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• If not careful plasma balls can actually cause harm too. If you touch it with wet hands, or if you hold your hand for a long amount of time, at a close distance it will arc and burn you.

  So be careful with those too!

  • what a lot of rubbish mate u cant ive done that 30 times your stupid

    • Don't call people stupid, just say what you want to say!

    • matty and jack, Calling someone stupid when you fail to use proper punctuation and capitalization in admonishing them really makes you look like the one who is stupid. Using "u" for the word "you", and "your" for "you are." Correct form for that one is "you're". Also, in correct English, and I am assuming you are English by your usage of the word "mate". You should know all two digit numbers should be spelled out. Not "30" but thirty... So, to simply put it... Don't call people stupid.

  • the ball can break and the electricity can flow every were which can cause 3rd degree burns or even cause a power outage in your breaker box.

• after being struck by a lightening bolt and survived, i can attest it's not a pretty experience. while preparing my kool-aid stand and awaiting thirsty tourists on key largo i was blasted a thunderbolt - it left my keds sneakers smoking on the sidewalk while my stand had been blown to ashes --wow!!!

  • im stuck in science and need help with lighting facts we dont know any help me

    • I don't know any information oh but.
      Every second, a large hurricane releases the energy of 10 atomic bombs.
      Storms can go up to 12 hours.
      Hurricanes are powerful with winds and rain.
      Hurricanes most fall in tropical islands.
      Hurricanes lose strength when they travel.
      The planet Jupiter has a hurricane which has been going on for over 300 years.
      Hurricanes may have a diameter of 400 to 500 milesMany hurricanes cause severe flooding.
      When there is a storm get out of pools.
      If you hear thunder leads to storms, sometimes
      Boom of lightning heats up the atmosphere.
      Pool, lake, ocean, or any body of water. Water conducts electricity that electricity can travel through water.
      Not all storm chasing is done on the ground.
      Thunder is caused by lightning.
      Lightning is a powerful burst of electricity that happens very quickly during a thunderstorm.
      Lightning is caused by an electrical charge in the atmosphere that is unbalanced.
      Lightning can occur inside clouds, between clouds and from clouds to the ground.
      There are bolts of lightning striking somewhere on Earth every second.
      Lightning contains millions of volts of electricity.
      At this very moment there are about 1800 thunderstorms.
      Glass forms when lightning strikes into sandy soil.

• " ... No one to this day can explain a terrible tragedy that took place in Japan. A class of school students went on a trip. A school teacher told the class to hold onto a rope. Lightning struck and traveled through the rope, killing exactly half of the students. The oddest part is that each even-numbered child in the line was killed and none of the students in odd-numbered positions were even burned. ..."

  Well, perhaps "no-one" can explain it, but I can.
  The odd numbered children were holding the rope with their right hands, and the even numbered children were holding it with their left hands.
  The strike affected each child equally, but the ones holding with their left hands had the current flow through their heart (left side of body) to the ground path made by their feet. This is well known amongst electricians and those working with potentially lethal currents; they never touch a potentially live object with their left hands.

  • Fun Fact:

    They never touch a potentially live object with their right hands either.

  • Why the hell would the odd numbered ones be holding on with their left hands?

    • They were on the left side of the rope; the even-numbered students were to the right of the rope.

      • hey that sounds obvious and logical if they were holding on with their left arm as you think.
        An idea that comes to mind is the old belief that Earth is even numbers and Heaven is odd numbers.
        Earth is number two and heaven is number three as it is wider than Earth and includes the Earth and sky.

        • Nobody knows what heaven looks like! get your facts straight.

  • This is amazing. I never have thought about it but must be a testament for polarity? The human spiritual treatment of energy. Thanks for the insight. Peace~ Cynthia

  • There were similar instances in the past.

    Madame la Comtesse of the Dechy of Posen related the following case.
    “During a storm which took place in the month of August 1901, lightning entered by a half-open door into a stable where there were twenty cows, and killed then. Beginning with that which was nearest the door, the second was spared, the third killed, the fourth was uninjured and so on. All the uneven numbers were killed, the others were not even burnt”.
    M. Elisec Duval of Criquetot l’Esneval (Seine-Inferieure) related a very remarkable case. On June 20, 1892, lightning fell on the telegraph poles of Havre and E’tretat. A dozen were thrown over, and the curious part is that every second one was knocked down.
    Another case of equal interest is here. On February 16, 1866, a thunderstorm descended upon a farm in the commune of Chapelle Largeau (Deux-Serves) and the circumstances attending its explosion are too remarkable to be overlooked. After a tremendous thunder clap, a young man who was standing near the farm saw an immense fireball touch the ground at his fee, but it did him no damage, but passed, still harmlessly though a room in the farmhouse in which there were nine persons. The only effect it produced was the flaring up of some matches upon the chimney-piece.
    It proceeded towards the stables, which were divided into two compartments. In one there were two cows and two oxen; the first cow, to the right of the entrance, was killed, the second was uninjured; the first ox was killed, the second was uninjured. The same effect was found to have been produced in the other compartment, in which there were four cows: the first and the third were killed, the second and fourth were spared; the odd numbers taken and the even numbers left.

  • well arent i the one without knowledge

    • i know right

• I Am Ryan From Glasgow ( Scotland ), My Brother Got Shocked From Live Wire In His Bedroom. Houses Across From Us Had Been Demolished And We Had Mice For A While And At The Time He Went Too Plug His Playstation 3 Power Into The Wall He Was Shocked, Mice Had Chew Threw The Wire. He Instantly Wet Him Self Etc.. Blew Hole In His Palm about 1cm wide and like 4 mm Deep. Although Its Not Same As Lightening Bolt But Wasnt Pleasant Too See.

  Ryan

  • Ryan McKie, why do you capitalize the first Letter Of Every Word You Type? Just curious really.

    • Ya IKR

  • scary!!

• In response to ANON.... How does that explain that "none of the students in odd-numbered positions were even burned. …”?????

  • because, the children were on either side of the rope..evens were holding with their left hand odds with their right.

    • -.- and why exactly where they on different sides of the rode? Or did you assume?

      • *Rope

      • They were on opposite sides of the rope to create space between the kids for ease of walking

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• Has anybody heard of a "thunder stone"? I lived in Papau New Guinea when I was younger and after a lightening strike that split a tree nearby one of the local natives approached me and handed me a stone he said he found near the stone - he called it a malio stone - this was on the island of Bougainville in 1969. The stone is like a small smooth axe head - a charcoal color and fits in the palm of my hand. He said they found these stone sometimes in the tree struck by lightening and sometimes near the tree.

  Many years later I told this story to a friend from Bhutan and showed him the stone - he immediately recognized it as a "thunder stone" and turned to two of this Bhutanese friends who corroborated the story, adding the stone was special and held in high esteem in Bhutan.

  I have tried to learn more about the story of such stones - anybody know anything - contact my email.

  • Hi Andrew,

    That is very interesting; I am an archaeologist doing research into cultural perceptions of Neolithic edge-ground stone axes, so-named "thunder stones", in historical and present-day Southeast Asia and haven't yet come across such notions in PNG.

    If you would care to reply off-list I would be most interested in discussing your recollections of this incident.

    Thanks in advance, and best wishes
    Adam Brumm

    • Hi Adam I came across your comment when I was searching about this stone. I have such a stone and I really don't know what to do with it. I was told that they are varuablle in India. I got it from my grandmother after lightning strikes one of her huts.

      • The mention and myths of these thunderstones are widespread, they are also sometimes known as sky stones/arrows/axes, storm stones, thunder teeth (etc). There appear to be a few more reports aswell;

        "A thunderstorm near Vicksburg, MS in 1930 resulted in some rather interesting hailstones. One had a solid piece of alabaster 3/4 inch across. Another was a live 8" long gopher turtle, entirely encased in ice."

        "In the London Times, Feb. 1, 1888, it is said that a roundish object of iron had been found, 'after a violent thunderstorm' in a garden at Brixton, Aug. 17, 1887."

        http://www.gutenberg.org/files/29281/29281-h/29281-h.htm is a website detailing the famous fall of stones in Siena (and others). As for what to do with them? I would hang on to it - how many other people can claim to have a thunderstone?

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        • I do have one..any one interested,feel free to contact me.Thanks.

    • Well, My great great grandmother is believed to have found a similar stone immediately after a lightning strike near Kalimpong, Darjeeling, India and my grandmother still has one small and one palm sized exactly as andrew said. My granny said that the older people dug the site where the lightning strike in search of an axe. If someone could shed some light in this matter, that would be really helpful. I am a student of science currently in high school. Feel free to contact me.

  • Hello.I have with me such a stone and i am also wanting to know more about it

  • i thought thunder stones were used to evolve pickachu's and other electrik pokemans lol jkjk

• u cant die by them

• lighting is cool cause it strikes sofastras a bilk ofan eye even if your the worldes fastes bickcily anting that is so fast lighting is faster.

• lighting is so cool cause it is so fast so fast that you will konw when it will strikes i know when it will strikes it will strike when you say the number 1.

• i like it