I was just wondering whether it's because it can't for some reason or it's just highly unlikely.
2006-07-01 20:08:06 · 9 answers · asked by blankstate 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Weather
The old saying is not bogus, it's just from a time when it was mostly true, since there were no tall buildings or lightning rods to present good targets.
It's explained fairly well in the question below.
2006-07-01 20:49:24 · answer #1 · answered by Flyboy 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's not impossible; only highly unlikely. The odds of such a thing are varying depending on the situation, and there have actually been lightning strikes in the same place twice. Lightning rods, for example, are struck all the time in the right parts of the country.
2006-07-02 03:12:59 · answer #2 · answered by compassionate_theologian 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's not a dumb question at all. The Expression Lightning never strikes twice was started when there were no big things for it to strike! And truly, even though the experts would have you believe otherwise, it WOULDN'T strike exactly twice unless the thing it was striking had the capabilities to lure it. So when people use the example of a huge tower being stuck several times, well yeah, that's ' cuz it's ummm...a HUGE TOWER WITH LIGHTNING RODS!!! the site below is interesting....
2006-07-02 04:58:45 · answer #3 · answered by Sidoney 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Since the surface of the earth is so large and also due to fact that a bolt of lightning is no thicker than a baseball bat,it makes it very unlikely that a single bolt will hit the same spot... tom science
2006-07-02 06:59:17 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It usually doesn't hit the same spot twice because the opposing electrical charges in the clouds and the ground have already equalized and cancelled each other out in that spot.
So another discharge will happen in another spot that has not been equalized electrically.
It can hit the same spot again in another storm, which helps in the effectivness of lightning rods installed on buildings.
Hope that helps!
2006-07-02 03:15:24 · answer #5 · answered by mattnocal7 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Where that saying came from I don't know. Lightning is more times than not pulled toward the same place over and over. Minerals in the ground is one theory. If lightning strikes somewhere, it will more than likely strike there again.
2006-07-02 16:02:18 · answer #6 · answered by clbinmo 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Lightning does strike some places more than once.
(Sears Tower, for instance, gets struck hundreds of times each year.)
The old saying is bogus.
2006-07-02 03:13:44 · answer #7 · answered by energeticthinker 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Lightening often strikes more than once in a single place. It is just an old-wives tale that it doesn't.
2006-07-02 03:12:37 · answer #8 · answered by roscoedeadbeat 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My goodness girl. You need to take a smart pill. I think it already hit you once and you better pray it doesn't ever hit you again. It's already killed more of your brain cells than you can afford to lose.
2006-07-02 04:48:13 · answer #9 · answered by Debbie R 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋