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I've been tagged by 110 a couple of different times. Luckily, each time I was moving and I brushed the wire. I got a nice little arm spasm out of it but it wasn't enough contact to catch me. AC doesn't really grab on and hold you. What happens is that your muscular system goes in to high gear. It's just like your brain sending the electrical signal to your muscle to do work, only that signal is 30 million times stronger. Your muscle sees the signal and stiffens up and your brain signal isn't saying "backup and get away" isn't strong enough to over-ride the external electrical stimul

When you say lightning to the average person, they are thinking about the actual bolt that goes from earth to cloud and cloud to earth. As I stated before and the link you posted stated, that bolt of electricity is AC. The other aspects, "the birth of lightning" if you will, is more closely related to DC. As far as the average person is concerned and what they perceive lightning to be, it is AC current.

No, I didn't. What you quoted me saying where you posted the link is basically what the link itself stated. It starts and forms as DC but the bolt itself is AC. What I stated is what the link you posted stated. I also stated that it has characteristics of both forms of current, which the link also stated.

That's exactly right. It's both. It starts as DC and the actual bolt is AC. The REAL truth, is that it is all speculative as there are no means to measure lightning. We have theories on both and we have theoretical evidence of both, but there is no definitive way to measure it.

No, AC nor DC are man-made. Electricity cannot be made. It can be converted from another energy source, but it cannot be made. No form of energy is man-made. It's impossible. The only thing man can do is change the form of energy from one form to another. Lightning has properties of both AC and DC current. It's initial formation is more closely related to DC current from the positive and negative electrons in the atmosphere and earth... you have potential difference. As soon as the strike established, the ionized air becomes conductive it is pure AC as BOTH polarity charges fl

Henry Ford was involved with Hitler. He was a communist sympathizer and gave a LOT of money to Hitler's cause. Henry Ford was such an ass to America, when WWII was going on and all the plants were building for the war effort, companies like Willy's. American Bantam, and Ford. Ford had every single nut, bolt, body panel, and wire stamped with the Ford logo and he would not sell or service any of the other manufacturers vehicles and allow his parts to be sold to install in them. The other manufacturers, realizing that we are at war and want this country to prosper, would honor each oth

It's not less valuable. It's less practical in some circumstances, just like AC is less practical in some circumstances. At the time, the goal was to put electricity to peoples homes. DC was and still is horribly inefficient to transmit long distances. AC was and still is much more feasible to do this. However, AC is expensive to store in small "quantities," unlike DC. DC makes much more sense to use in most all portable applications.

Only a half truth? No, sorry, it's total truth. Alternating current electricity was not invented, no matter whose name you try to put in front of it. Next, remember Ben Franklin and the flying kite that got hit by lightening? Guess what? Lightening is ALTERNATING CURRENT. I'm pretty sure Ben Franking had a few years on Telsa. Ben Franking was the first person, documented, to have 'discovered' it, but neither of these men, nor any other man, invented it. Alternating current exists in nature, it's not man-made. Man has been able to create/invent alternating current.

I hate to break the news to you, but Tesla didn't invent alternating current. He invented the means to harness and transmit alternating current across long distances.

That depends... if he's a 6ft tall muscular man and has a history of beating her and she is unable to fend of the beatings, it can still be self defense... A person doesn't necessarily have to be armed for you to fight back with a weapon. The original article made it sound like he tried to attack her in her house... damned news media skewing the facts, once again.

This is just pure stupidity and the prosecutor wanting a "Win." How in the hell does he know what her feelings were? Did she specifically tell him that she was mad or is that speculation on the prosecutors part? She was trapped behind a jammed door. He threatened to killer her. End of story, she was justified. I just gotta wonder, if she had shot him and killed him, would the prosecutor have a different story to sing? So, it was HIS house? That changes things ALL together... Just like I said above... it's amazing how much the news media leaves out of their r

Yep! One reason I always like to let the courts decide the outcome. No matter what the circumstance, the news media NEVER reports all the facts.

I don't know exactly how Florida law reads. Georgia law reads: Defense from a forcible felony; A person is justified in using threats or force to the degree they reasonably believe it is necessary to stop another person's imminent use of unlawful force. A person is justified in using deadly force which may harm or kill only if he or she reasonably believes that such force is necessary to prevent death or great bodily injury to himself or herself or a third person or to prevent the commission of a forcible felony (unless it is regarding defense of habitation, which has its own requi

No, what is sad is that you can't comprehend the difference in getting punched in the nose and pinned to the ground getting the living hell beat out of you. Your comparison is stupid and foolish. If someone walks up and punches me in the nose, will I fight back? Absolutely. Will I kill that person? Highly unlikely. If someone comes up from behind me and knocks me to the ground, pins me down, and starts wailing on me without stopping, will I do ANYTHING I can to stop, INCLUDING killing the person? You are damned straight I will and you're a damned fool if you wouldn't do the sa

Actually, yes, you can. That is exactly what the Stand Your Ground law is. It gives you the right to protect your residence with lethal force, if a force-able entry was done. If I come home to a broken down door and I take my pistol inside to investigate and I find someone inside who threatens me, I most certainly have the right to drop them where they stand. The Stand Your Ground law voids the "duty to retreat" when you apply it to the inside of your residence. With that said, what the story doesn't say... was her life in danger? It said he was an abusive husband but it did

The top one is not long for shedding its skin. See how the eyes are glazed over? That is the skin about to start to shed. I bet it starts shedding in the next day or two.

That's an old wives tale and doesn't work. Chiggers don't bury in you skin. They bite you. They spit an enzyme in the bite wound that literally dissolves your tissue (just like a spider).

Cool, yeah, I bet a hydraulic system is as smooth as silk. Mine has a cable over rack & pinion and it doesn't have a little kickback in it on occasion... It's fairly smooth, but it has had a couple of moments... it won't take the wheel out of your hands, but it will thump a little bit. A hot foot is definitely a lot safer and would lessen the problems of not hooking up a dead-man's switch..

Old boats with cable steering? Mine is a 2001, so it's older and I haven't kept up much with the new stuff. What are they using these days? You're right though.. Having the lanyard hooked to the deadman's switch and a life jacket, while underway, would likely have prevented this accident. I refuse to take mine to the lake on a weekend... Too many nut-jobs out there running around, half lit, with no concern or consideration for other people on the lake. I do my fishing during the week.

I didn't twist sheeze around. You said it started in Georgia, period. That means its point of origination, by your own words, is Georgia. You said it, not me. LOL! What? Make up your mind. It didn't just start in Georgia, but it did start in Georgia? Obviously, one of the biggest.

Yeah, the civil war had absolutely NOTHING to do with trade commerce. states rights, or excessive taxation. I think you are the one that needs to study history. Racism started in Georgia? LOL! I guess the Eqyptians and Jews back in the 200-600 AD times all came from Georgia? I didn't know Hitler came from Georgia, either.

Yeah, I would have bet they couldn't pass a law that says it was illegal to possess a drink over 16oz in the city too, huh? Guess what? They did it. It may get struck down in a higher court in a few months and it may cause a LOT of criminals to get away because the police can't make a description of them... and the citizens can't defend themselves with lethal force... But it won't surprise me one bit if it gets passed.

The news. It's been on the news for the last two weeks.

Because they get sued for racial profiling. There is a bill in New York right now, that they are trying to pass, that prevents police officers from issuing descriptions of suspects. The world has just gone stupid recently.