paaiyan wrote:Modderxtrordanare wrote:paaiyan wrote:
I concurr. Darwin awards are given out to those who die or lose the ability to reproduce. I.E., the guy who peed on an iron fence rail on the top of a mountain during a lightning storm. He survived, but his manhood didn't. He was given a darwin award.
Didn't mythbusters prove that wrong? Same concept as peeing on a subway rail.
Except a lightning bolt has thousands of times more volts than a subway rail. They get hotter than the surface of the sun. And they don't work the same way.
I wasn't referring to the fact that lighting has more volts than does a subway rail, I was remarking upon the point that the stream you pee out is so small in diameter, and not all connected back to you for electricity to flow constantly. Unless of course his urethra was half an inch in diameter, then I don't belive that electricity really went up into him and killed him.
Especially since electricity follows the path with the least resistance, and it could just go straight down the fence, and not up a narrow column of pee, and through ones skin. (which is highly resistant {unless its wet, even mildly})
But if electricity did go up and manage to reach him, his muscles would contract stopping the flow of pee, and shutting off the flow of electricity.