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A Key & A Kite: StarTalk Live! With Benjamin Franklin
StarTalk Radio
Is That Why You Needed the Kite and the Key?
The kite in the key is going to prove the final experiment, which is that one form of this electrical fluid is the discharge of lightning. And at any time in this experiment does it get you to the future? Apparently sowas. Every time it rains anywhere in the world, there are electrons that used to be up in thesky in the clouds, that have arrived on earth. These are from ions that come out of the the rain swelled skies. The electrons want to get back to the cloud, but they're really lazy, ok? And the last thing it wants to do is move through air. Air is actually an electrical insulator. It hates moving through the air.
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