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Today I wondered why fish doesn't die when the lightning strikes into the water.

But if you put an Electric Insect-killer in the water, all fishies will float to the surface.

Some ideas? :p

Cya tomorrow, time for bed now :)

The answer comes here

From: Answer - by mixster

Electricity tries to go to the ground for whatever reason and will go through the path of least resistance. Trees, metal posts etc. all have less resistance to the electrical current than air, so it goes through them to the ground. Water actually has a very high electrical resistance without large amounts of salt, so the lightning would only look like it's going through the water when probably going to the ground next to it. Also, lightning doesn't always kill, so it's possible that if it does go through the water, it may just kill a couple of fish and burn a few others.

i dont think lightning acctually hits the water only the ground and trees and other things that stick out of the ground

~shut

From: shuttleu
i dont think lightning acctually hits the water only the ground and trees and other things that stick out of the ground

~shut

Get rlly wet on a thunderstorm and tell me what happens lol

Many mysteries surround lightning… This is just another one of them…

Doesn't lightning go ground up? So technically it wouldn't strike the water?

EDIT: Nvm, I just looked it up because I got bored and I guess not all lightning goes ground up. That is a good question though, why don't the fish die?

Electricity tries to go to the ground for whatever reason and will go through the path of least resistance. Trees, metal posts etc. all have less resistance to the electrical current than air, so it goes through them to the ground. Water actually has a very high electrical resistance without large amounts of salt, so the lightning would only look like it's going through the water when probably going to the ground next to it. Also, lightning doesn't always kill, so it's possible that if it does go through the water, it may just kill a couple of fish and burn a few others.

Idk that's weird.

Lighting strikes water all the time.

idk.

lol maybe fishes have a invisible barrier on them that dosent let lightning strike it.. just a theory

Erm, maybe lightning doesn't hit water. It could be an optical illusion or something.

I might just test this sometime. Im gonna have a fish and jump into the water and wait for the lightning to hit the water and see who will die… Me… or the fish…

If it's a large body of water like a lake or ocean, the electricity is diluted across the whole expanse and is therefore weaker.
If it's a small body of water the lightning would just hit the ground next to it.

In the pond right in front of me now (training fishing in real life now lol :p) i don't think it prettuy big. something like oval-shaped, 75 meter east->west and about 25 meter from north to south.