This is particularly applicable around downed power cables. Do NOT approach.
For example: in LA right now
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Submitted 1 day ago by MataVatnik@lemmy.world to science_memes@mander.xyz
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wewbull@feddit.uk 1 day ago
MataVatnik@lemmy.world 1 day ago
dO nOT toUch the DoWn wIres uuuum I have MY RIGHTS to turn myself into a gas station hotdogs thankyouverymuch
EtherWhack@lemmy.world 1 day ago
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.
Saleh@feddit.org 1 day ago
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.
Estebiu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
That’s so interesting. Thanks!
Naich@lemmings.world 1 day ago
The safest way to do it is to get someone else to touch it first.
tibi@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Especially dangerous if it’s a high voltage wire. Even standing close you can become the least resistant path to earth.
Estebiu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
For downed, you mean just a power cable that’s down on the ground but otherwise intact, or he’s only dangerous when cut?
MataVatnik@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Any cable that’s not where it’s supposed to be, just stay the fk away 👌 Even if it isn’t visibly cut there could be a short somewhere
RegalPotoo@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Everything is a wire if the voltage is high enough.
Every machine is a smoke machine if you use it wrong enough.
veni_vedi_veni@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I was interviewed for a job where lady have 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.
Zink@programming.dev 1 day ago
Honestly I think you gave the experienced adult answer to what was a high school or even middle school science question.
KreekyBonez@lemmy.world 1 day ago
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
ThePyroPython@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Oi! As an engineer I worked damn hard to trap that magic smoke in the machine only for you to let it out and try perfectly good components. Treat your machines with respect, they’re getting smarter by the day and they’re forgetting less and less!
oo1@lemmings.world 1 day ago
Every problem is a nail if you hammer it hard enough.
originalfrozenbanana@lemm.ee 1 day ago
Everything is wire if the voltage is high enough
MataVatnik@lemmy.world 1 day ago
iS iT Up tO cOde??? <— stupidass city council 🙄
Trigger2_2000@sh.itjust.works 15 hours ago
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).
big_fat_fluffy@leminal.space 14 hours ago
How about in vacuum? Do you get fancy arcs or glows or what?
MataVatnik@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
In typical conditions, an electrical arc forms when the electric field strength exceeds the dielectric strength of the medium (like air). In a vacuum, there is no medium to ionize, which theoretically makes it difficult for an arc to form. However, electricity can still arc in a vacuum under certain conditions, such as when high voltages are involved or when the electrodes are extremely close together.
Etterra@discuss.online 1 day ago
When you cast Chain Lightning at nothing.
OceanSoap@lemmy.ml 15 hours ago
Oh hey, I design those. Though I design them so that there’s an incredibly low risk they do that.
MataVatnik@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
Boorring, we want sparks ✨️
…and DEATH
OceanSoap@lemmy.ml 12 hours ago
I’ll see what I can fit into my next design
frank@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
“it’s current not voltage that kills you”
High voltage: “Por que no los dos?”
MataVatnik@lemmy.world 1 day ago
High voltage: “hey bestie, how would you like a new and improved nervous system?”
WolfLink@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
I always thought that was a dumb saying because voltage is specifically what allows there to be a lethal current.
candybrie@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I think people just don’t understand ohm’s law. They seem to think voltage and current are unrelated to each other.
SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 1 day ago
Hence the signs saying “DANGER HIGH VOLTAGE”
druidjaidan@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It’s a very dumb saying. If you don’t have the volts you won’t get the amps to kill you that’s ohms law.
However, there are plenty of harmless high voltage scenarios as well. Situations with high voltage, but no power.
So really you need both.
booly@sh.itjust.works 15 hours ago
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.
mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Its the “power” that kills you. Power depends on you as well as voltage.(Your resistance determine the current and time period of current flow also matters)
Arrkk@lemmy.world 1 day ago
10kV static discharge and 5kA @ 1mV would like a word.
ulterno@programming.dev 1 day ago
To be precise, it’s the high amount of heat, electrolysis and other chemical reactions that kill you.
If you were a prefect conductor, you wouldn’t have a problem.
ThePyroPython@lemmy.world 1 day ago
From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me. I craved the strength and certainty of steel. I aspired to the purity of the Blessed Machine. Your kind cling to your flesh, as though it will not decay and fail you. One day the crude biomass you call a temple will wither, and you will beg my kind to save you. But I am already saved, for the Machine is immortal…
SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
sadly, I never was good in music class and my sense of rhythm is bad
aeronmelon@lemmy.world 1 day ago
“Danger! Danger! High voltage.
When we touch, when we kiss”
thejml@lemm.ee 1 day ago
“Fire at the disco; fire at the, Taco Bell!”
InputZero@lemmy.world 1 day ago
“Fire at the disco; fire at the, Gates of Hell!”
MataVatnik@lemmy.world 1 day ago
😚🥰⚡️💀
dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 1 day ago
Dammit! I just got this song outta my head
rumba@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Pshaw, even at LV, it’s a lay theory that is, at best, vastly incomplete and, at worst, demonstrably false.
Electricity will flow through all paths, the most electricity will flow down the path of the least resistance.
That arc is going up because the plasma is hot and the air is turbulent.
Zink@programming.dev 1 day ago
Yeah, maybe it needs a Hedberg-ism to get it across to people.
Electricity takes the path of least resistance. It takes the other paths, but it takes the least resistance path too.
rumba@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
The problem I have with it is that it gives a false sense of security and how the world works. Most people think lightning rods attract the lightning and direct it into the ground because of this. 1/3 of the world has 220v and 110v connected directly into their showerhead without any idea why they don’t die from it.
Churlish_Witness@lemmy.world 1 day ago
elekitty@lemmy.world 1 day ago
modern metal band logos are really getting out of hand smh
TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
silverchase@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
First one isn’t even metal. But yes. Not doing that is why anyone even remembers Party Cannon.
herrvogel@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I can’t see femtanyl in there even after you told me what to look for
SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
There’s a Youtuber who has a series of videos trying to decypher metal band names.
It’s quite fun
Anticorp@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Does the last one say “Seth”?
werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
High frequency! It Mega hurtz!
Low frequency! It kill a hurtz!
Ultra high frequency! It giga hurtz!
Pretty much any high voltage high frequency thing really hurtz. It’ll kill you at different rates but it’ll hurt the entire time.
unbanshee@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
I think that still is actually from this video of a switch opening. Sound on, it’s real neat.
dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
I love how the 60Hz AC coursing through the plasma (?) can be heard at a safe distance. It really conveys just how much energy is in that arc.
MataVatnik@lemmy.world 1 day ago
🥴 I like the way this tickles my brain
TheRealKuni@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
That’s fascinating!
logicbomb@lemmy.world 1 day ago
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?
MataVatnik@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Dielectric breakdown, literally carving its own path of least resistance through the air.
jjagaimo@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
You might not like it, but this is the peak conductivity
kerrigan778@lemmy.world 1 day ago
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.
jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
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”
justme@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 hours ago
Still the path of least resistance
MataVatnik@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
Or is it the path of most convenience? 🤷♀️
UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
Now playing Electric Six - High Voltage
JargonWagon@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Looks like a mad scientist cackling a maniacal laugh.
MataVatnik@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
xia@lemmy.sdf.org 1 day ago
Does anybody else see the beastman with safety googles and clasped hangs screaming into the sky?
bitwolf@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Its funny because the arc looks a bit like Louise Belcher laughing maniacally
MehBlah@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Also High Voltage. This human body will do just fine.
josefo@leminal.space 1 day ago
Noted, high voltage is potato energy.
big_fat_fluffy@leminal.space 14 hours ago
It’s like one of those lichtenburg patterns, except in air.
RubberElectrons@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Always fun stuff to work with, DI water or oil are great insulators, though one sucks to clean up if you spill it 😓
Dasus@lemmy.world 1 day ago
mavu@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
looks like lisa simpson
Vathsade@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
I thought the thumbnail was an AT-ST…
ulterno@programming.dev 1 day ago
We have Wireless electricity at home
DragonsInARoom@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Danger Noodle -Me
IDew@lemm.ee 1 day ago
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rtxn@lemmy.world 1 day ago
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!”
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
In fact, forget the blackjack!
MataVatnik@lemmy.world 1 day ago
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