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Can lightning restore sight?
Edwin Robinson was claimed to have regained his sight after being struck by lightning. Can this really happen?
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Is the Conditional Risk XKCD comic factually accurate? [closed]
I found the following comic on XKCD
Does this claim have any scientific basis or is it just a joke I didn't understand?
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Is Nikola Tesla the only scientist to successfully create ball lightning?
Related: Is there any scientific proof that ball lightning is real?
Someone passed along this The Oatmeal comic about Tesla. It's quite interesting and entertaining. I was curious about a lot of ...
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Is speaking on phone during lightning harmful?
I have heard many people say that speaking on cell phone while it is lightning may damage the ears.
A week before my room mate was speaking on the phone during lightning, and suddenly threw the ...
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Do open windows increase the chance of lightning striking the house?
There's a widespread belief among most of the people I know that all windows should be closed during a storm as having them open is supposed to attract lightning (or, according to some people, can ...
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Is there any case of someone being hit by lightning in a urban pool?
I live in Quebec, and one of the strangest thing here is that every time that some clouds are in the sky, all public pools in the cities are evacuated. This is done for our "safety" with the argument ...
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Are passengers inside cars protected from lightning because of the tires?
It's a common statement that passengers of a car are protected from lightening while inside because the car has rubber tires (which are insulators). An alternative theory often put forward is that ...
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Chance for lightning strikes next to high-tension line [closed]
Next to our house, in about 100 meters distance, there is a high-tension power line (like this). With the pylon being a lot higher than our house, is it safe to assume that our house won’t be hit by ...
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Is ball lightning real?
Over the ages there have been many accounts of ball lightning.
Some accounts from Wikipedia are as follows:
One of the earliest descriptions was
reported during The Great Thunderstorm
at a ...
