Is lightning only attracted to tall people?
In: Earth Science
Lightning wants to get to the ground, and it wants to get there with the lowest amount of resistance possible. Air has a lot of resistance, so lightning will be attracted to the closest thing to the sky that’s 1) not air and 2) connected to the ground.
If Person A is 5’8″ and Person B is 6’1″ and lightning hits right on top of them, then it really won’t make any difference at all who gets hit. Maybe both of them; who knows.
If Person A and Person B are standing next to a 50 foot tall tree, then the tree will be hit instead of them. The tree will then probably explode, so Person A and Person B are gonna have a shitty day no matter what…but, hey, at least they didn’t get hit by lightning?
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