Why is a lightening strike so dangerous??

AVPU said:
I know it can screw up your cardio system and electrical currents, but how? Can it seriously harm you if you have no prior heart condition??

This came up in a BLS class I taught a couple weeks ago. My co-instructor, who's an electrician, answered that lightening doesn't have the amps, just the voltage (or maybe it's the other way around...). My husband (who's a cop) said it's the same reason why taser guns don't have do any lasting damage. Are they the same thing? And if so, why wouldn't tasers hurt you but lightening would? I know lightening kills, I've read about CAs and ground charges and all that. I'm confused!
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Voltage does not kill, Amperage does.
T.A.S.E.R. has lots o volts but small amp
Lighting has both, its uncontrolled discharged electrical activtiy

here is a lesson in a electricity 101

Lets take a look at your amps, volts, and wire gauge. lets say the gauge of the wire is like a high way, the smaller the gauge the wider the freeway is. Volts is the amount of cars on the freeway and amps is the speed of the cars on the freeway. It does not matter how many cars are on the freeway if they are not going fast enough to cause harm to you. Do you see where I am getting at? You can get shocked by an electrical appliance in your house and most likely walk away with partial to full thickness burns depending on how hard you where chewing on the cord and if you where grounded properly :P but if you where to ground yourself out and snag onto the power lines outside your house it could kill you.
 
KillTank said:
Voltage does not kill, Amperage does.
T.A.S.E.R. has lots o volts but small amp
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Let me tell you, when being Tased, you don't give a darn about the voltage or amperage, you just wish it will stop :ph34r:
 
+1 on that. I was a volunteer for a study on the effects of TASERs on the cardiac system. For some reason, I was the only one to volunteer to be tased more than once.
 
It's not the voltage, it's the amperage that kills. All it takes is 1/10 of an amp to kill someone. It's all in the way it travels through the body. I was working on an old vacuum tube television, and I grabbed by accident the wire that went into the back of the picture tube. I got blown across the room. I am very lucky that the only thing that happened was a "code brown". AKA sh** one's pants. There was ample amperage there to send me into arrest.
 
Why is Lightning such a Nudge?

You've heard the phrase, "Struck by lightning" and it's usually referring to a sudden burst of creative something. Consider this:

This guy named Paul, he was a Tax Collector. In fact, his job involved hounding what few Christians were left in the area because they were dwindling fast. About 100 years after the crucifixion, they had pretty much been hounded into the ground.

But one day, Paul, riding his horse on his way to collect tribute and cause a bit of mayhem along the way, was struck to the ground by lightning. When he arose, he literally had seen the light of Christ. Shortly after, he began preaching and, essentially became the PR man and hub for a Christianity that is practiced throughout the world over to this day.

A lot more of us would be eating Matzoh and Gefilte fish were it not for that lightning and Paul.
 
Linuss said:
Let me tell you, when being Tased, you don't give a darn about the voltage or amperage, you just wish it will stop :ph34r:
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I been Tased lol felt like someone kicked me in the *** really hard.
 
I think it comes from if you get hit multiple times you have been hit once. But if you never get hit you wont be hit multiple times. Then just adapt that slightly.
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But that does not explain the comment you actually made:

I find it interesting that most people hit once are eventually hit again in their lifetime.
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....in fact, to "adapt it slightly" is a logical absurdity since it is corrupting something that is correct into something that is patently false. Most people who are struck once are, in fact, not struck again. It's a myth that some people "attract" lightning strikes. Sorry for the delay on this...I missed your response to my original comment about your misguided comment.

Probably Al Gore...
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You mean Dan Quayle right? ;)
 
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Here is something funny i heard years ago just stick your butt in the air cause the fat will be like cushion for you. That don't sound very pleasant tho
 
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