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Submitted ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨MataVatnik@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨science_memes@mander.xyz⁩

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  • fanison@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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    Glitch Text Generator

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  • IDew@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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    • rtxn@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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!”

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      • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        In fact, forget the blackjack!

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    • MataVatnik@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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  • wewbull@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This is particularly applicable around downed power cables. Do NOT approach.

    For example: in LA right now

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    • MataVatnik@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      dO nOT toUch the DoWn wIres uuuum I have MY RIGHTS to turn myself into a gas station hotdogs thankyouverymuch

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    • EtherWhack@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

      youtu.be/7BbGzTqTNxc

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      • Saleh@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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      • Estebiu@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        That’s so interesting. Thanks!

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    • Naich@lemmings.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The safest way to do it is to get someone else to touch it first.

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    • tibi@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Especially dangerous if it’s a high voltage wire. Even standing close you can become the least resistant path to earth.

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    • Estebiu@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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?

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      • MataVatnik@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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

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  • originalfrozenbanana@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Everything is wire if the voltage is high enough

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    • MataVatnik@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      iS iT Up tO cOde??? <— stupidass city council 🙄

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  • RegalPotoo@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Everything is a wire if the voltage is high enough.

    Every machine is a smoke machine if you use it wrong enough.

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    • veni_vedi_veni@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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      • Zink@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Honestly I think you gave the experienced adult answer to what was a high school or even middle school science question.

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      • KreekyBonez@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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

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    • MataVatnik@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      -Sun Tzu

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      • Slovene@feddit.nl ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        The dog breed?

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    • ThePyroPython@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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!

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    • oo1@lemmings.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Every problem is a nail if you hammer it hard enough.

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  • aeronmelon@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    “Danger! Danger! High voltage.

    When we touch, when we kiss”

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    • thejml@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      “Fire at the disco; fire at the, Taco Bell!”

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      • InputZero@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        “Fire at the disco; fire at the, Gates of Hell!”

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    • MataVatnik@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      😚🥰⚡️💀

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    • dharmacurious@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Dammit! I just got this song outta my head

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  • frank@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    “it’s current not voltage that kills you”

    High voltage: “Por que no los dos?”

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    • MataVatnik@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      High voltage: “hey bestie, how would you like a new and improved nervous system?”

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    • WolfLink@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I always thought that was a dumb saying because voltage is specifically what allows there to be a lethal current.

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      • candybrie@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I think people just don’t understand ohm’s law. They seem to think voltage and current are unrelated to each other.

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      • SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Hence the signs saying “DANGER HIGH VOLTAGE”

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      • druidjaidan@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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      • booly@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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      • mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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)

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    • Arrkk@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      10kV static discharge and 5kA @ 1mV would like a word.

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    • ulterno@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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      • ThePyroPython@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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…

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      • SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        sadly, I never was good in music class and my sense of rhythm is bad

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  • Etterra@discuss.online ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    When you cast Chain Lightning at nothing.

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  • elekitty@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    modern metal band logos are really getting out of hand smh

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    • TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      This is so accurate. Try reading this without knowing what it is. It’s impossible

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      Answer

      “Femtanyl” as it’s the artists name

      What about this one?

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      Answer

      LITERALLY NOBODY KNOWS 😭😭

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      • silverchase@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        First one isn’t even metal. But yes. Not doing that is why anyone even remembers Party Cannon.

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      • herrvogel@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I can’t see femtanyl in there even after you told me what to look for

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      • SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        There’s a Youtuber who has a series of videos trying to decypher metal band names.

        It’s quite fun

        www.youtube.com/@OctaveIndustries

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      • Anticorp@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Does the last one say “Seth”?

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  • logicbomb@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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?

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    • MataVatnik@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Dielectric breakdown, literally carving its own path of least resistance through the air.

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    • jjagaimo@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You might not like it, but this is the peak conductivity

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    • kerrigan778@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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  • rumba@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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    • Zink@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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      • rumba@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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  • jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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”

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  • unbanshee@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I think that still is actually from this video of a switch opening. Sound on, it’s real neat.

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    • MataVatnik@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      🥴 I like the way this tickles my brain

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    • dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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    • TheRealKuni@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That’s fascinating!

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  • Churlish_Witness@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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  • xia@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Does anybody else see the beastman with safety googles and clasped hangs screaming into the sky?

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    • explodicle@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Some clever person should figure out how to do this on purpose. Badass sky displays.

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  • Trigger2_2000@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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).

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    • big_fat_fluffy@leminal.space ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      How about in vacuum? Do you get fancy arcs or glows or what?

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      • MataVatnik@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

        peacepower.ca/…/can-electricity-arc-in-a-vacuum#:….

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  • MehBlah@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Also High Voltage. This human body will do just fine.

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    • Noodle07@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      slaps head of a man This bad boy can fit so many volts!

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    • PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      “Gee, this squishy skin-sack full of water sure has a lot of tasty electrolytes. Might as well use this as a conductor!”

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  • josefo@leminal.space ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Noted, high voltage is potato energy.

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  • RubberElectrons@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Always fun stuff to work with, DI water or oil are great insulators, though one sucks to clean up if you spill it 😓

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  • UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Now playing Electric Six - High Voltage

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  • OceanSoap@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Oh hey, I design those. Though I design them so that there’s an incredibly low risk they do that.

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  • bitwolf@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Its funny because the arc looks a bit like Louise Belcher laughing maniacally

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  • Vathsade@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I thought the thumbnail was an AT-ST…

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  • Dasus@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Danger! Danger! HIGH VOLTAGE!

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  • mavu@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    looks like lisa simpson

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  • werefreeatlast@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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  • ulterno@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    We have Wireless electricity at home

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  • DragonsInARoom@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Danger Noodle -Me

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  • justme@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Still the path of least resistance

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  • JargonWagon@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Looks like a mad scientist cackling a maniacal laugh.

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