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07-12-2022, 10:05 PM
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Re: Pakistan - Guy Touches Electricity Pole During Flooding
is it just me or was he bending kind of weird towards the end, like he was melting or something?
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07-13-2022, 02:20 AM
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Re: Pakistan - Guy Touches Electricity Pole During Flooding
Yup. Ohms law: V=IR. The further away from a direct path to earth, the more water volume that electricity needs to travel through, the greater the resistance (R) and the lesser the electric current (I). The current is what kills. The people in the water far away from the electric source felt no noticeable current, because the volume and resistance of the water column is high at that distance.
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07-16-2022, 01:32 AM
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Re: Pakistan - Guy Touches Electricity Pole During Flooding
Ok, so movies are bullshit. I mean, I knew that in general, but its eye-opening at least to know that shit is all fake as fuck.
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08-14-2022, 05:29 AM
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Electricity is still so new over there. It’s gonna be a while till they fully understand how it works.
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08-14-2022, 01:53 PM
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Basically electricity like to travel path of least resistance and water is actually a shitty conductor. For example copper is almost 1000 times more conductive than water. |
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08-14-2022, 04:52 PM
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Re: Pakistan - Guy Touches Electricity Pole During Flooding
Contaminates can make water far more conductive so I suspect *that* water was actually much more conductive than pure water. At any rate electricity really just wants to find ground so there isn't much reason for the current flow to travel across the surface of the water, you'll notice dude was seemingly unaffected until he actually grabbed the pole. |
