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Old May 8th, 2019, 09:08 AM posted to uk.legal,rec.travel.air,soc.culture.russia,sci.military.naval,uk.politics.misc
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Default Plane crash in Russia

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.


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

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