Durability Required to Resist Lightning

[EnderShadowr215]

@Lord Oh I see. I guess I should not read the article backwards like I do there. I suppose I being too many of a annoyance. This also does kind prove that lightning strikes are not too often as people are careful during a storm. I mean not all of them were in a storm.

 

[EnderShadowr215]

Beside being in a storm make people wanting to avoid getting struck by one.

Statwise or not, lightning can be dangerous as it can still kill people.

We know common sense and being prepared for a super cell cloud that is signal a thunderstorm will cause people to stay indoors and that is just common sense.

 

[Sera_EX]

I get what you mean Xcano.

 

[EnderShadowr215]

Anyway, Sera, I think it is time to close this thread as I need to stop being a bother to everyone on sight.

 

[Yumi-tan]

Don't close my thread

Not enough input.

 

[Sera_EX]

No, do not close it. She is learning a lot here.

 

[EnderShadowr215]

The reason people survive being in a storm full of rain and lightning is that they stay indoors most of the time, know that a storm is coming (being informed by news as well and ect) as @LordXcano mention it so he didn't give a good explanation about how people survive in a storm. People who goes outdoor and, are unable to find a way inside a building and ect, usually find cover that somewhat protect them from the storm.

Insulated or not insulated against electricity will help them survive somewhat. People who does survived getting hit by direct lightning strikes usually receive major internal damages to the nerves, and severe burns inflicted to the human body.

 

[Momokamaru]

Look at my twin making a thread x3

This is an excellent learning opportunity.

 

[Matthew_Schroeder]

Momo-chan. :3

 

[Sera_EX]

Star, he said being struck by lightning not surviving a thunderstorm.

 

[EnderShadowr215]

@Sera Then explain how people getting struck by lightning. It is from a supercell thunderstorm. Basically clouds that produce negative and positive ions in the air.

 

[ScarletFirefly]

Insulated or not insulated against electricity will help them survive somewhat. People who does survived getting hit by direct lightning strikes usually receive major internal damages to the nerves, and severe burns inflicted to the human body.

If I remember correctly, lightning rarely causes noticeable burn scars. That said, people surviving lightning strikes have severe after effects ,usually permanent, ranging from loss of memory (pretty common) to body paralysis. That depends on how your nervous system is affected by it, and as such, the effects range differ greatly from person to person.

 

[EnderShadowr215]

@Scarlet I believe it has to do with how medical personnel, who are trained and experienced to treat most cases of wounds, treat those victims with burns from lightning strikes like those who recieved a burn from a stove and ect. You get what I mean. Plus Lightning Strikes has proven to kill as well as recent times.

Edit: Saying the effects can vary depend on the circumstances on when and where the Lightning strikes has occurred. Saying it will vary will only depend on specific inside and outside factors as well.

 

[ScarletFirefly]

The fact that most people survive lightning strikes is because of flashover. Basically only a small portion of the current passes through the body of the victim, the rest of it moves along and over the skin surface. I believe this happens because human skin is a poor conductor.

 

[EnderShadowr215]

@Scarlet Flashover?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flashover


Does it look like it will be caused by fires?

I actually enjoy this a bit.

Edit: Flashover will vary as well.

 

[Yumi-tan]

Not all lightning is same. Lightning triggered by volcanic eruption not same as lightning from thunderstorm. Temperature may vary. Energy output? Maybe too.

 

[ScarletFirefly]

The flashover I'm talking about occurs when lightning attaches to an object that has a high impedance path to the ground. Passing through this object, it will develop a high voltage. If this resulting voltage exceeds the air breakdown value, the lightning may "jump" from that object to another near it by seeking a path through the air.

When people say don't go near trees when there's lightning, it's because of this phenomenon.

 

[EnderShadowr215]

@Scarlet Ahh I see. Electric transfer from a lightning to a object, but even that will vary as well.

 

[ScarletFirefly]

@Scarlet Ahh I see. Electric transfer from a lightning to a object, but even that will vary as well.

Of course it will, there are many factors that affect the situation.

Not all lightning is same. Lightning triggered by volcanic eruption not same as lightning from thunderstorm. Temperature may vary. Energy output? Maybe too.

You're right, they are different kinds of lightning. Volcanic lightning is also called "dirty lightning" I believe. It happens because the ash cloud above becomes electrified due to the magma that spews charged particles. I know this was mostly observed in an island of Japan, but I forgot it's name. I do not know if the energy of these lightnings differs from the "normal" one though.

 

[Yumi-tan]

I am Japanese. I know of this island. Sakurajima.

 

[Liroy_jenkins]

city level is will make you immune to it

 

[Tsubaki_Blue]

That's contradictory. If lightning is building level, and humans are quite capable of surviving it, then humans have building level durability? I don't think so.

 

[KamiYasha]

An average lightning has around 3.000.000 Vols per metre.

Does surviving a lightning make you Building level? No.

Are humans "capable" of surviving it? Kinda.

Depends on most of the circumstances (How you were standing, how poweful was the lightning, etc). People surviving being struck by a lightning are quite lucky, even if you survive you will have plenty of issues for the rest of your life (most likely).

 

[Antoniofer]

Again, 5 Gigajoules is just the energy disiped during the discharge, the people struck by it just received a portion of that energy. I'm not expert in lightnings but I known about electricity, so lightnings should kill due: high temperatures vaporize the fluids inside human body makes them explode (or similar), and stopping the heart due the intense current; so I wouldn't rate a character Building level just because survived being struck by a lightning.

 

[The_Living_Tribunal1]

Again, 5 Gigajoules is just the energy disiped during the discharge, the people struck by it just received a portion of that energy. I'm not expert in lightnings but I known about electricity, so lightnings should kill due: high temperatures vaporize the fluids inside human body makes them explode (or similar), and stopping the heart due the intense current; so I wouldn't rate a character Building level just because survived being struck by a lightning.

this

most of the energy is used to get past the potential difference and the target is at the end of the P.D.

 

[ThePerpetual]

Also, to my understanding, lightning not only strikes extremely quickly, but fades away near-instantly after it has formed, with the glow one sees mostly being a result of the electrical discharge. They would technically be in contact with extreme temperatures, yes, but also for an exceedingly short time...