How does crouching with your heels touching and hands on your head protect you from lightning?
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The crouching moves your center of mass closer to the earth and further from the clouds (making the lighting more likely to strike a different, taller object). Touching your heels together helps prevent ground current from passing through your thorax (by going up one foot and immediately down the other). Standing on one foot would also prevent this, but is probably hard to maintain while crouching for an extended period of time in a storm. I’m not sure about the hands on head. Someone else can take that one, but I’m 2 for 3.
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