When lightning strikes the ocean why don all the fish die?
Contrary to popular belief, lightning only strikes from the ground up in rare scenarios. The positive and negative charges that build up in a cloud cause the lightning to form. Therefore because lightning’s origin is in the cloud, it most often strikes from the cloud to the ground. Thats why lightning branches out downwards; if it extended from the ground you would see it branching upwards like a tree. Lightning can’t just spontaneously be generated at ground level and form branches from three different points as it ascends, so those of you saying lightning comes from the ground up are mostly wrong except for in rare cases! Now for my answer: The ocean is so large the electricity in the lightning couldn’t possibly be conducted through every part of it. Salt water isn’t that great of a conductor anyway (even though it can conduct electricity because it has ions in it. It isnt a great conductor such as the ground, or certain metals are however), so the electricity wouldnt be conducted ve
