How to Survive a Lightning Strike
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Faraday suits/linemen: science.howstuffworks.com/fara...
Human body tissues resistivity: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10...
conductivity of lightning channel: iopscience.iop.org/1402-4896/8...
US soil resistivity: www.rurdev.usda.gov/SupportDoc...
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I have survived many lightning strikes. My method is to always be somewhere else.
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No, it's true. Whenever there's a storm coming, I go somewhere else and I have never had a problem.
lolololololol
Your method works ;D this should be added in a school safety drill
Yes. I intend to offer a class in lightning strike prevention. I will charge one hundred and fifty dollars and will show people how to go inside when a storm approaches. I will also demonstrate what clouds look like. There's much more but I don't want to divulge everything until I'm ready.
To survive a lightning strike one must be hit by it first. So, your best chance of surviving a lightning is to do everything in your power to get hit by a lightning. While counter-intuitive, the right thing to do is to climb up the tree, therefore increasing the probability of being hit, therefore being that much closer to surviving a lightning strike.
This whole paragraph is full of paradoxes.
+Tamoor Khan No, it's not. It's a funny way to say it because it purposely misses the point of the question, but it still is truthful and accurate.
+TheLKStar This is a masterpiece XD
+zarinjanis The title is "How to survive a lighting strike" not "How to survive a direct hit from a lighting strike" It doesn't need to hit you to be considered a lighting strike. It can still kill you if it strikes near you.
William Bradey Does it mean I am surviving ~100 lightning strikes a second happening around the globe? Cause I obviously am surviving them by your definition.
2:06 missing critical organs? I personally think my testicles are pretty critical organs
LMFAO...u made my day
Well-cooked eggs bro
Valentin Rafael
i read your comment saying"you have cooked eggs bro".and i was like WTF
for you attach a short metal chain to your feet
You could still survive.
my teacher would take 3 lessons to say that
Hey are you alive my friend
What about if lightening while crossing two legs, just burn our dick
Great Heights Entertainment Its not that big
same
1:40 he sounds like sayin " Stand upright and you are fucked. Lay down and you are fucked again. "
I'm playing golf in a medieval suit from now on.
I'll need one for swimming
Thomas Alexander xD
Which is by the way a very badass way to play golf and the extra weight also makes it good cardio so it's an absolute win
😂😂😂
When I saw all those dead cows, all I could think was "poor farmer"
+Ooga Blooga they werent dead, their legs were shocked.
Right... the farmer that exploits the cows for personal gain is the one to feel sorry for.... *sigh*...
+Jon 93 it's the way of human life. shut the fuck up and get back to reality.
The Divine Rod Just like slavery and any number of atrocities once was... Fortunately people are coming to their senses now. Although the same can't be said of some people such as yourself that tries to justify it with logical fallacies.
SoulRCraft "So what I raped her? I bought her flowers and gave her massage before doing it. So that makes it okay."
And of course this is pretty much what happens to cows... They're artificially inseminated with bull semen - aka raped - to produce milk and then shot when they become useless to the industry... Giving them feed (with often poor nutrition) doesn't change that atrocity...
Maybe you should ask Team Rocket..
But they're pokemon, so they're a lot more resilient to it.
Crapcarp555 Team Rocket is 2 people, not Pokemon...
DJCDavisDubstep Team Rocket is an organization in Pokemon. I believe you are thinking of two members of "Team Rocket" - Jessie and James
Just, by the way.
DJCDavisDubstep we humans desended from animals i'm i not right? then since pokemon are the so called "animal" of the pokemon world, they desended from pokemon, am i wrong?
Fuck u all
Something interesting I learned from playing with Van de Graff generators. If you point your finger while being charged with ~300,000volts of electricity, the charge will quickly dissipate into the air almost as if you're grounded. If you hold a metal object like a pen or nail pointing in your outstretched arm, the charge dissipates even better.
So a lightning rod works not primarily by absorbing a lightning strike, it actually discharges the static buildup from a structure making the lightning less likely to hit the building in the first place.
This would lead me to believe that if I stood next to you in a field and I was wearing a suit of armor while you werent, the lightning would be more attracted to you.
Hey
I learned more from a yt comment than my whole science class
the cat in the box at 0:54 is dead AND alive at the same time...
+Svend Jensen NO, it's alive all that given time
+Svend Jensen it's not schrodinger's cat. Different concept.
No. ITS UNDEAD!!! XD
I GET IT
HA HA HA that's dumb
aaaaAAAAAAAHHHHH
This happened to me. I was outside in an insane lightning storm late at night when I was working late one day. I just wanted to walk home less than 1km away, but I had to cross a parking lot. I felt static building up within me as my hairs begun to stand on end. I got half way across the parking lot before I panicked and ran back inside my work. I stayed until past midnight for the storm to clear before I left to go home to sleep for work at 8am the next morning.
Congrats
Milk 🥛
so you was half way at a parking lot, but decided to go back all the way? tbh the same chances
W
*gets struck by lightening * well its a good job I decided to wear my suite of armour today
Armor +100
Dexterity -3
Electric resistance +99%
who knew just about every rpg with an electric resistance stat was wrong?
"Ah, Good thing I chose to casually wear my medieval suit of armor made of iron for my casual walk to pay a casual visit to Mr. Tree over at the flat natural fields."
You spelled lightning with an e. You're on my list.
@@348joey lol😂😂
So you´re saying that my penis is better off getting shocked than my heart?
BLASHPHEMY!
wp
WTH
You mean... Having a medieval suit isn't normal?
***** You need connections, man
THE PUNS!
If RPGs taught me anything you just have to press X when you see the flash and you can dodge the bolts no problem.
I see someone earned the Venus Sigil.
I actually never did despite my efforts.
THANKS I LEARNED VERY MUCH AWESOME. I will sub
Where's the X button?
final fantasy 10 eh? XD
Would the suit of armor protect you from the heat of the lightning? or would it weld the joints in the suit together and heat you up like a convection oven?
Well, electrons can either go through the suit, or through your body. Since the resistance of the suit is much, much lower than the resistance of your body, most of the current will just travel through the suit, and very little through your body. The question is, how much current will flow through a lightning strike that hits you.
0:38 IRONically ;)
haha lol
God dang it I just realized it after i read it a second time.
Hereson YO
couldn't understand as not a native. explain please.
@@erendegirmenci5271 Iron is the most common metal we use, medieval costumes and stands are made out of iron, ironically has iron in it
u know not to be immature or anything...but with the whole crouching down....the currect would kinda go through a very important part of the body
Not if your legs happen to touch somewhere below that point. I'd say keeping knees pressed together would do the trick.
It's almost as if they didn't realise that your genitals were more important than your heart, lungs, brain and other organs above your legs. /sarcasm
AYE! AYE! ......they are kinda equaly important....thats how we make babies. are u saying making babies isnt important? :O
TheBros2theend No, but I'm saying living is more important than making babies.
Can't make babies if you're dead.
This guy has it all wrong, you need to grab an umbrella and get to high ground
otherwise the bolt of lightning can zap you at massively hypersonic speed
Seph Angelo yeah, gravity speeds them up
What about being in a house with a lightning rod (and lighting is already going at the speed of light, so it cannot go faster, as well, going higher increases chance of strike.
Paul Mahoney
LIGHTNING DOES NOT TRAVEL AT THE SPEED OF LIGHT!!! THE LIGHT EMITTED FROM THE LIGHTNING DOES!!!! BUT NOT THE LIGHTNING CHARGE ITSELF!!!!
also hold up a tesla tower too. that should help
Thank you, Henry. I enjoyed that lightning-fast presentation.
It was, dare I say, illuminating.
I thought if you get struck by lighting, and survive you can see the future? lol
***** Neurons in the cannabinoid receptors of the brain introduced to that high voltage over charges the central region of the brain where the hippocampus is, inducing visions and hallucinations of events like to occur to you based on your stress patterns, personality, and current memories. This is common knowledge among the science community.
***** or some magical mystical energy field that can not be documented or verified. It is just really fun to believe in. lol
Dominick Dravinski Can you cite me the name and author of the paper it was in, I still have access to universcity resources for a little longer and it might be interesting to read. I doubt your claim that it is common knowledge among the science community ;D your just trying to make your claim sound more valid
Until such a paper has been produced I'm going to assume this is sarcasm or trolling because it sounds like bullshit to me ;D
one of my friend got struck by lightning and he said it hurt a lot like it was the worst pain he every felt no super powers
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TELL THIS TO NINTENDO SO I CAN STOP DYING WHILE WEARING ARMOR IN STORMS IN BREATH OF THE WILD
But wouldn't the suit of armor be extremely hot after being struck?
Not if it has a very low resistance.
Oh okay. So not just any suit of armor would do than?
crazytuner111 Um, just an armor made of a material with good electrical conductivity.
Only materials with high resistance will get hot because the electrons have a harder time passing through (-> their energy gets converted into heat).
Coi1221 Ah thank you
But how would the electrons know which way is the best path without going through it first?
quantum mechanics
They don't really know which path is the best, but they are attracted by the best path
Relative potential difference .
Electrons have ESP.
They're attracted by The closest one
I love this videos, I've watched almost all the videos in your playlist :)
i learned about faraday cage yesterday, and i havent understand it until now THANK YOU
Actually it can go either way. In almost all cases, the negative bottom of a cloud induces a positive charge in the portion of the ground below it, and when the difference in charge is great enough a lightning strike will equalize the two--and electrons move down. But sometimes the positive top of the cloud can also shoot off a lightning bolt towards the ground ("positive lightning"), in which case the electrons would be moving upward.
Roasted balls anyone?
This piece of science is not only interesting. It is also some useful knowledge that everyone should know.
Even though metal is a great conductor of electrical current, I would think that a suit of armor would get rather hot in the process of conducting the lightning bolt to the ground, and so if one were inside it when it was struck by lightning, then one would want out of that metal suit as quickly as possible--assuming that getting out of the suit of armor would even be possible at that point.
It would not be possible to get out of said suit. The amperage going through would make the metal suit turn red hot in a split second
@@waffleown4258 what if you put wear heat resistant clothes before wearing the metal suit?
@@boudaakararam9007 then you would have about 15 seconds to get out, before you go get above the temperature at which the suit would be able to keep the heat out, and it would start to melt or burn.
actually what you're suppose to do
is hold your hand in the air
shout
"KARIN"
you'll be immune to the lightning while also being able to control it
I chose superman cause then i could fly away
But then that would place you up closer TO the lightning...
+James Anthony lol
+James Anthony fly super fast near the ground
+James Anthony And besides, superman is invincible, unless it's kryptonite lighting
Yes, yes very true he is... But the suit is not giving him his invincibility nor his ability. So you'd just be standing in a field with a cape on fire looking like a knob.
These tunes are so relaxing!
The name of the song is called -Pour Vous if anyone wanted to know. Artist : Dr. Schroeder on sound cloud.
Instructions unclear, got the helmet stuck on my head.
He probably red hand instead of head
Complaint unclear; that's where helmets go.
@@Endertastic they can see through the helmet holes!
I'll always remember how dumb I was as a kid, when it comes to lightning.
I was on a camping trip with my class and the 2nd evening it starts pouring down, with violent lightning strikes all around, but I tell my friends that it's okay; that all we had to do is keep jumping, not to touch the ground _(because...? it would totally cancel out the lightning if it struck us, while off the ground - I mean, it's not like a charge of energy that could travel all the way from the clouds to us, would have the energy to travel from our feet to the ground below, right? [sarcasm])_ So, like a bunch of numb-nuts, we'd be out in this large field, looking up at the clouds, jumping up and down. Boy would my face be red to this day, if a friend of mine next to me, had taken a bolt to the face and wound up a charred lump of meat.
it would be a nightmare if it happens
Daniel Renard lmao even if you're not touching the ground, the electricity will still travel through your body to the ground
Hey guys we need to jump and we will be o- -gets struck by lightning-aw cr-dead
:OOOOOOO TOUHOU-ER HELLO MAH FRIEND
the sound
thankyou for sharing this info..
Great videos! Its bringing enthusiasm.
Wouldn't Joule heating fry you alive ? The resistance of the suit is probably small but a lightening bolt can be up to 50000 amps. Wouldn't the suit heat up so much you're charred ?
+WhateverReally Good question. But I can't remember ever hearing that cars get very warm when struck by lightning, so I don't think a metal suit would be either. Nevertheless, it would still be much better than being struck directly without a suit.
lightning strikes at less than a micro second
it said survive a lightning strike not how to avoid :(
+ThunderStriker It told you how. Wear a metal suit or stay crouched. Rewatch the video and listen this time.
IlluminardyGaming Good one
William Bradey thx
+William Bradey (Test) Promesses.
Thanks for information
wow this thing still holds up
So if you are caught in an open field with a lone tree, is it better to hide under the tree or run away from it? If you move away from it you are now the tallest thing in the field, so it seems like lightning would be more likely to strike you. However if you stand right next to the tree you are no longer the tallest thing (yay!), but you are now standing right next to the tallest thing which is going to attract lightning (boo). So which one is better? Or is it best to stay near the tree, but not too close?
He said avoiding vital organs...but didnt said anything about testicles..!
You can survive without them.
Believe me I don't want to imagine a life without them ;)
***** yes because they were always in your mouth 1-1 :P
Paul Mahoney The main problem is you will likely die from cardiac arrest due to extreme pain after the zap,therefore chances of survival isn't necessarily increased.
Yup. He didn't talk about our testicles turning into fried eggs.
great video!
Wow that for that helpful tip MinuteEarth I would have never thought of that
I feel a current of lightning knowledge going through me. Thanks Henry, you bring a spark to this stormcloud ;)
Levitate while thunderstorms. More easy.
Wow. I would have thought that alying down was the best way to avoid being hit by lightning. I didn't think about the charges moving along the surface of the ground.
THANK YOU OMG I NEEDED THIS THIS HAPPENS ALL THE TIME!
Don't you need an double-size rubber armor to survive lighthing? and maybe a phone?
1:50 if I did this would my balls get zapped?
Yep.
No because you're mr popo.
LMAO. Just realized that
Poor sperms. They wanted to win the amazing race
and all of your pubehair would be gone like a little child
Thanks! I have another question-why are lightnings not straight lines (instead of having many corners and splitting to smaller "mini lightnings")? Surely one straight line of air molecules has less resistance than that monstrosity.
It's because of air density. Where the air is less dense, there is less resistance
I enjoyed watching this video! 💛
I just love this video!
1:48 - Should my feet touch each other?
That's what I was thinking.
sure, that might help. The point is to provide the shortest possible path for current to flow from one foot to the other
Doesn't matter it's passing through anyway.
SilverWave From what I saw from the video, and the little that I know I guess no, your feet is small, at least compared to your thighs, so even though it would be the shortest path from one feet to the other, it would have much less area to dissipate heat. So when the current running through your feet would actually burn it to crisps.
Now both of your legs have much wider area and resistance than your feet only, so even if the lightning coming from the ground got to you, it might not even step up on your leg because of the resistance of your legs, but if your feet were touching it other, the total resistance would be much lower, and so you would have a fried foot.
ShapeDoppelganger yeah... I guess I take my comment back. The point is only to keep the current path away from the heart. Having it go all the way through both legs is probably better than letting it spark across your knees....
What did the cows ever do to electricity ?
And ya , the MISSING CRITICAL ORGANS , how can it miss something so big ?
thanks man
any material has a point of saturation : when current passes into it , it increases its resistance , up to a point where your body becomes more conductive of electricity so it depends on the energy delivered by lightning . i don't know if you took that into consideration , because you failed to mention it . otherwise , grate advice .
Moral of the story: do more squats
Lol your comment is so old , I hope you are still there haha
Why not leave the suit in the open to lure the lighting
Because the lightning still has a chance to hit you?
And because this is real life, not a Bugs Bunny cartoon. Lightning's not gonna fall for a cheap trick like that. :)
Step 1: Lure lightning with suit
Step 2: Trap lightning
Step 3: Tame lightning, become Thor
Step 4: Profit
thank you.
Awesome bro...next time I will try wearing Faraday suit during Strom's...
Wear a chemical suit. At least this way you have a chance to become the Flash. :)
The last one = You don't say?
Or we wouldn't even be watching this video..
Reio Kimura lol
i was just thinking the same thing!
+Reio Kimura Smartphones, I'm from the future.
Good one 👍
Thank you soo much. You are right conssidering basic electricity physics. :)
We lost a herd of cattle to lightening strike on our farm when I was a kid.
Haha! Never thought of that.
al-Bakh'kam Who needs a microwave?
The lightning cooked them for u
Caius McLeish Yes, thats what my reply was about. Someone said basically that, but apparently some other ignoramus marked that comment as spam. ??
You lost a herd to the level of light increasing? Because that's what "lightening" is.
Why not just crouch low then touch heels?
Nice.
love the DP :)
it's interesting how you guys evolved your drawing skills
Good video.
Poor cows... :(
At least theres a cooked steak
Wait, does that mean the metalbending police force (who were metal armor) in legend of korra would have been immune to the equalist's electric shock gloves?
I don't think so, at least, not completely. Looking at their uniforms, they aren't fully enclosed, like a mediaeval suit of armor is. They wear cloth pants, and go with their hands and faces uncovered.
I'm not sure exactly how well their suits would protect them, if at all, but I am pretty sure that the metal would alter how they are affected and that even if they are somewhat protected, they wouldn't be entirely immune to electric attacks.
Yes bro (or sis)!
thanks
But won't the effects/force of the lightning hitting the armour do some serious damage altogether? If your to close to the lightning will the thunder act as a shock wave?
I was on a hiking trip once when an intense thunderstorm reached my area. I was sleeping in a tent in an open field with just low bushy vegetaion and heather plants. (Beautiful!) I got so scared that I decided to head straight for the nearest village about one kilometer away and walked there closed to the road. When the weather had past away, I went back to my tent. My reasoning was that since the houses had lightning conductors, this should be a lot safer place for me than to be at the open heather plants field.
When a metal Pole comes in handy.
Thank you very much, it is very good to educating people who don't know anything about Lighning.
Useful
The New52 version of Superman's suit is made of a nigh-indestructible Kryptonian fabric and lightning would bounce right off of it.
Just putting that out there.
***** How would you know? Learn to 4th wall. ^_^
Jack Striker
You dont see superman just walking in the city do you?
Max Montalvo How would you know? He has a secret identity. ^_^
your 3 years old are you?
Max Montalvo 24, actually. And in my defense, I never once said, nor did I even imply, that Superman's New52 suit was real. I simply explained how the New52 suit works in the comics.
Requesting song.
Sini Star Its Darude- Sandstorm
Wario Giant Thanks.
Wario Giant In all seriousness, I would like to know the title of this song. I didn't see it on soundcloud.
Sini Star click the link in the description. The song is titled Pour Vous.
+Franz Visitacion no it's darude Lightningstorm
Thank you very much for sharing. GBU.
The risk exposed to lightning strikes are one of the most frightening events in the world, especially for us who live in areas with high rainfall (like around Poso Lake Mountain in Sulawesi-Indonesia which over 3000 mm per year). Most frightening because it is very difficult to know the early indications that could be made the parameter before a lightning strikes. We hope that the experts can create more detail guidelines to avoid lightning strikes in the future so that it can reduce the risk of its fatality. Thank you very much for sharing. GBU.
That's cool! Thnx!
How hot would the suit get from the current running through it?
Not very hot. For heat to be generated, electricity has to go through resistance, which metal doesn't have much of.
András Fogarasi Well, that would be true of something like copper. But plate metal is not nearly an ideal conductor.
Sean Peery
It is better than you. Lightning will prefer it over you.
Steal is good enough. Aluminum also.
PaulMag
Hi. You are at my other comment.
I like how lightning is just a giant, million times bigger spark that you have in lighter or oven.
Outdoors tip: for a little extra safety, use the crouching posture on top of your backpack if possible. Backpacks tend to have lower conductivity than us, which will reduce the likelihood of current passing through even more.
Very curiously, this was broadcast on the weather channel withoit any mention or credit of this youtube channel.
Wait are you saying that One Piece was wrong all this time?!?!?! And Luffy was not able to block out Kami's lightnings?
Well, it's not that rubber does not block electricity, because it kinda does, but in a car it is the metal that does the trick. The lightning is drawn to the metal chassis of he car, as it is a better conductor then your body, but it skips through the air the last bit instead of going through the wheels. Rubber is indeed a very poor conductor. In the same way Enel/Ener's lightning didn't effect Luffy because he is a worse conductor then the air around him, which is why the lightning skipped through the air around him and left him unharmed.
Not necessarily. Rubber is pretty good *insulator*, not conductor. They prevent electricity from passing THROUGH one object to another, unlike conductors. Which is why the human body can allow electricity to move from one limb to the other, but if your body was made of rubber, nothing would happen. You might scorch some, but you'd probably still live.
Riku Uzumaki Poor conductor=Insulator. Conductivity is a property of all materials, the ones with poor conductivity are called insulators, like rubber.
You are describing the same thing as I did. I just worded it in a way so that it would be easier to understand that rubber does not stop the electricity in its tracks but rather redirects it. It still reaches the ground, just not through the rubber.
Yah, because "logic" is what you think of when you think about One Piece
So if I was unfortunate enough to get caught in a Lightning storm the best to do is to sit down and wait for it to hit me sooner or later? Or sit there for hours in the rain hoping that I wont die from hypothermia? What about getting into the forest? Lots of trees there, hopefully a huge wet tree would be a beeter conductor than me.
Oh,and smth interesting! Being in an armor, may spare you from getting struck but what about the electical resistance of the armor itself? At the end of the day being struck for a second may be preferable to being baked...alive...inside a red-hot metal cage. Just sayin... :P
***** You clearly havent seen a house hit by one- the electricity conducting wire on the side of the house(dont know the word, forgive me) shines bright as a star and remains red hot for a good ...2 or 3 secs. I myself dont wanna be there. It is some scary shit so u'd better have lower chances of being struck than having higher ones of surviving a struck
Called a lightning rod
I find it so beautiful to spot storms on the horisont :)
Thanks
How do I get a cool scar from the lightning and still survive?
You will look like harry potter hahhaa
You have a 70% survival chance from lightning. Which means you are more likely to get struck and survive with a cool scar than die..
unlike a bullet a lightning bolt will hit you at mach 58309
Seph Angelo actually its about half that
Or you could be a real man and take the lightning and enjoy it.
thanks
this might be helpful
great video ever seen
ALSO, RUN AROUND LIKE CRAZY SO THE LIGHTNING DOESN'T HIT YOU sorry i had caps on
+Souad Tihli Were you running while typing? Accidently hitting the CAPS LOCK?
Michael Espeland maybe
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Living dangerous. Good for you :-D
YOLO is the acronym for "You only live once", andI don't think it is appropiat at this time.
"The current will travel up one leg and down the other" lol not as easy as it sounds pal...
Step potential... same with electrical utility.
Dr. Schroeder.. nice music :) following now
Cool!