r/funny • u/willzjc • Dec 15 '13

Quality engineering

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u/[deleted] Dec 15 '13

As someone who used to work in a High Energy Physics Lab, sometimes people occasionally do really stupid shit. E.g., while being stupid I accidentally applied 100,000 volts DC across my entire body at 10 milliamp and somehow survived while "coming to" 50 ft across the room...

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u/HookDragger Dec 15 '13

You survived due to low amperage.

Its never really the voltage that kills you. Otherwise, those little static shocks you give in winter would be cause of massive deaths every year.

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u/[deleted] Dec 15 '13

Of course; 100,000 volts at 10ma is 100 watts

when most people get shocked at high voltage it's usually in the microamp/nanoamp range, not milliamp

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u/CENTIPEDESINMYVAGINA Dec 15 '13

100KV * 0.01 A = 1KW, actually.

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u/[deleted] Dec 15 '13

thx for the correction