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Ep 93 Lightning & Other Stories: Power Hour (and a Half)

This Podcast Will Kill You

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The Kite Experiment, by Ben Franklin

The classic story of ben franklin is what he like, flew a kite into a cloud and got electricuted by lightning. So if this story been like misrepresented overtime, and it's not really quite truthful, why do we all still know about it? A tell me why. Ok, so several people, including ben franklin, had floated the idea that lightning storms were electrical. People thought that maybe electricity was stored in storm clouds and then discharged under certain conditions. It was just a hypothesis, and no one knew for sure. And so ben wanted to find out. He devised an experiment that fortunately went several revisions, because the first versions were, alike, incredibly dangerous,. Even

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