No. Lightning has been detected on Venus, Jupiter, and Saturn.
Lightning not only can strike the same place twice, it frequently does.
No, you cannot use a lightning strike to target a planeswalker in the game of Magic: The Gathering. Lightning strike can only target creatures or players, not planeswalkers.
No, if the Earth's surface were an insulator, lightning would not be able to strike it because insulators do not conduct electricity. Lightning occurs when there is a difference in electrical charge between the clouds and the Earth's surface, and if the Earth were an insulator, it would not allow the flow of electricity necessary for lightning to occur.
you can see the lightning for only about a second or so but you can hear the thunder for a couple seconds.
Lightning does strike ships.
Yes. Lightning CAN strike anything.
Generally circuit breaker is not designed to trip off in the event of lightning. The system has lightning arrestors which reroute the lightning effect to earth instantly. If there are no lightning arrestors then the equipment are likely to fail upon a lightning strike.
Roughly 100 times per second.
Nope - lightning can strike the same place multiple times if the object presents enough ionic attraction to ground the charge.
No, lightning does not strike upwards. Lightning typically strikes downwards from the clouds to the ground.
The Lightning Strike was created on 2008-10-24.
On average, there are about 44 flashes of lightning per second and 2,400 times per minute on Earth. This equates to approximately 1.4 billion lightning strikes worldwide every year.