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M3talhead

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When lightning strikes.....
« on: August 14, 2005, 06:21:07 am »
From the National Weather Service

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Plane Being Struck by a Lightning Flash

The images below show an aircraft being affected by a lightning flash. To the authors knowledge, nobody on the plane was injured. It is unknown if the aircraft experienced any damage. According to the scientist who acquired this imagery, the airplane itself triggered the lightning discharge.

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Re: When lightning strikes.....
« Reply #1 on: August 14, 2005, 08:47:36 am »
I would love to get struck by lightning for the ultimate bragging rights. I suppose getting struck by lightning in a plane would be ok....
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Re: When lightning strikes.....
« Reply #2 on: August 14, 2005, 10:14:25 am »
Quote from: BrokenBones1 on August 14, 2005, 08:47:36 am
I would love to get struck by lightning for the ultimate bragging rights. I suppose getting struck by lightning in a plane would be ok....


A friend of mine went out to the parking lot to get something from his car.....

He never came back
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Re: When lightning strikes.....
« Reply #3 on: August 14, 2005, 10:43:27 am »
Quote from: missioncontrol on August 14, 2005, 10:14:25 am
Quote from: BrokenBones1 on August 14, 2005, 08:47:36 am
I would love to get struck by lightning for the ultimate bragging rights. I suppose getting struck by lightning in a plane would be ok....


A friend of mine went out to the parking lot to get something from his car.....

He never came back  :(

turned out he was struck by lightning and died instantly.......

Bad time to grab the last few quarters out of the ashtray to beat Galaxian I guess...... :-\
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Re: When lightning strikes.....
« Reply #4 on: August 14, 2005, 01:44:28 pm »
Quote from: BrokenBones1 on August 14, 2005, 08:47:36 am
I would love to get struck by lightning for the ultimate bragging rights. I suppose getting struck by lightning in a plane would be ok....

Well that might last for a while, but sooner or later you'll meet someone who was shot in the head with a spear gun while being maulled by a shark, but somehow got away and swam to shore, where he had to eat his own severed leg to survive while stranded on a desert island.

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Re: When lightning strikes.....
« Reply #5 on: August 14, 2005, 01:45:42 pm »
Quote from: toolaa on August 14, 2005, 01:44:28 pm
Quote from: BrokenBones1 on August 14, 2005, 08:47:36 am
I would love to get struck by lightning for the ultimate bragging rights. I suppose getting struck by lightning in a plane would be ok....

Well that might last for a while, but sooner or later you'll meet someone who was shot in the head with a spear gun while being maulled by a shark, but somehow got away and swam to shore, where he had to eat his own severed leg to survive while stranded on a desert island.



I didnt think I told anyone about that story!  ;)
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Re: When lightning strikes.....
« Reply #6 on: August 14, 2005, 06:24:11 pm »
with my kind of luck, lighting will strike me first than hitting the lottery  :P
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Re: When lightning strikes.....
« Reply #7 on: August 15, 2005, 09:21:57 am »
Why does the plane keep backing up only be struck by lightning over and over? The pilot must be insane! ;D

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Re: When lightning strikes.....
« Reply #8 on: August 15, 2005, 09:25:04 am »
Airplanes are designed to handle lightning strikes. Commercial airliners average one lightning strike per year.

They are equipped with "Static Wicks" that help dissipate any built up static charge.
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Re: When lightning strikes.....
« Reply #9 on: August 15, 2005, 03:16:31 pm »
Quote from: Stingray on August 15, 2005, 09:21:57 am
Why does the plane keep backing up only be struck by lightning over and over? The pilot must be insane! ;D

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The lightning must have caused a space-time flux and are now caught in the rift.  Luckily they don't have a gremlin on the wing.
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Re: When lightning strikes.....
« Reply #10 on: August 15, 2005, 04:25:52 pm »
Oh that makes sense. Same thing happens on Star Trek about every other episode.

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Re: When lightning strikes.....
« Reply #11 on: August 16, 2005, 12:16:32 pm »
good thing it didn't have a flux capacitor and was travailing at precisely 88 mph
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