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Here's a little fun -- for those who have Google Earth. Navigate yourself to Paris (the one in France, not Texas) and locate the Eiffel Tower. Lower your altitude to a couple thousand feet.

Then select 3D buildings and position yourself directly above the top of the Tower. Scroll down until you see an X-shaped piece of metal attached at the very highest point of the tippy-top. That X-shaped metal thing (XSMT) sort of gives the lightning a bigger target. Notice along the edges of the XSMT there are burned and eroded areas showing what lightning can do. I have to believe that the Eiffel Tower conforms to the French electrical code, whether such a thing existed at the time the tower was built. Imagine if it weren't well grounded!

I'd post a screenshot, but I'm one of a select group who can't even quote another post .

<blockquote data-quote="Beetle" data-source="post: 590586" data-attributes="member: 1066">Here&#039;s a little fun -- for those who have Google Earth.&nbsp; Navigate yourself to Paris (the one in France, not Texas) and locate the Eiffel Tower.&nbsp; Lower your altitude to a couple thousand feet.Then select 3D buildings and position yourself directly above the top of the Tower.&nbsp; Scroll down until you see an X-shaped piece of metal attached at the very highest point of the tippy-top.&nbsp; That X-shaped metal thing (XSMT) sort of gives the lightning a bigger target.&nbsp; Notice along the edges of the XSMT there are burned and eroded areas showing what lightning can do.&nbsp; I have to believe that the Eiffel Tower conforms to the French electrical code, whether such a thing existed at the time the tower was built.&nbsp; Imagine if it weren&#039;t well grounded!I&#039;d post a screenshot, but I&#039;m one of a select group who can&#039;t even quote another post <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown&nbsp; &nbsp; :("&nbsp; data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" />.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Beetle, post: 590586, member: 1066"] Here's a little fun -- for those who have Google Earth. Navigate yourself to Paris (the one in France, not Texas) and locate the Eiffel Tower. Lower your altitude to a couple thousand feet. Then select 3D buildings and position yourself directly above the top of the Tower. Scroll down until you see an X-shaped piece of metal attached at the very highest point of the tippy-top. That X-shaped metal thing (XSMT) sort of gives the lightning a bigger target. Notice along the edges of the XSMT there are burned and eroded areas showing what lightning can do. I have to believe that the Eiffel Tower conforms to the French electrical code, whether such a thing existed at the time the tower was built. Imagine if it weren't well grounded! I'd post a screenshot, but I'm one of a select group who can't even quote another post :(. [/QUOTE]

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