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Shocking, quite quite shocking.

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    Shocking, quite quite shocking.

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/bristol/8310030.stm

    As if plod ever miss an opportunity to close a motorway.

    #2
    That's why I'm sat at home earning £0 today.
    Science isn't about why, it's about why not. You ask: why is so much of our science dangerous? I say: why not marry safe science if you love it so much. In fact, why not invent a special safety door that won't hit you in the butt on the way out, because you are fired. - Cave Johnson

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      #3
      However, the power cable presents a hazard to any motorists and in the interests of public safety the decision was taken to close the road.
      I thought they shut themselves off if they were suddenly grounded - or at least were shut off by the distribution centre pretty sharpish if there was a problem.

      You're the electrical boffin Zeit. Could HT transmission lines remain live and on the floor?

      Perhaps they mean it's a physical hazard rather than electrical.

      You've come right out the other side of the forest of irony and ended up in the desert of wrong.

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        #4
        I wonder what that cost the economy? Must be many millions?

        All cos some dozy builder flipped his pick-up whilst on the phone no doubt, well I hope he's proud of himself.
        Science isn't about why, it's about why not. You ask: why is so much of our science dangerous? I say: why not marry safe science if you love it so much. In fact, why not invent a special safety door that won't hit you in the butt on the way out, because you are fired. - Cave Johnson

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          #5
          Power on or not, those cables would do a fair bit of damage if you hit one at 70mph
          Coffee's for closers

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            #6
            Originally posted by zeitghost
            Depends.

            I'm not a power line expert, but looking at that, the wire isn't grounded, it's about 4 feet off.

            Thus the power probably remains on.

            Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzap!
            Used to work with a guy who was an ex-leccy board line man. According to him the standard approach was always to assume the line was live until you had proved otherwise. This usually involved the use of a voltage detector on the end of a very long perspex pole. he was still alive and had never been "bitten" so I assumed he knew what he was talking about.
            "Being nice costs nothing and sometimes gets you extra bacon" - Pondlife.

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              #7
              Originally posted by zeitghost
              Depends.

              I'm not a power line expert, but looking at that, the wire isn't grounded, it's about 4 feet off.

              Thus the power probably remains on.

              Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzap!
              Notwithstanding the physical effects of hitting the cable at 90mph, the line being live is irrelevant, as a car is a faraday cage.
              Down with racism. Long live miscegenation!

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                #8
                Originally posted by NotAllThere View Post
                Notwithstanding the physical effects of hitting the cable at 90mph, the line being live is irrelevant, as a car is a faraday cage.
                People getting out of their cars to help those in accidents is a big risk.
                Originally posted by MaryPoppins
                I'd still not breastfeed a nazi
                Originally posted by vetran
                Urine is quite nourishing

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