On Oct 20, 8:13*am, Giles wrote:
On Oct 19, 9:40*am, riverman wrote:

...the difference between you and me, Frank, is that you are IN your
own danger radius, while mine seems to start a few feet away from me
and radiate outward....

The sort of distinction that the rest of us need to scrutinize
carefully in deciding what company to keep.

Should the three of us ever find ourselves together in a lightning
storm, I believe I shall stand near (not right next to, but near)
Frank.....and as far from you as is readily achievable. * *

giles
banking on the law of inverse squares.

I think you'd be in trouble if Frank and I were together in a
lightning storm, no matter where you stand. The risk field would
emanate from me, compress at Frank, and there would be no null points
anywhere in between. Except right where Frank had been standing just a
moment ago.

--riverman