Don’t play with electricity!



    by Stoikx

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    1. “Don’t know what I do for living”

      not an electrician, engineer, chemist, pretty much anyone with a high school or college education…. The list is getting short.

      Waiting on the next video for more clues.

    2. Ignoring the (almost definitely staged) elephant in the room, that isn’t how electricity works. Not even close. I tend to get ticked off regarding electrical misconceptions, so allow me to clear up some blatant wrongs about high voltage that show up in this video.

      For one, the human body does NOT respond to electricity by convulsing on the ground after getting a single shock. I’ve personally shocked myself with similar voltages and even much higher than a taser, and the muscle spasms clear up literally the instant the shock is removed. I’m not going to say the classic “It’s not the voltage it’s the current” because it’s much more complicated than that. It’s a combination of voltage capable of pushing a certain current through your body, with a big dependency on TIME. Extremely short (nanosecond-microsecond) pulses of a few thousand volts will not kill you even if the instantaneous current spikes to several amps. Frequency matters as well, where at a high enough frequency your body doesn’t even feel the arc, only the heat generated. Even in low frequency shocks that you feel, your body will recover as soon as the shock is gone. There MAY be rare cases of people with pre-existing conditions going into seizures due to electric shocks, but this is not one of those cases, because of…

      Two: There is absolutely no way in hell the current took a path out one electrode, through the bracelet(?), into his body, back through the bracelet again and into the other electrode. Electricity takes the path of least resistance and the path of least resistance here goes from electrode -> bracelet -> electrode. This isn’t a Tesla coil where the arc travels to ground through your body, a taser sends an arc between the two electrodes conducting through only what gets in the way. The bracelet got in the path, the human did not, even if he is touching the bracelet. In an equivalent situation, I can and have touched arcs like this with a piece of metal and not felt it at all.

      This guy is faking it. 100%. Considering his blatant faking of being shocked, whatever is going on behind him is also likely faked for interactions, so I will not be discussing that.

    3. I think it was around 6 years ago when I watched this video and told kids to stay in school.

      Stay in school children.

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