The only safe place would be next to a properly wired lightning rod I suppose.

@@IronHexacyanoferrate Yeah, in the city. When you are in open area, there is no luck. That's why you should run on the open area when there is a sign of thunder will occur. Don't stay on there.

Actually, if you are around something taller than you, you are pretty safe as long as your feet are toghether. This minimizes the voltage difference between your feet when the lightning reaches ground. If your feet were a meter apart, like when walking, a voltage difference would appear between your legs and thus the lightning would climb up and down your legs

Do NOT stand under a tree, and if your hair starts standing on end, hit the ground and lay flat.

@@fanman421 if your hair starts to stand on end run lightning is about to strike there

LOL

he's just being realistic

I will survive out of spite... Hopefully

Honestly I've heard more about people dying from sharks in a lake, than by lightning.

@@legendrising3387 Honestly, I have heard more people dieing from falling coconut on their head on beaches than by sharks.

Please explain further

@@gilles466 Housing developments quit using a simple grid pattern decades ago. If the customer's house is located diagonally across the development you are faced with slower speed limits multiple stop and yield signs and streets that curve around and intersect in odd places. Getting on a major street with higher speed limits and fewer stops and going around the development and entering at the spot closest to the customers house is most often the fastest way there even if you have to travel further. And when you are delivering freshly cooked pizzas and side items, a shorter delivery time is critical to customer satisfaction. Just like lightning. The shortest path may have the most resistance to electrical flow so it takes the path of least resistance instead.

@@oldtimefarmboy617 I see. Thanks for explaining!

Similarly, taxi drivers seem to have also realised that the shortest/fastest path to your destination does not optimize the amount of money they make...

@@oldtimefarmboy617 Nice analogy! On a lighter note, I too always believed that lightning takes the path of least resistance. It doesn't seem to be the case! :: 4:09

Just throw a glass rod at your friends

Make them hold it up high and watch from a distance

and then you come to the conclusion that it's gonna hit you

fun fact. if you divide the seconds between, seeing a lightning flash and afterwards, hearing the thunder. by 3, then you know how much kilometers the lightning was away. if you see a flash and you hear the Thunder 6 seconds later. then the lightning stroke into the ground 2 kilometers away.

Rather: Lightning: coming towards you Lightning: striking you and your friends Lightning: killing you and your friends Your bodies: wait imma gonna reac-

There's an einstein quote there if i could be bothered.

"If you can't explain it to others in simple way, then you haven't understood it well"

On

Love your channel

big fan!

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Only 28 likes??!!

Heyyy when are you going to post new stuff, Jay???

Heaven is the safest spot in a thunderstorm

So many comments admitting they don’t understand electricity at all. And that’s fine, it’s not for everybody. But still, the shadow radius is a real phenomena. And some of us like to be outside often. We’re happier people that way. If someone can’t imagine a 60 m radius up in the air and figure out how not to stand too close to a tree that might explode from a lightning strike but yet not stand out in the open field either, it’s most likely best to stay inside always.

actually safest place would be in your vehicle if you have one. but even that isn't perfectly safe. it'll protect you from the current but it wont protect you if the vehicle decides to explode because. fuel and spark :)

@@logangraham2956 Airplane lightning strikes are extremely common, but the same effect saves you. Luckily they are designed so the fuel doesn't explode.

Thats a good observation! I often see similar patterns in tree roots/branches when looking at lightning channels flowing through the air.

your house will get struck if u are in it so just go underground

@@dariobasch7874 but the house will release the electrical charges in the ground, so you should use crocs

@@wilson2583 use geta instead

get in a car if possible. safest place other than being indoors

@@ThereminHero actually yes but do not touch the outside of your car after it gets struck

Ba dam tis

@@tonuahmed4227 Not sure that I'm tracking. Are you meaning the drum at the punch-line? 'Cause it left a bigger tingle than anything in the percussive-instrument category.

@@matthewellisor5835 yes...sorry if it made it awkward

step/touch voltages

That's Pretty incredible. Thanks for sharing!

Believers: God blessed him.

Yea, I lived in florida, sounds accurate man. Its crazy down there! Glad your dads okay!

How's that the puddle saved him? You mean a water puddle?

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One night there was a lightning strike into the forest next to our house. When I went there the tree was decimated, with multiple up to 10 meter large vaguely toothpick shaped shards scattered all around.

The electricity travels through the root system too . My mom was on a camping trip one time and a guy was killed in his tent because the roots were under his tent .

@@76biggdogg unfortunate

Also, lightning tends to cut entire branches off, and they can fall on you.

So don't go near trees or else boom boom?

i think we watched a different video then.

@@Layarion Referring to the channel as a whole 👍

Because his content style has changed from what it was a couple years ago and a lot of people myself included it don't like the very minor changes that he has made

You might almost call his potential.. an electric potential 😂

now people only like colorful explanation and some explosive music and doing some cool glycerin detonation they dont like the explanation and the theory behind it....

Yup ....this channel is best for science 👌

@@ezrakirkpatrick5365 😂

LOL

LOL

LOL

Rubber insulator: LOL

Me inside a Faraday cage: LOL

Cool

One can do that even when it is sunny and clear. You know... just for fun.

@Adarsh Chaturvedi did you mean it can strike a car but it won't hurt you if you're inside the car?

@Adarsh Chaturvedi Doesn't seem to be the case. You can find photos and even videos of lightning strikes to a car. "Yes, cars are more likely to get hit by lightning but can also serve as a protective shield for people inside the car. When lightning strikes a car, it hits the outer metal surfaces like the antenna and the roof and moves along with the metal frame."

@Adarsh Chaturvedi cause your not grounded in a car.

@@vsm1456 Exactly, the car acts as Faraday cage.

fresh, hot tree sap

Is this actually true??

@@DANGJOS Yes it is. It happens because lightning is extremely hot and when it strikes the tree, the sap immediately starts to boil and destroys the tree by the pressure

@@georgetheconqueror2574 But has it ever killed anyone by sap itself, or is it just the explosion caused by it?

@@DANGJOS I have actually seen a tree struck about 300 yards away, me and two mates and dog were walking in a beet field. It split in two with this massive BANG. Bugger did we run - the dog was faster than us lol This was about 25 years ago.

200 feet? I was about 25 to 30 feet away from an antenna that was stuck and i barely felt the ground current.

I’m pretty sure there are a lot of variables that determine how far the “feeling” of electrical current can be felt.

Had a friend who's dad died, lightning struck a manhole and electrified the pipes

it's actually super unlikely for you to die if you're struck by lightning

There is a man who reported being struck by lightning 7 times and okay. (struck or almost?) I don't remember exactly. :|

@@frostsmaker8966 so you're telling me that there's a chance that I can be The Flash? 👁️👄👁️

@@spark9189 Not that unlikely if you are a golfer, because Zeus doesn't like golf

@@redghost001 Hohohoho,... I am The Fastest Man Alive,... I am The Flash. :D

Except you don't use the least amount of energy when playing video games. There are puzzles, shooting, skills, fighting etc. TV takes less amount of energy.

Yeah me too🤣🤣

For me it's actually the lightning. because, it come first and when it comes, you are sure that there will be a thunder

Distant thunder sounds so sick. But when it's really close and loud, it's a true jumpscare 🤣

Gungam style

@Adarsh Chaturvedi its not a fact brainiac.

@Adarsh Chaturvedi huh?

What’s hard to understand about a radius from a point up in the air? If you’re outside that radius you’re safe from the other objects inside the radius.(tree, ground)

Yup. Lightning is cool

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Bruh

Hello verified person

@@WowNoob333 yup pretty much

if plants aren't aware why do sunflowers track the sun

Wow that was scary.. Good thing you didn't get strike by it

@@wrathspecter6100 yes!

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3 Trains

Your not going to find that kind of power in 1955.

Jojo referfence

@@soupfork7893 my man

This would not be adequate for a physics lesson. You still need to learn the math involved.

Yep! Our new physics sir is so boring he just reads from the book and doesn't even explain anything😢

@@Vivacious_Varenya_ Yep, hard to learn with no practical application in-mind.

@@MrT------5743 i don't mean this particular thing i mean physics in general he just writes a problem on the whiteboard and then solves it without explaining

@@MrT------5743 So true.

Sounds kinda like 8-bit.

Yeh I was ....shocked.....to find out.

Ikr like when I saw that I was just *SHOCKED* that he would do that for us!

@@Nezha_Main Lol, i get the joke

😂😂

that would be very unlucky

Phew i thought it was not a rickroll

That's genius

what

me and the person above dont get the referance

I get it, its that the lightning makes the sound and the person near the tree and me dont know who asked for you to make this joke

no reference, just mild thunder

exciting

@@thesemittenzarefruitflavored 😅

No😂

Let's see how many subs this comment can get me

WTF

07. Good Grief

@@specialed6357 Good Boy

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U were wrong Lol😭

@@koushiksringeri I was not. ionizing the air is still the path of least resistance. If electron wants to go from a to b, it is going to take the easiest path. This is exactly how lightning works.

If you crouch down and stand on one leg, it'll greatly reduce the amount of charge current that can go through you if lightning strikes nearby.

Wear rubber boots?

dont forget to bring ur smartphone