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[TheZoomZoll]

I'm a manofwar man, why would I care about electricity, if I have no muscles??

ZAP ZAP affects any water in the body and cells in general.
Why does lightning affect ground/trees during a storm?They don't have any muscles.HMM?

[scapheap]

lightning superheat the sap in the tree and then it explode. Ground-wise it burn marks unless it hit a gas pipe or something.

A man of war will die if you hit it with something hotter then the sun. Guess what lightning is.

[TheZoomZoll]

lightning superheat the sap in the tree and then it explode. Ground-wise it burn marks unless it hit a gas pipe or something.

A man of war will die if you hit it with something hotter then the sun. Guess what lightning is.

Wise words my friend.Wise words indeed.

What's five times hotter than the sun and capable of sending a DeLorean back to the future?

Yep, the answer is a bolt of lightning, which can reach temperatures of roughly 30,000 kelvins (53,540 degrees Fahrenheit). The sun, on the other hand, is eclipsed in this case -- its surface temperature is just 6,000 kelvins (10,340 degrees Fahrenheit). It's one amazing piece of science trivia, but what exactly does it all mean?

First, it's important to realize that the sun's surface is actually its coolest layer. Dive down to its core, and you'd encounter plasma temperatures of about 15 million kelvins (about 27 million degrees Fahrenheit). Things also heat up just above the sun's surface, as its atmosphere exceeds temperatures of 500,000 kelvins (about 900,000 degrees Fahrenheit).

"Power is the rate at which energy is used or transferred," explains University of Washington physics professor Robert H. Holzworth. "So power is energy per second, and the energy per second in lighting can be very high, but it only lasts a really, really, short time, like tens of microseconds. So the total energy isn't like the total energy from the sun, obviously, but the rate the energy dissipates can be very large. It's one of the most powerful natural phenomena on Earth."

But just where does all that energy come from?

"Ultimately that energy comes from the sun," Holzworth says. "The sun heats up the surface, which results in differential heating. One area is warmer than another, and warm air rises since it's less dense. When you have moisture in the air, that parcel of air can go up much higher than it would otherwise. That's the basis of very strong convection."

At this point, Holzworth explains, ice forms in the parcel of rising air.

"You can get very efficient charge transfer, so that you get positive and negative charges separated by the bouncing ice," Holzworth says. "It turns out that when you have ice collisions, there's some likelihood that, at certain places in the cloud, smaller ice formations such as snowflakes are going to get charged positive, leaving behind negative charge on the hail stones or the soft hail."

The lighter, positively charged ice particles continue to rise toward the top of the clouds. Meanwhile, the heavier, negatively charged ice particles plummet, thus separating the charge in a process known as gravity separation.

This process creates a strong electric field, which in turn ionizes the air around the cloud, separating air molecules into positive ions and electrons. Electrons move far more easily in ionized air. Once a channel of ionized air is established from cloud to ground (or between two points in a cloud), high-temperature current flows in the form of a lightning stroke that neutralizes the charge separation.

Richard E. Orville, director of Texas A&M University's atmospheric sciences department, equates the breakdown of an electrical buildup to an incident he witnessed in eighth grade involving a screwdriver and an electrical socket.

"There was a fellow sitting in front of me, and for some reason he had a screwdriver in his hand," Orville said. "He stuck it in the wall socket and received a very big discharge. Of course that's because you had an excess of electricity in a plug just waiting to be tapped, which we do every day when we plug in a device. So in this case, you've got a buildup of electrical charge in the base of a cloud, and breakdown occurs when the electric field gets high enough."

So while it wouldn't be accurate to say a bolt of lightning is hotter than the sun itself, these flashes of electrical energy do reach higher temperatures than the surface of the sun.

[javierpwn]

Too bad manofwar a die from drying up/lack of nutrition when they wash up on shores

[TheZoomZoll]

Too bad manofwar a die from drying up/lack of nutrition when they wash up on shores

Aww!I remember reading an article about something like that.
Not cool.

[GreatWyrmGold]

Also, lightning is hot enough to burn you. If nothing else, your...floatie colony member will probably pop.

[TolyK]

It'll be "painful" either way

[javierpwn]

Why are we discussing how the world is affected in a semi-minimalist RTD

[TheZoomZoll]

Why are we discussing how the world is affected in a semi-minimalist RTD

Back to annoy the GM to punish you again for no real reason I see?
What natural disaster do you want to end up in next?

[javierpwn]

A non existent one pls?
But seriously we are fooling around because no update

[TheZoomZoll]

^{UPDATE RUSHED BY JAVIER.HAPPY?}

Grab the bullet flying in the tornado
Throw it west.

_{It already hit you.A helicopter comes very near to you.}

Land copter. Cut cuffs chain with sword.

_{You are caught in a tornado.
(3)You cut the chain.He still has the cuffs on him.}

Hey, don't I run before he does stupid shit?
Well ok then.
Pew pew microwave gun!

_{He is made of metal.He is also being covered by an electric shield.
(5)You decide to shoot him with all your power.It did nothing.}

Stun him anyways
Continue further down sewers


STOP the interruptions!

_{He is made of metal.He is also being covered by an electric shield
(6+2?)You decide to slap him anyways.It shocked your tentacle.
You take the Neo-man and continue down the sewer without GWG carrying the alligator corpse and the Neo-Man everything Melinda had (including corpse).}

Explain self.
"It's not me, it's the demons. You think it's cool, being able to do that kind of crap? It's not. It never works how you want it to, I'm damned from birth from these damn demons, everything around me rots and decays quickly..."

_{They left you to rust alone..}

GWG-Ate way too many beans.Alone in sectors 18 sewers.+3 to any rolls.
TolyK-Going to a different sector with Javier.Carrying everything Melinda had to her name.
Javierpwn-Carrying an alligators corpse.Is walking down the main tunnel with the neo-man TolyK.Gets +2 to any rolls.Satisfied with water and food needs and is sad.
Scapheap-Flying a helicopter in a tornado
Urist_McDrowner-Next to scapheap in a helicopter.
Freshmaniscoolman-With a plane in a tornado.Is having a headache

[GreatWyrmGold]

Set off some direction the others aren't. Hope to find more tolerant individuals.

((FYI, I'm not 100% metal. Just some bits of me are.))

[TheZoomZoll]

Set off some direction the others aren't. Hope to find more tolerant individuals.

((FYI, I'm not 100% metal. Just some bits of me are.))

Race: Drake/Mechanical

You sure fooled me.

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Notice the ones with !!!?
They were said to change your gameplay.
Did I lie?No.

[scapheap]

Ride out the storm.

[TolyK]

Go with new companion, attempt to get a bonus to weapon-using.