Would you rather die of a lightning or a electrical shock ?!?
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Well, er uh let me think... I'd imagine seeing as they're kinda, sorta, somewhat both the same, AND either way I'm still gonna be dead afterwards.... I'll go with er, um, gee, o.k., you go ahead and pick one for me. Like I said they're both the same and both gonna hurt like hellooooooooooowwww!!!!
1112522
Electricity is a tool only to be wielded by the Lord himself.  Man is not capable of controling lightning and to harness it within bulbs is blasphemous.
893111
no it is not harmfull however if lightning stikes at your house or a neighbours your electricity will surge therefore damaging everything that is pluged into an electrical socket. \n\nit is not harmful if nothing near you gets struck by lightning!
163618
Electric?  If you mean do you get shocked by everything you touch, then yes, that happens to me all the time.
1066625
There are two major things that can happen to you when you are electrocuted.With enough voltage your heart will go into a lethal rhythm that can only be corrected with "shocking" by a health professional. A serious burn can also occur if the voltage is high enough.She probably threw up because it scared her to death.The choice to take her to an e.r. is up to you.Place plastic caps in receptacles for child safety.
717342
well u dont have to worry about the thunder....its the lightning that comes with it if it lands in the pool while u are in it it will shock u to death.........SMART ?
92247
Hmmm to die of thirst I hear is very very painful and very slow.  To die from lack of oxygen is probably scary and painful as well but it would take less than 60 seconds before you just passed out and died in peace.\n\nI prefer air!
292506
Yes! You MUST be grounded to be struck...lol or harmed by lightning. This is because if you are not grounded there is nowhere for the electrical current to move to.\n\n ... think of it as a battery. It has to have both of those metal clasps touching on the top AND the bottom for it to work. If the battery is only touching one metal clasp the battery does not work.\n\n EXCEPTION: If u ly down on the ground u have a good chance of not being hit
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Leaving it on all the time makes the hardware last longer. Sure, it uses more power but it's cheaper than replacing your hard drive and fans every few years.\n\nAnd in response to the lightning thing... if your house gets hit by lightning, it won't matter if your computer is on or off, lightning will still fry it. Surge protectors won't help in that case either.  The only way you can protect your computer from a lightning strike nearby is to unplug it from all the cables.
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Your car is a safer place to be in an electrical storm because, if struck, the metal frame of your car will provide the path of least resistance (which is what electricity always takes) to the ground. Your car and all its electrical systems will be fried, but you should be safe (as long as you are not directly touching that metal frame).\n\nAnd as for your rubber tires providing insulation ... think again, because that small amount of rubber will do very little to stop a lightning bolt with somewhere over 10 million volts of power
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unlikely the lightning will strike you directly.  most likely cause of why people get shocked inside their house is because lightning can travel through the water pipes and the electrical wires.  if you are on the phone, washing the dishes, or taking a shower, chances are you will get shocked.
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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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You only get an electrical shock if you touch both the wire and another thing (in most people's case, the ground) Then the current passes from the cable to the other thing through you. If you're ever silly enough to try, you can hang from the cable with one hand and nothing will happen to you, either.
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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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If you touch a live wire or if power lines are downed and you happen to be there or a circuit is short and you touch the pole or street lamp, you will be electricuted by accident.\n\nIn some countries death sentnce is given by electricuting the criminal on an electric chair.
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Your concept of the linesman is correct, however, being immersed in a body of water is dangerous.  Lightning carries a far greater potential than that of what the linesman faces.  True, there is no conduction of current to ground, but the copter and the line must be equalized before contact can be made.  This is because of the state of "STATIC ELECTRICITY".  Energy that is "Static" is not moving.  Nevertheless, when it comes in contact with another object, one who's energy level is at a different potential, the energy no longer remains static.  The sudden rush of current will be felt.  That's why when you cross the rug and grab the door knob you get a shock.  You have a significantly higher potential than the door knob and when you touch it there is a rush of energy trying to equalize the differences.\n\nBeing in a pool at essentially zero volts and a crack of lightning hits close by, the ground and the water in the pool will charge up before dissipating the lightning strike, possibly leaving you dead.  Wouldn't that ruin your day?\n\nDuring lightning storms stay out of the pool or the tub, do not be running the sink and stay off the phone (cordless phones do not apply in this case as there is no direct wiring to the outside world).  There have been documented cases where persons on the phone have been struck in the head by lightning, again it's due to that equalization of energy levels thing.\n\nHey, even if everyone is wrong, wanna risk your life?  You could die in a tub if someone dropped something electrical in the water.  True, your assumption is that water conducts better than the human body, but that is a wrong assumption.  Pure water is an insulator.  It's the impurity in water that makes it conduct.  Our bodies are actually much better conductors of electricity.  Don't believe me?  Ask someone like an electric shop teacher.\n\nI hesitate to give you a test to try because of the danger of electrocution, but if I were at your house I could demonstrate in a matter of seconds that what I am saying is true.  But for the sake of not causing someone to try a potentially dangerous experiment I'll not be specific.\n\nHowever, if you must know, e-mail me and we can chat.  When I am confident of your ability to conduct the test safely then I will tell you how to do this.
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The threshold current to feel an electrical shock on human skin is in the range of one to twenty thousandths of an ampere or 1 - 20 mA. Contrast this with the current drawn by a 100 watt light bulb, about 1000 mA or 1 A.\n\nThe voltage required to produce a "shock sensation" varies, depending on the dry or moist nature of the skin contacted. Dry skin requires more voltage to reach the threshold level of shock sensation.\n\nMany years ago it was fairly common practice to "taste" electricity from a 1.5 volt dry cell as a "demonstration of electricity." I doubt this is encouraged today, but I have experienced that sensation by holding my thumb against one end of the cell and pressing the other end lightly to my tongue, ostensibly to determine whether the cell is any good. That worked okay for me until one day I tried to test a 9 volt transistor radio battery by touching both electrodes (that's what the little button and cup on the battery is called) to my tongue. Ouch! I received a very painful shock. After that I used a voltmeter to check batteries.\n\nAlso many years ago, there was a popular device installed in roller skating rinks, bars, and other public places to "test your strength" by grasping two vertical metal handles that were connected to an induction coil, a device for producing high voltage electricity. As one of the handles was rotated the voltage increased, the object being to rotate the handle all the way to its mechanical stop without having to let go. Such devices are extremely dangerous because the current passes through both hands and the chest, possibly inducing a fatal fibrillation in the heart muscle.\n\nIt is best to be extremely careful not to get shocked in the first place. Even very small currents, if they pass through the heart, can be fatal. That is why it is common practice for those who work with "live" circuits to always do so with only one hand, keeping the other hand in a pocket to avoid making a complete circuit through the body.