"Lighting doesn't strike twice in the same place"

[Mayfriday0529]

What do you think?

 

[wasserkool]

no

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

Topic Title: "lightning never strikes twice"

If that were the case, there would be no more lightning after the first lightning strike ever.

 

[bandana163]

Oh, it does.

 

[Mayfriday0529]

Originally posted by: Nik

Topic Title: "lightning never strikes twice"

If that were the case, there would be no more lightning after the first lightning strike ever.

I meant
Lighting doesn't strike twice in the same place

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

Originally posted by: Jnetty99

Originally posted by: Nik

Topic Title: "lightning never strikes twice"

If that were the case, there would be no more lightning after the first lightning strike ever.

I meant
Lighting doesn't strike twice in the same place

Why wouldn't it? If so-called science tells us that the earth is billions and billions of years old, what are the odds that, over those billions and billions of years, lightning has never struck the face of the earth in the same place a second time?

 

[sixone]

Originally posted by: Jnetty99
"lightning never strikes twice"

The actual quote is "lightning never strikes twice in the same place." Linky

 

[Crescent13]

Originally posted by: Jnetty99

Originally posted by: Nik

Topic Title: "lightning never strikes twice"

If that were the case, there would be no more lightning after the first lightning strike ever.

I meant
Lighting doesn't strike twice in the same place

what "same place" do you mean? feet, inches, nanometers?

 

[tami]

are you inspired by the movie, "war of the worlds?"

 

[Xylitol]

Well this park ranger got hit 7x

Story
http://www.strangecosmos.com/content/item/108665.html

 

[AdamSnow]

Originally posted by: Vaerilis
Oh, it does.

Yup.

 

[chcarnage]

Should I replace my lightning rod, then?

 

[Turkish]

that movie was horrible btw

 

[Quixfire]

Lightening Bolt, Lightening Bolt, Lightening Bolt

 

[LeiZaK]

Cadillac STS

 

[BrokenVisage]

What is the area we're considering 'the same place' to be in? An atom? 10 atoms wide? 100 atoms wide? It's all perspective really, I bet you a rain drop never fell onto the same exact spot as another rain drop if you take it down to the atom.. but if say a lightning bolt strikes the same tree twice, I don't see no big deal with that because it's pretty common, how much do you think these lightning rods we put up get zapped?

 

[meltdown75]

i hit the little glass ball on the lightning rod with a pitching wedge from about 110 out. it sucked.

 

[nakedfrog]

Originally posted by: Quixfire
Lightening Bolt, Lightening Bolt, Lightening Bolt

:laugh:

 

[Howard]

Lightning rods are useless, then.

 

[funboy6942]

Seen first hand lightning strike a light pole one after the other and felt the charge from them after wards.

 

[Ipno]

Myth Busted

 

[ruffilb]

It's random, so it can.

 

[Ipno]

Its not entirely random. It strikes in the same place lots of times.

 

[rh71]

are we talking flourescent lighting or what here ? I just want to be sure.

 

[Ornery]

The following happened to a fellow only 20 miles from here:

Lightning really can strike twice
By: Jamie Ward
JWard@News-Herald.com
07/16/2005

Man hit while trying to help dog that was struck

• When 37-year-old Geneva Township resident Salvatore Palma realized his German shepherd had been struck by lightning Thursday night, he was frightened.
  
  "I called the fire department to make sure it was all right to touch him," Palma said. "He was smoking."
  
  But Joshua, the 8-year-old dog, was still breathing when Palma pulled his white van into the back yard about 6:30 p.m. to take his pet to the veterinarian.
  
  Then lightning struck a second time - this time hitting Palma.
  
  "I heard a kaboom. It felt like a bomb went off in my hands," Palma said.
  On Friday, Palma recounted the experience while recovering at LakeEast Hospital in Painesville.
  
  He was listed in good condition, according to a hospital spokesman.
  
  Palma said he was hit by lightning and knocked forward 4 or 5 feet when he reached down to unlatch his dog from the chain.
  
  "My arms swung backwards, and when I tried to get up there was a force holding me on the ground," Palma said.
  
  Palma eventually was able to stand up when Vincent, his 15-year-old son who was coming to assist with Joshua, helped him hobble across the back yard and into the house.
  
  Palma said at this point both of his arms and one of his legs were completely numb.
  
  When paramedics arrived, they transported Palma from his home on South Ridge Road East to UHHS Memorial Hospital of Geneva. He then was transferred to LakeEast Hospital by ambulance because his wife, Melissa, works as a patient care assistant there.
  
  "I could never imagine something like this happening," Palma said from his hospital bed. "I could taste something that was burned in my mouth. I think something got cooked inside of me. I could smell it on me."
  
  Joshua, who has lived with the Palmas since he was a puppy, did not survive.
  
  Salvatore and Melissa, with their five children, had just bought their new home three weeks ago. They moved to Geneva Township from Madison Township. They said there are still boxes that need to be unpacked.
  
  Doctors told Palma it will take some time before his muscles get back to normal. However, they are hopeful there will be no serious long-term effects. He could be released from the hospital sometime today.