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A Key & A Kite: StarTalk Live! With Benjamin Franklin
StarTalk Radio
The Lighting Rod Is So Brilliant, It May Have Been More Brilliant Than Ben
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Lightning rods not only reduce the chance you'll get struck by lightning, it saves you from destruction. The debate over a dull, topped lightning rod versus a point, a very sharp point, was something we took very all the electrons crowding there. It's very crowded, and you can spill electrons back and basically never have the lightning strike that would have otherwise taken place. What structure is most likely to be hit by lightning? First, church. You know what else they used to store in churches, the parts of dead saints? Gunpowder. That place that just keeps catching fire for some reason more than any other place. I'm thinking to myself, how powerful is the god you
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