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Old 10-10-2006, 08:40 PM
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I don't know how much of it is true, but I did remember that my teacher made us a watch a program on it. I think the premise was that when the lightening hits you, it travels through your body, channels out of one leg, goes up the other and may lead to serious brain damage/death. I personally would not test out this theory but hey lol
Actually the reason why it was suggested is probably the same reason Delt gave - the lightning will 'ground' no matter what, so lifting one leg gives it only one grounding location to exit. If you keep both legs down, it will escape from both grounding locations - this allows it to travel across the chest/heart, and possibly the brain, all of which . . . don't play well with current, to say the least.
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