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Originally Posted by prescient63  If you can give me another plausible explanation I'll hear it. For the record I've had multiple pieces of electronics fried by lightning and never has one been left a charred smoldering anything |
There's a difference between the amount of current required to "fry" your electronics (read: make them stop working) and the amount required to make you feel like someone punched you in the teeth. Even if by some malignant act of God the lightning somehow snuck through your computer and through your headphones, your network card and USB controller would be at best "fried" and at worst in flames. Your headphone cable and network cable would look like you put them in the toaster.
Another plausible explanation? Well, right now, you don't have
any plausible explanation, so feel free to speculate on the improbable. A stroke? Undiagnosed epilepsy? Heart attack? Choking on a pretzel? Delusions? Don't ask me.
EDIT: Let me elaborate. A CAT5 cable (your network cable) doesn't usually carry significant electricity, but
these guys say they have run one or two amperes of current through it very briefly (he mentions that at three amps, the wire got warm and the jacks melted.) A lightning strike carries a current of several tens of thousands of amperes.