Reader's Comments

1. Voyagerfan5761 | January 6th, 2008 at 12:52 pm

   Er… Who in their right mind would do that? Accident waiting to happen…

2. Zoli Erdos | January 6th, 2008 at 2:56 pm

   Exactly… the beer may fall in the water

3. Adrian Hempel | January 6th, 2008 at 4:32 pm

   I think we have a strong contender for the 2008 Darwin Awards.

4. Voyagerfan5761 | January 6th, 2008 at 8:47 pm

   @Zoli: Worrying about beer when there’s electricity around? Kidding!

   @Adrian: Indeed. Though it’s hard to determine what’s stupider: This, or putting an RV on cruise control and going back to take a nap… Or strapping a high-power rocket motor to the back of your car…

5. Zoli Erdos | January 7th, 2008 at 8:30 am

   Of course I do. I don’t know how electroshocked beer tastes…
   As for the rocket-driven car, here it is

6. Voyagerfan5761 | January 7th, 2008 at 10:41 am

   Er, I don’t think that’s the one I was talking about. I hadn’t discovered your blog back then.

   Something my dad said about a guy who put a huge rocket engine on his car (I think solid fuel) and ended up flying, doing some sort of aerial business, and smashing into a rock. Car destroyed (fragmented), nothing left of anything, human or otherwise. Say, “Darwin”. Idiot. Who would be stupid enough to do that, anyway?

7. Fried testacles? | January 8th, 2008 at 12:47 am

   [...] Courtesy of my friend Zoli, I went back to the source of this pic. The discussion around whether the two guys are likely to get fried nuts provides an illuminating education into the physics of water and electricity: Leakage current and capacitive current can kill, like I said, I would not endorse such a thing, but in all likelyhood, the leakage current through the likely pvc pool would be in the uA range, and the capacitive current from 120VAC is low enough that I can grab directly onto a live hot wire and so long as no part of me is touching anything grounded, there is no shock (or even sensation). But please, do not try this at home!!! [...]