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Anonymous Tue 01 Sep 05:53:28 2020 No.12072486 View Reply Original Report

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Let's say you wanted to die by direct lightning strike. How would you go about this? What is the probability that you would succeed at all?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 01 Sep 2020 05:55:08 No.12072489 Report

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>>12072486
>go into a storm
>dig a big metal rod into the ground
>hold the rod
then your chance of getting struck is probably 50/50 because you either get struck or you don't.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 01 Sep 2020 05:56:05 No.12072491 Report

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>>12072489
but that's the pole getting struck, not you directly

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 01 Sep 2020 05:57:30 No.12072493 Report

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>>12072491
the odds of a person getting struck by lightning without the lightning first hitting something else? very very low. humans aren't a much more efficient path than anything else
the question was if you wanted to die.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 01 Sep 2020 06:01:43 No.12072499 Report

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>>12072493
let's go with getting directly struck by lightning was a 100% guaranteed access to heaven or some shit. If you spent your entire life dedicated to getting struck do you think it would eventually happen or would it happen to only X amount of people in their lifetime?

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Anonymous Tue 01 Sep 2020 06:12:46 No.12072513 Report

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>>12072486
Empire State building

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 01 Sep 2020 06:13:48 No.12072515 Report

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>>12072513
>>12072486
I mean touch the lightningrod at the top during a storm

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 01 Sep 2020 06:32:43 No.12072541 Report

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>>12072486
I think i know an mountain who fits your needs. He has also a giant radio antenna on top if you are to bored to wait, you just can hold on the metal.

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Anonymous Tue 01 Sep 2020 06:38:57 No.12072549 Report

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Finding ways of getting hit is easy
Ensure the hit would kill is hard
Because you are like 60-70% water, you would only recieve 40-30% of the lighting's voltage

If you are holding a metal pole, chances are much more of the volt would head straight to the rod and into the ground. Electricity don't like living creatures because we are insulators and would avoid us until we are the best route possible

Best I could suggest is to stand in a vast open plain or take a row boat in the sea. There, you are the easiest path into the ground/sea water and should recieve max possible voltage

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 01 Sep 2020 06:39:02 No.12072550 Report

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>>12072541
In summer you have a chance of an storm about all 1 - 4 days. I think there are around 4-30 Strikes per Storm, who all go down on an relative narrow area. I guess you need just a week during a stormy year to get a strike at lest ones. (and keep in mid there is always the antenna if you are bored waiting)

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Anonymous Tue 01 Sep 2020 06:43:25 No.12072554 Report

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100% or 0% it either happens or it doesnt

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Anonymous Tue 01 Sep 2020 06:52:16 No.12072567 Report

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>>12072554
I'm about to 100% faggots like you.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 01 Sep 2020 07:16:09 No.12072615 Report

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>>12072489
except this wouldn't work because the metal rod is a more direct route to ground than you are, hence the current does not flow through you.

>>12072486
do what the 50/50 geek says except lie on the ground on your back holding the rod oriented vertically above either your head or your heart. then the rod either gets struck directing the current through your head or heart into the ground or it doesn't so the chances are 50/50

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Anonymous Tue 01 Sep 2020 07:19:14 No.12072624 Report

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>>12072499
I suppose you could increase your odds by standing in the middle of a field every time it thunders.

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Anonymous Tue 01 Sep 2020 07:26:19 No.12072648 Report

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>>12072486
Chances of receiving a strike can increase if you scream "I am dumb ! I am dumb !". God hates dumb people.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 01 Sep 2020 10:04:59 No.12072913 Report

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>>12072486
That's how my nanny died when I was 6 years old. She left our house during a thunderstorm and then someone found her body split in half and burned. Seems like gay death desu. Launch yourself into the sun. The journey towards it.

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Anonymous Tue 01 Sep 2020 16:19:59 No.12073824 Report

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>>12072486
launch model rockets during a thunderstorm. The lightning likes to follow the exhaust trail.

You could also visit that one lake in South America which has a permanent lightning storm.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 01 Sep 2020 16:28:56 No.12073848 Report

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>>12072486
Unreliable. The best you can do is to chase storms and try different methods to attract the lightning bolt to pass through your body.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 01 Sep 2020 18:40:03 No.12074211 Report

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>>12072913
>found her body split in half and burned. Seems like gay death desu.
I dunno man, in terms of different ways to go that seems pretty based
gay death would be more like choking on a peanut or something

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 01 Sep 2020 18:59:01 No.12074254 Report

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>>12074211
There's way cooler deaths. I would put death by lightning at 6.5 on a scale of 10 most awesome deaths. Top deaths would be insane things like being strapped to a nuclear salt bomb or something that ruins the whole earth. But they don't have to be spectacular. Being the first person to travel to the sun and burn up, becoming part of the star is also a very cool death.

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Anonymous Tue 01 Sep 2020 19:11:18 No.12074283 Report

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>>12074254
How much points is his death?

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Anonymous Tue 01 Sep 2020 20:32:39 No.12074550 Report

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>>12072486
>>12072486
Kite, storm, metal wire.

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Anonymous Tue 01 Sep 2020 20:33:59 No.12074555 Report

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Anonymous Wed 02 Sep 2020 00:48:23 No.12075294 Report

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>>12072486
Buy several of the largest, lightest model rockets you can. Attach them to a spool of the thinnest wire you can. Fire them off and become bacon.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 02 Sep 2020 01:50:32 No.12075444 Report

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>>12072550
There are lots of mountain ranges that get hit with electrical storms almost every afternoon in the summer. I don't know where OP is, but if he climbs a local high point and stays there for a few hours every afternoon he's got pretty good odds of being struck by lightning.

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Anonymous Wed 02 Sep 2020 02:38:58 No.12075587 Report

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>>12072499
Put a thimble on your thumb and just before the lightning strikes, remove the thimble

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Anonymous Wed 02 Sep 2020 03:03:50 No.12075631 Report

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>>12072615
The fucking sudden heat from the air around turning to plasma sure will fuck you up. It could melt your hands onto the rod but it won't kill you. You'll most likely if you are lucky, at best just get an arrhythmia heartbeat. If you are super lucky, which isn't too common for lightning strikes you would get cardiac arrest but the heat would burn your eyes for looking in the direction of the rod. So you'll be permanently fucked but not dead.

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Anonymous Wed 02 Sep 2020 03:11:25 No.12075657 Report

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>>12072486
Climb on top of the biggest radio tower on a large flat region during an electrical storm.

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