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3260563 No.3260563 [Reply] [Original]

Why can a bird stand harmleslly on a high potential wire?

>> No.3260567

Not making a path to ground.

>> No.3260573

>>3260563

There is no potential difference (voltage).
It is merely sitting on one cable so it may become charged.

If it had one leg on each or in contact with both the cable and the ground, then it would be in trouble.

>> No.3260601

>>3260563
In each wire, there is the same potential. And there can be no current going between the birds legs if they are at the same potential!

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3261809

^ As all these people said, OP.

When you touch other shit like the ground or another wire, you're fucked. See pic. Squirrel that bridge two power lines.

>> No.3261841

>Squirrel that bridge two power lines.
Wut?
You mean squirrel that touched both and then died?

These are correct.
>>3260567
>>3260573
>>3260601
>>3261809

>> No.3261865

>>3261809

BATMAN! WHAT HAPPENED TO YOU!!!

>> No.3261880

>>3260567
>>3260573
>>3260601
>>3261809
>>3261841
All of these people are wrong.

We all know that electricity comes from the natural lightning within. If your body's psi is discordant with the electrical power's psi, then your natural lightning will interfere with the electricity in the wire. Human's psi is just a little bit off, so are most land mammals. However, bird's psi are just the same frequency as the wires. Engineers did this on purpose, because they knew birds would be landing on the wires frequently.

>> No.3261881

>>3260563
>implying birds can fly "anywhere in the world"

>> No.3261887

>>3261881
they can using wings

>> No.3261901

>>3261880

What the fuck am I reading?

>> No.3264187

If you look closely at the picture, the birds are all perched on the top ground line, not on any of the three HV conductors. Most birds and other animals will not go near anything more than about 4 KV, because even though they are touching only one conductor, enough current still flows through them because of induction to give them a small but unpleasant shock.

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>>3261880
>>3261880

>> No.3264216

You guys do know that those lines are all heavily insulated? The wires aren't just exposed.

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>>3260563
They're not harmlessly standing there. They're waiting to pluck your eyes out when you're not looking.

>> No.3264227

Go back to tumblr

>> No.3264489

>>3261880
>>3261880

absolutely fantastic work, simply explained and well laid out

>> No.3264504

>>3261880

Unbelievable as it may seem to anyone who has not witnessed the power of their internal psi potential, the

>> No.3264892

s'called grounding there sir or madame.

>> No.3264945

In terms you'd understand (and that everyone else seems to have neglected), your body and the birds' bodies have some resistance to having electricity passing through them.

If the electricity has to work to go through you just to get back to the same potential, it wont, because it's the same as a ball rolling along a flat expanse spontaneously.

If the electricity finds a path through you to a place of lower potential, say, the ground, it will take that path provided the work to get through you is worth the lower potential energy, similar to a ball rolling from a high spot on a hill to a low one spontaneously.

Why then would do we humans fight against entropy? Why do we build metaphorical sandcastles against the tide when the entire universe is geared towards breaking them down? Why are there those among us who act with entropy, burning and destroying, while others roll boulders up hills just to watch them fall back down again?

"One must imagine Sisyphus happy."

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3264968

>>3264945
You come up with that all by yourself?

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3264984

>>3264945
mfw camus
you must be high

>> No.3264994

>>3264945
because absurdism is for angsty teenagers

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3265042

Always a good time to start.