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WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT?!!?!?
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@BrisingrAerowing is your username referencing the eragon series ?
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@swayde No.
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@BrisingrAerowing what was that?
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@BrisingrAerowing said in Shocking!:
WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT?!!?!?
What did he do? I think he threw something?
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@Tsaukpaetra I think he chucked a rope or something over a high-voltage power line.
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@Tsaukpaetra I think he chucked a rope or something over a high-voltage power line.
Wow.....
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So, a friend showed this to me yesterday and... well, I have this urge to yell
Ok, so, bear with me here:
The person throws something at a powerline. This causes a huge spark. It actually looks like a thunderbolt (as far as we can ascertain, since camera's CCD seems to have gotten overpowered by the light), so it seems like it's actually enough power to heat the air into plasma and all that. Let's go through the problems:
- Why would throwing anything at a powerline cause it to ground itself, over what, 10m of air, which is a dielectric, instead of the current flow just maintaining the current course of passing through a relatively low resistance wire?
- The whole thing isn't that high. Unless built by a moron I don't believe that's a powerline that runs at more than 10kV, which, AFAIK, can't cause a spark of that size.
- The one thing that did come to mind right now because someone mentioned rope, it might've been a thin piece of wire, which consequently burned out due to the amount of current that passed through it. Physics works in this case, but the resulting "thunderbolt" still seems a bit much, and also, damn is it thin if that's the case because I can't see shit in the video.
Maybe it's legit, but I've seen way too many hoaxes like this to believe it outright, and the video is just crappy enough for you to be unable to see properly. Of course. And also,
GODDAMNIT PEOPLE, STOP FILMING IN VERTICAL MODE!why is it cropped to 4:3 ratio?
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😂 literally burst out laughing seeing that. Spooked the shit out of my bitch.
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- Why would throwing anything at a powerline cause it to ground itself, over what, 10m of air, which is a dielectric, instead of the current flow just maintaining the current course of passing through a relatively low resistance wire?
- The whole thing isn't that high. Unless built by a moron I don't believe that's a powerline that runs at more than 10kV, which, AFAIK, can't cause a spark of that size.
Seems OK to me, generally what people do is use a crossbow/rock/other-projectile to get a piece of plastic fishing-line over the cable. Then you tie a piece of copper wire to the end (and ground the other end of the copper wire) and use your safe fishing line to hoist the copper into contact with the line from a safe distance.
This guy is going to get a rude lesson about step potentials if he keeps trying to skip the first step and just throw the copper over:
- The one thing that did come to mind right now because someone mentioned rope, it might've been a thin piece of wire, which consequently burned out due to the amount of current that passed through it. Physics works in this case, but the resulting "thunderbolt" still seems a bit much, and also, damn is it thin if that's the case because I can't see shit in the video.
What happens is the copper wire is damn-near-instantly vaporised and you get a conducting channel of plasma, this can temporarily support a massive current so you get a big flash from a thin wire.
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@Cursorkeys said in Shocking!:
generally what people do is
use a crossbow/rock/other-projectile to get a piece of plastic fishing-line over the cablebeing idiots.Seriously, I never heard of anyone doing this. What the actual fuck?
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@Cursorkeys said in Shocking!:
generally what people do is
use a crossbow/rock/other-projectile to get a piece of plastic fishing-line over the cablebeing idiots.Seriously, I never heard of anyone doing this. What the actual fuck?
It's apparently a thing for bored morons, there's loads of videos on YouTube. I guess when playing with homemade explosives isn't doing it for you any more you start mucking around with power lines
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@Cursorkeys said in Shocking!:
It's apparently a thing for bored morons, there's loads of videos on YouTube. I guess when playing with homemade explosives isn't doing it for you any more you start mucking around with power lines
I mean, if they are bored and want to mess with electricity, I have some batteries and clamps I can use on their genitalia...
No, I'm not talking BSDM stuff here (even though hey, if it's your thing, it's a bonus!), I just want to try and minimize their chances of contributing to the gene pool...
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Why would throwing anything at a powerline cause it to ground itself, over what, 10m of air, which is a dielectric, instead of the current flow just maintaining the current course of passing through a relatively low resistance wire?
I've seen trees catch on fire because their branches were touching a low-voltage power line (the stuff you see in residential neighborhoods, I assume 220V). Those giant high-voltage runs are at least tens of thousands of volts.
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@mott555 The original video is so unclear, it might as well been a bolt, not a rope or a wire. There is no way in hell that would cause the effect seen on video. Air is a pretty damned good dielectric, trees not so much (there's a bunch of fluid inside them for example, which are likely to be relatively poor but still conductive enough electrolytes).
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Those giant high-voltage runs are at least tens of thousands of volts.
75kV
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@TimeBandit said in Shocking!:
Those giant high-voltage runs are at least tens of thousands of volts.
75kV
Depends on where you live. Over here they would be 130kV iirc, if going by the common larger lines. Although the smaller ones going to pole-mounted transformers are 10kV.
There's also of course the massive trunk lines which are 400kV. Messing with those would however by a Highly Bad Idea.
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The original video is so unclear, it might as well been a bolt, not a rope or a wire.
At first I thought he was throwing a rock at the sky. And $diety struck him down.
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@dcon Fat-shaming thread is
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@TimeBandit said in Shocking!:
Those giant high-voltage runs are at least tens of thousands of volts.
75kV
Depends on where you live. Over here they would be 130kV iirc, if going by the common larger lines. Although the smaller ones going to pole-mounted transformers are 10kV.
There's also of course the massive trunk lines which are 400kV. Messing with those would however by a Highly Bad Idea.
Over here we had this Darwin Award winner who went for a stroll through a moor. At some point he felt the need to smoke a cigarette but had forgotten a lighter.
So he climbed up the next power line pole to light the cigarette. Which was indeed lit. As was he.
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@Rhywden Iraq has wetlands, by the way. I was shocked when I found this out.
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@Rhywden I knew a guy who worked for the local utility company.
He said two common sources of power fluctuations were:
- squirrels climbing power poles and shorting the pole-mounted transformers across their fuzzy little bodies (creating instant crispy-fried squirrel )
- birds sitting on a powerline. Normally this is fine (no complete circuit). But when the wind made the lines sway too close together...clouds of feathers and a burnt smell, but no birds. They just simply evaporate when that much energy is dumped across them in a tiny fraction of a second.
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@Benjamin-Hall Around here, number three in that list would be people shooting guns into the air on New Year's Eve and hitting a transformer.
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@da-Doctah Gun owners are way more responsible than that, come on.
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@Scarlet_Manuka The only transformer installations with anything to fear are the ones with all the gummint mind-control antennys.
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@Gribnit Surely those could just broadcast a "don't shoot this transformer" signal powerful enough to overpower the foil hats at close range?
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@Scarlet_Manuka Sorry. I just don't like transformers. They disappointed me at a young and impressionable age. I expected so much more.
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@Scarlet_Manuka said in Shocking!:
@Gribnit Surely those could just broadcast a "don't shoot this transformer" signal powerful enough to overpower the foil hats at close range?
But the foilers are woke! They are the Special Ones that Know, and are thus immune to mind control, and especially the gubbmint.
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@Carnage but... the transformers are already making a special plea...
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@boomzilla Is your motorcycle's tank cow-head shaped?