Tube TV’s have killed people in spectacular fassion who went messing with them without first discharging the capacitors.

Electric fences, and other low current high voltage capacitors can only produce that high voltage across an open gap. As soon as the ciruit closes, their internal resistance needs to be considered, and the output across the terminals drops way down.

Wasnt there some relationship between voltage and current they teach in laser engineering school. Some ohm guy had something to do with it.

Exactly. The only way high voltage doesn’t lead to high current is if the supply is unable to deliver it, in which case the voltage actually drops.

I was wondering who would get that reference. The internet never dissapoints.

A car charger is a high current source. It has to be.

Hey, no matter what the propulsion method, it take a great deal of power to accelerate a 3,000lbs car to highway speeds and keep it going to its destination, and no matter how you store that power, there is a danger that it will be released in an unintended way.

Good thing no people have ever been killed by the result of little nifty explosions of gasoline.

Funny story. For various scientific purposes, they make a 90V battery, of which we keep a few. At one point, some dumbass got curious, since he never heard of a 90V battery. He decided it had to be a typo, and of course checked his theory by touching it to his tongue. He lived, but said it felt like getting hit in the…

So lots of people objecting my not mentioning current (which I sort of did) but let me elaborate. Current is voltage divided by resistance. The resistance is determined by your body, which path the current takes thru it, and how resistive you happen to be on that particular day.

Generally yes, but gasoline will kill you slower. You have some time to react. Maybe not enough to save yourself, but you stand a chance. High voltage kills you almost instantly, and paralyzes your muscles while it does so. Once you’re shocked, you’re done for.

An idiots guide to voltages might be helpful. All these assumes a power supply capable of delivering continuous current, not some sort of scientificy sensor supplies.

Does the phone have rocket assisted rocket modules? If not, I really don’t see how its relevant.

I believe it also needs and extra set of landing gear, 16 carbon fiber beams, 3 perfectly round spheres arranged in a deltoid configuration, 13 organic honey dew melons, and a infinite number of pinguins with sunny desposition.

Torch would be moving the engines to the middle of the airframe for better space utilization.

It’s an idea so blatantly ridiculous that I can only assume airbus engineers are trolling the patent office.

Thats brilliant! We’ll equip each passenger with a small personal jetpack module, and strap them directly to the wings. This way each passenger may disembark upon reaching the destination of their choice, to be obediently followed by their rocket powered luggage.

I can’t watch that without singing “america, fuck yeah!”

That sounds sensible, but lacking in flair.

Here at doubledollar consulting, we are all about pleasing our customers. So we’ll modify the proposal to replace the parachutes on the arriving modules with retro rocket braking systems.