Growing up, I was told to exit the pool when there was rain. It makes sense- relatively small volume of water + significant voltage can conclude pool day pretty quick.
But what about the ocean? If water conducts electricity, how does lightning not spread to every beach all the time?
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Electricity when traveling through any matter interacts with the matter and meets resistance. It also goes in the direction of least resistance, like milk spilled on the floor and it finds all the cracks. Resistance normally is electricity turning into heat. For people being in the water and how dangerous it is, it comes in two parts, one each lighting bolt is two lighting bolts one coming from the sky and a second one coming from the water as your head is more conductive than air is a great conductor and if it is the path of lease resistance can make you are target, second lightning has so much power in it that it can easily kill fish for hundreds of meters around a strike while all is takes to kill a person is 5 milliamps to the heart.
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