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Re: [TowerTalk] Lightning resuscitation

To: Gene Smar <ersmar@comcast.net>
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Lightning resuscitation
From: Joe Giacobello <k2xx@swva.net>
Reply-to: k2xx@swva.net
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 21:57:06 -0500
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Actually it was Colin Clive who made that cry. In retrospect, one of the great comic lines of all time.

73, Joe

Gene Smar wrote:

TT:

    I'm reminded of the line from a 1930's movie starring Mr. Karloff:
It's alive!  It's alive!

Please make it stop.

73 de
Gene Smar  AD3F

----- Original Message ----- From: "Zoran Brlecic" <WA7AA@comcast.net>
Cc: <Towertalk@contesting.com>
Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2004 8:10 PM
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Lightning resuscitation





K3BU@aol.com wrote:



My father had no reason to lie to me. Those two cases happened. He was a
(catholic) priest, he was called to give the last rights to persons. He


took the


shovel (people were crying over the loss and were incapable to do


anything),


dug the "grave" and in those two cases life returned.



You have still not shown causation. How does it follow from two isolated
cases (even if they occurred) that burying a person after he had been
hit by lightning causes the "return of life"?

Was the person clinically dead, i.e. no heartbeat, no blood flow to the
brain (4-5 minutes)? If so, by the time the priest showed up and dug the
graves, there is no way in hell the person could be revived, and even if
he could, he'd have suffered a severe brain damage.

The only way someone can be "revived" this long after the lightning
strike is if his heart beat continued, providing blood flow to the
brain. If that's the case, there is really no revival, but a simple
regaining of consciousness.

Then there's the problem of the "charge dissipation". If a human body is
a conductor, then how can it be charged by an electrical current flow
through it? And even if it can, after falling to the ground, any
remaining charge would be dissipated almost immediately unless the
person wore a body suit made of mylar.

The effects of the electric current on the human body are well known -
some of them are a temporary loss of consciousness, body control and an
irregular heartbeat, temporary shutdown of the nervous system. There is
nothing magic about burying anyone in the ground after suffering an
electric shock, otherwise everyone working with high voltages would be
carrying a shovel with them. Instead of practicing voodoo solutions, the
rescuers would be much better advised to apply the recommended procedure
for dealing with electric shock victims.


73 .... WA7AA


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