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The same thing happens with lightening strikes. People get hit by the sonic blast wave or distant lines of flux and are convinced they were hit by lightening.
by LinuxBender 8y ago
The same thing happens with lightening strikes. People get hit by the sonic blast wave or distant lines of flux and are convinced they were hit by lightening. In reality, this isn't even remotely possible. The temperature of the contact point in lightening on a human is around 50,000 degrees Fahrenheit. It does spectacular things to the body. Yet, there are often headlines of a person describing being "hit by lightening".
- theoh 8y ago"Lightning".
- DFHippie 8y agoI know this is annoying, but I'm going to take this occasion to point out that "lightening" and "lightning" are different things (and have a different number of syllables). The former is basically "the causing of lightness". One definition is "the sensation, experienced by many women late in pregnancy when the head of the fetus enters the pelvis, of a reduction in pressure on the diaphragm, making it easier to breathe" (https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/lightening https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/lighten...). The latter is the meteorological phenomenon. Cool observation, though.
- LinuxBender 8y agoApologies, I often skip spell checking and my fingers have a different idea of how some things should be formed. I shall tighten my Cilice [1] to position number 3 today. [1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cilice https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cilice j/k just trying to put an image of a monk in your mind. :-)