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Cosmic horror in a nutshell
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Cosmic horror works because we really are as powerless as it tells us.
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Looks fake.
The voltage difference between the two terminals would be minimal so no current flow, the back plate should be non-conductive. The other reason is there are no scorch marks or other signs of burning.
Now if the mouse had gone between the green and yellow (where the terminal separator is); then we would see a big voltage difference.
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Lmao, what make you so sure there would be minimal voltage difference???
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Generally same coloured wires are at the same potential.
It is extremely bad practice to have different potentials on the same wire colours. Especially since they are in same terminal block.
I don't know which country this picture is from, but yellow/red would be safe to assume line voltage, green would usually be earth potential.
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I would argue that "instantly killed in a horrifying way" is oxymoronic. I don't care that I'll be torn to pieces by rabid centipedes while being boiled alive in a vat of acid, as long as it's an instantaneous death. Horrifying, maybe, to observers, but any instantaneous death makes the means irrelevant to the killed.
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How do you actually know instant death is painless? What if every single cell individually experiences the most horrifying pain possible?
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First, I don't think this was instantaneous. Depends on how high the voltage was.
Regardless of that, I wanted to point out that I once had a third-degree burn next to my ankle made by the escape pipe from a motorbike. It barely hurt at all, and it smelled like steaks. Thing is, the nerve terminals burn, and so you don't feel any pain. But it was ugly, following days I had to keep it clean... And the mark lasted a few years.
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Of course the meaning is horrifying to the observers and to those contemplating it.
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No matter where you are on the planet, you’re never much more than 100 km away from the Kármán line. Death is (generally speaking) always just overhead.
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Going by that logic, just a meter deep is a crushing death. And right where you are you could smash your head against something... which is at least also something that happens all the time, no need to look at theoretical far-away things when the boring truth is far worse.
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Just a few days ago, someone I know had to be hospitalized because of somehow slipping and smashing badly into their desk while doing normal, boring office work. From how it was described to me, I cannot help thinking sex was somehow involved, like receiving or giving oral sex from under the table maybe.
EDIT: Typing this, I was reminded of a guy who got smacked in the back of his head. Got X-rayed, everything looked normal. They kept him in the hospital for observation, though. X-ray again after an hour, a huge hematoma had evolved under his skin, pressing on the upper spine. They immediately drained it. Otherwise, it would have killed him very quickly.
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You don't have to get to the karman line to asphyxiate, the karman line is only relevant if you are trying to move faster to generate lift. The Death Zone starts at only 8 km altitude.
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Poor little thing. Hope it was loved by something.
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That’s such a mean thing to say.
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Was this post written by F. Scott Fitzgerald? Shit reads like it was straight out of The Great Gatsby.
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Yeah, I love that this person not only thought this way about this random turn of events, but then also shared his thoughts on it
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What animal was this?
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Mouse
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A mouse or rat I think
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MouseRat?
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I'd say mouse, rats are way bigger and too smart to be electrocuted! 😏
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Is that a Douglas Adams quote? That feels like Douglas Adams to me.
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Oh interesting, it does feel like one of his.
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feels more like Lovecraft than Douglas Adams, tbh
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