What Are You Studying?

That fucker is so lucky he wasn't instantaneously zapped to death like a fly.

Journalism. But im not white or european.

I'm Scared of studding Industrial electrician because of that video.

Haha, gotta love those.

Luckily my first shocks were on charged capacitors that my friends tossed at me, so the shocks were only enough to knock me down for a bit.

Well, putting aside the time we made a 555 timer stun gun using audio transformers.

At least the death is relatively quick. It's just maybe a couple seconds of excrutiating pain to the point where your mind goes completely blank, save for the feeling of a billion vibrating needles pulsing through your entire body. There are definitely worse deaths out there.

Referring to this one?

Vid related.

On the bright side, high voltage is strong enough that it'll either pass right through you or send you flying assuming it doesn't kill you instantly.

Industrial-scale high voltage isn't what you should be scared of. 120-240 house voltage is what you should be scared of since your muscles will clamp instead getting shot backwards from the strength of it. Grab onto an electrified pole hard enough and you'll be fried to death assuming your heart doesn't give out first.

Also, you'll already be long dead when you violently burst into flames.

Definitely this.

They wake you up faster than caffeine.
I wonder how they feel.
That would be Interesting to watch.

Yeah… but I don’t want to die, I want to watch Humans become Cyborgs.
Drowning and Boiled to Death.

That sounds horrendous.

Painful, but a lot less painful than a wall shock. More shocking pardon the pun since it's a more instantaneous release.

There's vids of folks making them on youtube, fewer vids of people testing them (though they're also there).

Well, that's worse case scenario. One of my mentors was fixing a fish tank when he was in his 60s and didn't think about safety since he was at his house at the time. Stuck his hand into the fishtank while the circuit was live and his hand got stuck for several seconds before his body finally fell over from being off-balance. He was limping for two weeks afterwards, but was otherwise fine.

Another one worked for Intel Processor's doping laboratories in their gas department. The pay was great (upwards of 107k), but he was working with gasses that could kill him before he would ever smell them. He was pretty much safe though since they were in heavy hazmat suits most of the time.

Moral of the story: Almost all injuries and deaths are when you space out on safety when it comes to industrial jobs. There will be some risks involved in case something goes wrong, but you should be more worried about what the other guy did wrong before you/read his notes if his setup is different than schematics (he might be right). If a manager or supervisor ever tells you to do something dangerous, you are within your rights as an industrial employee virtually everywhere except China and some parts of Africa- yes even countries in Africa have electrician/electrical technician safety standards to tell them to go fuck themselves, and report them to human resources/OSHA (or the equivalent depending on if you're in the Middle East, Europe, etc.) if they try to threaten you with your job/make you do it anyways.

It's great work that'll keep you alive and healthy so long as you don't skimp on safety.