Lightning Safety - Van Der Graff Generator

Read the full experiment at http://www.stevespanglerscience.com/content/experiment/00000050 Your chances of being struck by lightning in the United States are 1 in 600,000. But your chances of being struck in Colorado are higher simply due to the state being ranked number 11 for lightning deaths in the United States. Here in Colorado, lightning is the number one life threatening weather hazard.

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[Tributeable]

If Barbie is so cool, why do we have to buy her friends?

[MSKill3r]

at 2:59 u like so beatiful

[SNOOPDOGG809]

ISNT THAT FUN??? LMAOO

[ivorbigun20]

@scullboy55 you get a shock and it hurts, a little worce then you wold if you touched somthing metal on a hot day, depending on how much voltage you give the thing ofc. but once you have discharged the shock once you wont feel a thing. however if you charge up the voltage to i high amount while touching the thing you can shock people quit badly and you still wouldnt feel a thing till you shocked them

[olifudge]

@sjeses No, it's called a Van Der Graaf generator. I am nitpicking here :)

[fendor18]

right around 1:30 and 1:31, the electricity goes down his shirt

[boycottbreathing]

I have literally never heard the end of the song for these videos, because I've already clicked through to the next one.

[renesk8forever]

my scientist teacher has one of those.

[sjeses]

Wasn't this thing called a Van de Graaff generator?

Might be just me nitpicking here.

[gilbertmigs]

crazy650c this is an experiment/demonstration on how lightning behaves. And is not about who's generator is bigger..

[gilbertmigs]

@crazy650c this is an experiment/demonstration on how lightning behaves. And is not about who's generator is bigger..