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[–] AnActualCalvin 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Lots of nonsense in this thread. It's simple really, sure the average lightning strike could contain 100 million to 1 billion volts, but first you have to ask yourself what is a lightning strike? Well, that's a BOLT of lightning, going really fast. People get really confused by the two words, a volt and a bolt is really quiet different. One bolt really isn't going to kill everyone, even if it is a billion volts. It's only going to hit you one time. You see lighting is really really fast, sometimes a person may get hit by one bolt of lighting, and it really is one bolt, or sometimes it looks like one bolt and it's really like three or four bolts, three or four bolts will kill a man.