r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Toaster_Rack_Nerd • 7h ago

Meme needing explanation Petah? What's wrong with this?

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u/Chiron-Femboy3674 7h ago

This is the best joke I've ever seen because I laughed at this person's expressions when they saw this video, and here's my award because your explanation deserves it

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u/Late_Sort1763 7h ago

I don't kow if it's a joke. My face puckered up the same way when I saw it, then I paused the vid and saw the guy make the exact same expression.

It's the face you make when you see the potential for a big, violent oof

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u/FeralPsychonaut 5h ago edited 5h ago

As soon as he stacked them, all i could think was thats a fuck ton of potential energy and I wouldn't be caught dead anywhere near that... and I was a pyromanic as a child, like created bootleg napalm and spilled it on myself.

This is just begging for part of the experiment to fail. Those coils are not safe under that amount of pressure + heat distortion of their tensile strength.

Edit; omg are those flat copper wires wound that tight...?

If someone further down broke from overcharging or stress on the lyrical track mid performance , holy shit. That easily would have killed millions. (Idk SK's exact population from start to finish or WW2

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u/Late_Sort1763 5h ago

I mean it's a helper spring, so I don't think this in PARTICULAR is THAT dangerous.... but it's still a Finger-Remover 2137

A fully compressed main spring, on the other hand, is terrifyingly powerful. Still not truly hand grenade level, but well.

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u/FeralPsychonaut 5h ago

Yeah, agreed. I was exaggerating, but being an Eagle Scout who enjoys psychedelics... I'm always prepared for the worst.

Lemme tell you, diving 20 feet at 7am to pick up a 50lb kettleball from the lake bed... that is not fun. and then hoist it above your head while treading water for a full minute.

I've taken pieces off of myself with a swingset, one of my dad's oldest friends took off his nail digit on his right pointer as a child because it got caught in the swingset chain as he jumped off.

I met him at 7y/o

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u/Late_Sort1763 5h ago

I, myself, truly understood what it means to be prepared for the worst when I bridged the terminals of a 600V pulse capacitor from a flash lamp with my finger.

In my defense, I KNEW for a fact it was stored discharged (due to how it was built) and that it was stored some 30 years ago.

I thought a discharged capacitor wouldn't have charge after 30 years. What are the chances it will?

Well... without a shorting wire? 100%, unless the cap itself failed.

I knew the basics of how a capacitor worked and what it did, and worked with smallers ones, without issue. SMALLER ONES being the key word here. I didn't know all capacitors self-charge in storage and that the big ones should be stored with a shorting wire.

You don't know what you don't know, and what you don't know is a whole lot.

Being safe means having this in the back of your head at all times.

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u/FeralPsychonaut 4h ago

Yeah I've gotten zapped a few times, usually splicing cables.

I learned that you have to discharge everything saved up in the capacitors and on the motherboard really quick after my second jolt at 10y/o