Low voltage: “Oh no, there is a tiny spot of corrosion on the contact surface, I think I need to lie down…”
High voltage: (rips line of coke) “I’M GONNA MAKE MY OWN WIRES WITH BLACKJACK AND HOOKERS!”
In fact, forget the blackjack!
This is particularly applicable around downed power cables. Do NOT approach. You don’t need to touch it to become the wire.
For example: in LA right now
dO nOT toUch the DoWn wIres uuuum I have MY RIGHTS to turn myself into a gas station hotdogs thankyouverymuch
You have to keep in mind that the resistance from one foot to your other is going to be less than dry earth between your strides. This means if you are walking toward a downed power line, you may inadvertently walk within its path to its ground and the voltage could actually travel through you.
Why is this not knowledge taught in school?
It is the first time i hear about it and i have never thought of it, yet it makes total sense and could make the difference between life and death in a storm damaged area.
Well, we did learn exactly that in school and had a practical demonstration at a museum.
But on a different continent.
Yeah this should be up there with “stop, drop, and roll”
Because magic™ is cool
That’s so interesting. Thanks!
The safest way to do it is to get someone else to touch it first.
Especially dangerous if it’s a high voltage wire. Even standing close you can become the least resistant path to earth.
For downed, you mean just a power cable that’s down on the ground but otherwise intact, or he’s only dangerous when cut?
Any cable that’s not where it’s supposed to be, just stay away 👌 Even if it isn’t visibly cut there could be a short somewhere
mhh, you have a point.
Everything is wire if the voltage is high enough
iS iT Up tO cOde??? <— stupidass city council 🙄
Everything is a wire if the voltage is high enough.
Every machine is a smoke machine if you use it wrong enough.
I was interviewed for a position where lady handed me a pen and asked if it was a conductor.
I replied: "if the voltage is high enough, yea. She scoffed. Needless to say, I didn’t get the job.
Honestly I think you gave the experienced adult answer to what was a high school or even middle school science question.
that just sounds like a weird interview.
“you’re qualified for this position if, and only if, you can answer a useless question with only a rudimentary understanding of the subject and no critical thought”
if true, you dodged a bullet
Assuming that you can draw a triangle from any 3 lines, draw a triangle from lines of length 1, 2 and 3
Isn’t that impossible, because let’s say you use 3 as the base, the only way 1 and 2 could connect is if they were at 0 angle.
-Sun Tzu
The dog breed?
I went to a zoo the other day. Only had one animal, which was a dog. It was a shit zoo.
In the least, it had 3 types of shit:
- dog shit
- human shit
- bullshit
Does better as a shit zoo for sure
Not dog!
Is pAnDa!