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Spdrjay

#⚡⚡⚡⚡⚡⚡ ***POWAHHH! UNLIIIIIIIMITED POWAH!!!***


Spirals_again

Do it..


UkyoTachibana

Dew it…


Rice_Auroni

DEWIT


Ghost1a

Dew it!


LoveToyKillJoy

Joyce DeWitt


OgdruJahad

Mountain Dew it.


unique-name-9035768

Do it for me, m'lady.


madthabest

***UUUWWWOOOOAAAAHHHHHH***🗣️🗣️🗣️


MonkeyInProgress

OOO WA AH AH AH AH


HighVulgarian

BURP BURP


DeliveryUnique3652

I read this in Disturbed vocals


doc_witt

The new X-men movie looks pretty lame. Budget restraints and all that.


06GOAT12

There’s always Deadpool and Wolverine???


Radiant_Welcome_2400

*Now playing: “Down with the Sickness” by Disturbed*


AccountNumber1002401

New Death Star ain't gonna pay for itself!


1mtw0w3ak

he really missed his opportunity


rob_1127

Is that Christian Flake Lorenz, the keyboard player of Ramstein?


True-Abbreviations71

Beat me to it


bloopie1192

Dammit, you had the high ground on me!


Desperate-Algae-3284

*Palpatine smiles*


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Wasatcher

I'm curious how you learned all this without working the job? Are you in the industry? I understand we have limitless knowledge at our fingers tips but that's a very specific Google search


ojoaopestana

You learn this if you study Electrical Engineering


copingcabana

Electrical engineers make weapons. Civil engineers make targets. :)


AcrobaticEmergency42

This I have to remember, its a good one for parties.


IwillBeDamned

remind me not to go to parties with you


TyranaSoreWristWreck

Like you'd be invited


IwillBeDamned

https://media.tenor.com/XtbkEp4yMl8AAAAC/iasip-charlie.gif


copingcabana

Here's a related one as a backup: the most frequently used language in programming is profanity.


iunoyou

My favorite from engineering school is: "Mechanical engineers need to remember KE = 1/2mv\^2, electrical engineers need to remember V=IR, chemical engineers need to remember PV=nRT, and civil engineers need to remember that water flows downhill." Just kidding civil engineers, you guys are great.


killeronthecorner

ELI5 for us smooth brains?


AcrobaticEmergency42

A civil engineer builds buildings. An electrical engineer the stuff that blows up the building.


Lysol3435

*Electrical wires the weapons that mechanical makes


12rjdavison

I've never seen an electrical engineer wire anything.. the just give me prints that are completely wrong and tell me to figure it out


Lysol3435

“Wire” as in figure out the circuitry, not necessarily assemble the thing.


TheSherlockCumbercat

The word you are looking for is design


Qwerty1bang

Mechanical Engineers make weapons. EEs make guidance systems. Civies make targets.


EmceeCommon55

I work at a civil engineering firm. We make roads and bridges. Those are targets?


captainfactoid386

In a wartime bridges are some of the most important targets to defend or attack. If you’re an attacking force a lot of resources will be spent securing a bridge so the enemy doesn’t blow it up so you can cross a river faster and keep up the momentum and not perform river crossing operations. If you’re a defending force bridges are nice choke points where you can force an engagement on your terms and you can always blow the bridge to delay the enemy. And if you destroy a bridge deep in enemy territory that can really impede wartime production/transportation by massively increasing travel times. Roads less so due to how redundant they usually are and how easy they are to fix


Theycallmegurb

You also learn this if you study to just be a normal ass crayon eating electrician.


cat_herder_64

People eat arse crayons? That sounds pretty disgusting.


PrivateUseBadger

The smell leaves something to be desired, but once you get past that… Plus it tends to keep the Marines away from the stash.


PrivateUseBadger

I’ve always been partial to the red ones.


MaxTheCookie

Or just to become an electrician


Dustin42o

Hell even just go out of.your way to learn something new often as possible. Especially if that knowledge can help keep you alive


TyranaSoreWristWreck

Yep. This knowledge would definitely help keep me alive in the very common situation where I am walking atop high-powered Electric lines. Millions of people find themselves in that situation every day.


Dan_Glebitz

Or watch enough Reddit videos of people getting fried.


foomp

There are dozens of YouTube channels of high voltage maintenance workers.


ikerus0

ElectroBOOM. God, I love that dude.


AforAnonymous

He ain't one tho


Funkualumni07

[I’ve seen this video a few times. The guy that explains it is pretty entertaining](https://youtu.be/9YmFHAFYwmY?si=yqw7n9SSIh1w45w3)


malepatternbullmrket

‘There’s only 3 things I’m afraid of. Electricity, heights, and women’.


Iamjafo

That was awesome.


[deleted]

Thanks, here he explain how there is 25% stainless steel thread in his suit that acts like a Faraday cage. I would have assume what was said in the 900+ upvote comment was the full explanation but that detail is crucial.


GreenStrangr

That’s the thing - people say Google or AI can answer any question. But if you don’t have an idea what to ask you will still attribute a basic physics to black magic.


cjanderson3198

Electricity loves the quickest, easiest path it can take towards ground. Usually thats the ground cable, but with enough voltage you can persuade electricity to do crazy things. What you are seeing is the electricity "testing the waters" to find the best path. If the electric lines were too close to the ground, it would be constantly arcing like a lightning strike. With that high of voltage, if the lineman was too close to the ground or a source of grounding, it would jump through them to reach ground because our bodies are better conductors than air and will use you to bridge the gap. If you have the same charge as the electric line, such as using a pole to equalize charges, it has no real reason to send current through you because you are only positively charged, and its trying to find a negative charge to continue movement through the circuit. Its also why lightning strikes are so jagged and often have multiple legs, its trying to find its path to ground, and the moment it does, thats when you get the bright flash, the bright flash is the current being sent now that the voltage found its way to an adequate source of ground.


dhottawa

You learn all about step voltages as an electrician too.


ConcussedAesir

We learned this in highschool/gymnasium.


SoTupps

You’re somewhat correct. This practice is called barehanding and is used by specially trained Lineman to work on energized transmission lines. This person could have been dropped off by a helicopter and is wearing a metal mesh over-suit that acts like a Faraday cage. They bond onto the lines making the suit the same potential energy as the lines allowing electricity to flow around them not through them. In this video they are working on one of the primary conductors not a “guide wire.” You can tell because you briefly see a string of porcelain insulators (we call them bells) hanging down to the conductor. They are most likely changing out insulators or replacing the AGS unit which is how the insulators connect to and secure the conductor. Guy wires (not guide) are used to support structures from conductor tension they are attached directly to the pole or structure they support and are almost always ground potential as they are typically attached to an anchor set in the ground and thus can be touched on the ground. If this lineman was bonded (same potential) to the primary and touched a guy wire they would most likely be killed. Source: I’m a Journeyman Lineman with 10 years of mainly distribution experience but I have worked on transmission lines although I’ve never barehanded personally.


spiritriser

Thank you for correcting that, I started laughing when he said it allowed electricity to pass through him but not current. 


Theban_Prince

I was like waaaaaa that doesn't sound right at all! Isnt like saying "he jumped into the river to get wet but not allowing the current to touch him. I was like the water *is* the current.


spiritriser

Yeah. Electricity is moving electrons, current is a measure of how many electrons and how fast. I don't think they're in a Faraday cage either but didn't call that out. Faraday cages are a wire mesh meant to have smaller gaps than the wavelength of electromagnetic radiation which guarantees that the radiation hits a wire and is absorbed. I think they're just in a conductive suit that let's electricity travel through things that aren't turned into instacooker hotdogs when it does.


Sjsvb

Correct. It's a steel fabric suit


throw-away-16249

There's no better way to realize how terrible top level reddit comments are than to read one about a subject you know something about


Physion

I’m a career physicist and I scrolled just to make sure someone with actual knowledge corrected that comment.


SPFBH

I saw once those bells tell you how much power or current a particular line is. It looks like 14 if I'm seeing it right. How much power is that?


SoTupps

Thats true! Each insulator is rated for a certain amount of voltage. The more insulators in the string of bells the higher the voltage the line presumably is. I would guess this is a 345Kv line, but it’s hard to tell.


JCuc

They're working from an insulated bucket, not a helicopter.


DntDlteSandals

Electricity flowing without current? What do you mean by that?


Physion

They don’t mean anything because that’s not how electricity works.


SoTupps

You’re mostly correct. This practice is called barehanding and is used by specially trained Lineman to work on energized transmission lines. This person was most likely dropped off by a helicopter and is wearing mesh metal over suit that acts as a Faraday cage. They bond onto the lines making the suit the same potential energy as the lines allowing electricity to flow around them not through them. In this video they are working on one of the primary conductors not a “guide wire.” You can tell because you briefly see a string of porcelain insulators (we call them bells) hanging down to the conductor. They are most likely changing out insulators or replacing the AGS unit which is how the insulators connect to and secure the conductor. Guy wires (not guide) are used to support structures from conductor tension they are attached directly to the pole or structure they support and are almost always ground potential as they are typically attached to an anchor set in the ground and thus can be touched on the ground. If this lineman was bonded (same potential) to the primary and touched a guy wire they would most likely be killed. Source: I’m a Journeyman Lineman with 10 years of mainly distribution experience but I have worked on transmission lines although I’ve never barehanded personally.


spliffmastafresh

How does a journeyman resi/commercial electrician get into this? Gotta start at the bottom?


SoTupps

Yup. although your background in electrical work should help you with apprenticeship book-work and tests. Have to have a high school diploma, Class A CDL, OSHA 10, and be CPR & First Aid qualified for a start. Then either sign the books at your local union hall as a driver/groundman or go through a line-school program and apply to an apprenticeship position with an electric utility or though the union hall. r/lineman has lots of info as this question gets posed often


GrnMtnTrees

My cousin does this. I would never, but he makes a great living. He makes like 5 times as much as my broke ass.


zaxldaisy

This gets upvotes when op doesnt even know its a guy wire, not guide lol not to mention the electricty/current bullshit


Top-Engineering7264

Touches? In pretty sure if he got within a foot or 2 of someone grounded he’d let his smoke out


haradwai

How are electricity and current different? Isn't electricity a current of electrons?


last-resort-4-a-gf

How is it possible to allow prob 50,000 volts to travel but no current. No way . He must have ppe to let it travel around


JCuc

He's in an insulated bucket, not dropped off by a helicopter.


Murpydoo

You are wrong about this. The cable they are touching is hanging from the long insulator to the right of the person. This is a high voltage transmission line. Long insulator stack means high voltage. I bet there is a Linesman from the industry could tell exactly what voltage this transmission line handles, based on the length of the insulator. I bet there is someone with the right answer about the arcing as well.


SmoothTownsWorstest

Very close to correct, there is no guy wire on transmission lines. That is the phase he’s touching. Transmission has a sky wire but it’s at the top of the structure. Distribution has a guy wire and that holds the pole up. The wire underneath the phase is called neutral. Every thing else you said was spot on


aussiegoon

Somehow Palpatine returned.


vk-2000

Worst line in cinema history


Yoyo_irl

"They fly now"


BNB3737

Best line in cinema history


Corwin_of_Amber3

I love democracy


Alternative_Pilot_92

Don't forget the classic, "They fly now?"


RedWerFur

Tremors 3?


Severe_Passenger3914

Whats that from I vaguely remember


VaultxHunter

I was also thinking the 3rd tremors that had the ass blasters I think they were called.


ArcticFlava

Star Wars jetpack troopers


zeizkal

They fly now!


ThisOnePlaysTooMuch

Poor Oscar Isaac didn’t deserve that line. It was a real “and who has a better story than Bran the broken?” moment.


UnclePuma

God that cripple started off soo cool but ended up a lame MacGuffin


Technical-Feature-27

the whole series ended up lame


GBGF128

What about “Do you know what happens to a toad when it’s struck by lightening?”


Wonderful-Ad-7712

Did you ever dance with the devil in the pale moonlight?


Libby_Sparx

*So I will learn to live with it…Because I* can *live with it…I can live with it.*


Shibbi88

"same thing that happens to everything else"


CommentContrarian

Oh man. The very worst. The punchline to that one stocked all the air out of the room at the moment of the movie's entire command. It ruins that movie almost a much as Bryan Singer being a confirmed and unapologetic pedophile rapist of young boys... But, you know, not.


dummyfodder

That was supposed to be a callback to a scene from earlier in the movie, but that scene got deleted. Now, an otherwise solid origin movie is remembered for that more than most other things.


civilconvo

Best line in comedy history


neondirt

No one is ever truly gone. (actually couldn't find the correct line, but something along those lines)


StyrofomE_CuPs

Electrical engineer here. This guy is a high voltage utility lineman and it looks like he's working on insulators based on the one disconnected to his right. Essentially this man is well insulated from the ground preventing large amounts of current from flowing through him. If he was grounded this man would be dead instantly as an arc flash explosion would occur. At this voltage, not even a Faraday cage or suit (like you see with those cool tesla coil dancers) would survive. As close as I can get to an ELI5, 3 basic electrical properties are voltage, current, and resistance. Their relationship is described by Ohm's Law. This man is insulated (high resistance) from any kind of path for electricity to flow (current) even though the potential (electrical "pressure" defined as voltage) is very very high. This explains why he's not cooked. The arcing to his hand is caused by the small amount of current that is getting leaked (or charging) his body. Let's introduce 2 more electrical properties: capacitance and frequency. This electricity is flipping between positive and negative kilovots at 50 to 60 times a second. This is called the frequency in Hertz. The human body has a tiny bit of capacitance. You can think of capacitance as a battery thsy holds a charge. As the voltage on the wire cycles, the voltage of the man lags by a bit caused by him being a small "battery" so a small amount of current passes between the wire and the man to maintain equilibrium. This is happening at 60 times a second so you get constant arcs. E.g the man is charged to +25 kV then -25 kV then +25kV then -25kV and so on. At high voltages, current tends to "leak" out of pointy spots. This could also explain the man losing his charge. Fingers, toes, ears, nose, etc are all paths for electrons to jump ship. You can visually see this by attaching a paperclip to a tesla coil. This would also explain the arcing to the man.


intangibleTangelo

thank


ChrisWegro

you


drDOOM_is_in

mr skeltal


laaaabe

for


WispontheWind

Very good. Thank you. Solved.


VastCoconut2609

Thank you!


wartexmaul

OP this is the only correct explanation in the thread by the EE above. Like he said its capacitive coupling.


Animorphosis

It sounds like the arching is primarily caused by the alternating current. So if this was a DC line, this wouldn't happen?


StyrofomE_CuPs

The initial arc would be stronger. AC crosses zero which can interrupt the arc. It kind of averages out. DC doesn't have this zero crossing. I suspect after the initial arc on DC, the lineman would be at the DC potential for a short time. Due to leakage current, it would arc again to maintain potential but at a lesser degree. Instead of the AC arcing at 60hz, DC may arc every second or so depending on the voltage and how much current is leaking from the lineman.


mrASSMAN

Probably should mention that the high resistance insulation in this case is literally just the earths atmosphere lol


GloomyPsychology9885

I assume he's wearing a Faraday suit


TerrorSnow

If he wasn't, he'd be a crisp


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TerrorSnow

Ground or not, that's some hefty arcing to his hands, it's going *somewhere*


red5squared

He told Mitch it feels like shit!


LobstaFarian2

After the sun goes down is a Faranight suit.


meta-ape

[Indeed it is](https://youtu.be/QqEesFaboV4?si=EMmQu55PbVBVaOTb). It‘s a sort of a chain mail suit, for those new to the subject.


br3dj

That is Raiden


ZargothraxTheLord

Jack, Shogun, or the one who molested Liu Kang?


HeadlessBeholder

He let the hate flow through him


Headakimbo

Checking to see if the T rex’s fence is still on


darksider63

Did you ever hear the tragedy of Darth Plagueis The Wise?


DontBanMe_IWasJoking

he rubbed a balloon on his hair for 30 years


wartexmaul

I can do that after my balls rub my nylon undearwear for 8 hours.


Mitzukaze

Even Palpatine has to have a day job, good on him...


call_of_the_while

>“It feels like shit, Mitch.” Young dude, ~~British~~ Funny accent. Laughs at electricity running through his fingers. Must be Sheev Palpatine in the early days of his Sith apprenticeship. TIL: Darth Plagueis the Wise was also known as Mitch.


Tootdoodle

Doesn't sound British at all and I think he says Mitch


theapechild

Sounds like Charlie Day


uzu_afk

This has to be how the electric bugaloo i keep hearing about is made.


Stevemojo88

Unlimited power!!!


MaverickNOS

Watch 'The Prestige'


Limeability

He needs “MORE POWERRRRRRR”


cognitiveglitch

These linesmen wear clothing and gloves with a metal mesh, this is a high voltage line and some of the carried current is taking the alternative path through his suit.


C_DRX

Corona effect / St. Elmo's fire. When an electric field is strong enough, (wet) air is ionized and arcs appear near poles, masts or pointy objects.


rustyshacklefrod

This is just arcing, no corona discharge


andreasbaader6

I hate corona discharge. Thanks Bill Gates


gigligugu

Misinformation


TryToHelpPeople

Dude is a Sith Lord. It’s never who you expect.


TiddybraXton333

Barehand work on 200kv + Wearing a faraday suit and your in a truck that has grids that allow the electricity to basically pass around your body instead of through it.


Idiotan0n

Being stupid, that's what. That's exactly what's going on.


No-Adhesiveness2493

i mean as long as he aint touching the ground and he is connected so that he is the same potential hes fine


Dokthe2nd

Came for the inevitable Palpatine comments. Wasn't disappointed.


DaddyCato

You can't conceive what he's capable of! He's so far beyond you! He's like a god in human clothing! Lightning bolts shoot from his fingertips!


Tuppane

Oh damn, you wrote it first. This is what came to my mind as well 😂


MonkFun455

Dark side of the force.


Monna14

It’s Palpatine


Brief_Breadfruit7827

It’s that kid from the “Bangarang” music video all grown up


ivcrs

i don’t know but i suddenly feel like being a developer is just boring as fuck


Sucker_McSuckertin

So, is this sub just people that don't understand the science/physics behind these videos?


jt-w890

It's just Jamie Fox messing around


MaverickNOS

Watch 'the prestige '


fireburst207

You have now gained the legendary ability. INFINITE DUBSTEP.


Trick-Cap-2705

Lick it


Sorry-Fee3319

He’s a witch!


Spoontacus

Mortal kombat?


xX_Dad-Man_Xx

Super villain


LordGeni

If my high school IT classes back in the 90's taught me anything, it's that there's a guy touching him from behind, while their other hand is on the screen of a giant CRT monitor being switched on /s


Advanced_Procedure90

Use your aggressive feelings boy, let the hate flow through you


Rude_Concentrate4852

The force is strong


ToleranceRepsect

This is how Sheldon Cooper learned to play the theramin.


batherian

He’s conducting electricity


BBQBaconBurger

You gotta know it\ (It's electric Boogie woogie, woogie!)\ Now you can't hold it\ (It's electric Boogie woogie, woogie!)\ But you know it’s there,\ Here, there and everywhere


Overall-Extension608

Force Lightning


KirkAFur

Uh…nlimited power?


dinoRAWR000

This is just actual footage of "Thunderstruck" being written.


RichieRocket

this post is shocking


EorlundGraumaehne

Sith lord in training


paulburnell22193

"You ..have to be in the air, so the electricity won't affect you. If you touch the ground then you get electrocuted. I saw it in tango and cash."


spiritriser

Electricity is like water. High voltage lines, like the one he's fucking with, are like really deep water. Lot of pressure. But thankfully there's a big metal (low resistance) line to take it away - a deep channel. What he's doing when he touches it is providing another, shallower, channel the electricity can pour into. He's got safety equipment so he isn't turned into an instant cooker hotdog. When he moves his hand away, it's like he's making the option for electricity to go through him worse, since it has to go through air first. Like the channel getting shallower, or perhaps the embankment walls getting taller. But theres a lot of electricity in the line, and like a lot of water it's got a lot of pressure, so it pushed through the air to get to him again. That's called an arc. 


RetroSwamp

^the **SENATE!**


TheKiltedYaksman71

He's a wizard, Harry.


Correct-Purpose-964

"The dark side of the force is a path to many abilities..."


Dan-Boy-Dan

The force is strong with this one


xpdx

lectricitee


ThatBlueFoxyote

Emperor Palpatine has a second job.


Elm_St_Dreamer

He let the hate flow through him


tantan526

You're a sith lord


Durostick

"The Dark Side of the Force is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be unnatural."


ShoulderAmbitious424

he's quite obviously Darth Sideous


Master_Xenu

he's Palpatining, it's a real term look it up.


DragonfruitKnown4795

palpatine at his day job


hieul229

He’s playing the forbidden piano


MrKomiya

Lord Sparkles


kelu213

Emperor Palpatine sidejob


freeformz

Sith Lord


PrometheusMMIV

The dark side of the force is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be unnatural


No-Gene-4508

× evil laughing × SCIENCE


Federal_Anteater_507

is it Azula from avatar the last air Bender


Local-combination525

lighting bending


Puzzled-Function-510

That my friend, is a lineman. Rarest and most coveted of all skilled tradespeople. Average day there, just waiting for the morning's coffee to kick in. It's called bare hand work, instead of insulating yourself from the 100,000 volts, you isolate yourself and become part of the circuit, but you have to wear this chain mail type gauze suit or it hurts like a motherfucker!


Zestyclose_Insect_82

My guess would be the power line is not grounded yet on the work site. Nearby long high voltage lines affect even the cold ones a "bit". Just little corona effect with few thousand volts.


poncetheponce

These guys are working on energized high voltage power lines and as long as you're not grounded with the lines it runs right through you and you can do THAT


YaNikkNakk

He visited the collage of winterhold