What would life and engineering be like if the atmosphere was

>>8488843
>what is lightning
The atmosphere is an electrical conductor you retard

>>8488855
This loser, maybe you can get your face out of tour grannys anus and realise what OP meant.
I study electronics and that would be a really pain in da ass. Electronics i think could keep the rhythm just by keeping pcbs layouts without copper in the outer layers but only the inner ones. Electronics would be more expensive. I worry about trains and so, it would be easier to produce a shortcircuit. Rhe world wouldnt be as it is.

>>8488855
Lightning is just a high enough voltage to cross a gap across an insulator.
In much the same way a very high voltage can travel through a thin layer of plastic, the absurd voltage of lightning allows it to travel through kilometres of air despite air being a (very weak) insulator.

>>8488843
Consider the ocean, a place where there is both life and ionic and charged compounds in the water can conduct an electrical current.

I would guess that it would be much like that but on land.

As for engineering, this anon >>8488881 sounds pretty convincing.

>>8488890
The concept of conduction / insulation is contextual. Anything can conduct with a high enough voltage.

>>8488890
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmospheric_electricity