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I would not play with this until I knew exactly why it was happening. You could easily be killed by an electrostatic phenomenon that is poorly understood. Remem
by matte_black 9y ago
I would not play with this until I knew exactly why it was happening. You could easily be killed by an electrostatic phenomenon that is poorly understood. Remember in the old days when ball lightning would just straight up kill people by passing into them? Still does, but I think most people know better now than to touch such a ball.
- Avshalom 9y agoWhen were these old days?
- matte_black 9y ago1800s.
- thatswrong0 9y agoI don’t think most people know better now.. most people probably haven’t even heard of ball lightning
- matte_black 9y agoYou really think people would see a ball of lightning floating toward them and think “Wow I should touch that!”
- ams6110 9y ago"Hold my beer and watch this!"
- mrexroad 9y agoNo, of course not, because people likely think, “wow I gotta get this on YouTube and see what happens when I touch it.”
- PhasmaFelis 9y agoUm, wasn't that your theory? You claimed more people were killed by ball lightning in the old days before people knew what it was.
- topmonk 9y agoThe point is that they didn't even know what electricity was. If they saw a spark they wouldn't think, "Oh, high voltage", but rather "Must be supernatural, or a holy light"
- matte_black 9y agoExactly this. Today we don’t think much about electricity, we take it for granted but at least know it’s dangerous.
- PhasmaFelis 9y agoSee my reply to topmonk.
- PhasmaFelis 9y agoAncient people were not as stupid as you think. They knew that lightning was dangerous. More to the point, they knew that fire was dangerous--ball lightning resembles a floating orb of sun-bright fire, and any human will instinctively avoid such a thing. Historical phenomena later believed to be ball lightning were usually described at the time as "balls of fire." https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Ball_lightning https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Ball_lightning
- matte_black 9y agoI don’t think Ancient people were stupid, they just didn’t have access to certain knowledge yet.
- PhasmaFelis 9y agoYou're imagining that because they didn't know why something was happening, they were incapable of reacting to it in any rational way. You don't need a working theory of electricity to know that fire and lightning are dangerous.
- goldenkey 9y agoThought Ball Lightning was just a Magic the Gathering card. Interesting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ball_lightning https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ball_lightning