[TowerTalk] Lightning resuscitation

[Joe Giacobello]

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:
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>     I'm reminded of the line from a 1930's movie starring Mr. Karloff:
>It's alive!  It's alive!
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>     Please make it stop.
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>73 de
>Gene Smar  AD3F
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>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
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>>K3BU at aol.com wrote:
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>>>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
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>took the
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>>>shovel (people were crying over the loss and were incapable to do
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>anything),
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>>>dug the "grave" and in those two cases life returned.
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>>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"?
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>>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.
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>>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.
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>>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.
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>>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.
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>>73 .... WA7AA
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