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From video poster:
I was filming a thunderstorm when suddenly lightning hit my hand. I lost my hand but I survived. I only saved the tape. Caution: Don't film a thunderstorm!
I was filming a thunderstorm when suddenly lightning hit my hand. I lost my hand but I survived. I only saved the tape. Caution: Don't film a thunderstorm!
If so... damn.
and wow is this disturbing!
BTW most electrical damage to the body involves massive burning and entry and exit wounds, thats... if you are grounded. You better hope you are grounded because if you aren't its not going to be good.
nsfw
BTW most electrical damage to the body involves massive burning and entry and exit wounds, thats... if you are grounded. You better hope you are grounded because if you aren't its not going to be good.
Surely the point is you don't want to be grounded!?! If you are grounded, electricity flows THROUGH you to the ground. If you aren't grounded, it won't. Eg: Being sat in a car, the rubber tyres insulate the car and prevent it being grounded.
Oh and fake IMO, I don't think there is any way a camera would survive a lightning hit to make the film recoverable. Magnetic tape would probably burn and a digital one would never survive.
Would the video be recoverable if that was what it did to his hand?
No, not if he had that kind of damage to his hand. Lightning creates an EMP when it strikes due to the huge release of electrons. Video tape uses magnetic fields to store the video data on the tape. Assume there was not extensive physical damage to the tape, it would have been erased on recovery. I also find it strange that the camera would capture 5 whole frames of the lightning strike.
http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/docs/2002-123/2002-123b.html
I know this may prevent me from getting your vote for the video. You can however up vote for the kick ass investigative work
Plus, if you've seen an electrical burn, it looks nothing like the picture. Like someone said when you are struck by lightning there is an entrance point and an exit point, both of which are burns, but lightning doesn't "roast" a person. That picture looks more like an acid burn of some sort.
Again, is science not in schools anymore?
Plus, if you've seen an electrical burn, it looks nothing like the picture. Like someone said when you are struck by lightning there is an entrance point and an exit point, both of which are burns, but lightning doesn't "roast" a person. That picture looks more like an acid burn of some sort.
Again, is science not in schools anymore?
I'm afraid I'm not equipped to comment on the car comment, but the burn in the video is actually an electrical burn. Feel free to read the whole thread, but eric already showed where the picture came from and that it WAS in fact an electrical burn.
BTW I don't think a lightning strike will let you survive, it is rare and this video is a troll(Fake).
>> ^Bluebeard:
>> ^NordlichReiter:
nsfw
BTW most electrical damage to the body involves massive burning and entry and exit wounds, thats... if you are grounded. You better hope you are grounded because if you aren't its not going to be good.
Surely the point is you don't want to be grounded!?! If you are grounded, electricity flows THROUGH you to the ground. If you aren't grounded, it won't. Eg: Being sat in a car, the rubber tyres insulate the car and prevent it being grounded.
Oh and fake IMO, I don't think there is any way a camera would survive a lightning hit to make the film recoverable. Magnetic tape would probably burn and a digital one would never survive.
There are actually quite a few examples of people surviving direct or close lightning strikes. They're not all equally powerful.
As long as the current doesn't pass across your heart--or if it does, there's someone nearby who can do chest compressions until the EMT's arrive--you have a decent chance of survival.
And yeah there's a guy who was stuck by lightning 7 separate times and survived them all.
2. You never want electricity to flow through you.
3. A car struck by lightning is grounded, and the lightning will pass through the tires. It is possible that it will also flow through an occupant.
The Amish use wooden cameras. Now I know why!
Don't be silly. Everyone knows that Amish don't have electrical storms.
2. You never want electricity to flow through you.
Never say never... cochlear implants, pacemakers, deep brain stimulators, cardiac defibrillators,... electroconvulsive therapy,...
24,000,000 cloud to ground strikes per year in the US
A human casualty occurs about 1/60,000 strikes
Florida has twice the lightning injuries of any other US state.
Golfers remember, when caught in a thunderstorm on the course, take your 1-iron out of the bag and hold it high over your head. Not even God can hit a 1-iron.
I feel like BBQ.
BTW I don't think a lightning strike will let you survive, it is rare and this video is a troll(Fake).
My grandfather was struck by lightning as a kid. He was knocked out for a while but no significant injuries.
I had mentioned that electricity has to go out in order to go in. So it would have cooked all his organs between entry and exit, as well as fried the camera.
As far as the TIRES go (yes, THAT is how it it spelled, you weird foreigners!) they do not automatically provide insulation just because they are made out of rubber. Yes, they insulate greatly against it, but they will still conduct if the voltage is high enough. Being that lightning strikes with about one gigavolt and 1.21 jigawatts, it's more than enough to fry just about anything.
nsfw
BTW most electrical damage to the body involves massive burning and entry and exit wounds, thats... if you are grounded.
"Have you been filming thunderstorms again Jimmy?"
"No mom, I swear!"
"That's it! You are grounded!!!"
1.21 jigawatts
You win the thread.
When you are in a car, what protects you from ultimate harm during a lightening strike is that the roof and body act like a Faraday Cage, protecting you from carrying the current.
What's important here is what you (or anybody) can do with amateur special effects and a little mild misinformation. We'll probably see some more of this just before November. If you do it right you can change the course of history.
Unless it's a plastic car.
Then you're fucked.
Which is also why Aeroplanes (yes, we spell it that way in Australia) which start moving to other materials for their skin actually have to insert metal back into them to give a path for lighting to follow lest the plane be hit.
I just love internet know it alls who don't really know anything.
And yes, many people have survived lighting strikes. But yeah, this would seem to be pretty darn fakey fake fake.
IMO, this video is staged.
Thanks, but it's already been proven to be staged.
Cooking like that takes time and high amperage.
No, it doesn't. A very low amperage can fry you quite easily.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_shock
>> ^NordlichReiter:
If you get struck out side of a car you would want it to flow through you and into the ground... not just circulate around your body.
The CDC identifies it as an electrical burn.
So the picture is real, but the video's story is probably fake due to the plagiarized picture.