I personally think that Franklin’s inference about flying a kite is not very rigorous, Reivew on MythBusters

It is true that the powerful energy of lightning cannot be simulated in life, but according to "How Much Probability Knows", a person survived 7 lightning strikes. (There should be many cases of surviving a lightning strike in the world, right?) This is of course a miracle, but it is also a fact after all. This means that if you are struck by lightning, the death rate cannot be 100%.

For those who survived by lightning, the power of lightning should not be very strong, (maybe a slightly weak current passes through the body, but the body can still perceive it), so Terminators should test this rumor like this:

a little bit increase Voltage, when the current can be transmitted to the key through the kite wire, the result of the Franklin dummy touching the key at this time can prove this rumor. If it exceeds the predetermined number, then he will undoubtedly die, and the rumors will end. But if one of ten trials or one hundred trials does not exceed the preset number, then at least it shows that the story is Plausible. In other words, Franklin was lucky. He will survive.

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