Re: [JMC_Blue_Dwarf] Re: Don\'t try this at home kids
I think that's the reason they won't let mroe than two people on an electrocuting game at an arcade - the ammount of amps building up would kill them...
And touching the national grid is not as dangerous as touching a main powerline...please don't test it... THE AMPS KILL YOU! MY SCIENCE TEACHER SAYS SO AND THAT'S WHAT I'M GOING TO WRITE ON MY FINAL EXAM
On a lighter note, happy easter for when it comes...and did you all know that this group's written over 1500 messages?
-----Original Message-----From: e.kolis@... <e.kolis@...>To: JMC_Blue_Dwarf@yahoogroups.com <JMC_Blue_Dwarf@yahoogroups.com>Date: 10 April 2001 17:07Subject: Re: [JMC_Blue_Dwarf] Re: Don't try this at home kids>It is the Amps that kill you.>Power(Watts) = Voltage x Current(Amps)>The power must remain the same, no matter what you do to it.>Using a transformer you can step up the voltage, but to equalise the >equation, the current is made very low. So, if you step down the >voltage, the current is raised. A high current will kill you. (Or at >least give you an unimaginable shock.) If you've ever put your finger >in a light socket, multiply it by ten and you'll know what it feels >like.So that would mean you could survive touching a high voltage powerline... and they say those things are MORE dangerous! Wonder why it's theamps though, an amp is something like a zillion electron-charges persecond, so all that would mean is how many electrons there are trying toget through you, not how badly they want to go (volts)... I figured itwould be a combination of both and thus the power, but I'd rather not doany experiments to find out :-)~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Dumb quote: "Do you have ANY IDEA what the penalty is for calling asuperior ranking technician a smeg head?" - 2nd Technician A. J. Rimmer~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~________________________________________________________________GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO!Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less!Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit:http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj.The continuing adventures of the Blue Dwarf...www.geocities.com/bluedwarf2000To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:JMC_Blue_Dwarf-unsubscribe@egroups.comYour use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.