During a thunderstorm, the National Weather Service advises against using a phone. MythBusters Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage looked into this common safety advice, based on the possibility that lightning could strike whatever building you’re inside.
The MythBusters zapped a makeshift house with 300,000 volts of electricity to chart lightning’s potential path from the ground wiring to the phone held by ballistics gel dummy Buster. The gel inside Buster shares the same electrical resistance as human flesh, and a heart monitor hooked to him measured how big of a zap his body received from the hot phone.Watch the video to find out if the myth is true or busted.Learn more from the Discovery Channel’s Mythbusters.
