
Ep 93 Lightning & Other Stories: Power Hour (and a Half)
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What Is Lightning Strike?
There are a few different ways that it can end up travelling from the cloud to your human body, and they vary. A direct strike is probably less common, but again, stats are not great,. Some papers will say a direct strike is absolutely the most deadly. But i think, because stats are so poor, it's actually prarly hard to get a handle on whether or not that's true. Then there's something that i think is so fascinating: That's called a side flash or a splash. And that's when the lightning hits that' somewhere near by to you, and then jumps, it crosses an air gap and then jumps to you as a near by person. So
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