if water conducts electricity, why does a lightening strike in the middle of the ocean not kill those people standing in the same water beside a beach not get fried?
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The electricity distributes over a wide area. Sure, your whole body may experience a few microvolts, but that’s really not a lot. Anything *near* the lightening experiences a shock, but the shock quickly diminishes as distance increases from the strike zone.
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