They say, Aeroplanes can withstand a Lightning which is 1000s of volts, but when a bird hits them, they crash.
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It is when a bird gets sucked into the engines. Lightning passes through the plane and in most cases doesn't damage too many things if at all since it just goes through the skin of the aircraft. A bird strike to the jet engines, depending on the size of the bird can disable the engines completely cutting off power and thrust.\n\nYou may think that these metal engines should just cut the bird up without any issue. However, one must realize that the engine operates at such high speeds that any object remotely hard will damage the blades. The blades inside the compressor are under huge amounts of force and heat. Thus, they are very sensitive to strikes.\n\nThese strikes will begin the initiation of very small cracks on the blades which will in turn create larger cracks and thus having the blades break completely. When a piece of a blade flies off, that is where the real damage comes from. It is a chain reaction and the whole engine is gone in a split second.\n\nyou can find more about the topic here\nhttp://www.fodnews.com/
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Ordinarily, wood is not a conductor of electricity...\n\nBut not for lightning...It strikes the tallest object in an area. If you are under a tree or within its vicinity, if lightning strikes the tree, then it may likely hit you, too, due to its very high voltage (it may reach several thousand or even million volts)...\n\nIf lightning hits you, you will be lucky if you survive...
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Skyscrapers are prone to lightning strikes that could cause damage if not safely conducted to ground.  The mast on the Empire State Building in NYC is apt to be struck more than once in a single storm.  The grounding system must be operable at all times therefore it is unlikely that the lightning that is grounded could be put to useful work.  Also, the lightning voltage is highly variable and may be as strong as 6,000 Volts.  Electric charge dissipated to ground on a clear day would also be lost.  Incidentally, the sky may have both positive and negatively charged clouds since lightning strikes from cloud-to-cloud are common.  Charge is a relative thing.  Airplanes are also struck while passing between clouds and must be able to conduct electrical surges across movable airfoils to avoid welding hinges in a fixed position.  Conducting cables or straps are used in some applications.\n\nAdded 12/21/05.  Actually atmospheric charge does cause a current to ground and also along a power transmission line, especially as a result of sunspots and ionization of air.  An electrical engineer buddy told me that it was a great nusiance affecting global communication by cable and causing power grid outages.  I imagine that the power could be arrested and utilized but is not cost effective or steady enough to count on.  Still someone may find a way.  As you say it is free although the equipment may be costly.  Good luck.
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It's a lightning bolt, that when you look at your own avtar, it constantly flashes, making it look like there really is lightning. But when you see them as someone elses, the lightning freezes, and it just looks like "cracks" in the picture.
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sometimes they crash themselves with Cristal door while flying\nbecause they can perceive it, after they crash they fly confused but that's because they break their neck but they die in some seconds after it.
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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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If you study the details of lightening, u will find that there are some strikes that are between the clouds. Some hit the earth. There is some detailed mechnisms described in books. There u will find terms like pilot leader, streamers, etc.\n\nWhen the lightning occurs, the air gets ionised. So, even if u capture a  Lightening in your tower, the air will become an ionised conductor, so the charge will go to thwe ground. \n\nThe strike from ground occurs as well as the strike from the cloud. \n\nAbove all it is not feasible.\n\nThank you.
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No, unless they are at the water surface at the point of impact or a few feet away. The reason is that electrical charge weakens, (dissipates),  dramatically fast with distance, in the water.\nDan.
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Because they use a lightning rod to conduct the current directly to the ground.
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Ideally for the bird it must contain enough energy to justify the energy consumed in gathering it.  If not then the bird was better off staying put.
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The Romans used the eagle, too, not just the United States.  It is big, nests in high places, has keen vision, sharp talons, is swift in flight.  All wonderful things, powerful things.  But MAINLY it is a bird of prey, it kills its prey, striking suddenly and without warning, like a missile falling from the sky.  Did I say missile?  I meant lightning bolt.  Of course I did.
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The PHYSICAL PHENOMENON here is called ELECTROSTATIC SHIELDING!\n\nIt says that electrostatic field inside a hollow metal conductor is ZERO! \nThe field will be zero even if the conductor encloses a charge!\n\nHere the CAR can be considered as the conductor,\nSo! even if there is  a million volts of lightning outside! You are safe inside!\nThanks- Hope I helped\nPeace!
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No matter how great the voltage or electrical source, the current will pass through the water through the path of least resistence to find ground...\n\nNo fish will die, even if the path is through them, since they will only act as a conductor and not direct path to ground...\n\nTo test this, You and a friend should work together...  Hold hands.  Only of you acheive a static charge, like dragging your feet on the carpet, and then the other while you are holding hand hould touch a door knob (grounded object)...  Only the person touching ground will get the shock, even though the electricity passed though you both...\n\nFlying Airplanes get struck by lightening all the time, but they seldom have any electrical issues and since they are not grounded, the passengers don't feel a thing...  It's kinda scary, but it's cool too.
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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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That kind of lightning are usually called  cloud to clud lightning, and  occurs  at very high altitudes between clouds at different altitudes (1,000 ft,).  there's no thunder because  the charges are  not  making ground like when they touch  earth.
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As long as they are not doing any damage. I think it is very cool to watch lightening. It always amazes me at the way it goes through the sky. I could sit for hours watching a lightening storm.
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Answer:\nThe birds sit touching only one line and nothing else through which electricity can flow to the ground. This means no current flows through the bird’s body.\n\nSo can I get electrocuted if I touch a power line?\n\nAnswer:\nYES!!! And here is an example to explain why.\n\nYou are out flying your kite and it gets away from you. The kite ends up in the power lines. No harm comes to the kite, much like the bird. But once you get involved in trying to recover the kite danger occurs. If you use a pole of some sort to knock the kite down, the pole becomes a conductor of electricity. When the pole touches the kite, the current flows through the kite into your body and then to the ground. Your body cannot handle such a massive shock and can result in death.