If I am walking in a park and it is a rough storm, what are the odds of being hit?
Also, what's the odds of being hit while ridding a bike?
2007-03-07 23:06:08 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Weather
the odds of being struck by lightening are a distant 1 in 600,000, of being killed by a meteor an astronomical 1 in 1.2 million, or of being eaten by a shark a mouth-watering 1 in 300 million.
USA today says this about riding a bike in a lightening storm
Is someone riding a bicycle safe from lightning?
A: NO! This isn't only wrong, it's potentially dead wrong. If someone told you this, he or she might have been using the false reasoning on why you're generally safe from lightning in a car. A car, with its windows up, can protect you from lightning because the lightning will follow the metal of the car to the ground. If the windows are down, the lightning could jump into the car. A car's tires do not insulate it from the ground as you sometimes hear. A lightning bolt that's jumped through a couple of thousand feet of air - which is a good insulator - isn't going to be slowed by a quarter inch of rubber in a tire.
2007-03-07 23:10:14 · answer #1 · answered by Adorabilly 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Statistics are only theory, if you roll the dice on the table you can be never sure about the outcome. If you use the example of statistics here then the chances to get the number you guessed are 1 out of 6. However, this example cannot be related with thunderstruck because it has to do with physics and objects motion, I just mention the odds.
The dice has 6 sides and you agree with this, it's a fact. In the other hand, you'll have to consider much more variables if you wish to calculate the statistics of getting thunderstrucked. These are geological characteristics (both natural and artificial) and atmospherical phenomena. I'm not going to get deep into these, because they are whole branches of science by themselves.
I would say that it's unpredictable to know when and where the lightning strucks.
2007-03-08 07:56:30 · answer #2 · answered by Constantine Soulion 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Statistically I think the chances are about 1 in a Million.
On a bike - I dont know the figures but it's much more likely since the metal frame of the bike is a good conducter of electricity.
Did you know: It is much more likely for you to be hit by lightning than it is for you to win the lottery (about 1 in six billion)
2007-03-09 03:51:00 · answer #3 · answered by MB1810 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just walking its highly unlikely because you don't have a conductor on you. Unless your holding a key for the lightning to connect to.
Riding a bike is more likely because of the surrounding metal frame
2007-03-08 07:09:36 · answer #4 · answered by thebigone238 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Statistically, about 5,000,000 to 1. Riding a bike wouldn't make too much difference, since it doesn't really have any projectiles.
2007-03-08 07:12:54 · answer #5 · answered by blighmaster 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I heard its 1/800000 people thats kinda alot
I heard bikes is like 1/10000000000 So thats like by the end of 2decades
I heard golfs guys 1/1000000 (this is part of the 1/800000)
2007-03-08 07:12:13 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The odds will drop pesipiteously if you run around a lot in circles. On a bicycle, when you peddle backwards you can see it coming and duck.
2007-03-08 07:12:51 · answer #7 · answered by LELAND 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
One ina million. but here in Florida its more like one ina hundred
The chances will be the same as if you were walking in a park or if you were riding your bike
2007-03-08 13:57:03 · answer #8 · answered by Justin 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1 in 1000 but if you are silly enough to ride in a thunder storm you got to take it as it comes
2007-03-08 08:06:58 · answer #9 · answered by kev l 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i think getting hit is rather small but increases if ur rifding a bike coz its made of metal
2007-03-08 07:11:29 · answer #10 · answered by kate m 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋