Jonathan wrote on Thu, 9 May 2019 19:43:51
-0400:

On 5/8/2019 5:25 AM, Fred J. McCall wrote:
Joe wrote on Wed, 8 May 2019 09:08:49 +0100:

On Tue, 07 May 2019 17:46:38 -0700
Fred J. McCall wrote:

Keema's Nan wrote on Tue, 07 May 2019
20:47:41 +0100:

Because people are not quite so susceptible to induced charges,
being full of water.


An interesting supposition but not born out by the facts. It takes
100 mA to kill you.


Between 100 and 200 ma is the fatal zone.

So essentially what I said, then.


But shocks over 200 ma generally are not fatal


If there's someone there to perform artificial respiration, as your
own cite notes.


https://www.asc.ohio-state.edu/physi...l_current.html


We were all taught 100 mA with around 80 volts behind it would kill
you, since that's enough voltage to get the current across your body.



Humans have been struck by lightning and survived, sometimes more than
once. Golfers are particularly susceptible, as they often raise their
own lightning conductors into the air.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-23621324


True, but no new information. Such survival has nothing to do with
"being full of water" and they survive because, despite the huge power
present, they don't take 100 mA of current through their body.
Electricity takes the path of least resistance. Sometimes that tends
to be just under the skin.



Dry skin has far more resistance.


Hence "just under the skin".


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