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Ydiss · 03-28-2003, 12:59 PM

It just passed from one tip of a wing to the other and then earths to ground.

Similarly when in a car you are surrounded by a "Newtons cage" (I think Newton was the fellow to discover it, I may be wrong). Because the metal of the car is a better conductor of electricity than humans are the electricity will pass right around you and into the ground.

Saw some scientist bloke on TV a while ago test this theory by standing in a cage and having a high voltage electrode fire thousands of volts at him. It hit the cage and, despite him being only inches from it, he was unscathed.

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Ydiss is Offline Senior Member Posts: 2,377 Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Nottingham, England	03-28-2003, 12:59 PM It just passed from one tip of a wing to the other and then earths to ground. Similarly when in a car you are surrounded by a "Newtons cage" (I think Newton was the fellow to discover it, I may be wrong). Because the metal of the car is a better conductor of electricity than humans are the electricity will pass right around you and into the ground. Saw some scientist bloke on TV a while ago test this theory by standing in a cage and having a high voltage electrode fire thousands of volts at him. It hit the cage and, despite him being only inches from it, he was unscathed.