Watching Avatar: the last airbender

>watching Avatar: the last airbender
>a LIGHTNING attack is blocked by a water shield

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Interesting science fact, water only conducts electricity when there's something in it like dirt, salt, etc. Clean, distilled water isn't conductive.

You're talking about when Azula went insane and was chucking lightning around like it was going out of style? The lightning in that scene was weak enough to be dispersed by water. They weren't full power. Earlier in the series when Azula was focused and shot out a real one it blasted through all of Aang's Avatar shielding which was every element.

True enough, but Waterbenders tend to draw from natural sources. I remember Katara purifying some muck into water at a point, but I doubt she could distill it entirely of trace minerals.

it was confirmed in the desert episode that the water isn't pure "tastes like sand now"

I was referring to the end of the book of earth

The Crossroads of Destiny? There were two instances of lightning there, one was countered with an earth wall, the other electrocuted Aang. Can you provide pics?

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>Earlier in the series when Azula was focused and shot out a real one it blasted through all of Aang's Avatar shielding which was every element.
Aang wasn't surrounded by a 4 element shield when she shot at him.

that's not a lightning

Blue fire pleb

Interesting science fact, water pretty much always has something in it.

Those are just Azula's regular blue flames. It's just really hot fire.

>user makes an entire thread because he doesn't know what's fire
Beautiful

Water insulates electricity. The only reason you're told it conducts it growing up is because the impurities in water that you receive at your house, from metal in the pipes to fluoride added by the state conduct electricity.

Much like your mother's vagina.

>watching justice league
>wonder woman blocks lightning with bracers
>flash comments on how retarded it is

What if it conducted it to the ground?
Like you know, a wire?

Makes sense. Firebenders can't really bend lightning. They can create it and aim it, but they can't control it once they fire it.

surely if you had a water shield that isn't physically connected to you, it would be one of the best things against lightning attacks, as they would just dissipate against the water instead of "piercing" it?

I wonder if it can work like a lightning rod
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightning_rod

Sounds like a job for mythbusters

That's...fire

youtu.be/e53q3NrX2HI

So since we know it's Azula's blue fire and that OP was masturbating at the time and wasn't paying too much attention to the details, does water that is drawn up from the ground/source have a chance of blocking lightning by sending it back to the ground/source so long as the person bending the water isn't touching it?

SAD

haven't see seen FIRE shatter ROCKS too?

In Avatar, there's no such thing as 'elemental rock paper scissors' no element is necessarily stronger than the other, it's about the style, technique, and levels of mastery of the user that matters.

Hell, the only reason we probably don't see air bending smash down barriers is because that's just not the style and philosophy behind it.

Why would lightning pass through water? Do you think bending is conductive?

Waterbenders bend water, no reason to think they can't pick up the water and only the water thus making pure water.

Even if water conducts electricity unless the water was in contact with the bender there is no reason to expect this doesn't work

>water only conducts electricity when there's something in it
No, water only conducts electricity when there's something in it
You guys know lightning strikes trees, right?
Very few things, if any, are truly 100% nonconductive, just 99.9% or whatever else. If that material is all the lightning has, it'll use it to get to ground, and it'll work. The caveat is that when electricity flows through a resistant material it heats up. A lot. So lightning strikes a tree, flowing through the traces of wet wood down the tree, heating up the wet wood to the point of explosive vaporization of the water. That's why trees explode when struck by lightning. So even if the water was impossibly 100% pure, it's still a path to ground, and the electricity is going to fucking take it. It will MAKE the material take it to ground. Lightning is very persuasive.