Title text:
Oh, and do you have any tips on how to vacuum up copper that’s melted into your carpet?
Transcript:
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3211/
did xkcd just watch the new styropyro video
Eh, ~zero impedance house circuits won’t do anything bad to normal electronics - it’ll just make sure no fires happen in your walls. I do almost all home wiring in 12 gauge and larger for this reason
Actually, the comic only has 500A breakers and don’t say anything about wires. Recipe for fire!
I think that’s the joke, especially since the alt text asks about getting melted copper off the carpet.
Ah, the good old asbestos carpets. Cozy!
Yeah, I’m just imagining someone running multiple 0000 gauge (4 ought) cables in parallel to each outlet and switch, and then all back to the breaker box.
Dude, the entire comic is about wires.
Sounds like something Styropyro would do.
Every circuit has a circuit breaker, it’s just that sometimes the circuit breaker is the power cord or the product itself
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I once had a physics teacher who used to celebrate
Electricity is one of those subjects that will forever remain a mystery to me.
