Talk:Current Dragon/@comment-81.156.60.249-20120523160049/@comment-4772068-20120523205533

water does not conduct electricity...the ions in the water conducts the electricity because they are charged...but if this was the case, earth should have been the opposite element for lightning since earth is the the penultimate insulator against electricity...I think the main reason lightning and water are opposites is because when a non-insulated electric current runs through a lake, pond, bathtub, etc. full of water, something usually dies...