Should he use metal instead?

>>16714307 (OP)
Use the girl

>>16714307 (OP)
10k volts on an uninsulated line should conduct through a short wood branch.
Also his PHD isn't in anything related to electrical engineering or physics so whats the problem?

It's not the voltage that kills you, it's the current. Hell, I shocked myself with 5k volts of static electricity just the other day and it was a nothingburger. Fake sign.

>>16714343
Some people just don't die, man.

>has a phd
>has trouble functioning outside of his field for 2 minutes
Perfectly realistic.

The movie notes multiple times that Grant has trouble with electronics. It's shown Hollywood style, like a CRT going static when he touches it, but he clearly doesn't know a lot about the stuff.

>>16714307 (OP)
To be fair, “10,000 volts” should be electrocuting them where they stand, like the Tesla Towers in command and conker

>>16714335
spbp

>>16714347
>Perfectly realistic.
This. For all my PhD level work electricity baffles me.

Youre telling me I can touch a car battery node with my hands and be fine but if I touch the node with a wrench to the car frame it sparks?! Literal witchcraft.

Why does it bite some things and not others? Does it judge based on karma or does it have an agenda? Who does it work for?

>>16714351
the dirtier your skin the less it bothers you

>>16714351
>>16714347

One time, we were trying to jump my car in college after bar trivia and this one super-autist doing a 5 year BS-MS in Physics insisted that the working car had to be running or it would blow up... academics struggle with practical things.

>>16714368
It might depete the battery and have such related problems too.

The bigger issue is electric fences aren't on continuously. They periodically pulse. So touching it for half a second with a stick likely accomplished jack shit.

>>16714454
maybe if you sit there cranking the other car for 20 minutes like a retard
if it has enough power to start itself it has enough to start the other car (assuming similar-ish engine size)

>>16714307 (OP)

>Has a PHD

I can't remember the word for it, these Anons are brushing up against the idea: >>16714347 >>16714351 but having a PHD, or a Doctorate, doesn't mean you're some fucking genius polymath. Alan Grant's field was paleontology, not electrical engineering or physics or whatever. This is something normal people believe in with alarming regularity and I fucking hate it.

>>16715532
The jeeps were electric and powered by a rail.

>>16714307 (OP)
Toss something wet at it from a safe distance

>>16715535
>I can't remember the word for it,
It's "midwit"

>>16714343
>It's not the voltage that kills you, it's the current
Nah, voltage and current can kill if there's enough of both but there's a third factor of frequency

That insane guy styrosomething did a video on it.

>>16714307 (OP)
I probably wouldn’t just throw a stick at the fence but instead would lean the stick against it. Electricity takes the path of least resistance on wood and makes patterns.

https://youtu.be/vLTYiac2Osk

>>16716048
So many people died from this its unreal. I barely want to touch more electricity then i already do at work and I'm just an IT retard. UPS and PSU's will kill you if try to open it up like an idiot. Those capacitors are mad deadly. Not to mention the power being ran in the data center is nice and hot.

>>16715542
>The jeeps were electric and powered by a rail.
Didn't their headlights stay on when the power was cut?

>>16715989
>Nah, voltage and current can kill if there's enough of both
Only current matters. Voltage is only relevant due to a threshold related to skin depth. Because human skin has a natural layer of moisture with various salts etc only the tiniest voltages can't penetrate.
>there's a third factor of frequency
Absolutely and completely irrelevant. You can zap yourself with DC and die too.

>>16717961
The frequency does matter in a lot of cases of electrocution. Household (50 Hz here) sockets will prevent prevent from moving or letting go. Your muscles just lock at those low frequencies. 50 Hz 10ma 240v kill near 100% of people in about 10 seconds with one hand gripped on the source. If the frequency were higher, you would be likely to survive. This is why frequency is quite important.