1 00:00:00,280 --> 00:00:02,920 Speaker 1: Brought to you by the reinvented two thousand twelve Camray. 2 00:00:03,160 --> 00:00:07,480 Speaker 1: It's ready. Are you welcome to Stuff you should Know 3 00:00:08,119 --> 00:00:43,880 Speaker 1: from House Stuff Works dot Com? M Hey, and welcome 4 00:00:43,920 --> 00:00:48,560 Speaker 1: to the podcast. That is a pretty mellow intron. I'm Josh. 5 00:00:48,680 --> 00:00:52,199 Speaker 1: That's Chuck that makes stuff you should know. That's Jim Morrison, Yes, 6 00:00:52,240 --> 00:00:54,960 Speaker 1: it was. That was the doors Riders on the Storm. 7 00:00:55,120 --> 00:00:57,480 Speaker 1: We have Jim in the studio with us today. Yeah, Hey, Jim, 8 00:00:57,600 --> 00:01:00,160 Speaker 1: did you ever see that gap ad where they show 9 00:01:00,240 --> 00:01:03,320 Speaker 1: Jim Morrison off that and old? No, it was a 10 00:01:03,320 --> 00:01:05,280 Speaker 1: while ago, like probably ten years ago. They did some 11 00:01:05,360 --> 00:01:08,559 Speaker 1: of these sixties icons that passed away early as old people, 12 00:01:09,160 --> 00:01:12,560 Speaker 1: and like, really realistically, it's pretty funny. Yeah, I don't 13 00:01:12,640 --> 00:01:15,039 Speaker 1: recall that at all. And I've watched a lot of 14 00:01:15,080 --> 00:01:17,000 Speaker 1: TV where I used to I think it was a 15 00:01:17,040 --> 00:01:20,000 Speaker 1: magazine and pronounce oh, I read a lot of magazines. 16 00:01:20,600 --> 00:01:23,320 Speaker 1: Oh Fair used to alert for, used to alert um. So. 17 00:01:23,800 --> 00:01:27,200 Speaker 1: Riders on the Storm was released on the nineteen seventy 18 00:01:27,240 --> 00:01:30,280 Speaker 1: one album Ellie Woman, which we would imagine is available 19 00:01:30,319 --> 00:01:33,360 Speaker 1: at a wide variety of retailers online and at break 20 00:01:33,360 --> 00:01:36,600 Speaker 1: and mortar stores. Yeah. Great song. Yeah, and I'm kind 21 00:01:36,600 --> 00:01:37,880 Speaker 1: of over a lot of the Doors. But I like 22 00:01:37,920 --> 00:01:41,200 Speaker 1: that song, man, I go It's like, how I imagine 23 00:01:41,200 --> 00:01:43,480 Speaker 1: a lot of people are with Zeppelin. It's like, oh, 24 00:01:43,560 --> 00:01:46,480 Speaker 1: I love Zeppelin. I'm in sixth grade. Um, and then 25 00:01:46,480 --> 00:01:48,160 Speaker 1: it just kind of goes away. But then you get 26 00:01:48,200 --> 00:01:50,920 Speaker 1: older and you're like, wow, they really were great. That 27 00:01:51,000 --> 00:01:52,720 Speaker 1: didn't happen to be with Zeppelin. I got over him 28 00:01:52,720 --> 00:01:55,280 Speaker 1: after sixth grade, you know that. But the Doors, that's 29 00:01:55,320 --> 00:01:57,520 Speaker 1: happened to me. You're back into them again. Well, I 30 00:01:57,560 --> 00:02:00,040 Speaker 1: mean I just constantly am like in a state of 31 00:02:00,360 --> 00:02:02,920 Speaker 1: coming in or out of really appreciating the Doors. But 32 00:02:03,000 --> 00:02:05,880 Speaker 1: for the most part it's solidified as jelled. I love 33 00:02:05,920 --> 00:02:07,680 Speaker 1: the Doors. You know, if you want to keep that intact, 34 00:02:07,720 --> 00:02:09,840 Speaker 1: do yourself a favor and don't ever read any of 35 00:02:09,919 --> 00:02:13,400 Speaker 1: Jim Morrison's poetry books. I have I have. Have you 36 00:02:13,400 --> 00:02:15,680 Speaker 1: ever heard American Prayer? It's like one of the coolest 37 00:02:15,680 --> 00:02:20,320 Speaker 1: things anyone's ever made. I'm not a fan of his poetry. Well, 38 00:02:20,520 --> 00:02:23,400 Speaker 1: I mean, his songs were poetry. Writers on the Storm 39 00:02:23,440 --> 00:02:26,040 Speaker 1: is a poem set to music. He's the Lizard King. Yeah, 40 00:02:26,600 --> 00:02:30,480 Speaker 1: you can do anything, right, Um, So Chuck, have you 41 00:02:30,480 --> 00:02:33,359 Speaker 1: heard of a guy named Roy Sullivan. Yeah, I remember 42 00:02:33,440 --> 00:02:36,120 Speaker 1: him from being a kid, do you really Yeah? From 43 00:02:36,120 --> 00:02:38,840 Speaker 1: the old Guinness Book Record. Uh huh. I must have 44 00:02:38,880 --> 00:02:41,280 Speaker 1: skipped over his entry because I've read those two. I 45 00:02:41,440 --> 00:02:43,040 Speaker 1: remember when they come out and you'd be like, oh 46 00:02:43,080 --> 00:02:45,160 Speaker 1: my god. It would be like the Scholastic Book Fair, 47 00:02:45,480 --> 00:02:48,040 Speaker 1: which amounted to a couple of like cards with books 48 00:02:48,040 --> 00:02:50,800 Speaker 1: on him out the hallway and some guy who didn't 49 00:02:50,800 --> 00:02:54,919 Speaker 1: recognize standing there selling them. Um. I missed that one, 50 00:02:55,280 --> 00:02:57,880 Speaker 1: but let's tell everybody else. I haven't looked him up 51 00:02:57,880 --> 00:03:00,320 Speaker 1: since then, but if I remember correctly, he had the 52 00:03:00,360 --> 00:03:03,760 Speaker 1: record for being struck right lightning. Yeah, Roy Sullivan. He 53 00:03:03,840 --> 00:03:08,079 Speaker 1: was a ranger park ranger at Shenandoah National Park, okay 54 00:03:08,480 --> 00:03:12,359 Speaker 1: um and he died in Night three. In between nineteen 55 00:03:12,400 --> 00:03:16,720 Speaker 1: forty and nineteen seventy seven, he was struck seven times, 56 00:03:17,000 --> 00:03:19,800 Speaker 1: struck by lightning seven times. And actually there's two of 57 00:03:19,880 --> 00:03:23,000 Speaker 1: his rangers stets and hats that he was wearing while 58 00:03:23,040 --> 00:03:26,560 Speaker 1: he was struck that are in the Guinness World Record. 59 00:03:27,240 --> 00:03:31,440 Speaker 1: I guess museums and they have like burnt holes in them, right, yeah, 60 00:03:32,320 --> 00:03:34,200 Speaker 1: Well you're just smiling. I remember seeing the picture. I 61 00:03:34,200 --> 00:03:36,080 Speaker 1: could picture it in my head. He did not die 62 00:03:36,440 --> 00:03:39,520 Speaker 1: of being struck by lightning. He died what a full 63 00:03:39,880 --> 00:03:43,080 Speaker 1: six years after the last time he was struck. Yeah, 64 00:03:43,240 --> 00:03:45,560 Speaker 1: from like plugging in something in his house and getting shocked. 65 00:03:45,640 --> 00:03:49,520 Speaker 1: He's like stripped on a banana peal Right, um, so 66 00:03:50,480 --> 00:03:52,839 Speaker 1: it's it's I guess I bring this up because we're 67 00:03:52,840 --> 00:03:55,480 Speaker 1: talking about lightning, and you brought up a really excellent 68 00:03:55,560 --> 00:03:58,400 Speaker 1: point that his stets and hat was burned, but this 69 00:03:58,440 --> 00:04:02,440 Speaker 1: guy survived. Even the lightning is many, many, many times 70 00:04:02,440 --> 00:04:07,880 Speaker 1: more powerful than you know, a typical industrial electrocution voltage 71 00:04:08,440 --> 00:04:12,920 Speaker 1: that will just typically kill anybody. Lightning frequently people survive. 72 00:04:13,040 --> 00:04:14,520 Speaker 1: As a matter of fact, like two thirds of people 73 00:04:14,560 --> 00:04:19,760 Speaker 1: who are struck by lightning survive between two thirds depending 74 00:04:19,760 --> 00:04:24,039 Speaker 1: on who you ask. That's pretty good. So I am 75 00:04:24,160 --> 00:04:28,760 Speaker 1: very excited about this one. Classic. I love natural phenomena. 76 00:04:29,240 --> 00:04:32,440 Speaker 1: I do too. I love earth sciences. I don't know 77 00:04:32,880 --> 00:04:34,920 Speaker 1: I do because I get it. Once you get it, 78 00:04:34,920 --> 00:04:39,400 Speaker 1: it's like geometry, Like once you get geometry, you can't 79 00:04:39,720 --> 00:04:43,320 Speaker 1: get geometry, and all of a sudden, this whole segment 80 00:04:43,880 --> 00:04:47,880 Speaker 1: of of the of nature just becomes clear to you. Well, 81 00:04:47,880 --> 00:04:51,440 Speaker 1: I'm glad you're covering this side of the love because 82 00:04:51,440 --> 00:04:53,120 Speaker 1: I don't have it. You don't know. I mean, I 83 00:04:53,160 --> 00:04:55,680 Speaker 1: think it's neat enough, but I'm not I'm not as 84 00:04:55,720 --> 00:04:59,040 Speaker 1: into the earth sciences at the very least. The pictures 85 00:04:59,040 --> 00:05:01,800 Speaker 1: in this article are really, really awesome. Did you get 86 00:05:01,839 --> 00:05:03,760 Speaker 1: to see some of them? I mean those are pretty, 87 00:05:04,080 --> 00:05:06,680 Speaker 1: very pretty black and whiten. That's still worth looking at 88 00:05:06,760 --> 00:05:09,320 Speaker 1: that all those leaders If you want to go, if 89 00:05:09,360 --> 00:05:11,320 Speaker 1: you want to go to the website how stuff Works 90 00:05:11,360 --> 00:05:13,320 Speaker 1: dot com and type and lightning, it will bring up 91 00:05:13,360 --> 00:05:15,880 Speaker 1: a lot of these pictures, but in color. We just 92 00:05:15,920 --> 00:05:20,120 Speaker 1: don't print in color here occasionally, But do you if 93 00:05:20,160 --> 00:05:22,400 Speaker 1: it's something that I think should be in color, I 94 00:05:22,520 --> 00:05:27,400 Speaker 1: like to preserve Cian go Alright, So Chuck, let's talk lightning, 95 00:05:27,440 --> 00:05:31,760 Speaker 1: shall we? Sure you got your statman role? Did you 96 00:05:31,800 --> 00:05:34,359 Speaker 1: read that one thing? The NASA article. There's some stats 97 00:05:34,360 --> 00:05:36,320 Speaker 1: in there that I thought you'd just have a bonanza with. 98 00:05:36,520 --> 00:05:39,560 Speaker 1: I didn't get to it. Oh, buddy, all right, I'll 99 00:05:39,560 --> 00:05:41,960 Speaker 1: play the stat man role there because there there were 100 00:05:42,000 --> 00:05:43,640 Speaker 1: some good stats in there. Do you want me to 101 00:05:43,640 --> 00:05:50,640 Speaker 1: start out with a few, Chuck? I between between this 102 00:05:50,640 --> 00:05:56,760 Speaker 1: one's study of lightning strikes between ninety found that let's 103 00:05:56,760 --> 00:05:59,760 Speaker 1: see nine thousand, eight hundred and eighteen people were struck 104 00:05:59,800 --> 00:06:02,800 Speaker 1: by lightning in that time. Three thousand, two hundred and 105 00:06:02,800 --> 00:06:07,680 Speaker 1: thirty nine died died immediately like it was like, you're 106 00:06:07,720 --> 00:06:11,320 Speaker 1: just struck by lightning. You're over. Um that that's got 107 00:06:11,320 --> 00:06:13,640 Speaker 1: to be like a direct strike, right, all of them 108 00:06:13,680 --> 00:06:16,719 Speaker 1: are direct strikes as far as I understand, Yes, we're 109 00:06:16,720 --> 00:06:20,160 Speaker 1: all direct strikes. Like you can be struck directly like uh, 110 00:06:20,760 --> 00:06:26,640 Speaker 1: ranger Roy and he survived. Um. Men are four times 111 00:06:26,680 --> 00:06:32,000 Speaker 1: likelier than women to be struck by lightning. Um. The 112 00:06:32,040 --> 00:06:35,040 Speaker 1: two thirds of lightning casualties occurred between twelve pm and 113 00:06:35,080 --> 00:06:39,839 Speaker 1: four pm, with the maximum at four pm. Yes. Uh, 114 00:06:40,040 --> 00:06:43,240 Speaker 1: most of the most lightning casualties happened on a Sunday 115 00:06:43,360 --> 00:06:46,240 Speaker 1: or with and Wednesday is the second most frequent day, 116 00:06:46,360 --> 00:06:49,840 Speaker 1: and then July is the peak month. Florida is the 117 00:06:49,880 --> 00:06:53,599 Speaker 1: state that has the most reported lightning strikes for people. 118 00:06:54,360 --> 00:06:57,800 Speaker 1: So if it's four pm on a Wednesday in July 119 00:06:58,760 --> 00:07:01,880 Speaker 1: and you're in Florida, uh, and you're a man holding 120 00:07:01,920 --> 00:07:06,280 Speaker 1: like a golf club, kiss your but combining the good 121 00:07:06,279 --> 00:07:10,600 Speaker 1: Lord would never stop the best game of golf, I think, Uh. 122 00:07:10,640 --> 00:07:13,040 Speaker 1: I remember in a different podcast, we talked about the 123 00:07:13,080 --> 00:07:16,600 Speaker 1: fourth of July actually being the number one day. I 124 00:07:16,640 --> 00:07:18,640 Speaker 1: think I remember that as well, and I think that's 125 00:07:19,480 --> 00:07:21,400 Speaker 1: part and partial to the fact that July is the 126 00:07:21,400 --> 00:07:25,240 Speaker 1: biggest month and there are way more people outside recreating 127 00:07:25,280 --> 00:07:29,120 Speaker 1: your bodies of water on the fourth of July, which 128 00:07:29,160 --> 00:07:31,560 Speaker 1: you know, water of course could help. Yeah. I knew 129 00:07:31,560 --> 00:07:35,600 Speaker 1: this dude who public who actually printed the the alternative 130 00:07:35,640 --> 00:07:39,120 Speaker 1: paper that I helped found, and uh, he would say 131 00:07:39,160 --> 00:07:41,960 Speaker 1: that he was vacating. We're gonna vacate for two weeks 132 00:07:41,960 --> 00:07:43,840 Speaker 1: to me and the family every going down to Disney 133 00:07:43,840 --> 00:07:47,480 Speaker 1: World to vacake. That's pretty funny. The only little cool 134 00:07:47,520 --> 00:07:53,120 Speaker 1: factoids I have are lightning is not necessarily always white 135 00:07:53,240 --> 00:07:57,360 Speaker 1: or white ash yellow and has to do with the background. Yeah, 136 00:07:57,440 --> 00:08:01,160 Speaker 1: and that lightning is only an inch y Yeah. I 137 00:08:01,160 --> 00:08:04,760 Speaker 1: saw it was one to two inches in diameter. Yeah, 138 00:08:05,000 --> 00:08:08,440 Speaker 1: that's it. And it's hot six degrees or six times 139 00:08:08,440 --> 00:08:12,720 Speaker 1: hotter than the surface of the sun. I saw sixty. Yeah, 140 00:08:12,760 --> 00:08:16,440 Speaker 1: I'd say that's in the same range. I mean, that's 141 00:08:16,480 --> 00:08:19,840 Speaker 1: six that's not much when you're up that I yeah, 142 00:08:20,120 --> 00:08:24,160 Speaker 1: it'll fry an egg for sure. Um, So you you 143 00:08:24,240 --> 00:08:26,800 Speaker 1: say that there are some cool fact toys associated with lightning. 144 00:08:26,920 --> 00:08:30,200 Speaker 1: I say that lightning as a whole is one cool 145 00:08:30,560 --> 00:08:36,319 Speaker 1: factoid made up of smaller component factoids. Yea. And also 146 00:08:36,360 --> 00:08:38,040 Speaker 1: I'm sure somebody's can be like you guys used the 147 00:08:38,040 --> 00:08:44,120 Speaker 1: word factoid wrong, but we will decimate that person alright. Uh, 148 00:08:44,320 --> 00:08:47,360 Speaker 1: do we need to start with with clouds since we've 149 00:08:47,400 --> 00:08:50,280 Speaker 1: covered that so thoroughlier. I feel like we do because 150 00:08:50,920 --> 00:08:53,200 Speaker 1: with this process of cloud formation it is part and 151 00:08:53,200 --> 00:08:56,000 Speaker 1: parcel with lightning formation. They think we should really point 152 00:08:56,040 --> 00:08:59,040 Speaker 1: out here, man that it's not just this article, it's 153 00:08:59,040 --> 00:09:01,640 Speaker 1: not just how stuff works. That says that scientists aren't 154 00:09:01,640 --> 00:09:05,040 Speaker 1: really sure how all this happens. Um NASA says, so 155 00:09:05,600 --> 00:09:10,600 Speaker 1: the the um, oh, what's the what's the National Laboratory 156 00:09:10,960 --> 00:09:15,959 Speaker 1: begins with the A. Man, well, anyway, one of the 157 00:09:16,040 --> 00:09:20,079 Speaker 1: National Laboratory says though that I write about UM. So basically, 158 00:09:20,160 --> 00:09:23,880 Speaker 1: we don't fully understand how lightning forms, but it's invisible. 159 00:09:23,960 --> 00:09:27,040 Speaker 1: We have some good guesses it occurs within the second 160 00:09:27,320 --> 00:09:29,120 Speaker 1: So it's like, it's not the easiest thing in the 161 00:09:29,120 --> 00:09:31,600 Speaker 1: world to study. No, it's really not, you know about it. 162 00:09:31,640 --> 00:09:35,560 Speaker 1: We can recreate it, which is pretty neat. Okay, so UM. 163 00:09:35,600 --> 00:09:38,160 Speaker 1: But yes, let's start with precipitation in the water cycle. Right, 164 00:09:38,720 --> 00:09:42,400 Speaker 1: You've got um water say here on the Earth's surface. Um, 165 00:09:42,440 --> 00:09:46,160 Speaker 1: when heat is transferred from the environment, remember he always 166 00:09:46,240 --> 00:09:49,320 Speaker 1: goes from something that's warm to something that's cold. That's 167 00:09:49,320 --> 00:09:53,000 Speaker 1: how heat transfer occurs. Something doesn't lose its cold, it 168 00:09:53,080 --> 00:09:56,320 Speaker 1: gains heat, right, that's right. Um. So when that happens, 169 00:09:56,559 --> 00:09:59,679 Speaker 1: water can vaporize and rise up into the atmosphere. That's 170 00:09:59,679 --> 00:10:02,720 Speaker 1: a VA operation. And once it reaches a certain point, 171 00:10:03,760 --> 00:10:06,280 Speaker 1: it's going to lose its heat to the external environment. 172 00:10:07,440 --> 00:10:09,680 Speaker 1: It's gonna turn back into water. It's gonna fall back 173 00:10:09,679 --> 00:10:13,120 Speaker 1: down to the ground. In the foreign precipitation, that's condensation, right, 174 00:10:13,480 --> 00:10:16,560 Speaker 1: So it's either going to get slightly chilly and be rained, 175 00:10:16,640 --> 00:10:18,800 Speaker 1: or it's gonna get really chilly and the snow or 176 00:10:18,960 --> 00:10:22,080 Speaker 1: freezing rain. Right. So, if you get enough water vapor 177 00:10:22,400 --> 00:10:25,720 Speaker 1: going up, and you get enough um condensation starting to 178 00:10:25,760 --> 00:10:28,360 Speaker 1: come down and they start knocking into each other. This 179 00:10:28,440 --> 00:10:32,559 Speaker 1: is what scientists think. Um, they can start knocking electrons 180 00:10:32,600 --> 00:10:35,760 Speaker 1: from one another. The electrons are gonna keep going down, 181 00:10:35,800 --> 00:10:38,640 Speaker 1: They're going to um stay say as a cloud forms, 182 00:10:38,640 --> 00:10:42,560 Speaker 1: they're gonna they're gonna accumulate around the bottom of the 183 00:10:42,559 --> 00:10:47,200 Speaker 1: cloud like a little, a little puffy cloud couch there 184 00:10:47,280 --> 00:10:49,480 Speaker 1: that at the bottom of the clouds all tuck the 185 00:10:49,600 --> 00:10:52,280 Speaker 1: just settle in and nestle down. And then for for 186 00:10:52,400 --> 00:10:56,760 Speaker 1: just for this um example sake, think of positively charged particles, 187 00:10:56,800 --> 00:10:59,800 Speaker 1: the ones that are now missing their electrons um are 188 00:10:59,840 --> 00:11:02,599 Speaker 1: just lighter, so they're gonna accumulate at the top, but 189 00:11:02,640 --> 00:11:04,880 Speaker 1: they're contained in the cloud. Right. So at the top 190 00:11:04,920 --> 00:11:07,319 Speaker 1: of the cloud you have all these positively charged particles, 191 00:11:07,360 --> 00:11:11,280 Speaker 1: at the bottom you have negatively charged particles electrons, and 192 00:11:11,320 --> 00:11:13,960 Speaker 1: all of a sudden you have what's called an electric 193 00:11:14,000 --> 00:11:18,440 Speaker 1: field charge separation, which is uh, can do some funky stuff. Well, 194 00:11:18,440 --> 00:11:22,800 Speaker 1: that's how batteries work because chuck, as you'll remember, nature 195 00:11:22,920 --> 00:11:27,600 Speaker 1: loves homeostasis. Yeah, if it's these things are separate, they 196 00:11:27,640 --> 00:11:30,439 Speaker 1: just want to bring them back together exactly. Electrons love 197 00:11:30,559 --> 00:11:34,920 Speaker 1: to flow toward the direction of positively charged particles to 198 00:11:34,960 --> 00:11:38,920 Speaker 1: neutralize it. And that's an electric charge. It's electricity is 199 00:11:38,960 --> 00:11:41,960 Speaker 1: just an electron flow. Okay, So you have a cloud 200 00:11:42,000 --> 00:11:45,320 Speaker 1: that's suddenly like a battery, a big honkin battery. Yeah, 201 00:11:45,840 --> 00:11:50,200 Speaker 1: and um as this as this uh, this charge separation 202 00:11:50,280 --> 00:11:53,440 Speaker 1: becomes more and more charged like that, there's more and 203 00:11:53,480 --> 00:11:57,800 Speaker 1: more positive particles, more and more negative particles. It actually, 204 00:11:57,880 --> 00:12:01,600 Speaker 1: as these negative particles are the electrons are accumulating at 205 00:12:01,600 --> 00:12:04,480 Speaker 1: the bottom of the cloud, they the charge can become 206 00:12:04,559 --> 00:12:07,120 Speaker 1: so great that here on the Earth's surface, dude, it 207 00:12:07,160 --> 00:12:10,480 Speaker 1: actually presses the electrons down into the earth. Yeah. And 208 00:12:10,520 --> 00:12:14,040 Speaker 1: it's hard to imagine this, but it happens when you're 209 00:12:14,040 --> 00:12:17,200 Speaker 1: walking around out there during a thunderstorm, like it is 210 00:12:17,240 --> 00:12:20,840 Speaker 1: being pushed below your feet, leaving the ground positively charged 211 00:12:20,960 --> 00:12:23,760 Speaker 1: and ready to join their little buddies up there in 212 00:12:23,800 --> 00:12:27,920 Speaker 1: the clouds. So you have this layer of electrons and 213 00:12:27,960 --> 00:12:31,240 Speaker 1: now you have to basically two electric fields that can 214 00:12:31,280 --> 00:12:34,000 Speaker 1: either go up within the cloud or it can go 215 00:12:34,080 --> 00:12:38,480 Speaker 1: down to the ground. Yeah, that's a common like that 216 00:12:38,559 --> 00:12:41,160 Speaker 1: was my first question was if these electrons within the 217 00:12:41,160 --> 00:12:44,040 Speaker 1: cloud are separated, why are they going all the way 218 00:12:44,040 --> 00:12:46,320 Speaker 1: down to Earth. Why don't they just you know, have 219 00:12:46,480 --> 00:12:48,960 Speaker 1: lightning inside the cloud. And the answer is, well, that 220 00:12:49,000 --> 00:12:52,199 Speaker 1: happens all the time. That's the most common form of lightning, uh, 221 00:12:52,520 --> 00:12:55,559 Speaker 1: is when the electrons form lightning within it's a little 222 00:12:55,559 --> 00:12:57,839 Speaker 1: fluffy buddy there with It's like cloud to cloud or 223 00:12:57,920 --> 00:13:02,440 Speaker 1: intra cloud lightning. Intra cloud is within the same cloud 224 00:13:03,400 --> 00:13:06,200 Speaker 1: between two clouds, but it's it's still falls in the 225 00:13:06,240 --> 00:13:09,400 Speaker 1: cloud to cloud category. So I think there's two main division, 226 00:13:09,440 --> 00:13:13,520 Speaker 1: cloud to cloud and cloud to ground, and then ground 227 00:13:13,520 --> 00:13:17,400 Speaker 1: to cloud is also ground to cloud still, but it's 228 00:13:17,440 --> 00:13:20,120 Speaker 1: not because it's going between the ground and cloud or 229 00:13:20,200 --> 00:13:22,680 Speaker 1: between a cloud and itself for another cloud. Yeah, I 230 00:13:22,720 --> 00:13:26,400 Speaker 1: like a little cloud on cloud action this one. Okay, 231 00:13:26,640 --> 00:13:29,160 Speaker 1: So you have this um do you have the Earth 232 00:13:29,280 --> 00:13:32,320 Speaker 1: suddenly taking on a positive charge on its surface. You 233 00:13:32,360 --> 00:13:35,000 Speaker 1: have a strong negative charge at the bottom of the um, 234 00:13:35,480 --> 00:13:37,880 Speaker 1: at the bottom of the cloud, and you have nature 235 00:13:37,920 --> 00:13:40,880 Speaker 1: going like what's to do? This is terrible, Like there's 236 00:13:40,920 --> 00:13:44,280 Speaker 1: an electrical potential here and it's making me nervous. Like 237 00:13:44,360 --> 00:13:48,280 Speaker 1: something has to change. So something does change. There's this 238 00:13:48,400 --> 00:13:53,400 Speaker 1: process called the ionization of air, and it's basically turning 239 00:13:53,440 --> 00:14:00,000 Speaker 1: air into what's called plasma by ripping it apart essentially. Yeah, 240 00:14:00,120 --> 00:14:04,000 Speaker 1: like to call it ionic separation. Up coined that term nice. 241 00:14:04,120 --> 00:14:06,520 Speaker 1: I don't know if it's what anyone else in science 242 00:14:06,520 --> 00:14:12,479 Speaker 1: calls it, but basically the air around the cloud breaks down, so, uh, 243 00:14:12,559 --> 00:14:15,080 Speaker 1: the electric field is really strong. It separates the ions. 244 00:14:15,480 --> 00:14:19,000 Speaker 1: Now they can move a lot more freely and can 245 00:14:19,040 --> 00:14:22,520 Speaker 1: conduct a lot more electricity. Well, yeah, it takes regular 246 00:14:22,560 --> 00:14:26,120 Speaker 1: air like the stuff we're breathing now, and it separates 247 00:14:26,160 --> 00:14:28,960 Speaker 1: the electrons from the positive ions. Yeah, but not they're 248 00:14:29,000 --> 00:14:32,680 Speaker 1: still within the same area. They're not like completely separate, right, 249 00:14:32,680 --> 00:14:36,120 Speaker 1: It's not like it's not like um opening the curtains 250 00:14:36,120 --> 00:14:39,000 Speaker 1: with two hands, but it is kind of in a 251 00:14:39,040 --> 00:14:42,880 Speaker 1: certain way. With these free electrons, it makes this little 252 00:14:42,880 --> 00:14:46,560 Speaker 1: bit of air that that's been ionized much more conductive, 253 00:14:46,600 --> 00:14:50,200 Speaker 1: like you said, plasma. Okay, so these things this happens 254 00:14:50,200 --> 00:14:54,400 Speaker 1: in little like fifty yard jolts, and they call those 255 00:14:54,440 --> 00:14:58,080 Speaker 1: step leaders. Each little each little rip, each little separation 256 00:14:58,720 --> 00:15:02,320 Speaker 1: of creation. The plasma creates a channel in the air 257 00:15:02,840 --> 00:15:05,640 Speaker 1: that it's very conductive, way more conductive than the surrounding air. 258 00:15:06,080 --> 00:15:08,680 Speaker 1: And it happened a little fifty yard branches. Yeah, and 259 00:15:08,720 --> 00:15:11,000 Speaker 1: they don't have to go straight down. They're basically looking 260 00:15:11,880 --> 00:15:13,560 Speaker 1: they're looking to get to the ground with a path 261 00:15:13,600 --> 00:15:16,320 Speaker 1: of least resistance. So if you see this. Discovery had 262 00:15:16,320 --> 00:15:20,440 Speaker 1: a show did you see that on YouTube? The what 263 00:15:20,480 --> 00:15:24,280 Speaker 1: was it called Raging Planet. Discovery had a show called raging, 264 00:15:25,080 --> 00:15:28,160 Speaker 1: and for the first time they filmed a lightning strike 265 00:15:28,280 --> 00:15:31,080 Speaker 1: in the super slow mow. So when you see this 266 00:15:31,200 --> 00:15:33,400 Speaker 1: like with your naked eye, I mean it all happens 267 00:15:33,400 --> 00:15:35,360 Speaker 1: in a blip and you see a lightning strike. But 268 00:15:35,360 --> 00:15:38,520 Speaker 1: when you see it slowed down, you see the lightning 269 00:15:38,560 --> 00:15:40,680 Speaker 1: working its way down in the little fifty yard bits 270 00:15:41,280 --> 00:15:43,440 Speaker 1: and fracturing off to the left and to the right 271 00:15:43,480 --> 00:15:47,720 Speaker 1: and basically like disappearing again because it didn't find its 272 00:15:47,760 --> 00:15:50,200 Speaker 1: way all the way to the ground. Oh yeah, yeah, 273 00:15:50,240 --> 00:15:52,640 Speaker 1: it would just go like so left and then disappear, 274 00:15:52,840 --> 00:15:54,480 Speaker 1: and then it'll go down, and then it'll go to 275 00:15:54,480 --> 00:15:59,160 Speaker 1: the right and disappear. These channels that that form. Basically 276 00:15:59,160 --> 00:16:01,320 Speaker 1: you have a bunch of the step leaders coming down 277 00:16:01,760 --> 00:16:05,960 Speaker 1: and whichever reaches the ground first winds. But just because 278 00:16:06,000 --> 00:16:08,880 Speaker 1: one reach the ground doesn't mean the other ones automatically disappear. 279 00:16:09,320 --> 00:16:11,360 Speaker 1: So that flow of electrons is going to fill up 280 00:16:11,400 --> 00:16:19,160 Speaker 1: all of the associated um ion channels UM with this 281 00:16:19,200 --> 00:16:23,080 Speaker 1: flow of electrons, right, So um, before that happens, though, 282 00:16:23,200 --> 00:16:25,600 Speaker 1: you've got these step leaders coming down from the clouds, 283 00:16:25,880 --> 00:16:30,920 Speaker 1: you also have something called um positive leaders, right, it's 284 00:16:30,960 --> 00:16:34,760 Speaker 1: positive streamers. I'm sorry. You also have positive streamers coming 285 00:16:34,880 --> 00:16:38,920 Speaker 1: up from the ground. So a positive streamer is a 286 00:16:39,640 --> 00:16:43,520 Speaker 1: or a step leader is a plasma channel forming in 287 00:16:43,560 --> 00:16:47,040 Speaker 1: the direction of the flow of electrons. A positive streamer 288 00:16:47,480 --> 00:16:50,440 Speaker 1: is a plasma channel forming in the opposite direction of 289 00:16:50,480 --> 00:16:52,960 Speaker 1: the flow of electrons. So it's kind of stretching up. 290 00:16:53,080 --> 00:16:54,760 Speaker 1: And it could come from the ground, it could come 291 00:16:54,800 --> 00:16:57,360 Speaker 1: from your head, it could come from a tree or 292 00:16:57,360 --> 00:17:00,640 Speaker 1: that golf club you're holding. And they've captured these in 293 00:17:01,000 --> 00:17:03,640 Speaker 1: photographic form, and it's the same thing. It looks like, 294 00:17:04,080 --> 00:17:06,119 Speaker 1: you know, a little purplish bolt of lightning coming up 295 00:17:06,119 --> 00:17:08,400 Speaker 1: from the ground trying to join up with its buddy 296 00:17:08,480 --> 00:17:10,560 Speaker 1: that's coming down from the sky. Yeah. And like you said, 297 00:17:10,560 --> 00:17:12,320 Speaker 1: I it can come from you. The reason your hair 298 00:17:12,480 --> 00:17:15,119 Speaker 1: lifts up when you're in like an electrical storm, you 299 00:17:15,400 --> 00:17:19,520 Speaker 1: just become a positive streamer, which is not good. It 300 00:17:19,600 --> 00:17:22,480 Speaker 1: sounds nice, it does, and you're glowing a little purplish, 301 00:17:22,560 --> 00:17:25,280 Speaker 1: but you're in big trouble if it connects with you. Yeah, 302 00:17:25,280 --> 00:17:28,479 Speaker 1: And it's the same concept. If you've ever uh shocked 303 00:17:28,480 --> 00:17:30,679 Speaker 1: yourself on a door knob, it's the same thing. The 304 00:17:30,680 --> 00:17:34,120 Speaker 1: closer you're and once you've built up that energy, the 305 00:17:34,160 --> 00:17:36,840 Speaker 1: hand gets closer to the metal, and it leaps out 306 00:17:36,880 --> 00:17:39,320 Speaker 1: from your finger and out from the door knob, and 307 00:17:39,520 --> 00:17:42,479 Speaker 1: you know you've got lightning. Okay, So I mean we're 308 00:17:42,560 --> 00:17:44,560 Speaker 1: drawing this out like I'm about to hyperventilate and I'm 309 00:17:44,600 --> 00:17:48,000 Speaker 1: so excited. Finally, at one point you have a step leader, 310 00:17:48,280 --> 00:17:50,760 Speaker 1: and like you said, it's taken the path of least resistance, right, 311 00:17:51,119 --> 00:17:53,679 Speaker 1: So it's not going to come straight down, largely because 312 00:17:53,720 --> 00:17:55,879 Speaker 1: the shape of the cloud is not equal or is 313 00:17:55,920 --> 00:17:58,359 Speaker 1: not totally flat. Particles in the air can get in 314 00:17:58,400 --> 00:18:00,600 Speaker 1: the way, all kinds of stuff, right, So, um, they're 315 00:18:00,600 --> 00:18:03,280 Speaker 1: coming down in little branches that branch off suddenly nowhere. 316 00:18:03,280 --> 00:18:07,239 Speaker 1: Eventually one comes down and a step leader connects with 317 00:18:07,280 --> 00:18:10,080 Speaker 1: a positive streamer, and all of a sudden, you have 318 00:18:10,200 --> 00:18:15,280 Speaker 1: a full uninterrupted path for these electrons to flow, and 319 00:18:15,520 --> 00:18:19,040 Speaker 1: boy do they flow. What you have is lightning, right. 320 00:18:19,160 --> 00:18:22,800 Speaker 1: You have a sudden current exchange from the cloud down 321 00:18:22,840 --> 00:18:26,320 Speaker 1: to the earth and then from the earth back up 322 00:18:26,359 --> 00:18:29,120 Speaker 1: to the cloud. Because the lightning stroke isn't just from 323 00:18:29,359 --> 00:18:31,600 Speaker 1: the cloud to the ground. It goes down and then 324 00:18:31,600 --> 00:18:35,120 Speaker 1: back up immediately and it's on the back up. Yeah, 325 00:18:35,240 --> 00:18:38,760 Speaker 1: return stroke, Yes, a return stroke. Thank you. On the 326 00:18:38,800 --> 00:18:42,760 Speaker 1: way back up. That's when you see the light literally, 327 00:18:43,040 --> 00:18:47,040 Speaker 1: so lightning is we we don't actually see the electron flow. 328 00:18:47,320 --> 00:18:51,080 Speaker 1: We see the local effects of the electron flow. And um, 329 00:18:51,560 --> 00:18:54,719 Speaker 1: this electron flow produces a tremendous amount of heat energy 330 00:18:55,160 --> 00:18:57,239 Speaker 1: Like what did you say? It was like hotter than 331 00:18:57,240 --> 00:18:59,880 Speaker 1: the surface of the sun, six times hotter. So that's 332 00:19:00,040 --> 00:19:03,880 Speaker 1: that's what you're seeing, right. There is an explosion of heat, right, 333 00:19:04,080 --> 00:19:07,199 Speaker 1: and then that heat actually explodes the air around it, 334 00:19:08,000 --> 00:19:13,080 Speaker 1: and that produces thunder. Yeah. Um, the way I understood 335 00:19:13,080 --> 00:19:18,120 Speaker 1: it was the channel, the ionized plasma channel that's created 336 00:19:18,560 --> 00:19:21,679 Speaker 1: when it goes away, the air collapsing back in on 337 00:19:21,760 --> 00:19:24,720 Speaker 1: itself is what creates that sound, that sound wave? Is 338 00:19:24,720 --> 00:19:28,120 Speaker 1: that right? What I heard was that it's actually exploding 339 00:19:28,160 --> 00:19:32,120 Speaker 1: outward and it's compressing the air, basically exploding the air 340 00:19:32,160 --> 00:19:34,879 Speaker 1: around it. That converts into a shock wave in the 341 00:19:34,920 --> 00:19:38,200 Speaker 1: form of sound that travels outward. That's how I understood it. Well, 342 00:19:38,240 --> 00:19:42,560 Speaker 1: maybe it collapses in and explodes out that's very um, 343 00:19:42,760 --> 00:19:45,199 Speaker 1: that's very democratic of you. And then one more thing 344 00:19:45,200 --> 00:19:49,000 Speaker 1: about thunder, Chuck, get this, there's three segments to the 345 00:19:49,040 --> 00:19:52,040 Speaker 1: sound of thunder. Did you know that I thought Pink 346 00:19:52,040 --> 00:19:56,080 Speaker 1: Floyd said that was like four. Really, I'm just kidding, okay, 347 00:19:56,080 --> 00:19:58,080 Speaker 1: because I remember delicates onund of thunder, but I don't 348 00:19:58,080 --> 00:20:02,400 Speaker 1: remember four parts. Okay. So there's the first part um 349 00:20:02,480 --> 00:20:04,160 Speaker 1: if I mean think about it. Think about when you've 350 00:20:04,200 --> 00:20:07,960 Speaker 1: ever heard thunder. It's like a there's like a few 351 00:20:08,240 --> 00:20:11,800 Speaker 1: sounds to it, right, So the first part is actually 352 00:20:12,200 --> 00:20:15,679 Speaker 1: um caused by the step leaders. Right, that's a tearing sound. 353 00:20:16,240 --> 00:20:20,080 Speaker 1: The second, a cracking sound, is actually caused by the 354 00:20:20,160 --> 00:20:24,160 Speaker 1: positive streamers. And then the third part is the explosion 355 00:20:24,320 --> 00:20:26,760 Speaker 1: of the air blowing up. But what you're hearing those 356 00:20:26,760 --> 00:20:30,399 Speaker 1: first two parts is literally the air ripping open and 357 00:20:30,560 --> 00:20:34,840 Speaker 1: they crazy yep. And if you are out in the country, 358 00:20:34,920 --> 00:20:37,040 Speaker 1: you might be able to hear that as far away 359 00:20:37,080 --> 00:20:40,399 Speaker 1: as fifteen miles. If you're in the city, maybe about 360 00:20:40,440 --> 00:20:43,320 Speaker 1: five miles, you'll be able to hear that thunder. And 361 00:20:43,400 --> 00:20:47,400 Speaker 1: it is true that you can divide by five and 362 00:20:47,640 --> 00:20:51,760 Speaker 1: that is roughly how far away your lightning is from you. 363 00:20:53,160 --> 00:20:56,320 Speaker 1: That's counting from the point the lightning strikes till you 364 00:20:56,320 --> 00:20:59,480 Speaker 1: hear the thunder. Divide that amount of seconds by five. 365 00:21:00,320 --> 00:21:02,840 Speaker 1: Ten seconds, it's two miles away. Is that how does 366 00:21:02,840 --> 00:21:06,600 Speaker 1: that rule of thumb work? I mean, don't storms travel faster? Well, no, 367 00:21:06,720 --> 00:21:08,960 Speaker 1: I think it has nothing to do with how faster traveling. 368 00:21:09,000 --> 00:21:11,760 Speaker 1: It's um the speed of light versus the speed of sound. 369 00:21:11,880 --> 00:21:14,960 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, because the speed of light travels at the 370 00:21:14,960 --> 00:21:17,320 Speaker 1: speed of light travel. The speed of sound is far 371 00:21:17,359 --> 00:21:19,560 Speaker 1: far slower, which is why the sound of thunder lags 372 00:21:19,640 --> 00:21:23,000 Speaker 1: the the flash of lightning so much. You just explained 373 00:21:23,000 --> 00:21:26,640 Speaker 1: it to yourself. Thank you. Thanks, So, I think it's 374 00:21:26,640 --> 00:21:31,640 Speaker 1: time for lightning myth number one. Whoa, that's a good 375 00:21:31,640 --> 00:21:37,280 Speaker 1: sound effect. All right, lightning myth number one? Once again, 376 00:21:38,080 --> 00:21:41,119 Speaker 1: The tallest objects in a storm don't always get struck 377 00:21:41,119 --> 00:21:45,360 Speaker 1: by lightning. Uh. It would make sense that lightning, if 378 00:21:45,440 --> 00:21:48,399 Speaker 1: you know, if it's gonna be reaching something that's sticking 379 00:21:48,440 --> 00:21:51,320 Speaker 1: up from the ground in the way of a positive streamer, 380 00:21:51,680 --> 00:21:54,000 Speaker 1: that the tallest thing will always be that thing. And 381 00:21:54,000 --> 00:21:57,600 Speaker 1: that is not the case because you can never really 382 00:21:57,640 --> 00:22:00,840 Speaker 1: predict the path of lightning. No, I strike the ground 383 00:22:00,920 --> 00:22:03,800 Speaker 1: right next to the tallest thing. It might also, yes, 384 00:22:03,920 --> 00:22:07,080 Speaker 1: because the the that path of least resistance, whether it's 385 00:22:07,240 --> 00:22:09,840 Speaker 1: dust or or the curvature of the earth or whatever. 386 00:22:10,040 --> 00:22:12,440 Speaker 1: That's Yeah, you can't predict where it's gonna go. And 387 00:22:12,520 --> 00:22:15,320 Speaker 1: even more than that, once the lightning is struck, it 388 00:22:15,400 --> 00:22:18,959 Speaker 1: may jump. Oh yeah, that is a property of lightning, 389 00:22:18,960 --> 00:22:22,400 Speaker 1: and may jump to something that has an even even 390 00:22:22,560 --> 00:22:26,199 Speaker 1: lesser path of resistance. UM, and that could be you. 391 00:22:26,520 --> 00:22:29,400 Speaker 1: So it could strike a tree that you're standing by 392 00:22:29,440 --> 00:22:33,600 Speaker 1: and you could be like whoo and then yeah, uh 393 00:22:33,640 --> 00:22:36,800 Speaker 1: the way, I guess, way to bust that myth? Thank you. UM. 394 00:22:36,840 --> 00:22:39,119 Speaker 1: I think since you brought that up, we might as 395 00:22:39,160 --> 00:22:42,200 Speaker 1: well talk about, um, the fact that when you see 396 00:22:42,280 --> 00:22:45,240 Speaker 1: lightning and you see it in the clouds and then 397 00:22:45,280 --> 00:22:47,960 Speaker 1: down on the ground and then flickering in the clouds afterward, 398 00:22:48,000 --> 00:22:52,480 Speaker 1: and remnants branching off, that's like maybe forty or fifty 399 00:22:52,520 --> 00:22:55,800 Speaker 1: lightning strikes. You're seeing all at once. It's the whole 400 00:22:55,800 --> 00:22:59,760 Speaker 1: idea that lightning doesn't strike the same place twice. Every 401 00:22:59,760 --> 00:23:02,000 Speaker 1: time it strikes it twice. It strikes it like like 402 00:23:02,000 --> 00:23:05,960 Speaker 1: you said, um, yeah, it's this that that electron flow, 403 00:23:06,000 --> 00:23:07,840 Speaker 1: the back and forth between the ground and the earth 404 00:23:08,320 --> 00:23:12,560 Speaker 1: in this um which neutralizes the electrical charge. It's not 405 00:23:12,640 --> 00:23:15,320 Speaker 1: just one stroke. It's forty or fifty and that's what 406 00:23:15,359 --> 00:23:17,480 Speaker 1: you're more likely to see, even unless you just happen 407 00:23:17,520 --> 00:23:19,520 Speaker 1: to be looking in the field of view with that 408 00:23:19,560 --> 00:23:22,719 Speaker 1: original blast. That's why it's so tough to capture, like 409 00:23:23,600 --> 00:23:26,880 Speaker 1: the Discovery Channel gown Raging Planet. Was he like, sits 410 00:23:26,920 --> 00:23:28,920 Speaker 1: in the room with this little camera and I would 411 00:23:28,960 --> 00:23:30,359 Speaker 1: just let the camera run. I don't know why he 412 00:23:30,400 --> 00:23:32,960 Speaker 1: sat there with his finger on the button. It's like, dude, 413 00:23:33,000 --> 00:23:37,160 Speaker 1: just press record and walk away. But I guess, well, 414 00:23:37,160 --> 00:23:39,800 Speaker 1: I think maybe because it's such a high speed camera. 415 00:23:40,480 --> 00:23:44,439 Speaker 1: Plus also hips thematic doesn't have a video function. But 416 00:23:44,520 --> 00:23:46,760 Speaker 1: he likened it to fishing. He's it's a little like fishing. 417 00:23:48,200 --> 00:23:49,960 Speaker 1: Did he say it like that like a jerk. Yeah, 418 00:23:50,000 --> 00:23:52,520 Speaker 1: he was a little bored. Uh, but he got it. 419 00:23:52,640 --> 00:23:53,840 Speaker 1: You know, it was all worth it in in the end. 420 00:23:53,880 --> 00:23:56,399 Speaker 1: That's what counts, Okay, Josh, I think it's time to 421 00:23:56,400 --> 00:23:59,920 Speaker 1: talk about various types of lightning. Yeah, so we talked 422 00:24:00,000 --> 00:24:05,119 Speaker 1: about UM ground two or cloud to ground under an 423 00:24:05,160 --> 00:24:09,600 Speaker 1: umbrella under which ground to cloud falls UM and this 424 00:24:11,080 --> 00:24:14,119 Speaker 1: another way to put it is that's triggered or artificial 425 00:24:15,600 --> 00:24:18,119 Speaker 1: and natural. Natural is when it comes down from the 426 00:24:18,160 --> 00:24:22,160 Speaker 1: cloud to the ground. UM triggered or artificial is when 427 00:24:22,240 --> 00:24:25,960 Speaker 1: some sort of man made structure, say a skyscraper initiates 428 00:24:26,080 --> 00:24:28,720 Speaker 1: this lightning, so it's sending up a positive streamer like 429 00:24:28,720 --> 00:24:30,880 Speaker 1: hey man, come on, let's do this, and the clouds 430 00:24:30,920 --> 00:24:34,639 Speaker 1: like okay, and then it comes down rather than the 431 00:24:34,680 --> 00:24:37,920 Speaker 1: cloud pressing down the electrons I think, on the earth 432 00:24:38,000 --> 00:24:40,920 Speaker 1: surface and then just hitting a cow, because what's more 433 00:24:41,040 --> 00:24:45,840 Speaker 1: natural than lightning striking a cow? That's right. Instant primary 434 00:24:46,760 --> 00:24:50,919 Speaker 1: um types of lightning. Normal lightning, which pretty much is 435 00:24:50,920 --> 00:24:53,600 Speaker 1: what we've been talking about. Sheet lightning is reflected in 436 00:24:53,640 --> 00:24:56,080 Speaker 1: the clouds, and I guess that would paul under intra 437 00:24:56,320 --> 00:24:59,720 Speaker 1: and inter cloud lightning. I would think so. Heat lightning 438 00:24:59,840 --> 00:25:02,680 Speaker 1: is my favorite because that reminds me of growing up, 439 00:25:03,040 --> 00:25:05,959 Speaker 1: going to Florida and swimming at my cousin's house. And 440 00:25:06,040 --> 00:25:08,080 Speaker 1: heat lining is basically lightning this so far away you 441 00:25:08,119 --> 00:25:10,639 Speaker 1: can't hear the thunder right, and it's hot enough. The 442 00:25:10,640 --> 00:25:13,760 Speaker 1: reason they call it heat lightning um is because it's 443 00:25:13,840 --> 00:25:16,920 Speaker 1: hot enough that it's being reflected a tremendous distance by 444 00:25:17,000 --> 00:25:21,320 Speaker 1: this higher temperature atmosphere. It's a comforting lightning, though it 445 00:25:21,440 --> 00:25:27,359 Speaker 1: is in during the summer months. Um Ball lightning, which 446 00:25:27,440 --> 00:25:31,280 Speaker 1: we have talked about before, we were entirely certain back 447 00:25:31,320 --> 00:25:33,840 Speaker 1: then that it actually existed. But I think since we've 448 00:25:33,880 --> 00:25:37,120 Speaker 1: mentioned it that really is it super proven that we've 449 00:25:37,119 --> 00:25:40,640 Speaker 1: figured out that it can exist but no one understands it. Yeah, 450 00:25:40,640 --> 00:25:43,440 Speaker 1: that's the phenomenon where like you will see a ball 451 00:25:43,480 --> 00:25:47,440 Speaker 1: of lightning going through your house. Correct, Yes, I remember 452 00:25:47,480 --> 00:25:50,280 Speaker 1: it was like one of the some listener wrote wrote 453 00:25:50,320 --> 00:25:54,800 Speaker 1: in about it. Yeah, was it like the um spontaneous combustion. 454 00:25:56,000 --> 00:25:58,840 Speaker 1: I don't know that I've ever seen it captured though 455 00:25:58,920 --> 00:26:02,359 Speaker 1: on film Ernie thing. Has it been? Yes, it's been recreated, 456 00:26:02,960 --> 00:26:06,040 Speaker 1: that's I don't think it's been. Someone hasn't caught the 457 00:26:06,200 --> 00:26:09,479 Speaker 1: natural version of it. But yeah, so we've proven it 458 00:26:09,520 --> 00:26:13,000 Speaker 1: can exist. Um. But yeah, it'll burn you and then 459 00:26:13,000 --> 00:26:16,560 Speaker 1: it'll blow up. It's really dangerous, scary, crazy lightning that 460 00:26:16,600 --> 00:26:20,280 Speaker 1: no one gets. Josh, is it time for lightning? Myth 461 00:26:20,359 --> 00:26:27,000 Speaker 1: number two? It sounds like it number two. And this 462 00:26:27,040 --> 00:26:30,360 Speaker 1: is something I learned today. A search protector will not 463 00:26:31,240 --> 00:26:35,040 Speaker 1: save your computer and your television from a lightning strike. 464 00:26:35,640 --> 00:26:38,359 Speaker 1: I thought that's what they were for. Apparently they're only 465 00:26:38,400 --> 00:26:42,960 Speaker 1: for They can only um save your computer or TV 466 00:26:43,119 --> 00:26:46,840 Speaker 1: if it's something that the power company has searched. It's 467 00:26:46,840 --> 00:26:50,920 Speaker 1: a searge from your electrical supply. So what you need 468 00:26:51,040 --> 00:26:54,119 Speaker 1: is something called a what's it called a lightning arrested 469 00:26:55,480 --> 00:27:00,199 Speaker 1: And I've seen that, um, and they're relatively inexpensive, and 470 00:27:00,240 --> 00:27:04,120 Speaker 1: it's filled up with a gas that well, I mean 471 00:27:04,119 --> 00:27:06,560 Speaker 1: it was like thirty bucks. Oh yeah, that's not bad. Yeah. 472 00:27:06,560 --> 00:27:09,520 Speaker 1: I thought you're gonna be like compared to a new Volvo. 473 00:27:09,680 --> 00:27:11,840 Speaker 1: Well that's what I thought. A lightning arrestaurant sounded and 474 00:27:11,880 --> 00:27:14,359 Speaker 1: it was filled with gas that diffuses the charge. I 475 00:27:14,359 --> 00:27:18,240 Speaker 1: thought it'd be like ten bucks. But now even with 476 00:27:18,359 --> 00:27:22,480 Speaker 1: gas prices today, that's right. Um. So we talked about 477 00:27:22,480 --> 00:27:24,919 Speaker 1: types of lightning. We should probably talk about lightning rods 478 00:27:24,960 --> 00:27:27,480 Speaker 1: at some point, like maybe now, So do you know 479 00:27:27,600 --> 00:27:31,040 Speaker 1: Ben Franklin actually invented these things? And I went and 480 00:27:31,119 --> 00:27:33,960 Speaker 1: double checked, like I was like, this sounds like four 481 00:27:34,040 --> 00:27:37,120 Speaker 1: year old textbook stuff. Yeah, but it's true, wouldn't it. 482 00:27:37,240 --> 00:27:40,680 Speaker 1: And I also remembered, oh, wait, like his kite experiment 483 00:27:40,680 --> 00:27:42,760 Speaker 1: he ripped off a couple of frenchmen. I went and 484 00:27:42,840 --> 00:27:47,040 Speaker 1: checked that out, and no, actually he Franklin had conducted 485 00:27:47,119 --> 00:27:50,879 Speaker 1: some sort of experiments and possibly proposed a kite experiment 486 00:27:51,960 --> 00:27:54,560 Speaker 1: and these frenchmen. He published his results in the early 487 00:27:54,600 --> 00:27:57,879 Speaker 1: seventeen fifties and a couple of frenchmen, um like, carried 488 00:27:57,920 --> 00:28:01,080 Speaker 1: him out. So the Frenchman actually did did do this, 489 00:28:01,200 --> 00:28:04,320 Speaker 1: um But Ben Franklin did develop lightning rods as early 490 00:28:04,359 --> 00:28:07,000 Speaker 1: as like the seventeen forties, I believe. But he did 491 00:28:07,119 --> 00:28:10,000 Speaker 1: have a kite key experiment, right he did. Okay, I 492 00:28:10,000 --> 00:28:14,600 Speaker 1: don't know if he it's not certain that he actually 493 00:28:14,640 --> 00:28:17,560 Speaker 1: carried out the gutch the key on the kite experiment 494 00:28:17,680 --> 00:28:20,800 Speaker 1: or just said, you know, this theoretically could work. It's 495 00:28:20,800 --> 00:28:23,760 Speaker 1: a thought experiment. Don't be so stupid to go do this. Well, 496 00:28:23,800 --> 00:28:26,880 Speaker 1: let's call that lightning my number three okay, and here's 497 00:28:26,920 --> 00:28:33,840 Speaker 1: some retroactive lightning for that one in thunder. WHOA all right? 498 00:28:33,880 --> 00:28:37,320 Speaker 1: But he did develop the lightning rod. And basically a 499 00:28:37,400 --> 00:28:40,200 Speaker 1: lightning rod is a metal rod on the roof of 500 00:28:40,200 --> 00:28:43,720 Speaker 1: the building that is attached to a metal wire that 501 00:28:44,280 --> 00:28:47,560 Speaker 1: runs into the ground and it's it's job is to 502 00:28:48,480 --> 00:28:52,080 Speaker 1: either divert that direct lightning strike into the ground and 503 00:28:52,120 --> 00:28:55,840 Speaker 1: diffuse it quickly, or if it's jumping around, to collect 504 00:28:55,880 --> 00:28:58,360 Speaker 1: that and diffuse it so it doesn't cause like super 505 00:28:58,800 --> 00:29:01,040 Speaker 1: lots of damage to the cry for building. Right, but 506 00:29:01,080 --> 00:29:05,680 Speaker 1: it doesn't attract lightning. It says, hey, lightning, I got 507 00:29:05,760 --> 00:29:09,600 Speaker 1: a positive streamer and I'm not gonna resist you at all. 508 00:29:09,800 --> 00:29:12,720 Speaker 1: Just take me and um, the lightning will be like, hey, 509 00:29:12,840 --> 00:29:15,920 Speaker 1: you look pretty good, and um, there you go. But 510 00:29:15,960 --> 00:29:17,880 Speaker 1: it doesn't attract lightning. And I know the article says 511 00:29:17,920 --> 00:29:21,400 Speaker 1: that's nitpicking, but it's really not. There's not a different 512 00:29:21,400 --> 00:29:24,800 Speaker 1: thing offering a good path of least resistance lightning and 513 00:29:24,920 --> 00:29:28,080 Speaker 1: attracting it. Yeah, because the whoever wrote this article, who 514 00:29:28,160 --> 00:29:31,360 Speaker 1: was this, Yeah, I don't, I'd never I didn't recognize 515 00:29:31,360 --> 00:29:34,160 Speaker 1: the name. I think it's an old article basically said 516 00:29:34,160 --> 00:29:36,800 Speaker 1: the lightning is gonna be happening anyway, so it's not 517 00:29:36,880 --> 00:29:38,760 Speaker 1: like it's going to cause lightning to strike there. So 518 00:29:39,080 --> 00:29:40,960 Speaker 1: that made that made a lot of sense. They also 519 00:29:41,080 --> 00:29:44,920 Speaker 1: made a pretty good point that, um, because lightning rods 520 00:29:45,000 --> 00:29:49,120 Speaker 1: conduct electricity so well, that makes them they're not going 521 00:29:49,160 --> 00:29:52,560 Speaker 1: to be singed or burned or whatever it's when you 522 00:29:52,720 --> 00:29:56,920 Speaker 1: resist that, lightning burns you. Right. So like if lightning 523 00:29:57,040 --> 00:30:00,520 Speaker 1: strikes the like the wood of a house, Um, then 524 00:30:00,960 --> 00:30:03,120 Speaker 1: the woods not a very good conductor, which means it's 525 00:30:03,160 --> 00:30:05,600 Speaker 1: going to be a high amount of burning heat damage 526 00:30:06,360 --> 00:30:12,160 Speaker 1: because of resistance produces this heat energy. That makes sense. Yeah, Um, 527 00:30:13,920 --> 00:30:17,480 Speaker 1: what else do we have? Do we have another lightning myth? Man, 528 00:30:17,680 --> 00:30:20,440 Speaker 1: they're just coming hard and fast these days. We saved 529 00:30:20,480 --> 00:30:27,520 Speaker 1: them all, right, Lightning myth number four, the Faraday cage. Right, So, um, 530 00:30:28,200 --> 00:30:32,080 Speaker 1: you are in a car and it's a lightning storm. 531 00:30:32,480 --> 00:30:36,720 Speaker 1: You've actually saw shelter in a car. Good move. And 532 00:30:37,120 --> 00:30:39,920 Speaker 1: most people think that's because the tires on the car 533 00:30:40,200 --> 00:30:43,200 Speaker 1: are touching the ground and they're rubber and they're a 534 00:30:43,240 --> 00:30:46,840 Speaker 1: good insulator. Not true. In a lightning storm, rubber actually 535 00:30:46,920 --> 00:30:50,120 Speaker 1: becomes pretty conductive when especially when it's struck by lightning. 536 00:30:50,520 --> 00:30:52,560 Speaker 1: But if your car struck by lightning, you should be 537 00:30:52,960 --> 00:30:56,400 Speaker 1: fairly protected because of this thing called the Faraday cage, 538 00:30:56,480 --> 00:31:00,240 Speaker 1: named after Michael Faraday, the early electrical genius, but I 539 00:31:00,280 --> 00:31:02,280 Speaker 1: think the eighteenth century. Yeah, I think he's the one 540 00:31:02,320 --> 00:31:05,200 Speaker 1: that first described what an electrical field is period. Yeah, 541 00:31:05,240 --> 00:31:07,880 Speaker 1: he was just a very smart guy. The fact that 542 00:31:08,000 --> 00:31:11,080 Speaker 1: he didn't die of electrocution is really something that means 543 00:31:11,120 --> 00:31:13,239 Speaker 1: he's super smart. But he realized that if you if 544 00:31:13,280 --> 00:31:15,720 Speaker 1: you put something in a metal cage and apply an 545 00:31:15,760 --> 00:31:18,960 Speaker 1: electrical charge current to the cage. What's inside the cage 546 00:31:19,000 --> 00:31:22,760 Speaker 1: will be fine because electricity passes that along the outside 547 00:31:22,760 --> 00:31:26,400 Speaker 1: of the metal cage, the Faraday cage. Well engineers incorporate 548 00:31:26,480 --> 00:31:29,520 Speaker 1: that into automobile design. So it's a pretty good place 549 00:31:29,600 --> 00:31:31,760 Speaker 1: to seek shelter. You don't want to be laying naked 550 00:31:31,880 --> 00:31:34,920 Speaker 1: on the hood of your car, no, but being inside 551 00:31:35,000 --> 00:31:37,640 Speaker 1: your car would be would be a pretty good place 552 00:31:37,680 --> 00:31:40,200 Speaker 1: to be. Uh. Yeah, Just it has nothing to do 553 00:31:40,280 --> 00:31:42,160 Speaker 1: with your tires stuff. Don't be a dummy. And I 554 00:31:42,200 --> 00:31:44,000 Speaker 1: guess that's our first tip if we're going to give 555 00:31:44,120 --> 00:31:47,440 Speaker 1: some lightning tips. If you are out out and about 556 00:31:48,000 --> 00:31:50,959 Speaker 1: and if you're driving around Kansas. I don't know why, 557 00:31:51,000 --> 00:31:52,720 Speaker 1: I God forbid you would be doing anything like that, 558 00:31:53,440 --> 00:31:56,800 Speaker 1: But stay in your car or get in your car. Yeah, 559 00:31:57,360 --> 00:31:59,880 Speaker 1: if you don't have a car. Don't go under a tree. 560 00:32:00,680 --> 00:32:04,480 Speaker 1: Don't go climb the flagpole. Right. Uh. They say to 561 00:32:04,520 --> 00:32:08,400 Speaker 1: put your feet close together and crouch down to the ground. Yes, 562 00:32:09,240 --> 00:32:11,160 Speaker 1: but keep your head as low to the ground as 563 00:32:11,200 --> 00:32:15,240 Speaker 1: you can get it without touching the ground. Do not 564 00:32:15,640 --> 00:32:18,520 Speaker 1: don't let anything but the bottom of your shoes touch 565 00:32:18,560 --> 00:32:22,040 Speaker 1: the ground because when lightning strikes, it sends an electrical 566 00:32:22,160 --> 00:32:25,640 Speaker 1: current across the ground as well. Right, So if your 567 00:32:25,640 --> 00:32:27,640 Speaker 1: head happens to be touching all of a sudden, you 568 00:32:27,760 --> 00:32:30,320 Speaker 1: just had a struck or some sort of neurological damage 569 00:32:30,320 --> 00:32:32,760 Speaker 1: because you just got struck by lightning. Drest at the 570 00:32:32,840 --> 00:32:36,200 Speaker 1: very least. Yeah. Um. But and also if you are 571 00:32:36,280 --> 00:32:39,520 Speaker 1: crouched down, you're providing less of a chance to create 572 00:32:39,560 --> 00:32:43,360 Speaker 1: a positive streamer with your body. So you want to 573 00:32:43,600 --> 00:32:46,160 Speaker 1: find shelter. And if you can't find shelter, you want 574 00:32:46,240 --> 00:32:49,640 Speaker 1: to crouch down, keep your head low and but not 575 00:32:49,800 --> 00:32:53,080 Speaker 1: touching the ground. And also there's a study in Japan, 576 00:32:53,240 --> 00:32:58,040 Speaker 1: Chuck that found that, Um, once you hear thunder, there 577 00:32:58,160 --> 00:33:02,120 Speaker 1: is no safe interval where you're not vulnerable to a 578 00:33:02,240 --> 00:33:04,520 Speaker 1: direct lightning strike. By the time you hear thunder, it's 579 00:33:04,560 --> 00:33:07,200 Speaker 1: already there. It's already too late. You could be struck 580 00:33:07,240 --> 00:33:10,240 Speaker 1: by lightning in any second. So there's no warning sound. Then, no, 581 00:33:12,760 --> 00:33:14,920 Speaker 1: And you also want to get out of pools because 582 00:33:14,960 --> 00:33:19,000 Speaker 1: they are really good at conducting electricity. Yeah, don't stand 583 00:33:19,040 --> 00:33:21,680 Speaker 1: around in water. No, it's not a good idea. Um, 584 00:33:21,760 --> 00:33:26,040 Speaker 1: stay off the telephone. If you still have a telephone 585 00:33:26,120 --> 00:33:29,040 Speaker 1: that's plugged into a cord on a wall. If you 586 00:33:29,200 --> 00:33:32,360 Speaker 1: buy things that have the s C N on TV label. 587 00:33:32,880 --> 00:33:38,200 Speaker 1: Stay off the phone means you're also in Kansas too, interestingly, Um, 588 00:33:38,560 --> 00:33:40,240 Speaker 1: and they say, you know, stay out of the bathtub 589 00:33:40,920 --> 00:33:43,120 Speaker 1: a because it's got water. But one of the other 590 00:33:43,160 --> 00:33:45,840 Speaker 1: reasons if you're in an older house, um, you're plumbing 591 00:33:45,880 --> 00:33:50,360 Speaker 1: pipes are gonna be uh pretty good conductors and attractors 592 00:33:50,520 --> 00:33:54,520 Speaker 1: of that electricity. But the newer house probably PBC right exactly, 593 00:33:54,880 --> 00:33:57,880 Speaker 1: So if you didn't skimp when you redid your house, 594 00:33:57,920 --> 00:34:01,320 Speaker 1: you might have paid for copper. Yeah, it's true. You 595 00:34:01,560 --> 00:34:04,960 Speaker 1: you really want to remember or we should just be like, 596 00:34:05,040 --> 00:34:07,240 Speaker 1: let's just not take a bath for a shower while 597 00:34:07,280 --> 00:34:11,080 Speaker 1: there's a lightning storm. Um. And then I guess is 598 00:34:11,160 --> 00:34:14,520 Speaker 1: that it for the lightning myths too? Um? I think 599 00:34:14,600 --> 00:34:19,120 Speaker 1: so I have uh no more little factoids on my 600 00:34:19,200 --> 00:34:21,440 Speaker 1: sheet either, I've got one. All right, let's hear it. 601 00:34:22,239 --> 00:34:28,880 Speaker 1: Carol Apathy caro onopathy. It's the study of lightnings effects 602 00:34:28,920 --> 00:34:31,480 Speaker 1: on the human body, the study of the pathology of 603 00:34:31,600 --> 00:34:35,520 Speaker 1: light I was mentioned in there. Okay, isn't that cool though, 604 00:34:35,880 --> 00:34:39,520 Speaker 1: like talk about a specialized field like not not the 605 00:34:39,600 --> 00:34:42,280 Speaker 1: effects of electricity on the human body and the effects 606 00:34:42,320 --> 00:34:45,839 Speaker 1: of lightning striking the human body. Did they study people 607 00:34:45,920 --> 00:34:50,280 Speaker 1: like Sullivan? I imagine he was he saw a karenopathist 608 00:34:50,600 --> 00:34:54,080 Speaker 1: or two. I bet you, like he had to have 609 00:34:54,239 --> 00:34:59,840 Speaker 1: become more susceptible, right, Like, is that possible? I don't know. 610 00:35:00,080 --> 00:35:01,839 Speaker 1: I think could be a lightning myth that we might 611 00:35:01,920 --> 00:35:04,200 Speaker 1: not dispel at this time. I mean, I would think 612 00:35:04,200 --> 00:35:06,080 Speaker 1: of the guy got I mean, granted, he's a park ranger, 613 00:35:06,160 --> 00:35:08,400 Speaker 1: so he's out there at least that you mentioned his 614 00:35:08,440 --> 00:35:12,480 Speaker 1: stetson having a burn. So despite the fact that like lightning, 615 00:35:12,840 --> 00:35:16,080 Speaker 1: UM is six times hotter than the sun, produces heat 616 00:35:16,080 --> 00:35:18,040 Speaker 1: six times hotter than the sun, heats the air to 617 00:35:18,120 --> 00:35:21,040 Speaker 1: like eighteen thou degrees, causing it to explode, it can 618 00:35:21,120 --> 00:35:25,280 Speaker 1: still hit a human and the only burn wounds typically 619 00:35:25,760 --> 00:35:27,960 Speaker 1: are at the point of entry in the point of exit. 620 00:35:28,640 --> 00:35:30,360 Speaker 1: How does it not kill people all the time? I 621 00:35:30,400 --> 00:35:35,399 Speaker 1: don't know that one thing that they say is possible UM. 622 00:35:35,800 --> 00:35:38,600 Speaker 1: The one possible explanation is that it happens so fast 623 00:35:39,480 --> 00:35:42,800 Speaker 1: that it doesn't have the same amount of time that 624 00:35:43,080 --> 00:35:47,920 Speaker 1: a UM like an industrial electrocution has. Interesting and remember 625 00:35:48,000 --> 00:35:49,960 Speaker 1: the hysterical strength thing. Do you want to tell him 626 00:35:50,000 --> 00:35:54,640 Speaker 1: why people are thrown with electricity. Uh what was it? 627 00:35:54,719 --> 00:35:57,240 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that's right. It's it's not the actual blast, 628 00:35:57,400 --> 00:36:00,440 Speaker 1: it's the surge of adrenaline is so great that you 629 00:36:00,880 --> 00:36:03,840 Speaker 1: have this superhuman strength and sort of leap back from it, 630 00:36:03,960 --> 00:36:06,080 Speaker 1: and your muscles can track so hard and so fast 631 00:36:06,160 --> 00:36:08,480 Speaker 1: that you throw yourself. Yeah, that's crazy. With lightning, I 632 00:36:08,480 --> 00:36:10,200 Speaker 1: don't think that's true. I think the shock wave can 633 00:36:10,200 --> 00:36:13,560 Speaker 1: actually throw you. You know my grandfather, Uh that eventually 634 00:36:13,640 --> 00:36:16,120 Speaker 1: led to his death. He was electrician. Oh yeah, I 635 00:36:16,160 --> 00:36:17,719 Speaker 1: think I might have told the story. He was at 636 00:36:17,760 --> 00:36:19,960 Speaker 1: the top of a thing and used to test electricity 637 00:36:20,520 --> 00:36:23,279 Speaker 1: with the back of your hand so it doesn't latch on, 638 00:36:24,080 --> 00:36:26,839 Speaker 1: and it popped him out. He hit a live war 639 00:36:26,920 --> 00:36:29,160 Speaker 1: and it knocked him out of a telephone pole and 640 00:36:29,160 --> 00:36:31,239 Speaker 1: he laid on his head. Oh man, and it was 641 00:36:31,360 --> 00:36:35,000 Speaker 1: like bedridden for the rest of his life. And oh man, yeah, 642 00:36:35,239 --> 00:36:38,800 Speaker 1: are you serious? I did not know that. Yeah, wow, 643 00:36:39,120 --> 00:36:42,560 Speaker 1: that was Granddaddy Bryant. I was a little kid. I 644 00:36:42,640 --> 00:36:44,560 Speaker 1: mean he died when I was like six, So all 645 00:36:44,600 --> 00:36:46,040 Speaker 1: I ever knew of him was he was kind of 646 00:36:46,120 --> 00:36:50,080 Speaker 1: this big scary guy in hospital bed who gave you candy. 647 00:36:51,000 --> 00:36:55,279 Speaker 1: Candy and like Buffalo Nichols. Well, okay, that was a 648 00:36:55,320 --> 00:36:58,080 Speaker 1: bummer way to end this one. Yeah. Um, let's see 649 00:36:58,080 --> 00:37:01,920 Speaker 1: you got any other terrible stories now, okay, well, then 650 00:37:02,000 --> 00:37:06,200 Speaker 1: let's go to listener mail. Oh wait, at first I 651 00:37:06,560 --> 00:37:08,640 Speaker 1: didn't even say how stuff works? What is wrong with me? 652 00:37:09,239 --> 00:37:12,279 Speaker 1: Do you want to see some very pretty lightning pictures? Um, 653 00:37:12,600 --> 00:37:15,680 Speaker 1: and read more about lightning? You can just type that in. 654 00:37:16,000 --> 00:37:19,120 Speaker 1: This is like a seminal article for how stuff works. 655 00:37:19,480 --> 00:37:23,040 Speaker 1: It's like bread and butter stuff lightning search bar how 656 00:37:23,120 --> 00:37:25,719 Speaker 1: stuff works dot com. Now it's time for listener mail, 657 00:37:27,000 --> 00:37:29,680 Speaker 1: josh Im. We call this uh email I just received, 658 00:37:30,120 --> 00:37:33,440 Speaker 1: you know, ten minutes ago. Oh okay, hot off the presses. 659 00:37:34,320 --> 00:37:36,440 Speaker 1: Guys and Jerry have been wanting to write for ages, 660 00:37:36,480 --> 00:37:38,480 Speaker 1: and now I actually have things to say. I've been 661 00:37:38,520 --> 00:37:41,080 Speaker 1: listening to the podcast for years, and I probably listen 662 00:37:41,120 --> 00:37:44,320 Speaker 1: to them and never listened to the few in the 663 00:37:44,400 --> 00:37:48,520 Speaker 1: beginning before you two teamed up. 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