few weeks ago came the news of an English girl of fourteen remained virtually unscathed after being struck by lightning, thanks to his iPod. It appears that the electrical discharge has been diverted from the headphones, which at that moment hung idle, burning the device but only partially discharged on the body, producing only a few burns on the neck and chest in a nutshell, the doctors said that it was the iPod to save it. combination? Case? Miracle? Or actually go about in time with an iPod is a guarantee of survival? do not know, but that the lightning-themed iPod is not just the new shows conflicting reports from a few years ago: in 2005 a young Canadian, who enjoyed a run while listening to his iPod was in turn struck by lightning suffering numerous injuries. This time the doctors who followed the case instead published an article in The New England Journal of Medicine, saying that maybe the device, even if you could not say that he had attracted the discharge, had at least aggravated the damage caused by lightning.
Perhaps in recent years has been a popular new release of software configuration scacciafulmini, which fixed a bug that instead it constituted the first acchiappafulimini? A sort of library Lightning 2.0 which replaced the 1.0?
Or perhaps, more likely, the device is neither one nor the other but it all depends on circumstances and conditions, shall we?
And, perhaps, certain conditions would be good to avoid them? For example, if the girl's "miracle", I read that to protect from the time she and her boyfriend were sheltered under a tree a park. Well, I think that everyone knows - almost by the book suggestion "of young marmots" topolinesca of memory - that should be avoided to shelter under a tree, because they are particularly vulnerable to lightning, especially if isolated. There was a better choice than the two boys, as I do not think is healthy to continue to run under a deluge of thunderstorms.
Moral: maybe before you trust, or not, technology is always best to follow the wise advice of his grandmother. As stated in the ninth corollary of Murphy's famous law: "As both a hidden flaw, nature always manages to find her!"
Happy holidays to all and, please, pay attention to time!
meditate, people, meditate ... :-)
