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Anonymous
Do you like to fly?
>> Anonymous
holy fucking shit on a stick how did that flight end?
>> Anonymous
ive been in a plane struck by lightning, lights in the cabin go out, plane shakes a bit.. few min later lights come back on... yada yada, there ment to be able to take it... BUT OMG THAT LOOKS COOL!
>> Anonymous
Planes are actually designed to be safe when hit by lightning, it just travels around the cabin without harming the passengers. They also have static dissipators to help stop the accumulation of electricity on the shell.
>> Anonymous
I think it don't happen anything cause the cabin is a faraday box (like in cars).
>> Anonymous
Yeah the best place to be in a lightning storm would be in a car, the same probably applies to planes too.
I know you would say "NO The best place I would want to be in a thunderstorm is in my fucking house or somewhere sunny" But I am talking about if you are stuck outside.

Like>>617249and>>617244
said it is very safe because it travels around the outside of the frame/bodywork.
>> Anonymous
yes, moreover, the rubber wheels of the car isolate.
>> anonymous
dude it takes a mile of rubber to protect one person from a lightning strick...
>> Anonymous
>>617249
You mean Faraday cage
>> Anonymous
yes and no. The really dangerous is not the voltage, but the amp. A lighting with 2,000 volts and a few ohms could be more safe than your home socket wiyh 220 volts and 55Ohms.

PS:>>617374yes, sorry. I don't speak english very well :P
>> Anonymous
FUCK YEAH! MY COUSIN IS FLYING HOME FRIDAY! THIS IS SO GOING TO BE MY BACK!
>> Anonymous
>>617382
This guy speaks the truth. Static electricity that has enough ridiculous voltage to arc centimeters through the air is less dangerous than a few mili-ohms at any voltage across the heart. There's just so little current with static that it doesn't matter.
>> Anonymous
>>617369
Kill yourself.

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>> Anonymous
SHAZAM!
>> Anonymous
>>617400
True but,
"The voltage depends on the length of the bolt: with the dielectric breakdown of air being 3 million volts per meter, this works out at about one billion volts for a 300m (1,000 feet) lightning bolt." says wikipedia

"An average bolt of positive lightning carries a current of up to 300 kA (kiloamperes) (about ten times as much current as a bolt of negative lightning), transfers a charge of up to 300 coulombs, has a potential difference up to 1 GV (gigavolts), and lasts for hundreds of milliseconds, with a discharge energy of up to 300 GJ (gigajoules)." says wikipedia too

Meaning.. anything lightning hits dies, period.
>> Anonymous
>>617672
I remember people who've been hit by lightening and still lived.
>> Anonymous
>>617728

poster of 617672 here.
Yes i know, water is one of the major compensators for lightning, seeing it mostly rains when theres lightning, but a direct hit is instant death, you see, the visual lightning you see during storms is infact air 'exploding' due to high amperes traveling in a path. your body will 'explode' on direct hit.

The plane in the gif, in this case flys in the air meaning theres no ground for the electrisity to go to, so it goes further down trough the plane, the plane might get some slight turbulance due to the shockwave exploding air makes and some power outage for a few seconds. but it wont crash.
>> Anonymous
The FAA takes lightning strikes seriously when certifying aircraft.

Because the 787 is made out of composites, they've added bronze mesh to the outer layers of the skin to get the farady cage effects required not to kill the occupants, it's also why they had to re-engineer the fasteners.

Tires don't do shit. If the bolt is strong enough to jump from the clouds to your car, it's only a foot more to get to the earth.
>> Anonymous
Has /gif/ ever heard of "positive" lightening?
>> Anonymous
>>617802

positive asin "power" and negative asin "ground"

lightning can go from negative(earth) to positive(sky) which is a negative strike.
Or from positive(sky) to negative(earth) called a positive strike.
>> Anonymous
Seriously, the after effects of a lightning strike on a plane is 2 weld spots, one where the bolt hits, one where it leaves.

To the exploding air theory. You had better be a troll, because honestly, that's retarded. Thunder is the result of the air rapidly expanding. Air expands when heated, far more dramatically than any solid. If a person is struck by lighting, they burn.

The reason why people can be struck by lightning and not die? We're generally pretty good conductors, WAY better than air is. So basically, lightning travels through us faster and loses less energy in doing so.
>> Anonymous
NUH UH.
>> Anonymous
>>617827
yes however were talking about the flash, not the thunder.

"When the electric field becomes strong enough, an electrical discharge (the bolt of lightning) occurs within clouds or between clouds and the ground. During the strike, successive portions of air become a conductive discharge channel as the electrons and positive ions of air molecules are pulled away from each other and forced to flow in opposite directions.

The electrical discharge rapidly superheats the discharge channel, causing the air to expand rapidly and produce a shock wave heard as thunder. The rolling and gradually dissipating rumble of thunder is caused by the time delay of sound coming from different portions of a long stroke."

note that "the electrons and positive ions of air molecules are pulled away from each other and forced to flow in opposite directions."
/Is/ infact 'exploding'.

wikipedia explosion: "An explosion is a sudden increase in volume and release of energy in a violent manner, usually with the generation of high temperatures and the release of gases."

"The electrical discharge rapidly superheats the discharge channel, causing the air to expand rapidly and produce a shock wave heard as thunder."
Is the 'thunder' or 'shock wave' you mean.
>> Anonymous
>>617382
>>617400
Idiots, both of you.
V=IR means that same voltage with smaller resistance means MORE amps, not less. 2000 V with small number of ohms of resistance will kill you. 220V w/ 550 ohms will give 0.4 A, which could still kill you. What matters is that if something has enough volts to reach the breakdown voltage of air and enough amps behind it then you are looking at the danger of being the "closest thing to ground" and getting zapped.
>> Anonymous
>>617672
Failure. Lots of people take direct hits from lightning and live.
>> Anonymous
i have an uncle that has been hit twice and lived. what matters is that the electrons that make up the 'bolt' do not pass across the heart. a push button grill ignitor with the pos and neg place on opposite sides of the heart can stop it from beating.