About 30 years ago, there was a massive thunderstorm over North shields (where I lived, NE England), me and the girlfriend went down to the beech, to have a giggle on the sands amongst the thunder and lightning and rain. There were huge scorch marks on the sand, presumably from lightning. We saw a small boat out on the sea, but guessed the owner must be okay. Next day we found out he had been hit by lightning and killed. Consider the rain, even if the boat is made of insulating material, its all drenched at that point. So, yes.
Insulation has its limits too. Air insulates, but you still get arcs from mere static electricity. Electrical tape insulates to, what?, 70kV and it is designed to do so. Lightning is 10-100 MV and boats are fairly thin material and not meant for that. I'm not even sure the lightning has to hit a person in order to stop their heart. The electric field must change pretty quickly, right?, so wouldn't that cause an EMP?
@@blechtic I think modern boats (especially cruise and cargo boats) use a "lightning conductor" to pass the charge through the metal body and into the water, grounding it harmlessly away from the passengers.
@@prabhatsourya3883 Well, of course, actual ships have a lightning rod of some kind, or tolerance to lightning strikes, but mere boats? Yachts: yes, medium-sized sailing boats: probably, but smaller boats: likely not. I wonder what kind of cost is involved, because a lighting passing through those things should leave both the rod and the boat intact. The ionisation of air means a lighting is more likely to strike that spot again and neither the rod or the boat around it should melt or burn if they get hit. I also wonder what is the minimum size that they can still attract the lighting enough to protect from it.
In lightning a metal boat is the safest option, get inside and the boat acts as a Faraday cage and even a direct strike will pass you by, the same as happens in an metal airplane. Do not fly in a storm in a plastic plane (if there is such a thing) unless you are wearing a full chain mail suit.
One of the producers wrote a book about his time on top gear called ‘and on that bombshell’ if you’re interested in finding out more about the behind the scenes stuff
Irn Bru isn't beer, just a Scottish soft drink. If you bake a Hedgehog in clay, you can eat it without the spines after you've opened it out. That's not a hump, it's a dorsal fin for when they swim!
Dubai Police fleet director Nabil Abdulla Al Redha said: 'This is promoting the image of Dubai, this is just advertising. Because most people like sports cars. If you are putting an advert for just Dubai Police, perhaps not many people would be interested. But if you put an advert for a sports car, most people would be interested; people would be more attracted. the belief that they are standard patrol cars or used in pursuits is false-the exotic cars are only used for traffic enforcement in tourist areas, and policing in the rest of the city, including responses to emergencies and pursuits, is conducted by regular patrol units in cheaper patrol cars.
3:22 We were cutting down a tree with my dad and it fell onto powerlines I asked him the same thing The wood isn't conductive, but water is. Wood can get wet and soak up that water. Also electricity is interesting, with enough energy basically everything is conductive. That's why they tell us to stay away from power lines, they are isolated, but with the high current you can't be entirely sure.
How does your american F350 pickup truck fit in those european streets?! easy: it doesnt! Hence one of the many reasons american cars dont sell well in europe.
Lightning strikes are infinitely less dangerous on ships at sea, as the entire surrounding water functions as a "grounding" wire. The only danger is a direct strike, such as on wooden ships with tall masts Or large vessels with tall superstructure
The lightning has already jumped a few kilometers of air gap. Air is also not famous for conducting electricity. After that a bit of wooden boat is not going to stop it. All you get is some burnt wood (and anyone in it).
I love that you are watching these Connor. But sadly, you are missing out on all of the comedy. The reason being, is that you keep pausing it just at the comedy moments, and then starting it again so that you don't know why it's funny - just to ask a 9 questions on what's going on because you don't understand the context of the scenes, what would happen if you got struck by lightning on water, etc. Try to watch them seamlessly if you can. Then you'll find the comedy.
Boats. Made of steel, aluminium, fibre glass, GRP, carbon fibre. All conduct electricity. However, like a car, they act like a Faraday cage when designed properly so you should be safe inside.
Dubai Police fleet director Nabil Abdulla Al Redha said: 'This is promoting the image of Dubai, this is just advertising. Because most people like sports cars. If you are putting an advert for just Dubai Police, perhaps not many people would be interested. But if you put an advert for a sports car, most people would be interested; people would be more attracted. the belief that they are standard patrol cars or used in pursuits is false-the exotic cars are only used for traffic enforcement in tourist areas, and policing in the rest of the city, including responses to emergencies and pursuits, is conducted by regular patrol units in cheaper patrol cars.
So damn sad that I will never see new specials from them again, but it's understandable since both Jeremy and James are over 60 and Richard is still 38 due to the brain damage he got. There are few things better than going through their specials, races, cheap car challenges etc. They all also have their own shows from over the years. I would recommend becoming a 🏴☠ of t he bay just to see the whole journey unfold.
No, these clips are way too short and too out of context, different episodes, different series and different programmes. great stuff but meaningless like this.
About 30 years ago, there was a massive thunderstorm over North shields (where I lived, NE England), me and the girlfriend went down to the beech, to have a giggle on the sands amongst the thunder and lightning and rain. There were huge scorch marks on the sand, presumably from lightning. We saw a small boat out on the sea, but guessed the owner must be okay.
Next day we found out he had been hit by lightning and killed. Consider the rain, even if the boat is made of insulating material, its all drenched at that point.
So, yes.
Damn, that's horrifying...
Insulation has its limits too. Air insulates, but you still get arcs from mere static electricity. Electrical tape insulates to, what?, 70kV and it is designed to do so. Lightning is 10-100 MV and boats are fairly thin material and not meant for that.
I'm not even sure the lightning has to hit a person in order to stop their heart. The electric field must change pretty quickly, right?, so wouldn't that cause an EMP?
@@blechtic I think modern boats (especially cruise and cargo boats) use a "lightning conductor" to pass the charge through the metal body and into the water, grounding it harmlessly away from the passengers.
@@prabhatsourya3883 Well, of course, actual ships have a lightning rod of some kind, or tolerance to lightning strikes, but mere boats? Yachts: yes, medium-sized sailing boats: probably, but smaller boats: likely not.
I wonder what kind of cost is involved, because a lighting passing through those things should leave both the rod and the boat intact. The ionisation of air means a lighting is more likely to strike that spot again and neither the rod or the boat around it should melt or burn if they get hit. I also wonder what is the minimum size that they can still attract the lighting enough to protect from it.
At 10:12, the location of the Rally that Jeremy was driving in was the island of Mallorca...so you were correct that it was in Spain. LOL
In lightning a metal boat is the safest option, get inside and the boat acts as a Faraday cage and even a direct strike will pass you by, the same as happens in an metal airplane. Do not fly in a storm in a plastic plane (if there is such a thing) unless you are wearing a full chain mail suit.
That's sounds like a recipe for skin grafts.
Hi Connor...Jeremy is 6 feet 5 inches, and Hammond is 5 feet 7 inches...LOL...they put them next to each other for comedy on purpose. 😜
I thought Jeremy was just 6'
@@mlee6050 I thought Richard was 3 feet tall. 😯
@@olwynskye417 why bring me back here ... A guy I like I estimate is 6'5" reading this place again made me regret like him and seeing him on 29th
@@mlee6050 I'VE FOUND THE HOBBITS!
Have you seen Clarksons Farm? Sounds dull if you just read about it but it was fun, can recommend it.
One of the producers wrote a book about his time on top gear called ‘and on that bombshell’ if you’re interested in finding out more about the behind the scenes stuff
Yes it is!
It is beautiful, Rwanda!
Irn Bru isn't beer, just a Scottish soft drink. If you bake a Hedgehog in clay, you can eat it without the spines after you've opened it out. That's not a hump, it's a dorsal fin for when they swim!
Just?
you take that back, its not just a soft drink, its the pride of scotland
You should always check for hedgehogs in bonfires before you light them. I looked and there weren’t any, luckily I had a bagful in the freezer.
Thumbnail, May was actually making the bricks he used to build his car........
15:43 - That was, I believe, Dubai in the UAE.
Dubai Police fleet director Nabil Abdulla Al Redha said: 'This is promoting the image of Dubai, this is just advertising. Because most people like sports cars. If you are putting an advert for just Dubai Police, perhaps not many people would be interested. But if you put an advert for a sports car, most people would be interested; people would be more attracted. the belief that they are standard patrol cars or used in pursuits is false-the exotic cars are only used for traffic enforcement in tourist areas, and policing in the rest of the city, including responses to emergencies and pursuits, is conducted by regular patrol units in cheaper patrol cars.
3:22 We were cutting down a tree with my dad and it fell onto powerlines
I asked him the same thing
The wood isn't conductive, but water is. Wood can get wet and soak up that water.
Also electricity is interesting, with enough energy basically everything is conductive.
That's why they tell us to stay away from power lines, they are isolated, but with the high current you can't be entirely sure.
There's an old saying...
"A camel is just a horse made by a committee"
Hammond's boat said 'Razzle Dazzle', but James and Jeremy changed it to 'Jizzle Drizzle'.
You should watch Top Gear build a space shuttle
How does your american F350 pickup truck fit in those european streets?! easy: it doesnt! Hence one of the many reasons american cars dont sell well in europe.
The Royal Albert Hall. That man called Juan, was from Mallorca (sounds like ma-yorka).
not gonna lie: this dudes background is speaking history right here XD nicely done jibbin
Ancient Italian towns weren't built for American pickup trucks.
11:35 Even an american man wont fit there
Hi Jeremy is 6 foot 5 i think and those police cars are in dubai
Being a producer on this would be so fun:) Jeremy got fired because he punched a producer, mmmmmm
He wasn't fired, they just didn't renew his contract.
Lightning strikes are infinitely less dangerous on ships at sea, as the entire surrounding water functions as a "grounding" wire. The only danger is a direct strike, such as on wooden ships with tall masts
Or large vessels with tall superstructure
i dont know if u noticed it but your greenscreen turns most videos with trees or bushes in them invisible
Hi Connor did you already film / uploaded the vid you said u would do in the outro ?
The lightning has already jumped a few kilometers of air gap. Air is also not famous for conducting electricity. After that a bit of wooden boat is not going to stop it. All you get is some burnt wood (and anyone in it).
to answer your question at 1:20, jeremy is 6 foot 5
I love that you are watching these Connor. But sadly, you are missing out on all of the comedy. The reason being, is that you keep pausing it just at the comedy moments, and then starting it again so that you don't know why it's funny - just to ask a 9 questions on what's going on because you don't understand the context of the scenes, what would happen if you got struck by lightning on water, etc.
Try to watch them seamlessly if you can. Then you'll find the comedy.
u need to fix that greescreen. whenever the video has something green in it, it just gets cut out
Maybe you can react to James May OCD compilation.
Boats. Made of steel, aluminium, fibre glass, GRP, carbon fibre. All conduct electricity. However, like a car, they act like a Faraday cage when designed properly so you should be safe inside.
11:32 they don't
Dubai Police fleet director Nabil Abdulla Al Redha said: 'This is promoting the image of Dubai, this is just advertising. Because most people like sports cars. If you are putting an advert for just Dubai Police, perhaps not many people would be interested. But if you put an advert for a sports car, most people would be interested; people would be more attracted. the belief that they are standard patrol cars or used in pursuits is false-the exotic cars are only used for traffic enforcement in tourist areas, and policing in the rest of the city, including responses to emergencies and pursuits, is conducted by regular patrol units in cheaper patrol cars.
more random clips with zero context resulting in inevitable confusion
So damn sad that I will never see new specials from them again, but it's understandable since both Jeremy and James are over 60 and Richard is still 38 due to the brain damage he got. There are few things better than going through their specials, races, cheap car challenges etc.
They all also have their own shows from over the years. I would recommend becoming a 🏴☠ of t he bay just to see the whole journey unfold.
The police cars were from Dubai and they don't use them. Just in some parades.
The hat sounds good apart from that hedgehogs are extremely endangered, and hedgehogs are extremely important to the environment in the uk
17:50 🛑 stop just stop 😂
You green screened the wrong video man 😂
Naah and inch of wood or few mm of fiberglass won't insulate you from a lightning :)
Pro nun sea ation
a CARcus! HA
No, these clips are way too short and too out of context, different episodes, different series and different programmes. great stuff but meaningless like this.
Lol it wouldn't fit😮
The neat trick that that pick up did not fit in there.