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Paul Burridge wrote:
Has anyone ever had an electric shock that they feel lucky to have survived? [.sig_snip] My first clear memory of my life is the few minutes immediately after of my dad's warning me not to poke a finger in a light socket while he fetched a new bulb. Dad left the room and 2-3 year old Eric headed straight for the (now empty) lamp socket. Amazing how clear a memory can be after decades. The closest death by electrocution I've suffered was in the mid 1980's. Our disposal protocol required us to let air into CRTs. For some reason, I powered up the monitor before I disposed of it. I unplugged it, took the back off, donned my leather gloves, grabbed my uninsulated pliers and, with one hand on the steel case, snipped the nipple off of the 25" CRT. I remember the world getting almost completely covered by a big dark. I didn't get thrown or loose consciousness. My arm ached for a little while, that big dark is still with me from time to time. Paul, are you asking if anyone has been killed, then revived? If anyone has made that journey, I'd be curious to know if your experience was similar to people who have survived a "fatal" drowning (great peace, white light, etc.). EI |
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RP Henry wrote:
"Tom Sevart" wrote in message ... "WB3FUP (Mike Hall)" wrote in message ... 10KV to fire magnetron in counter battery radar. Took six marines to stop me from burying my screw driver in the chest of the asshole that thought it would be cute to push the radiate button. I remember hearing the story of an Air Force tech working on a 30' radar dish. For some dumb reason, someone energized it and promptly microwaved him to death. Some of these stories are hair rasing... and I'm too much of a weenie to stick my tongue on a 9V battery... A Raytheon corporate legend is that one of the engineers discovered the microwave oven principle when a radar melted a chocolate bar in his shirt pocket. I find that very interesting, since every chocolate bar I have ever had was wrapped in aluminum foil. -- Its August 5, 2003, so I'm 51 today! Michael A. Terrell Central Florida |
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RP Henry wrote:
"Tom Sevart" wrote in message ... "WB3FUP (Mike Hall)" wrote in message ... 10KV to fire magnetron in counter battery radar. Took six marines to stop me from burying my screw driver in the chest of the asshole that thought it would be cute to push the radiate button. I remember hearing the story of an Air Force tech working on a 30' radar dish. For some dumb reason, someone energized it and promptly microwaved him to death. Some of these stories are hair rasing... and I'm too much of a weenie to stick my tongue on a 9V battery... A Raytheon corporate legend is that one of the engineers discovered the microwave oven principle when a radar melted a chocolate bar in his shirt pocket. I find that very interesting, since every chocolate bar I have ever had was wrapped in aluminum foil. -- Its August 5, 2003, so I'm 51 today! Michael A. Terrell Central Florida |
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Paul Burridge wrote in message . ..
The question seems daft, but bear with me, gentlemen. Has anyone ever had an electric shock that they feel lucky to have survived? p. 480 volt compost turner was activated while I had my hands inside. Threw me into a pile of (mostly) chicken manure. Wade H |
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Paul Burridge wrote in message . ..
The question seems daft, but bear with me, gentlemen. Has anyone ever had an electric shock that they feel lucky to have survived? p. 480 volt compost turner was activated while I had my hands inside. Threw me into a pile of (mostly) chicken manure. Wade H |
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![]() "Boris Mohar" wrote in message ... On Thu, 7 Aug 2003 08:05:50 -0700, "RP Henry" richard.p.henry@saic dot com wrote: "Michael Black" wrote in message ... Winfield Hill ) writes: Paul Burridge wrote... The question seems daft, but bear with me, gentlemen. Has anyone ever had an electric shock that they feel lucky to have survived? I've had a few fatal shocks. Thanks, - Win You sound in especially good shape for someone who's suffered multiple fatal shocks. That explains the hair. He is a cat. -- Regards, Boris Mohar Got Knock? - see: Viatrack Printed Circuit Designs http://www3.sympatico.ca/borism/ Aurora, Ontario Win just haunts this newsgroup. Regards Ian ;-) |
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![]() "Boris Mohar" wrote in message ... On Thu, 7 Aug 2003 08:05:50 -0700, "RP Henry" richard.p.henry@saic dot com wrote: "Michael Black" wrote in message ... Winfield Hill ) writes: Paul Burridge wrote... The question seems daft, but bear with me, gentlemen. Has anyone ever had an electric shock that they feel lucky to have survived? I've had a few fatal shocks. Thanks, - Win You sound in especially good shape for someone who's suffered multiple fatal shocks. That explains the hair. He is a cat. -- Regards, Boris Mohar Got Knock? - see: Viatrack Printed Circuit Designs http://www3.sympatico.ca/borism/ Aurora, Ontario Win just haunts this newsgroup. Regards Ian ;-) |
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On Fri, 08 Aug 2003 03:29:47 GMT, Eric Immel
wrote: Paul, are you asking if anyone has been killed, then revived? That's pretty close to what I'm getting at. What I *am* actually get at is that theoretical physicists are coming around to the rather extraordinary view that one cannot from one's own perspective be killed by any sudden and dramatic life event. No matter how bad the shock, you will always 'come around' to find that you've survived. The tricky bit is that you'll probably have found yourself in a different reality to the one you left. In the one you've left, observers will see your cold, dead, smoking body lying sparko on the ground. Your relatives will grieve, your obituary will be written. But *you* won't know anything of that. You'll just believe you've had a lucky escape; you'll go home and tell your friends and family all about it and years later maybe you'll tell others via the Internet. Sounds nuts? Incredible as it may seem, the majority of physicists currently working in this field now believe this to be the case! And we're talking world-class theoreticians here, not just the kooks who post to alt.sci.theories. For further info, try Googling for the following: Many Worlds theory Max Tegel Quantum suicide experiment Quantum Theory of Imortality David Deutsche Schroedinger's Cat -- "I believe history will be kind to me, since I intend to write it." - Winston Churchill |
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On Fri, 08 Aug 2003 03:29:47 GMT, Eric Immel
wrote: Paul, are you asking if anyone has been killed, then revived? That's pretty close to what I'm getting at. What I *am* actually get at is that theoretical physicists are coming around to the rather extraordinary view that one cannot from one's own perspective be killed by any sudden and dramatic life event. No matter how bad the shock, you will always 'come around' to find that you've survived. The tricky bit is that you'll probably have found yourself in a different reality to the one you left. In the one you've left, observers will see your cold, dead, smoking body lying sparko on the ground. Your relatives will grieve, your obituary will be written. But *you* won't know anything of that. You'll just believe you've had a lucky escape; you'll go home and tell your friends and family all about it and years later maybe you'll tell others via the Internet. Sounds nuts? Incredible as it may seem, the majority of physicists currently working in this field now believe this to be the case! And we're talking world-class theoreticians here, not just the kooks who post to alt.sci.theories. For further info, try Googling for the following: Many Worlds theory Max Tegel Quantum suicide experiment Quantum Theory of Imortality David Deutsche Schroedinger's Cat -- "I believe history will be kind to me, since I intend to write it." - Winston Churchill |
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![]() "Bob Lewis (AA4PB)" wrote: I've seen someone get hold of 440 V 3 phase bus bars, one in each hand. Does that imply that he had three hands or did he just get hold of two phases of a 3-phase system? :-) Maybe we don't want to know what was the third 'hand'.... |
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