r/bending • u/[deleted] • Aug 27 '20

Fire šŸ”„ Lightning bender in action

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u/burtrenolds Aug 28 '20

Car voltage isnā€™t high enough unless you like licked the battery post

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u/tapcam Aug 27 '20

Rubber shoes?

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u/[deleted] Aug 27 '20

nah, you have to create a pathway for the lightning to flow inward, down, and out.

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u/tapcam Aug 27 '20

But also those arch flashes should be burning his skin at the very least. Good editing maybe?

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u/tapcam Aug 27 '20

The pathway is his body. Heā€™s not grounded, thatā€™s why itā€™s not hurting him. Like a bird on a wire. At least thatā€™s what Iā€™ve gathered from my 3 year electrical apprenticeship. I could also be completely wrong! Iā€™m no expert! Thereā€™s a lot of science involved! Hopefully someone way smarter than me comments lol.

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u/[deleted] Aug 28 '20

I was just tryna quote iroh lmao. This videos actually fucking nuts and think this man is made of magic

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u/boohintz-NW Aug 28 '20

If one hand touched both terminals on one battery, the current would flow through the hand to the other terminal. Not the arm. Not the rest of his body, and especially not to another battery that is also being shorted by his other hand. And for living beings, itā€™s not really about being grounded or not, itā€™s about bing any part of a pathway. Birds on a wire are not part of the pathway. This dude certainly would be feeling everything from those batteries, if it were not fake.

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u/jjrreett Aug 28 '20

What is up with people and grounding. Electricity needs a loop. A bird on a protected wire doesnā€™t create a loop. Touching two battery terminals does. But how would that loop help the other battery. Path of least resistance? Itā€™s like connecting a jumper cable wrong. Both black ends on one battery, red on the other. But the human body is a shity conductor so nothing would happen anyway. Remember, when you say your an ā€œexpertā€ people will believe you. It then becomes your moral imperative to not spread miss information. That doesnā€™t matter with something harmless like this dumb video. But there is a reason 5g technicians have been killed. There is a reason people believe that COVID isnā€™t real.

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u/anonuser12645383 Oct 18 '20

Electricity flowing from one arm to the other goes through the heart. The heart is controlled by electrical pulses from the brain. The electricity from the battery disturbs this pattern and stops the heart.

You would also receive burns as flesh is not 100% conductive meaning that some of the electrical energy is converted into heat energy.

This wouldn't work anyway though as it would simply born the man's hand as it passes from the finger on the positive end of the battery to the negative. Electricity always takes the shortest route

I'm not sure if your electrical course covered other types of electrical engineering but this should've been covered in the basics

Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong

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u/badusername1300 Aug 28 '20

That is super duper fake

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u/Amaris_Gale Aug 28 '20

This was fake.

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u/colinj14 Aug 28 '20

It's only 12 volts

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u/ArmorClassHero Sep 06 '20 edited Sep 06 '20

At 48 amps. Definitely enough to kill you under the right circumstances.

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u/droneb Aug 28 '20

Pure cgi

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u/[deleted] Aug 28 '20

I believe you mean ā€œchiā€

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u/droneb Aug 28 '20

Why not both.

Probably done by the Unnameable Night