What I learned while watching this video is, that lightning bolts are just fast flowing electrons that are looking for the easiest way possible to get from the sky, to the ground. Metal is what attracts lighting the most, because it provides the electrons an even faster way to get to where they want to go. In the video it said that to avoid a lightning strike wearing an all metal medieval suit would keep you safest. The reason why is because electrons flow through metal very easily, so they hardly sink into the actual surface. If the electrons are flowing over anything metal with something inside, like a can or a box, and even a metal suit with someone inside the electrons wouldn't reach whatever is inside. This type of container is know as a Faraday cage, even cars are a Faraday cage and even though it is said that lightning can't get past rubber tires that isn't true. The lightning wouldn't go through the tires, it would move around it, because the electrons travel through metal the fastest. If you are alone in the middle of the woods during a storm and lightning starts the electrons will look for a shortcut and since people are better conductors than air and the ground. If you're standing up straight the electrons will most likely go through you, if you lay down, then once the electrons reach the floor they will strike you again. The best thing to do is to "crouch low and keep your feet close together" when you are crouched down the distance between your feet isn't ideal for the electrons because they would have to travel out and then back into you which will take too long. If the lightning does go through you it will only go through one leg and back down the other because your feet are the only thing touching the ground. The video reflected on is down below.
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