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TIL that A lightning bolt is five times hotter than the surface of the Sun. The charge carried by a bolt of lightning is so intense that it has a temperature of 30,000°C (54,000°F). (www.sciencefocus.com)

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (3 children)

So how in the ever loving fuck can someone survive a strike???

Does the lighting not actually make contact and it's more like an arc of sorts?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Skin effect if I'm not wrong, and other effect that with more voltage, less of that voltage enter the object, so with a fucking strike only your outer layer of your skin get fucked, I watched this in a styropyro video so I don't remember exactly

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

with a fucking strike

https://xkcd.com/90/

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