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I strongly suspect that this 'news' report is absolutely true (and
damn near irrelevant yellow journalism)
Holding ANY piece of conductive material up-side your head during a
thunderstorm will increase your chance of being struck by lightning.
I doubt that any thinking person can refute this claim.
But - scare tactics will always work on the great masses of people.
Bottomline - pure bullshit 'research', but perfectly true result.
Was someone paid big-bucks to reach this conclusion?
Or is someone trying to sell 'protection' or just trying to sell newspapers?
(Follow the Money - seems to still be relevant advice for many scenarios)
At 12:05 PM +0200 6/23/06, Mark Sylvester wrote:
>News item yesterday: using a cell phone during a thunderstorm
>increases risk of being struck by lightning.
>
>Any thoughts about possible mechanism? Will a source of GHz
>oscillations enhance ionization possibilities?
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