• absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz
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    3 months ago

    Looks fake.

    The voltage difference between the two terminals would be minimal so no current flow, the back plate should be non-conductive. The other reason is there are no scorch marks or other signs of burning.

    Now if the mouse had gone between the green and yellow (where the terminal separator is); then we would see a big voltage difference.

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        3 months ago

        Generally same coloured wires are at the same potential.

        It is extremely bad practice to have different potentials on the same wire colours. Especially since they are in same terminal block.

        I don’t know which country this picture is from, but yellow/red would be safe to assume line voltage, green would usually be earth potential.

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          3 months ago

          Well bad practice meet reality. These look like relays/contactors of some sort so it’s probably a piece of equipment that who know who put it together. Got a bunch of yellow wire and building a piece of equipment that you and you alone will be servicing? Fuck it, let’s use up this wire…

          Based on this picture alone your assumptions are quite dangerous and could easily lead to you or anyone reading this replacing that small mammal pictured. To think you could assume anything based on wire color in this photo is insane to me.

          What do they have going on with those green wires? Since their all green why didn’t they just tie them all together with a wire nut? Same with the yellow wires! Since their the same color they must be about the same thing… But what do i know, red cars are fast.

          If you want to predict based based on color be my guest, but don’t assume shit when it comes to unknown electrical boxes. Shit will fuck you up at the speed of light.

          Pic could be fake for other reasons, but wire color?!?

  • I would argue that “instantly killed in a horrifying way” is oxymoronic. I don’t care that I’ll be torn to pieces by rabid centipedes while being boiled alive in a vat of acid, as long as it’s an instantaneous death. Horrifying, maybe, to observers, but any instantaneous death makes the means irrelevant to the killed.

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    3 months ago

    No matter where you are on the planet, you’re never much more than 100 km away from the Kármán line. Death is (generally speaking) always just overhead.

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      3 months ago

      Going by that logic, just a meter deep is a crushing death. And right where you are you could smash your head against something… which is at least also something that happens all the time, no need to look at theoretical far-away things when the boring truth is far worse.