Don't Wiz on the Electric Fence!"
Posted on 04/23/2012 2:14:19 PM PDT by Lmo56
Chuckle, Chuckle.
You mean killed? Was it a standard electric fence or something stronger?
I don’t know how he was able to come into contact with the “third rail” because everyone I’ve seen had a cover to prevent maintenance people from accidentally coming into contact with it. The pickup shoe fits into a slot.
Between pulses of current,
The “pucker factor” is high in this story....
It’s time for another “Bad Idea-Really Bad Idea”.
Bad idea: Taking a pee on the El platform.
Really bad idea: Taking a pee on the El roadbed.
I remember that occurring to me at the time, after I realized what had happened and had recovered a bit. I was about fifteen and had no previous experience with cattle fences, beyond seeing one from time to time and figuring the smart thing was to just leave it alone.
It seemed sensible to me that folks who keep large animals really don’t want to electrocute them, they just want them to not escape. :-)
No damage, no burns that I was aware of. It made all my muscles seize up and on the second pulse, I emitted this sort of clamped-jaw groan. I had no idea what was happening until the second hit.
“...and only release urine in short spurts, none of which bridge the entire distance between you and the rail.”
I believe Mythbusters showed that a stream of pee naturally breaks apart into droplets, breaking any circuit. Not that I would volunteer.
What was Tesla correct about with a resonance generator?
I can state I was electrified peeing on an electric fence when I was a teenager. It was not fun!
Tesla=right on
1) Resonance - you can bring down a building/bridge with it. In fact, if you had enough of a generator, you could crack the earth like an egg.
This is was his “doomsday” machine he demonstrated around the turn of the century, by causing a skyscraper under construction (then brand new) to nearly tear itself apart in 15 minutes with a small box the size of a shoebox.
The mythbusters could feel the shaking of the bridge with a small device, even though they had it pointed in the complete WRONG direction. They could have had 100 times the result if they had positioned their device correctly. It’s important the direction and the placement of the device.
2) Wireless power transmission. He demonstrate highly efficient power transmission, violating the “law” or EM theory (the power is the inverse of the distance). Professional science scoffed at his wireless transmission capability until MIT recently “rediscovered” his method -— directly copied form his patents. They were supressed and his AC technology stolen by westinghouse.
This man was far, far ahead of his time. He single-handedly thrust us into the electric age (edison was a fraud, equivalent to the Mark Cuban of today), whereas Tesla was light years above even Steve Jobs. He was Jobs and Wozniak put together times 1000.
He was working on a method to transmit power not only locally, but globally. Think of the ground of the earth and the ionosphere as the two conductors in an AC circuit and you get the basic idea. Whould it work? You ever watch lightening? It’s shorting between the potential conductors.
There’s some speculation Tesla might have been responsible for the Tunguska Event back in 1908.
I wish Tesla, Einstein, and Ed Leedskalnin could have gotten together to talk back in the day.
POP goes the weiner.
nope, Tesla was not responsible for the T Event. That’s speculation on the level of “Art Bell”.
Tunguska was a meteor, plain and simple. Just today one blew up over the sierra nevada area and was heard for a radius of ~ 1000 miles. It was (estimated) only a few feet in diameter. Now imagine one maybe 1 hundred times the size, exploding in the lower atmosphere.
No science needed. Nature is awesome enough.
Even though they can’t find any pieces of a meteorite.
My wifes eyes have a certain glow when we are engaged with one another....:}
It’s estimated that the Tunguska Event was about 15 kiloton blast. If it had exploded in the upper atmosphere it would not have did the kind of damage it did on the ground.
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