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by Scipio_Afri 418 days ago
I guess it's another good reason for why I shouldn't have my phone charging in the bed with me while I sleep; the other good reason being battery fires.
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Be more afraid of taking a shower or bath during a storm.
>Why you should never take a shower during a thunderstorm

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/2025/04/22/showering...

gift link: https://wapo.st/3GjjuO2

If you want to protect yourself from something that hasn’t caused any fatal incidents in 20 years anyhow.
Gift link still paywalls :?
FF Reader mode seems to work.
Lightning won't take a detour through you, it will follow the path of least resistance.
Yes but if you are covered in electrolyte and standing atop a well-grounded drain pipe, you may just be that path.

Also, lighting is not simple mathematical electricity. It is subject to innumerable, even quantum, fluctuations at the precise moment it chooses to move. Lighting also partially creates its own path as it ionizes air/water into plasma. That's why bolts are jagged and not smooth beams between cloud and ground. It may or may not choose to go through or around you. It is best to avoid needing to ask such questions.

https://youtube.com/shorts/dvVW1e_trW0

“Path of least resistance” is a simplification of ohm's law, and that simplification simply isn't very relevant when dealing with voltages with 7-9 digits and tens of kiloamperes: at those voltages, even high impedance paths will have a non-trivial current (to lifeforms made of bags of saltwater).

And don't forget that an instantaneous discharge of 10,000A will also create a tremendous magnetic field which will immediately collapse, creating voltages that will induce eddy currents in conductors (such as the aforementioned bags of saltwater) that are near the main current flow.

While scrolling and charging your phone
odd choice to be forced to make, but I would prefer being electrocuted to burning my face off.
And to avoid unnecessary RF exposure.
although anyone saying this outloud likely wont have their mind changed, for the rest of you all that want to remain informed:

cellular devices and radios do not emit ionizing radiation - which is the kind that messes up cells, and nonionizing radiation can only increase heat which is why all devices operate under a power limit

people are studying other potential biological effects of nonionizing radiation and there is zero consensus of there being any. so some people, including some smaller government agencies, exercise caution

Can you see any potential risks with blasting the body with same frequencies as it uses to regulate itself, while its supposed to be regenerating?
What radio frequencies does your body use to regulate itself?
My liver uses a walkie talkie to communicate with my kidney (the left one).
I mean, maybe, if the body used radio waves to regulate itself, but it doesn't so I don't