhy? Lightning! One of the easiest ways for lightning to travel into your home is through your water pipes, and it will travel right to your body since water has a high conductance. Things to stay away from include phones and computers, since lightning may also travel through the lines that are outside of the house.\n\nRemember, lightning doesn't need a metal object to travel into your home, anything that is a conductor will do. For more information, check out the great page Wikipedia has set up here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrical_conduction
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It is estimated that on average, each airplane in the U.S. commercial fleet is struck lightly by lightning more than once each year. In fact, aircraft often trigger lightning when flying through a heavily charged region of a cloud. In these instances, the lightning flash originates at the airplane and extends away in opposite directions. Although record keeping is poor, smaller business and private airplanes are thought to be struck less frequently because of their small size and because they often can avoid weather that is conducive to lightning strikes. \nThe last confirmed commercial plane crash in the U.S. directly attributed to lightning occurred in 1967, when lightning caused a catastrophic fuel tank explosion. Since then, much has been learned about how lightning can affect airplanes. As a result, protection techniques have improved. Today, airplanes receive a rigorous set of lightning certification tests to verify the safety of their designs. \n \n \nAlthough passengers and crew may see a flash and hear a loud noise if lightning strikes their plane, nothing serious should happen because of the careful lightning protection engineered into the aircraft and its sensitive components. Initially, the lightning will attach to an extremity such as the nose or wing tip. The airplane then flies through the lightning flash, which reattaches itself to the fuselage at other locations while the airplane is in the electric "circuit" between the cloud regions of opposite polarity. The current will travel through the conductive exterior skin and structures of the aircraft and exit off some other extremity, such as the tail. Pilots occasionally report temporary flickering of lights or short-lived interference with instruments. \nMost aircraft skins consist primarily of aluminum, which conducts electricity very well. By making sure that no gaps exist in this conductive path, the engineer can assure that most of the lightning current will remain on the exterior of the aircraft. Some modern aircraft are made of advanced composite materials, which by themselves are significantly less conductive than aluminum. In this case, the composites contain an embedded layer of conductive fibers or screens designed to carry lightning currents. \n\n \nModern passenger jets have miles of wires and dozens of computers and other instruments that control everything from the engines to the passengers' headsets. These computers, like all computers, are sometimes susceptible to upset from power surges. So, in addition to safeguarding the aircraft's exterior, the lightning protection engineer must make sure that no damaging surges or transients can reach the sensitive equipment inside the aircraft. Lightning traveling on the exterior skin of an aircraft has the potential to induce transients into wires or equipment beneath the skin. These transients are called lightning indirect effects. Careful shielding, grounding and the application of surge suppression devices avert problems caused by indirect effects in cables and equipment when necessary. Every circuit and piece of equipment that is critical or essential to the safe flight and landing of an aircraft must be verified by the manufacturers to be protected against lightning in accordance with regulations set by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) or a similar authority in the country of the aircraft's origin. \nThe other main area of concern is the fuel system, where even a tiny spark could be disastrous. Engineers thus take extreme precautions to ensure that lightning currents cannot cause sparks in any portion of an aircraft's fuel system. The aircraft skin around the fuel tanks must be thick enough to withstand a burn through. All of the structural joints and fasteners must be tightly designed to prevent sparks, because lightning current passes from one section to another. Access doors, fuel filler caps and any vents must be designed and tested to withstand lightning. All th
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The current in a lightning bolt is as high as 30,000 Amperes with 1,000,000 or more Volts. The short duration of about 1-100 milliseconds limits, but doesn’t prevent injury. There are several mechanisms of lightning injury. The most severe is a direct strike, either on the victim or on some object the victim is holding such as a golf club, tripod or umbrella. A “side flash” occurs when lightning hits a nearby object and jumps to the victim. Ground current injures the victim when lightning strikes the ground nearby and it spreads to the person. Rarely, people maybe injured or killed indoors while using the telephone or taking a shower.
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Ok... I read the answers previously posted and they all sound reasonable close to the truth, so I'll leave them be.. they did fail to mention how a person is actually killed by a lightning strike... So I'll answer this for you...\nYour body uses the flow of charged ions to control many processes (i.e. Muscle movement, nerve signalling).  The flow of charge is more commonly known as electricity.  The average membrane potential in a human is -70 kilojoules(kJ), and the channels in your cells membrane can be triggered by an impulse of only about 20 kJ.  So when you get a current through your body with a potenial of thousands of volts... obviously there is going to be a disruption of the charge gradient.  Depending on the path of the current through the body, the effects will vary... the most dangerous path is for the current to travel through your heart.  Since your Heart is a muscle and is is controlled by an "electrical" signal, this extreme voltage can cause an over fibrulation of the cardiac muscles and essentially render then useless... kind of like if you were to take a slinky and stretch it out as fa as you can... its not goign to contract again, and is not something that can be easily fixed.  Hope this helps!
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Yes, Titanium is a non-ferris (not magnetic) metal and will not harm you when/ if you have an MRI, though the screws look cool on the film