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On the topic of what part of electricity kills?
Its a combination of a lot of things that can contribute to death.
1) High voltage in itself will not kill as easily as low because high tends to knock you away where low tends to hold on to you.
2) electricity kills more people that have no ground more so than those with grounds.
3) its amps not voltage that does the most damage.
4) moisture content and whats in the moisture contributes to the effect.
5) people have survived 100,000 volts I think. Isn't that what your average lightening is?
6) Static electricity can kill faster than either AC or DC. I do not remember my physics, but the electricity that makes up static jolts is neither AC or DC.
7) I could be wrong on any or all of these comments but not by much. (I hope)
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Please feel free to not do so.
I really do not feel comfortable with the knowledge that you "might" be able to make your comment understandable.
Crono, doesn't the flow of electrons, from wherever the lightning comes from to wherever it goes, make the current direct?
i know it's the same as saying static electricity has a current when it's name says otherwise, but is it still static when it jumps to ground? or could this jump, and the route it takes, be called a circuit?
You, like so many of the young these days assume I meant it derogatory. If you re-read it and add this bit to it, you might understand better.
I am afraid you might make sense to me, as in... I do not think I am capable of understanding.
Sure that may not make any more sense to you, but some of us reach an age to where we do not really want to know or worse, be reminded how dumb we are.
you 'might" only show me how dumb I am.
Why do you think I put the word "might" in quotations? Could it be to emphasize it so it becomes the focal point of my reply? Now thin for a moment. I do not know exactly how smart/dumb you are, but I know exactly how smart/dumb I am.
So, with this bit of knowledge you know possess, can you ascertain that I was talking about myself and not you?
Shame really. I had to go into detail because you view the world so badly. I just had to have been talking about you. 
i know it's the same as saying static electricity has a current when it's name says otherwise, but is it still static when it jumps to ground? or could this jump, and the route it takes, be called a circuit?
i've never believed that what i do/don't take in is a measure of how smart/stupid i am, just a measure of how interested i am at the time.
once i get to the point that i don't care how the world around me works, then maybe i'll be stupid too.
[edit] meh, i type too slow 
once i get to the point that i don't care how the world around me works, then maybe i'll be stupid too.
[edit] meh, i type too slow
I read once that lightening can originate in both places. Sky and ground. I also recall something that the ground origins tend to be the bigger of the two in pure power.
Off topic. Does anyone have the science channel on TV?
They had an article about plasma. The experiment took a stick match and lite it. The match was then placed inside a microwave oven. Somehow the flames bursted into balls. The guy on the show said that the theory was that the microwaves converted the flame into plasma similar to ball lightening.
This stuff is leagues above my head, but it was great watching the film of the event.
Anyway, back on topic. I watched lightening hit the ground in a pasture once. I know it hit cause I saw the geyser of molten stuff shoot into the air. (it was night) Next day, I could not locate the spot for nothing. The area simply vanished. 
[edit] Crono. It's been a long day. My flight was delayed and I am sleepy as hell right now. I know that there are no cue cards in here, but you will have to take my word. I was talking about myself.
/me runs away from Crono's big pointy logic stick
[edit] oh s**t, it's Gorby that's got it....
