How Electrocution Really Kills You Posted: 6 months ago by bornbad
If you learned about how electrocution kills you from cartoons or Ernest P. Worrell—you get fried as your body flashes like fireworks and everybody can see your bones—well, you got learned wrong. Electricity doesn't actually fry you—that actually requires way more juice than it takes to kill you, which is a frighteningly minuscule amount.
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Posted: 6 months ago by joeyneutrino:
Not that I have anything against Adam Savage per se; but why is the author asking him about this but not also consulting, shall we say, several doctors?
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Posted: 6 months ago by bornbad:
« joeyneutrino : Not that I have anything against Adam Savage per se; but why is the author asking him about this but not also consulting, shall we say, several doctors? Or an electrician.
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Posted: 6 months ago by shoestix:
« bornbad : Or an electrician. I'm an electrician, and I don't know! Maybe a dead electrician.
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Posted: 6 months ago by kakana:
This is in basic theory for getting an amateur radio license.
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