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To: Morgana

Nope; train deaths far too common. Besides, for a train death to qualify, it would have to show an exceptionally bad lapse of judgment (what the Darwin Awards website calls “excellence”).

And volts, being electric potential, cannot electrocute, so current of whatever amperage flowing through him due to a path through him to the ground (the train being part of the circuit) is what killed him. Birds land on wires of that voltage and higher all the time, but current does not flow unless there’s a path for current to reach the ground. Minimum killing current is 100 milliamps flowing across the heart, but this can vary.


5 posted on 09/22/2018 8:47:57 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Olog-hai

The overhead catenary wire on the Northeast Corridor is AC, not DC. A 12 kilovolt AC jolt can fry a human.


15 posted on 09/22/2018 9:04:54 PM PDT by Publius
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