You know, Reborn, I think you are right, Clearly the information on safety issues on this site is faulty.
I will henceforth turn elsewhere for this type of vital information.
Sigh, photoshopped. If you’re gonna call a shop, at least do it properly and include the standardized “I can tell by the pixels” and “..from having seen many shops in my time” sorta thing. At least be annoying properly.
WTF? Lightning is drawn to you? Where did you get that lame info? Public school? Lightning is like any other electrical circuit and follows the path of least resistance. If you are the path, then fine, it is drawn to you. BUT, in most cases your poor little body doesn’t even figure into the resistance equation that lightning is following, and it hits you because you just happen to be in the way. Unless you are offering a less resistant path, such as golfers do when they hold up a lightning rod, I mean golf club… Education before elucidation please.
Why is it that for every funny picture or creative idea on the internet there’s allways 5-10 people either “knowing” something that noone else could possibly know or just being stupidly offensive? Old memes loke the “shopped!” joke don’t even bother me anymore…
And yes! I am Internet police and my opinion is important!
Photoshopped? Thats a foto of my next door neighbor. who is not with us anymore after drinking one night and not following his own advice, he got struck down by a speeding rabbit. While running from the internet police.
Is it really so important to know if the lightning is drawn to you or if you just happen to be in its way? The point of this strip is making fun of stupid advice by making a stupid advice! And I should know because I heard and even gave a few in my time. But not anymore! Anyway, I’m going to express my doubt: doesn’t the lightning run up from the ground? I’m pretty sure I saw it in a docu on tv and if someone knows it, it’s the telly!
Yes, the atmosphere gets positively charged because of incoming radiation stripping all the electrons away. The electrons in the ground get attracted and escape up through you. The positive current flow is from the atmosphere to the ground but in reality it’s carried by negatively charged particles in the opposite direction.
April 5th, 2009 at 4:27 pm
Love the individuality of this site.
April 6th, 2009 at 7:26 am
Wait, isn’t the whole point that the lightning strike is drawn to you? They have to be conducted!
April 9th, 2009 at 4:56 pm
You know, Reborn, I think you are right, Clearly the information on safety issues on this site is faulty.
I will henceforth turn elsewhere for this type of vital information.
April 9th, 2009 at 6:25 pm
Photoshopped! I can tell…
April 11th, 2009 at 12:38 am
Sigh, photoshopped. If you’re gonna call a shop, at least do it properly and include the standardized “I can tell by the pixels” and “..from having seen many shops in my time” sorta thing. At least be annoying properly.
April 12th, 2009 at 4:22 am
dude thats not shopped, look at the shadow of the pixels
April 12th, 2009 at 5:48 am
WTF? Lightning is drawn to you? Where did you get that lame info? Public school? Lightning is like any other electrical circuit and follows the path of least resistance. If you are the path, then fine, it is drawn to you. BUT, in most cases your poor little body doesn’t even figure into the resistance equation that lightning is following, and it hits you because you just happen to be in the way. Unless you are offering a less resistant path, such as golfers do when they hold up a lightning rod, I mean golf club… Education before elucidation please.
April 13th, 2009 at 7:04 am
’shopped. I’ve seen a few in my time, and i can tell by the pixels.
April 14th, 2009 at 2:46 pm
Why is it that for every funny picture or creative idea on the internet there’s allways 5-10 people either “knowing” something that noone else could possibly know or just being stupidly offensive? Old memes loke the “shopped!” joke don’t even bother me anymore…
And yes! I am Internet police and my opinion is important!
Just had to be said… again
April 14th, 2009 at 11:19 pm
because some idiots dont have anything else to do
April 20th, 2009 at 5:27 pm
Photoshopped? Thats a foto of my next door neighbor. who is not with us anymore after drinking one night and not following his own advice, he got struck down by a speeding rabbit. While running from the internet police.
April 27th, 2009 at 12:17 am
you should seriously consider getting this printed on a t-shirt. i would buy it!
but seeing as it was my idea, can i have the first one for free?
June 14th, 2009 at 11:42 pm
Is it really so important to know if the lightning is drawn to you or if you just happen to be in its way? The point of this strip is making fun of stupid advice by making a stupid advice! And I should know because I heard and even gave a few in my time. But not anymore! Anyway, I’m going to express my doubt: doesn’t the lightning run up from the ground? I’m pretty sure I saw it in a docu on tv and if someone knows it, it’s the telly!
July 15th, 2009 at 8:39 pm
Your all Super Sad
August 13th, 2009 at 8:12 pm
This strip saved my life. Twice.
October 9th, 2009 at 12:09 am
Yes, the atmosphere gets positively charged because of incoming radiation stripping all the electrons away. The electrons in the ground get attracted and escape up through you. The positive current flow is from the atmosphere to the ground but in reality it’s carried by negatively charged particles in the opposite direction.