Ness shouldn’t have gotten shocked for the same reason that birds are fine sitting on those cables. The black sleeve is to keep out rust (or rather, water, which causes rust), not to keep electricity in. It’s much too thin for that.
There’s no path to ground for her to have gotten shocked.
She is holding onto the power pole, which is a path to ground. A powerful enough current can overpower an insulator like wood. Birds don’t have a path to ground which is why the don’t get shocked.
Poles (dry wood) tend to conduct very poorly. Tis why they don’t normally have to worry about us grounding out to the pole when we climb them. Phase to phase or grounding to a boom-truck is a different story. (Poles also get thinner near the top, but not quite that thin.)
That said, you could start an arc/produce excessive heat with just the one wire if you somehow managed to actually do any significant damage to it with the scissors (the differences between an incandescent bulb filament and a line on a pole are just some orders of electrical magnitude and wire-thickness), but in this case I’m gonna say its just “rule of funny”.
Not quite the same but when I was overseas on guard post duty, I watched a crow land on a power line that bent down to touch the lower wire, suddenly there was a loud crack and a poof of feathers, instant Iraqi Fried Chicken….
So, fun fact for those of you that are wondering, the ensuing bang is actually the result of the electricity heating the copper wires (and often a chunk of the cutters about the diameter of a pen) up to the point of vaporization.
Thankfully, with something as small as your standard 12 or 14 awg wire, this usually only results in a loud pop/bang, a bright flash from the arc, and possibly setting everything nearby on fire. Don’t try it at home folks 🙂
Darn, there goes my idea!
Ness is going to be in for a nasty surprise when she realizes that the machine is running on magical curse energy
At least it won’t backfeed and jump out the system…. If it hasn’t went the duplicate route already…. Time will tell…. Can’t wait!
Ness shouldn’t have gotten shocked for the same reason that birds are fine sitting on those cables. The black sleeve is to keep out rust (or rather, water, which causes rust), not to keep electricity in. It’s much too thin for that.
There’s no path to ground for her to have gotten shocked.
How often do birds try to cut off the cable?
Sure …… But no bird scratches the sleeve with steel claws to try to cut the electric wire ^_^”
She is holding onto the power pole, which is a path to ground. A powerful enough current can overpower an insulator like wood. Birds don’t have a path to ground which is why the don’t get shocked.
Poles (dry wood) tend to conduct very poorly. Tis why they don’t normally have to worry about us grounding out to the pole when we climb them. Phase to phase or grounding to a boom-truck is a different story. (Poles also get thinner near the top, but not quite that thin.)
That said, you could start an arc/produce excessive heat with just the one wire if you somehow managed to actually do any significant damage to it with the scissors (the differences between an incandescent bulb filament and a line on a pole are just some orders of electrical magnitude and wire-thickness), but in this case I’m gonna say its just “rule of funny”.
Most high-tension lines don’t have insulation. It’s just bare wire. That’s why there’s a nice light show if a branch falls across them.
Or a squirrel! 😉 Although they’re more likely to take out a transformer, with a BIG bang!
(This is a JOKE, people! (…except the transformer part. 😉 ) )
Not quite the same but when I was overseas on guard post duty, I watched a crow land on a power line that bent down to touch the lower wire, suddenly there was a loud crack and a poof of feathers, instant Iraqi Fried Chicken….
Now that must’ve been funny! I feel sorry for the crow, but… Funny! 🙂
Poor Nessie ; all what you go through to help your friends to “heal” . I hope they’ll hug you for it , after
Ness has been really amazing through this whole arc I love it xD
How about she unplugs it first then cuts the plug off.
Tried that:
http://www.savestatecomic.com/comic/sinnesloschen/
I’d forgotten about that.
AV cables yeah, but don’t you have to install a rather involved mod to get RGB out of an NES though?
Ness looks great in the first two panels, but I love her in panel six best. 🙂 Last panel: Apparently Ness didn’t learn much in panel five. LOL
*after reading last panel*
… something is going to explode, poor Ness. LOL
Call 911 take them to the hospital. They need some mental surgery. Idk I just came up with that.
I don’t know if anyone said or asked this, but isn’t Nicole techincally the mother of Ness since she made her before the demon took it over?
I don’t think Nicole “made” Ness, she just named her. I think Santa Claus brought her once Christmas when Nicole was just a little puppy.
Probably but still cute to imagine either way
You mean while they are in a deadly proc with polybius?
*process*
I mean in general before and after this little set of events XD
Oh, I definitely agree with you there, Kiba! 🙂
Lets be honest here, this is more on Kade for not buying surge protectors for the Arcade machine.
So, fun fact for those of you that are wondering, the ensuing bang is actually the result of the electricity heating the copper wires (and often a chunk of the cutters about the diameter of a pen) up to the point of vaporization.
Thankfully, with something as small as your standard 12 or 14 awg wire, this usually only results in a loud pop/bang, a bright flash from the arc, and possibly setting everything nearby on fire. Don’t try it at home folks 🙂
“Burning down the house!” 😉
You just gave me a reason TO try this at hlme. Se ya on the news!
https://darwinawards.com/
Oop.
noooooo cliffhanger!