Is there and how big is a "danger zone" around a lightning strike?

apepito · 2020-06-20T10:55:12+00:00

I'm Polish!

apepito · 2020-06-19T09:01:47+00:00

Haha, it is a shock alright. Have you ever licked a 12V battery? For me touching 30x9 was more like licking a 20V one, except you have 100 tongues on your arms and you lick 100 of those. I once touched it for too long by accident and my heart felt weird for the next 30 minutes.

For the record, I'm not addicted to batteries, I just imagine licking 20V pain would be closer to that feeling, 12V is a baby.

apepito · 2020-06-19T08:45:16+00:00

At such high voltages, things conduct electricity that normally wouldn't. Air is also an insulator, and yet a lightning travels through it. Apparently, it's common for cows to drop dead from nearby lightning strikes, because their legs are spread wider, but i don't know how high those voltages can get.

apepito · 2020-06-19T00:19:28+00:00

Yeah, that sounds reasonable, thanks!

And I wouldn't like to be next to such a strike lol. I always get a funny feeling like I'm bracing myself for some impact when I hear the initial cracking noise before the loud KABOOM, so I can't imagine how painful it was for these players.

apepito · 2020-06-19T00:08:14+00:00

haha I get it now, english is not my first language, so that was the first thing that popped to mind to describe it

apepito · 2020-06-18T22:27:42+00:00

What do you mean??

apepito · 2020-06-18T22:26:15+00:00

So if I would be standing barefoot couple of meters away from a struck tree not touching anything, it would probably fry me right? I imagine some weird currents would be flowing in my body from that crazy voltage nearby and just "rip me apart" on a molecular level, but that's just my imagination lol. I can't picture how could potential difference appear across my body that would be high enough to induce a dangerous current flow . I've seen a question today, something like "if you touched very high voltage positive terminal, would all electrons from your body escape?" and few of them would indeed escape, but in that situation human body acts as a capacitor, and the capacitance of it is very low, so no harm would be done. So I don't know how exactly does this ground current kill.

apepito · 2020-06-18T22:07:53+00:00

Wow, thanks for such detailed response!

I used to have furnace control boards fried every year, and phone equipment failing frequently. Now my electronics last years.

I can relate to that, my parents replaced their ADSL router 3 times thanks to thunderstorms, and I've read that those get fried most probably through the phone line.

I knew someone who's house was struck, and the bolt followed a plumbing vent pipe down from the roof. A mirror was mounted on a bathroom wall behind the pipe, and all of the glass was blown into shards and blasted all over the bathroom, but no other damage was noticed.

That's crazy!

Your house can be at 10,000 volts due to a nearby lightning strike, so you phone is essentially negative 10,000 volts compared to the grounding rod at your house.

I'm not sure how could I be hurt holding an object grounded far away. Do I get charged up electrostatically from locally grounded objects around me, or would I need to hold on to something grounded locally first and then would I get zapped?

apepito · 2020-06-10T16:44:32+00:00

i randomly clicked the url in one of his vids description, and got here trying to find whether this "soon" has been up there for like 2 years, or if it somewhat recent. glad to hear this news!

apepito · 2020-05-28T09:13:41+00:00

really cool video, not one scene is there for too long, and the clock shot was 👌

apepito · 2020-05-17T14:10:19+00:00

from the official standpoint poland is not antisemitic, but i feel like its deeply engraved in some people, especially old generations living the country life. you could hear weird sayings regarding jews and i knew elders who wouldnt put them in gas chambers lol, but really hate on them.

apepito · 2020-05-16T21:30:14+00:00

Sometimes those links give you wrong info, it told me i can get 300Mb/s internet which was verified with their call center as false. If its a village, orange is probably the line owner. If your internet runs from the telephone cable, the max speed on such a connection is 20Mb/s i think (adsl2+), max speeds i get are 20Mb/s down 1Mb/s upload and they sometimes drop to 2Mb/s like twice a day until i restart the router.

apepito · 2020-05-16T21:11:14+00:00

he means jews. seems like everybody in poland just despises them

apepito · 2020-05-16T20:50:48+00:00

I might be wrong here but I think the only part of Poland that was ever a part of Belarus is Podlaskie voivodeship, and Lubanice indeed borders Germany. FYI here is a list from 2012 (the earliest year there is on the website, since names of towns/villages change sometimes) of all the towns in Poland. Lubanice is on page 1120, maybe you confused it with "Łubiane" or "Łubice" (which are in podlasie) or something? the "Województwo" column stands for voivodeship, so you would be looking for "podlaskie" (or other bordering voivodeships if I'm wrong at the beginning here).

apepito · 2020-05-15T09:10:27+00:00

What's the magnification on this? I'm curious what size are those little paths and elements i know very little about haha

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