My favorite board game!
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It's literally impossible to kill yourself by sticking a fork into the outlet. The reason is simple. The path to ground only passes thru the fork.
Well, maybe if you are covered with petrol (gasoline) and you stick it in long enough for the bottom of the handle to get hot enough to ignite it.
Of course, that is assuming that the Voltage is high enough to get the metal hot enough before the petrol evaporates away. -
It's literally impossible to kill yourself by sticking a fork into the outlet. The reason is simple. The path to ground only passes thru the fork.
wrote last edited by [email protected]that sounds like a challenge
note: i am not idiot enough to take this challenge, but i bet i could do it
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It's literally impossible to kill yourself by sticking a fork into the outlet. The reason is simple. The path to ground only passes thru the fork.
unless you're grounded somewhere else
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It's literally impossible to kill yourself by sticking a fork into the outlet. The reason is simple. The path to ground only passes thru the fork.
Also he has a 4 prong fork. No way he's getting that in a 3 hole outlet
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Also he has a 4 prong fork. No way he's getting that in a 3 hole outlet
wrote last edited by [email protected]Those prongs are called tines.
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Well, maybe if you are covered with petrol (gasoline) and you stick it in long enough for the bottom of the handle to get hot enough to ignite it.
Of course, that is assuming that the Voltage is high enough to get the metal hot enough before the petrol evaporates away.OK, noted.... Dose in patrol, then plug fork.
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Was Connect Fork too much of a stretch?
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Was Connect Fork too much of a stretch?
Not at all
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...and you are just gonna fail at that and blow a fuse.
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Was Connect Fork too much of a stretch?
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...and you are just gonna fail at that and blow a fuse.
fu
Fuses protect wires in the walls, not what you plug into the socket.
If the tine in the neutral socket makes contact before live, it'll probably just pop the fuse. Hot first, and you better hope it's a GFCI.
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Uncle fester.
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It's literally impossible to kill yourself by sticking a fork into the outlet. The reason is simple. The path to ground only passes thru the fork.
If the live side makes contact first you have an issue though. Because then the path to ground passes through the fork, up the handle and through you. Then your muscles tense and you might not make the neutral side connect the other end fork anymore.
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fu
Fuses protect wires in the walls, not what you plug into the socket.
If the tine in the neutral socket makes contact before live, it'll probably just pop the fuse. Hot first, and you better hope it's a GFCI.
wrote last edited by [email protected]So, we are a bit trollish today. I'll match the mood.
In your basic euro socket the safety latches don't open unless you poke both holes at the same time.
If you cut two middle spikes of a fork and manage to shove it in the socket, you'll just short the phase to the neutral and blow a fuse. You'll be part of a partial circuit and feel it, but most of the current will favor the direct "fork connection".
If you are in the United States of Dumbfuckistan and only have 120Vac in the socket, considering surface area of contact to the fork, you'll probably only get little over 20mA running through you. It'll take a long time to get a respiratory arrest. You'll probably get bored and detach yourself by leaning back. Heart complications may still follow.
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If the live side makes contact first you have an issue though. Because then the path to ground passes through the fork, up the handle and through you. Then your muscles tense and you might not make the neutral side connect the other end fork anymore.
But if you don't actually complete the circuit to ground, then current cannot actually pass through you, only voltage. You'll feel a tingling. See if you can turn on an LED by connecting its ground lead to your carpet or tile floor.
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But if you don't actually complete the circuit to ground, then current cannot actually pass through you, only voltage. You'll feel a tingling. See if you can turn on an LED by connecting its ground lead to your carpet or tile floor.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Wdym "the current cannot pass through you, only voltage"
, bro who taught you this.If you don't exist in the worst case scenario (wet hands, barefoot on wet tiles or sum), you probably have a lot of resistances, skin contact, shoe sole, idk carpet. Since your body has only around 500-1000 ohms (I think) the voltage applied to the body would be way less. If your shoes got 10,000 ohms, they'd get 100 volts and you like 10. This scenario would be 10 milliamps then. Numbers out my ass, but you don't get "voltage, but no current". Except if you manage to raise your body's internal resistance somehow.
/tism off
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Wdym "the current cannot pass through you, only voltage"
, bro who taught you this.If you don't exist in the worst case scenario (wet hands, barefoot on wet tiles or sum), you probably have a lot of resistances, skin contact, shoe sole, idk carpet. Since your body has only around 500-1000 ohms (I think) the voltage applied to the body would be way less. If your shoes got 10,000 ohms, they'd get 100 volts and you like 10. This scenario would be 10 milliamps then. Numbers out my ass, but you don't get "voltage, but no current". Except if you manage to raise your body's internal resistance somehow.
/tism off
No, dude, I'm saying if you don't completed the circuit, there's only potential. You'll only feel the changing potential as a tingling. Only when finally you take your shoes off and step on a wet steel bar that is buried into humid earth then you only then will your circuit be closed and all the various resistances you mentioned come into play. Else you will need two forks, one for each hand.
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Wdym "the current cannot pass through you, only voltage"
, bro who taught you this.If you don't exist in the worst case scenario (wet hands, barefoot on wet tiles or sum), you probably have a lot of resistances, skin contact, shoe sole, idk carpet. Since your body has only around 500-1000 ohms (I think) the voltage applied to the body would be way less. If your shoes got 10,000 ohms, they'd get 100 volts and you like 10. This scenario would be 10 milliamps then. Numbers out my ass, but you don't get "voltage, but no current". Except if you manage to raise your body's internal resistance somehow.
/tism off
Oh maybe you don't live in the US....our homes are made of wood and drywall. We literally never touch ground unless it's a basement or a restroom connected with copper tubing.
