[gimlet]

Originally Posted by TheVrist ↗

You don't stop feeling pain until the circuits in your brain are done. You are considered dead when the heart stops beating. That's why we have thousands of stories of people who died and came back. They were physically dead, but the electrodes in the brain were still functioning. They can still work for many minutes after the heart has stopped.

Most deaths we witness in this section of people with limbs torn off, being chopped up alive, chain saw beheadings, etc, still have a functioning brain. The brain acts like the brain in a car. When it senses something wrong, it starts to go into over-drive, sending messages to different areas of the body. It can decide what needs to feel pain, and doesn't anymore. That's why you see people set on fire, they appear as if they tell themselves "fuck it, i'm done" and just sit through it. They stopped feeling it.

Electricity being a matter or electromagnetism that flows through the body, is like tiny peiricing needles entering the "+" and exiting the " -" ....."voltage" would determine how many of those needles are flowing at once through the body. Wire, being metal, takes ages for it to deteriorate from a constant flow of these things, but even it will rot over time from it- (that's why aluminum was replaced with copper) --

Positioning is most important. The + and the - would determine if he felt anything at all. Executioners placed the receiving electrodes on the head, current on the feet, hands, so that current of 50k little needles, pulsated at once through the entire body, mostly focused on the brain. Pulsate intervals are dependent on amperage.

In the case of this poor sap, his head was way above the + and the - points of entry and exit. His straddling it would suggest his ass was the receiving end of the current, and the wires the entry end. Which basically amounts to, his brain being the last place having little needles destroying contact points. Those sparks and cooking inside, are those electromagnetism breaking down the soft proteins, and losing contacts, and they reestablish somewhere, break, and so on, eventually working to the upper portions of the body.

The amps would determine how fast it happens, which couldn't be determined here, since amps are used in accordance to length. If he was right at the power source, each interval would be slower. If he was miles out, the intervals would be more frequent.

Needless to say, he didn't feel it for long, but given the circumstances, I believe he felt the initial touch of 750 thousand needles pulse through his body, at least once, before his brain said "fuck this" and shuts down all the nerve endings.

People hit by lightning that recover don't remember a thing about the strike IIRC (been 30 years since I read a few cases). Lightning can blow up a tree by boiling the water into steam in an instant.

Ball lightning exists, but is not understood.

Human perception requires 1/16 of a second. If you sit on a hydrogen bomb and it detonates, you are knocked into your component atoms in less time, so you don't feel it.

I'm guessing this electrician had a huge voltage on their body and their brain circuits were switched in an instant (less than 1/16 second) before their brain started boiling and steam came out their ears.

[Bletch]

He just spent his nine lives

[TheVrist]

Originally Posted by gimlet ↗

People hit by lightning that recover don't remember a thing about the strike IIRC (been 30 years since I read a few cases). Lightning can blow up a tree by boiling the water into steam in an instant.

Ball lightning exists, but is not understood.

Human perception requires 1/16 of a second. If you sit on a hydrogen bomb and it detonates, you are knocked into your component atoms in less time, so you don't feel it.

I'm guessing this electrician had a huge voltage on their body and their brain circuits were switched in an instant (less than 1/16 second) before their brain started boiling and steam came out their ears.

Lightening is a low amp,singular wave current. It's a one shot and done deal. Majority of lightening victims are hit at the upper body, and in close relation to the brain, which would account for a temp-short out.

The thing is, electricity is a direct current. It seeks the ground with the shortest route possible. It doesn't circulate throughout the body. So, if you touch a positive with your right hand, and a negative with your left foot, you'll feel the current travel down that side of the body.

Humans, unlike trees that are a resistor, are a conductor. We generate electricity constantly throughout our own bodies. Doesn't matter if we're moving, sleeping, or fucking, electricity flows through us. Our brains are not resistors, either, they are receptors that have a bazillion little extension cords leading to electrical outlets. Needless to say, electric of any volts doesn't last long there.. A lot can pass through the brain, without much harm, unless the amps are over-powering. When they use difilarators for instance, it can stop the heart of a living person, but not the brain. In fact, we used barbaric measures of shock therapy, directly to the brain.

Our bodies also get damaged from our own electrical outputs, but we heal fast from it. Being electrocuted is basically like running small wires on too high of an amp circuit. It destroys everything in its path, because too much current is flowing in to small of an outlet. Too much voltage, and backed by too much amperage, treats our fibers like under-gauged wires. Of course, amperage plays a significant role in these regards, because it's a continuous flow, and the higher the amps, the more volts pass per sec.

Now, trees, being a resistor means that the tree has no system for current to flow through. A resistor works in the same fashion, it just bottle necks what comes out the other side. Trees having near the same density as a ceramic resistor, finds it hard to travel through the tree itself. It finds an outside source to travel down the tree, thus, burning dried surfaces of it.

Essentially the lighting doesn't travel through the tree. Lightening next to a tree is dangerous because it never breaks down and distributed in smaller volts. It travels at full capacity until it finds its ground.

On the other hand, a human that has a bazillion little electrical cords all through the body, actually takes the lightening, divides the voltage up, and distributes it all over the body enduring smaller volts in all areas.



A lightening strike with low amperage can be recorded to up to a BILLION volts. Now divide that billion volts by whatever numerous paths they can take through the body.

So, in theory, when hit by lightening, you're instead of a billion volts hitting you, a billion just passes through you, and the areas it passes, actually only received equivalent to a few hundred volts of damage.

Now back to this case- As mentioned, the person's sitting position created a direct line from hand to ass. This gives the electrical current absolutely NO REASONS to go to the brain. Electricity normally doesn't voluntary reverse their direction of current. In this case, it not only has a direct route from hand to ass, it has no reason to go against the current the brain produces. It would be like going up-stream for the little guys.

Since his brain, and its circuits were absent in the path, it's a fair chance he didn't "black out" instantaneously.

[TheVrist]

Just to add; Had he been sitting on a rubber mat, and touched the electricity. The current would never have seen a path. However, if the volts were high enough, backed by the amps to push it, a path could have been generated by "skipping"- that's when you see electricity jump to the grounding.

Had that been the case, he would have experienced an instant black out, because the break in the current would cause a rapid cycle through the entire body, trying to find the closest contact point for a ground. Basically, the brain would have then been shut down from an electrical surge. which may also be the case for lightening victims that experienced an instant black out. Rubber shoe sole caused the lighting to bounce back before finding it's ground. Generally people blacking out makes it easier when they fall. So, lightening never really has much chance to cause too much damage.

[Meridian]

In summary, this was not a pleasant death

[Specialsman]

My new favorite DR video!! That was f’n awesome......

[kellyhound]

Originally Posted by TheVrist ↗

On the other hand, a human that has a bazillion little electrical cords all through the body, actually takes the lightening, divides the voltage up, and distributes it all over the body enduring smaller volts in all areas.

A lightening strike with low amperage can be recorded to up to a BILLION volts. Now divide that billion volts by whatever numerous paths they can take through the body.

So, in theory, when hit by lightening, you're instead of a billion volts hitting you, a billion just passes through you, and the areas it passes, actually only received equivalent to a few hundred volts of damage.

Now back to this case- As mentioned, the person's sitting position created a direct line from hand to ass. This gives the electrical current absolutely NO REASONS to go to the brain. Electricity normally doesn't voluntary reverse their direction of current. In this case, it not only has a direct route from hand to ass, it has no reason to go against the current the brain produces. It would be like going up-stream for the little guys.

Since his brain, and its circuits were absent in the path, it's a fair chance he didn't "black out" instantaneously.

Makes perfectly sense

[DaBigNob]

Closed casket funeral for that dude!

[Nargacugapp]

I'll take that with a side of rice and a biscuit

[Disintegrator]

At least he was way dead before all the fireworks. I think with a shock load that great it almost makes you stick, instead of bouncing off. (Correct if wrong). Also the melting flesh and bone likely helps for a former grasp to sparky!