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He felt a little but he's been discharged now...
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Posted: 2004-08-03 13:54:46
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A mobile phone conducts electricity, but the electricity still has to pass through the rest of the body. Therefore, your watch, earrings, fillings etc will act as conductors equally as effectively, since they are also metallic conductors.
Furthermore, consider the resistance of a human body, head to toe. Now imagine youre holding a phone to your ear. Effectively, all youre doing is lowering the resistance of about 3 inches worth of your body size. So... using a mobile will reduce your bodily resistance by a few Ohms, which is negligible considering the resistance of a human body to be several hundred Ohms. (About 450 to be precise)
Now lets consider the resistance of air between cloud and ground. Assuming the cloud base to be at 1000 feet, reducing the resistance of 3 inches of this 1000 foot gap would be of very little consequence. Essentially, if you were 5 foot 6 inches, and were holding a 3 inch mobile phone above your head, you would be equally likely to be struck by lightning as a 6 foot tall person standing next to you.
As for the electromagnetic radiation conducting electricity; this is highly unlikely to contribute, considering the perpetual presence of EM noise.
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Posted: 2004-08-04 12:01:30
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Yesterday me and my mates went to a park and we were chilling and then it started raining
the lighting hit a branch on ta tree that we were under but luckily none of us got hit
We were soaked and my jeans were so drenched that they looked like leather trousers
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Posted: 2004-08-04 20:43:37
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What a fantastically interesting story, that truly brightened up my day.
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Posted: 2004-08-05 10:23:25
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