Pointless ExperimentsPavlov's Frog writes: I once spent 20 minutes with my eyes closed to see what it was like being blind. I smashed my knee on the kitchen cupboard, and decided I'd be better off deaf as you can still watch television.
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 24 Jul 2008, 12:00)
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ElectrictrickeryIt's a wonder I didn't do serious damage to myself as a child. This was back in the 70s when parents threw you outside for the day during summer holidays and, if you returned in one piece eight hours later then everything was fine. Similarly, if it was raining, you spent your afternoons in the your bedroom 'making things', usually out of Lego.
It was on one such afternoon that I decided to do 'an experiment'. I had no idea what I wanted to prove or disprove but the 'experiment' consisted of me getting some copper wire from a building site, jamming it into a plug socket and then seeing what happened when I flicked the switch.
Nothing.
So I touched the wires.
Conclusion? Electric feels funny and makes you feel sick.
I later applied this knowledge by pulling my dad's music centre apart and touching what I later found out to be capacitors with a screwdriver. Which promptly flew out of my hand and lodged itself into a wall opposite.
Electricity be a cruel mistress...
(, Fri 25 Jul 2008, 17:03, 3 replies)
your title should beelectrickery
sounds much better :)
(, Fri 25 Jul 2008, 17:18, closed)
You're rightElectrickery is tons better but I wrote the post at work and people were putting me off by asking me for stuff. Actually, that's a shite excuse..!
(, Sat 26 Jul 2008, 12:19, closed)
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