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What kills you is when there is a deadly discharge using your body as grounding wire (as a conductor). Only if there is a current flowing through your body you will actually be in danger. So, if you were completely isolated (not grounded), you would charge up to the voltage level of the voltage source and thats it (however there will still be a charging current - but it is not as potentially deadly as the current that will be subjected to you when you are grounded). The next question is, where does the current flow. When it flows from finger to arm to torso to leg to feet, then you will cover a lot of organs to damage in the current's way. If you were grounded directly at your arm or finger, the current would flow more localy in these body parts and has a lesser potential to damage vital organs.
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2012-10-11, 08:14 | Link #24145 |
books-eater youkai
Join Date: Dec 2007
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Russia says Turkey endangered lives by grounding plane
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/...88J0X720121011
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2012-10-11, 09:06 | Link #24146 |
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NATO says it's ready to back Turkey
Largely a symbolic gesture.. NATO really doesn't want to get involved and Turkey has its own fighter jets and military machine.. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012...o-turkey-syria |
2012-10-11, 11:39 | Link #24148 | |
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Location: On the whole, I'd rather be in Kyoto ...
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And you can make bombs out of almost anything in your house, small appliances included.
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2012-10-11, 16:05 | Link #24150 | |
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2012-10-11, 16:15 | Link #24151 |
Le fou, c'est moi
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Las Vegas, NV, USA
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Relevant xkcd.
I'm still annoyed they took away my water bottle last time I flew. Guys, what about my cellphone? |
2012-10-11, 17:25 | Link #24152 |
books-eater youkai
Join Date: Dec 2007
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Bomb risk to U.S. troops heightened by contractor fraud
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/...89A1CY20121011 I am suprised than it wasn't a US contractor than had the job.
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2012-10-11, 17:28 | Link #24153 | |
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2012-10-11, 17:38 | Link #24154 | |
Obey the Darkly Cute ...
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I'm not inherently against privatizing specific functions but it MUST come with government citizen-accountable oversight or its just the barons looting the treasury again. The Bush administration spent 2000-2008 "privatizing" every government agency they could ... and eliminating the agencies ability/budget to perform oversight. That's why I said in 2008 it might take as long as 10 years to repair the damage done to all the agencies from the FDA to the Interior to, yes, the Defense Department.
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2012-10-11, 18:18 | Link #24155 | |
NYAAAAHAAANNNNN~
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Anything can be turned into a lethal weapon - your brain is the ultimate toolbox. Use it wisely.
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2012-10-11, 19:38 | Link #24160 | |
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Qur'an-burning Florida pastor denied entry to Canada
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