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
The safest way to do it is to get someone else to touch it first.
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.
That’s so interesting. Thanks!
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.
Because magic™ is cool
“Danger! Danger! High voltage.
When we touch, when we kiss”
“Fire at the disco; fire at the, Taco Bell!”
“Fire at the disco; fire at the, Gates of Hell!”
Don’t you wanna know why we keep startin’ fires
😚🥰⚡️💀
Dammit! I just got this song outta my head
Everything is wire if the voltage is high enough
iS iT Up tO cOde??? <— stupidass city council 🙄
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Voyager displays these a bit weird
I think that’s the intention
It’s Zalgo text
Haha my client handles text boxes correctly.
“it’s current not voltage that kills you”
High voltage: “Por que no los dos?”
High voltage: “hey bestie, how would you like a new and improved nervous system?”
10kV static discharge and 5kA @ 1mV would like a word.
I always thought that was a dumb saying because voltage is specifically what allows there to be a lethal current.
I think people just don’t understand ohm’s law. They seem to think voltage and current are unrelated to each other.
I suppose it’s half right. Obviously OHMs law is the triangle.
So you get a high voltage, running through a high resistance, it won’t kill you. The problem is people interpret it in a way that seems to think raising the voltage without raising the resistance is just fine.
In static electric fields, sure. But the real world has rapidly changing electric fields, and mapping concepts like voltage or resistance to a time dimension starts to require imaginary numbers (and the complex analogue to resistance goes by a different name of impedance). And once you’re modeling electricity through those concepts, you can have high current in a particular moment in time where the voltage might not be high. Or where the implied voltage is very high but was actually more of an effect than a cause.
In other words, if you’re simply talking about “resistance,” you’re already in the wrong domain to be analyzing electrical safety properly.
From what I’ve seen, nothing will make a bunch of lineman hit the deck like the sound of high voltage switchgear opening when they weren’t expecting it.
“NNNNYYYYYYAAAAAZZZZZZZZZZTTTTT”
Always fun stuff to work with, DI water or oil are great insulators, though one sucks to clean up if you spill it 😓
Just lather yourself up with that oil bb don’t let it go to waste
Diala works great for… Cooking… Steaks. I don’t know where to go with that because of how nope it is.
- Where’s the fucking wire?!!!
- WHO THE FUCK CARES?
I WILL LITERALLY SPLIT THE AIR ITSELF
I don’t know too much about HV, but I thought that even the crazy path shown in the picture was still the path of least resistance. Is that wrong?
Dielectric breakdown, literally carving its own path of least resistance through the air.
It is still the path of least resistance but it created it itself. It ionizes the air creating a channel for it and then makes the leap, creating a conductive conduit of plasma/ions, as air currents move that around the path of least resistance can get progressively more nuts because there’s still a path through the ionized air.
Does anybody else see the beastman with safety googles and clasped hangs screaming into the sky?
Some clever person should figure out how to do this on purpose. Badass sky displays.
I thought the thumbnail was an AT-ST…
AC current: “I choose my own path”
modern metal band logos are really getting out of hand smh
With sufficient voltage, everything is a conductor.
With insufficient voltage, everything is an insulator.
Neither may be conducive to those roles, but everything has some conductivity and some resistance (super conductors being a possible exception).
