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Old 10-09-2006, 05:15 PM
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That is so strange.

I learned in highschool geography that when you "feel" you're about to be struck by lightening to stand on one foot, and the other foot raised. If you're standing with both feet on the ground, the lightening will pass through you, and the travel up the other leg and kill you. If you stand on one foot, however, it's grounded on the floor? or something like that.
Questionable.

Lightening, like any electricity, is going to find the easiest path to ground. I don't think it makes much difference whether one foot or two are on the ground -- if the the lightening stikes one part of your body and exits either foot to ground, it ain't a good thing.
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