krw wrote:
In article ,
lid says...
On Sun, 20 Aug 2006 19:48:51 -0400, krw wrote:

In article . com,
says...

Owen Lawrence wrote:
If there's a thunderstorm in progress, you feel just a teensy bit
anxious!
FoggyTown

Being inside your metal shed is probably one of the safer places you can be
during a thunderstorm. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faraday_Cage for an
explanation.

- Owen -

Yeah, yeah. That's science talking. I also know statistically it is
very unlikely that my plane will crash. Doesn't help.

Gee, I know it *DOES* help. Do you wander about on a golf course
in a T-storm waiving a one-iron above your head, thinking that it
couldn't hurt?


There's a difference related to grounding. That one-iron probably
isn't grounded (except through you).

So, you drive coast-to-coast because it's too "dangerous" to fly?
Life is a risk, but it beats the alternative. Grow up and join the
rest of the adults.

--
Keith

Hey, Keith! You really don't understand any of this, do you. OK, just
for you we'll give the "Dick and Jane" version.

There are many facets of our lives and makeup where primal or basic
fears are not necessarily overcome by logic and science, or even
observation. That spinning helicopter rotor blade is 3 or 4 feet
higher than your head . . . but most people still duck going underneath
it. I "know" that the airplane I'm on most likely won't fall out of
the sky. But that doesn't prevent the tiniest little bit of anxiety
when it takes off. (I've logged almost 700,000 air miles in the last
12 years.) I also know that I am quite safe inside my shed during a
thunder storm. Still . . .

Here endeth the lesson. Have a nice day.

FoggyTown