[TowerTalk] Lightning resuscitation

[Gene Smar]

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 at comcast.net>
Cc: <Towertalk at contesting.com>
Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2004 8:10 PM
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Lightning resuscitation


> K3BU at 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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