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[Rose]

Shouldn't make you feel terrified. Car is a nice faraday's cage, one of the safer places to be in in a thunderstorm. That is, when it's properly grounded.
You're safer in a car than you'd be in some houses.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faraday_cage

Cars aren't known for being grounded, though.

Tires are insulators, after all.

[Orange Wizard]

Bolt would probably just arc from the car to the ground, like a plane.

[Amperzand]

Shouldn't make you feel terrified. Car is a nice faraday's cage, one of the safer places to be in in a thunderstorm. That is, when it's properly grounded.
You're safer in a car than you'd be in some houses.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faraday_cage

Cars aren't known for being grounded, though.

Tires are insulators, after all.

Actually, they are. Some quite clever engineering went into it, but basically cars kept building up static charges, and this occasionally lead to sparks when something that was grounded touched the vehicle. Such as a person. Or a gas line.

[martinuzz]

Yep, older cars have a small grounding strip hanging somewhere near the rear bumper, modern cars have the grounding incorporated with some clever engineering.

[Loud Whispers]

Slapped a fly out with a newspaper, fed it to one of the pitchers of the Nepenthes

Put a torch to the pitcher to see what was going on, to my horror the fly was still alive and was being digested alive

[misko27]

Slapped a fly out with a newspaper, fed it to one of the pitchers of the Nepenthes

Put a torch to the pitcher to see what was going on, to my horror the fly was still alive and was being digested alive

Loud Whispers' latent entomologist tendencies finally come out and discovers that bugs are being metaphorically (and literally) chewed up by the system.

[martinuzz]

Slapped a fly out with a newspaper, fed it to one of the pitchers of the Nepenthes

Put a torch to the pitcher to see what was going on, to my horror the fly was still alive and was being digested alive

That's still pretty mild compared to Ichneumonidae. The larvae of this wasp family eat the host they were injected into alive, slowly, over a period of days to weeks.

[Loud Whispers]

Nature has a wicked sense of humour

[scriver]

Parasite worms are the creepiest fucking things. I hate them.

[Arcvasti]

eHHH, pitcher plants rank top of that list for me. Besides looking weird and bulgy, the whole digesting things alive[The idea of which disturbs me like few others can], makes them one of the reasons I'm glad I live in a cold climate.

[Descan]

Newfoundland has pitcher plants.

[TheDarkStar]

What's the infection rate/average age of first infection of parasitic worms in people? I've heard that most people get one by the time they're six, but I failed to find a source.

[itisnotlogical]

I just realized that I can't remember the last time I was seriously hit in the nuts. I've been grazed and had near-misses, but I can't recall ever getting a direct hit, except for the fact that it happened in the distant past. Now I'm terrified there's some Grim Reaper-like figure somewhere in the void, flipping a coin, waiting until it comes up heads so he can send an agent to hit me square in the nuts.

[Loud Whispers]

I just realized that I can't remember the last time I was seriously hit in the nuts. I've been grazed and had near-misses, but I can't recall ever getting a direct hit, except for the fact that it happened in the distant past. Now I'm terrified there's some Grim Reaper-like figure somewhere in the void, flipping a coin, waiting until it comes up heads so he can send an agent to hit me square in the nuts.

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The pained noise you will make in this event

[KingofstarrySkies]

It is. The worst pain. I'm never silent when it happens, though. I usually just loudly swear.