Blog Nine

This is me sailing my boat.  Woah, yeah, super cool.  I was concentrating kind of hard because it was windy, and I didn’t want to flip over.  But what I didn’t realize was the grave danger I could possibly have been in.  As you can see, there are clouds in the sky.  Clouds mean moisture, rain.  Clouds can also mean lightning.  When it turns dark and stormy, and lightning is imminent, this usually means that there is a charge discrepancy between the charged sky and the neutral ground, or in this case, water.  When charges are unequal, crazy stuff goes down.  Electrons can jump from the charged area to the neutral or oppositely charged area, in some cases causing static electricity and in others causing lightning!!  Lightning is really just a huge version of static electricity.  Given that water conducts electricity, it was probably not the best idea to go sailing when lightning was possible.  What’s more, my boat had a huge lightning rod on it; the mast!  That means, out of anywhere near me, I was the most likely to be hit by lightning, since lightning rods draw the attention of lightning by providing the shortest and easiest root for the electrons to transfer over.  This was really sketchy!  Luckily it all worked out and I didn’t die.

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