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20,000th Thread

This is VisorCentral's 20,000th thread! YEAAAAHHHH! Feel free to add comments on whatever below

20,000 is actually a big number - think $20,000, or 20,000 cars or 20,000 treo's

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Or 20,000 pounds of chocolate cake. Or 20,000 MB for my Visor. Or 20,000 channels for my TV. Or 20,000 Byzantine troops to go up against the Aztecs.

I could go on and on.

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There are 20,000 amps of electricity in your typical lightning strike ...
20,000 koalas may die ...
It's 1/6th the diameter (in KM) of Saturn ...
and let's not even talk about all them leagues under the sea.

I was going to add, "20,000 Macedonians in full battle array" .. then realized it's "7,000" -- not that anyone has any idea what the hey-li-li-li-lee-low I'm talking about.

If you read a thread a day it would take your almost 55 years ...
One a minute is almost two weeks. A thread a second is five and a half hours.

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A thread a second is five and a half hours.

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I'm gonna do it! Here I go...



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Originally posted by Yorick
If you read a thread a day it would take your almost 55 years...

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So that's why I seem to spend so much time here...

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If you read a thread a day it would take your almost 55 years ...
One a minute is almost two weeks. A thread a second is five and a half hours.

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There are 20,000 amps of electricity in your typical lightning strike ...

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Originally posted by dampeoples
I'm pretty sure it's Volts, and lots more of 'em, I'll look it up if you want.

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Last edited by Yorick on 12-17-2001 at 03:30 AM

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This was my source, 2/3 down the page:

http://www.lightningsafety.com/nlsi_info/media.html

I had a "backup" resource too, but can't find that link now.

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That's why I was only 'Pretty sure'

I always thought it was the other way around - 20Ka is a lot of force, wonder how many volts?

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okay, I got snooty and went for my almanac. but the dratted thing doesn't even list amps OR volts. just watts. And we all know what happened in Watts.

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how many watts? Volts = Watts divided by amps.

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My textbook states that Lightning has an average voltage of about 15,000,000. Watts = Volts times amps so according to my old textbook and the website, we have LOTS of watts. I guess that's where I got the whole no amps thing from - my old textbook doesn't even mention Amps, it just doesn't sound right, I have seen 15Kv gear blown to bits from far less power than this...

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I found another source (offline, sorry) which describes volts as a measure of a type of distance -- it's a measurement between two things -- and amperes (amps) as a measurement of a thing. all of which adds up to I'm totally confused.

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Volt - a unit for measure for the pressure that forces electricity along a conductor

Amp - a unit to measure the amount of electricity flowing through a conductor

Never heard it explained like that before - I'm confused now - I guess we're all confused now, I mean confused. It's really confusing and stuff...

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I think my con-fuse just blew. bzzap!

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From my Encyclopedia Americana:

"The average lightning discharge involves the flow of 10 coulombs of electricity across a potential difference of 100 millionn volts and has and energy of 1 billion joules, or nearly 280 kilowatt hours - enough to keep an ordinary room air conditioner running for nearly two weeks.....the temperature in the lightning channel rises to over 45,000 degrees F (25,000 degrees C), and the pressure rises to ten atmospheres in a small fraction of a second."

About the same energy as a case of Mt. Dew.

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About the same energy as a case of Mt. Dew.

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Volts, amps, it's enough to make the hair on the back of your neck stand up.

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