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Sure, but if you’ve ever been around high tension mental cables before you’ll realize you need a huge pair of balls to cut those. It’s not safety protocols, it’
by huytersd 3y ago
Sure, but if you’ve ever been around high tension mental cables before you’ll realize you need a huge pair of balls to cut those. It’s not safety protocols, it’s fear that it might cut you in half.
- 0cf8612b2e1e 3y agoActually, as I learned from MythBusters, a wire snap will be unable to server a limb or worse. You will still be dead, but your body will be intact. https://mythresults.com/episode62 https://mythresults.com/episode62
- yourapostasy 3y agoContainer ship dock line snaps on the other hand...
- tyingq 3y agoAlso Navy aircraft carrier arrestor cables. Like: https://www.nytimes.com/1981/12/04/us/around-the-nation-two-sailors-die-as-cable-snaps-in-carrier-landing.html https://www.nytimes.com/1981/12/04/us/around-the-nation-two-...
- m463 3y agoIf you cut a wire under tension at the very limit of its range on one end, can it hurt you?
- sillysaurusx 3y agoI had the same question. Intuitively, I don’t think so, but that’s based on nothing but simulating it in my head. In reality you might risk the tower collapsing on you if you cut too many.
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