I'm sure I've seen a mythbusters where they called this impossible.
I might not. I might have dreamed it. I often dream of Adam Savage. The sexy beast.
( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Mon 28 May 2012, 21:25, 2 replies)

weird dream...
It is easy to test. Stand in a field. Hold electric fence. Notice the jolt you get. Obviously, for a better effect, take your shoes off.

Now, feeling brave yet? Believe in your dreams? There is an easy test to make. Assuming you have a full bladder. (I would not advise it)


Electric Fences are (were?) basically a car battery wired up to the fence. I can't remember how it worked (I guess capacitors of some form). But that charge would build up into a noticeable belt. Standard practice as teenagers to challenge each other to hold onto the wire for the longest time. (IIRC the trick was to hold a tighter grip. The more wimpy you held it, the worse it felt)

You have to have a fairly big charge as you are trying to get through tough horse or cow skin. So having boots on is not much help.
( Batter Pudding Hurler is a figment of your imagination, Mon 28 May 2012, 21:36, closed)

Depends how old they are
Old electric fence units had a mechanical timer like the balance wheel of a clock that closed a contact and connected up a coil. When the wheel swung round and broke the contact it produced a big spark which the coil stepped up to a couple of thousand volts at a tiny current.

Modern ones do the same thing but it's all electronic and works like a flashgun circuit. A little oscillator drives a transformer that charges a big capacitor, and when it's charged it is discharged through a big transformer like a car ignition coil.

Incidentally, most animals are smart enough to learn to stay away from the bright orange electric fence "string" which has stainless steel strands to carry the voltage. They're not smart enough to learn the difference between electric fence string and ordinary orange baler twine, though ;-)
(gordonjcp, Mon 28 May 2012, 22:02, closed)

tl:dr zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Nah, you're alright you are, I believe you, it's cool. This has all reminded me of a Ren and Stimpy episode with a boardgame based around urine and fences.
( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Tue 29 May 2012, 0:35, closed)

don't wizz on the electric fence
stimpy was playing it with ren's cousin sven
( Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Tue 29 May 2012, 11:47, closed)

thats the one.
Good times.
( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Wed 30 May 2012, 9:34, closed)

You didn't imagine it
They showed it was possible, but only if you stood *really * close to the fence. And mmm, Adam Savage...
(Petite chien is going to do science to it, Mon 28 May 2012, 22:55, closed)

whuuu?
Beardy fucking ginge.
Jamie's the brooding hunk.
(Misery McUglywife an attention seeking sociopathic fuckstain., Mon 28 May 2012, 23:27, closed)

But i'm a beardy fucking ginge and you told me you loved me.
Or did I dream that too?
( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Tue 29 May 2012, 0:33, closed)

I saw this one, and their experiment was wrong. They didn't account for the "spin" a urethra puts on the flow. It keeps the stream together and will help you die around high voltages. I guess evolution didn't think of that.

The show can be entertaining but a lot of what they do is bullshit. The brown note does exist, but it is extremely unlikely you're going to find it outdoors. They simply don't know enough about the subject they are looking into, and may be too arrogant to go to experts.

The only thing they've proved conclusively is wearing a berret with a ginger goatee makes you look like a twat.
( jagwap, Tue 29 May 2012, 3:07, closed)

FUCK!
there goes my mythbusters degree!

pisses on fence for SCIENCE!

*DIES*
(fucknugget the third, Tue 29 May 2012, 4:06, closed)

Actually, they do go to experts
I know 'cos an expert told me.
They also do the stats correctly to determine whether a result is significant or not.
( P-MONKE We're all fucked, Tue 29 May 2012, 8:52, closed)

Objection!

( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Tue 29 May 2012, 11:44, closed)

they blew the fuck out of a cement truck, though
that was pretty cool
( Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Tue 29 May 2012, 11:48, closed)

Citation needed...
"The brown note does exist"

Because I'm calling a good solid No It Does Not until I see some evidence that's not at the level of "a man in a pub told me", or even "a bloke who said he was a sound engineer told me"

There are noises that will shake your innards about and make you feel a bit ill. But they can't make you crap yourself without disabling two sets of sphincter muscles. So no.


Ref:
www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=4&ved=0CFMQFjAD&url=http%3A%2F%2Fkms1.isn.ethz.ch%2Fserviceengine%2FFiles%2FISN%2F16781%2Fipublicationdocument_singledocument%2Fab8bb4a3-4ad5-493a-b7d6-fb732fc1e943%2Fen%2FOP22.pdf&ei=bhHFT5HfJe6Y0QW8zLyeCg&usg=AFQjCNHU-jOYcWIKBYPvreMZ94bsPIFvoQ
( DukeEuphoria Comes highly reccomended, Tue 29 May 2012, 19:17, closed)

The problem with the Brown Note is that it depends on hitting the resonant frequency of the abdomen of the intended target. As people are not considerate enough to grow in exactly the same dimensions or have the same elastic properties to their flesh, it varies from person to person.

Not to mention that the amplitude needed to cause such vibrations in the abdomen are so huge that they would likely smash all of the larger windows in the vicinity in the process, and would require woofers the size of Luciano Pavarotti's dinner plate connected to an amplifier powerful enough to project cannon shells through plate steel.
( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Tue 29 May 2012, 19:43, closed)

It also depends on the idea of an abdomen having a resonant frequency in the first place.
With all the gooey stuff slubbing around in there the damping factor is almost certainly going to be well over unity and in that case, chickabiddies, there ain't no resonance.
(ubergeekian, Tue 29 May 2012, 20:07, closed)

There can be an overall resonant frequency.
The catch is that it will vary from person to person, and also from condition to condition- did you eat recently? did you take a major shit? is your bladder full?

So there isn't a magic frequency that will work all the time, or even one that will work most of the time.

Too bad, as that could have some really interesting applications.
( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Tue 29 May 2012, 22:52, closed)