 TheGax
Male, 18-29, Southern US
 822 Posts
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Wednesday, March 03, 2010 9:22:49 PM
and that's why i love science and electricity =) |
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 splurbyburbl
Male, 30-39, Southern US
2810 Posts
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Wednesday, March 03, 2010 7:37:06 PM
Some roosterbag threw that branch up there it looks like. I would be a murderous fool if my power went out because of that. |
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 SarahofBorg
Female, 18-29, Eastern US
3547 Posts
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Wednesday, March 03, 2010 7:33:04 PM
I don't get why this doesn't happen everyday. I always see tree branches on powerlines. |
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 MLime
Female, 13-17, Canada
126 Posts
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Wednesday, March 03, 2010 6:07:41 PM
I like how the branch was like screaming XD but it also sort of sounded like someone letting air out of a balloon while pinching it |
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 sourkrauter
Male, 18-29, Midwest US
899 Posts
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Wednesday, March 03, 2010 5:52:32 PM
damn! i gotta try that this summer! wait, i wonder what would happen if you used a FROZEN tree branch |
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 henryhendrix
Male, 30-39, Eastern US
724 Posts
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Wednesday, March 03, 2010 4:33:13 PM
Haha CrakrJak, and how did the branch get up there? I see no adjacent tree... |
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 thefireguy22
Male, 18-29, Eastern US
420 Posts
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Wednesday, March 03, 2010 4:22:07 PM
holy. poo. |
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 Corpsecrank
Male, 30-39, Eastern US
873 Posts
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Wednesday, March 03, 2010 4:15:23 PM
Ha yeah it really just fell on there all on it's own and conveniently someone just happened to catch it on film. More like someone got a camera and tossed it up there so they could film the results lol. |
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 npdarren
Male, 18-29, Western US
603 Posts
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Wednesday, March 03, 2010 4:15:20 PM
I bet the power went out for most of the neighborhood. |
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 CrakrJak
Male, 40-49, Midwest US
14460 Posts
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Wednesday, March 03, 2010 4:11:07 PM
"I'm surprised that tree branch didn't go back in time."Or teleport somewhere inside Black Mesa. |
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 imustbreaku
Male, 18-29, Southern US
38 Posts
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Wednesday, March 03, 2010 3:52:37 PM
I'm surprised that tree branch didn't go back in time. |
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 MetalLinx
Female, 13-17, Midwest US
257 Posts
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Wednesday, March 03, 2010 3:49:08 PM
AMAZING! |
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 shadowtube
Male, 13-17, Canada
253 Posts
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Wednesday, March 03, 2010 3:38:36 PM
1 word, just 1 word. Awesome. |
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 Shellie84
Female, 18-29, Australia
4196 Posts
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Wednesday, March 03, 2010 3:37:26 PM
wow, that was really interesting. I wouldn't have been standing underneath it though :/ |
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 nonamewillfi
Male, 13-17, Eastern US
1407 Posts
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Wednesday, March 03, 2010 3:33:45 PM
honestly that was one of the coolest things i have ever seen. i love it when the smoke just explodes into fire. |
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 zmeace
Male, 18-29, Eastern US
809 Posts
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Wednesday, March 03, 2010 3:28:57 PM
it kind of sounds like a firecracker being smothered, poor tree branch and anything that might have lived on that branch |
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 dooflotchie
Female, 30-39, Eastern US
336 Posts
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Wednesday, March 03, 2010 3:24:43 PM
"I just...imagined...a squirrel..."I saw the aftereffects of that very thing. I went to a guy's house to pick up a car I was buying from him and when we were talking outside there was a huge "BOOM!!!" from behind the house and his wife hollered from inside, "WTF was that?! The lights just went out!" We all went behind the house and found a well-cooked squirrel on the ground under the power line. Apparently it crossed from one line to the other and got zapped. We could see the path of the electricity burned onto it's body. It went diagonally from front to back, singed the hair off a narrow strip of the belly and exited at the hind leg. The leg was blown apart at the top but there was no blood, the shock must have instantly cauterized it. Yeah, it was gross and it smelled bad, but that squirrel never knew what hit it. Instant death. |
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 Loew
Female, 40-49, Eastern US
69 Posts
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Wednesday, March 03, 2010 3:10:45 PM
srgkoala : "Aaaaaaand out pops terminator"Yes! He'll be squating like a little monkey.
http://www.collegehumor.com/video:190212... |
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 MCFC89
Male, 18-29, Canada
124 Posts
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Wednesday, March 03, 2010 2:31:04 PM
that was pretty sick |
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 srgkoala
Male, 18-29, Canada
295 Posts
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Wednesday, March 03, 2010 2:18:23 PM
Aaaaaaand out pops terminator |
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 Hiromi
Female, 13-17, Eastern US
1153 Posts
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Wednesday, March 03, 2010 2:15:58 PM
I just...imagined...a squirrel...
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 Asspenny
Male, 18-29, Midwest US
1358 Posts
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Wednesday, March 03, 2010 2:12:02 PM
hehe, batmanners is right. sadly i'm not an electric nerd tho, a shame really. air was probably ionized or something allowing the electricity to follow the path of least resistance through it. *shrug* |
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 thedragslay
Female, 18-29, Midwest US
60 Posts
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Wednesday, March 03, 2010 2:06:05 PM
It's caused by the differences in the current and voltage in the wire. You get fried by the current not being able to ground itself, because it's running into another current that's a different voltage. |
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 lemonstand
Female, 18-29, Canada
170 Posts
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Wednesday, March 03, 2010 2:01:13 PM
that was awesome |
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 Nidonemo
Male, 18-29, Western US
9216 Posts
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Wednesday, March 03, 2010 1:59:19 PM
Woah holy sh-WOAAAAH! O_O...half of me wants to try to replicate this and the other half is screaming at myself for even entertaining the idea. |
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