[Gllug] Evolution won't fetch my mail (Help)

[Jonathan Harker]

On Wednesday 07 August 2002 23:35, Mark Preston wrote:
> On a theoretical level should it not be safer to wear copper armour in a 
> thunderstorm than ordinary clothes? I thought that the charge passes over 
the 
> outside of the metal to earth, but doesn't transfer to the region inside the 
> conductor.

Indeed, but the "outside of the metal" you refer to includes the inside 
surface of our imaginary copper armour. Additionally, since metals aren't 
perfect conductors, they tend to heat up a lot when transmitting that amount 
of high Voltage current. Bags not turning into dragon kebab.

Safer than standing on top of a hill in a thunderstorm, wearing either copper 
armour or ordinary clothes, is of course being curled up indoors with a good 
book (probably about metallurgy).

The bewildered look on the face of the guy in the Guiness Book of Records, 
lying in a hospital bed recovering from his seventh lightning strike, is 
classic. I don't think he was wearing any armour!

Luv Jon

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Jonathan Harker
Web: www.jonathanharker.co.uk


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