has any one been electrocuted and by what.?
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When I was about 10 years old I tried to heat up a metal rod on the coils of a 2kW electric radiator. I vaguely remember that a moment passed and then wham! I was thrown back so hard I toppled the settee behind me.\n\nSurprisingly I suffered no other ill-effects, not even a burnt thumb and forefinger.\n\nElectricity is dangerous stuff.\n\nIt was an interesting experience, not to be repeated.
913907
Ben Franklin discovered electricity when he was visiting Mars. They have electrical storms something fierce up there, if memory serves me correctly.
938100
My motherboard fried once.  You could just look at it and see parts blown.  Have you actually looked at it yet?
600253
there is no such fixed voltage, as people struck by lightning have also survived
500798
Oh my gosh, did anyone of them got hurt? LOL
438447
deffo take ur comp outta the water....drowning is ok im not to keen on being electricuted
1128733
nothing the electricity will be transfered along the outside of the sub and be dispersed into the surrounding water. Some of the electronics might suffer a little surge damage but nothing major would happen. Unless someone was standing on the exterior of the sub when it was struck.
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for where?\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrician
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yes.\n\nyou will not get electrocuted because your the current of your pee is not enough for electricity to pass through (and electricity will have to go against the flow for that matter) and electrocute you.
252927
think so... we all have static electricity in our body...
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Yeah, okay.  So it works like this, \n\nYou get a shock when you touch a live wire, or, say, a charged conductor (like a sister rubbing her rubber soled slippers on the carpet) because that conductor has an excess of electrons.  These electrons (the electrical charge) are trying to get to the ground (you can think of the earth as the largest conductor around, it is therefore the best place for extra electrons to be, energetically speaking).\n\nSo if you stick a live wire into the ocean (the salt water is a good conductor) but it is so vast that the electrons will spread incredibly fast (going to the ground in every conceivable direction) so the charge will become really small really quickly.\n\nSo basically, if you're standing near where you stick the wire in, you'd be luck to electrocute yourself.  Though I wouldn't recommend trying.
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I was electrocuted at work a while back.  I was passed out when they pulled me down from the wires.  But I never lost my train of thought, I feel that I experienced the whole thing in real time.\n\nWhen the current grabbed me I felt the life quickly drain from my body, it occoured to me that this is how I am to die, and then I was moving at high speed down a river of florescent light, inside a canyon with tall dark walls.  My body kept feeling like when you go over the falls on a roller coaster.  After a time the walls of the canyons started to have faces, and the faces turned into my fellow workers staring down at me in horror, thinking I was dead.   But I was pretty much OK except for some deep burns.\n\nCould have been just the dieing process.  But I feel that it was my choice to live or die during that time.  \n\nI would say my time since then is pure bonus time.  But really our entire lives are bonus time.   I don't understand anything more about death, but I did learn to appreciate each moment of life, each life giving breath.
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Psychological\nThe perception of electric shock can be different depending on the voltage, duration, current, path taken, etc. Current entering the hand has a threshold of perception of about 5 to 10 milliamperes (mA) for DC and about 1 to 10 mA for AC at 60 Hz.\n\nPhysiological\nBurns: Tissue heating due to resistance can cause extensive and deep burns. High-voltage (> 500 to 1000 V) shocks tend to cause internal burns due to the large energy (which is proportional to the square of the voltage) available from the source. Damage due to current is through tissue heating.\n\nVentricular fibrillation: A low-voltage (110 to 220 V), 60-Hz AC current traveling through the chest for a fraction of a second may induce ventricular fibrillation at currents as low as 60mA. With DC, 300 to 500 mA is required. If the current has a direct pathway to the heart (eg, via a cardiac catheter or other electrodes), a much lower current of less than 1 mA, (AC or DC) can cause fibrillation. Fibrillations are usually lethal because all the heart muscle cells move independently. Above 200mA, muscle contractions are so strong that the heart muscles cannot move at all.\n\nNeurological effects: Current can cause interference with nervous control, especially over the heart and lungs. When the current path is through the head, it appears that, with sufficient current, loss of consciousness almost always occurs swiftly. (This is borne out by some limited self-experimentation by early designers of the electric chair. and by research from the field of animal husbandry, where electric stunning has been extensively studied).\n\nThe recommended first aid for someone who had received a severe electrical shock has three major components:\n1) Call for help \n2) Make sure the victim is no longer in contact with the electrical current source. Turn off all power if this can be done quickly. \n3) Check for breathing and heart beat and apply cardiopulmonary resuscitation, if necessary \n\n[Also] "the human body is not much of a resistor. Rather, it is a fairly good conductor of electricity because the fluids in our bodies are solutions of salts and ions which readily enable electricity to flow."\n\nMore information and details can be found in the links below.
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Worked in a factory that made the switches that turn streetlights on at night,  I soldered 500 identical wires to 500 identical circuit chips (called a dual-voltage precision heater) every day.\n\nIt was just as bad as it sounds.
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its called "static electricity".???
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Yes the electricity sparks can cause an explosion. I read about that a long time ago.
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Yes many people have been affected by this. Hope this answer helps