they was thinking it (screens ) would work like a “faraday cage” an pass the current ‘harmlessly’ around them.. but.. key word “cage” an the screens were not copper..(gold works best..)
..this is where Tereasa steps in.. an makes em think their plan worked..
I suspect you’re right about the screens being used under clothing for protection, their less-than-perfect effectiveness, and Teresa using them as a cover. Sure, a superconductor is needed for a PERFECT Faraday’s cage, but any conductor is effective, IF the openings in the cage are smaller than the wavelength of whatever they’re blocking. That’s why the old steel superstructures on bridges would block AM radio reception but not FM. And they don’t work on DC at all — but the conductor will still reroute — or in this case spread out — the effect. I doubt the nerve disruptor was DC, though.
As an aside, ever test an electric fence by hand? I used to, back on the farm. And I knew of a guy that did the same thing with household current, until the last time.
Somehow having the screens under their clothing didn’t occur to me. I this instance, Faraday cage is not the right analogy, IMO, but it would distribute the charge over a much larger area of the body, so that skin resistance(and cat fur resistance) would have a greater protective effect. He probably got the worst injuries because he grabbed it with his unprotected hand, assuming that part of the device was charged.
Bill is right, any conductor can be a Faraday cage. Take your cellphone into a grounded metal building with no windows. No signal. I have Faraday bags for my phones for the same reason, made with multiple layers of a mylar material.
how? how is this “not a right anthology.” ?? Protective Gear for Electricians and Linemen: The protective suits worn by men working in hazardous environments are nothing but a type of Faraday cage. These suits are designed to protect workers from being electrocuted while working in close proximity to high voltage power lines. :from wikki..
I’m being picky. The suits the linemen wear do not keep them from being energized. The suit is actually attached to the power line, as is the metal liner inside the bucket they’re standing in. I forms an equipotential zone, everything at the same voltage = no potential difference = no voltage. A true Faraday cage is a shield, the charge resides on the outside, nothing going on inside.
Find a video of one of those barehand crews ‘clipping on’ to the line. It’ll make ya pucker.
Actually, any decent conductor is okay for a faraday cage. The problem is that a faraday cage is only good to shield against electromagnetic radiation (EMR). Unless you had a very good insulator between you and the cattle prod/taser/stun gun type device the electric current would still get you. If you were a good insulator a current based device wouldn’t hurt you. BTW, your skin (unless it is wet) is a halfway decent insulator – multiple megohm resistance there. With existing stun weapons my understanding is that it is the pulsed high voltage – 150 – 250kV – that zaps you.
R&D Engineering war story: When I worked at Motorola’s Austin Design Center, the group to which I was attached was working on an amazing imaging technology that worked on 750vDC minimum and really wanted 1kV to be happy. Moto made a chip that with a couple of outboard components made a dandy high voltage switching power supply. 2 to 3kV was nothing. One of the engineers in the group wanted to get rid of the stray dogs in the neighborhood. We built him a 2kV power supply that fit in a bud box the size of a pack of cigarrettes. He mounted the power supply on a dog harness, ran the hot lead to a WELL INSULATED bare brad on a muzzle and ran a bare wire hanging down from the ps to the ground. Then he put the contraption on his dog and let it loose in the neighborhood. Well, you know how dogs say hello. Yup! 2kV right up the poop chute. He said the first time it happened he heard a noise that he didn’t realize was anything a dog could make. When he looked up all he could see.was his dog standing there and another dog running ninety for nothing making that godawful sound. Couple of weeks and no stray dog would come on his block any more.
DAMN! My reminiscence of that child we cared for in Albuquerque was too damn close for comfort! I remember one child who we should never have gotten. She suffered from FAS (Foetal Alcohol Syndrome). She was a beautiful child with all the earmarks of FAS – wide-set eyes, elfin features – and she was highly intelligent. Flat out pushed me to the limit to keep up with her and I am 75th percentile Mensa. After a couple of months TPTB realized she needed care we couldn’t give her in group foster care and she was taken away to an RTC (Residential Treatment Center). That was in summer of ’91 and to this VERY DAY I can still hear that baby’s cries. “PLEASE don’t take me away! I’ll be good!” Sometimes duty is a stone-cold, unyielding, motherf***ing BITCH!!!
Nothing in the world will twist your soul like hearing a child scream “I’M SORRY!” when they don’t even know what they’re supposed to be sorry for.
“I’ll be good!” is a real close second, though.
I’m with the jury here, of course, given they were convinced Flea wasn’t lying. But that sort of thing can be devilishly hard to prove, or disprove.
…
Shame about the house, though.
My friends? Do you realize that today is TEOTWAWKI (The End OThe World As We Know It) plus one year? One year ago today, around supper time Central Time, the President addressed the nation regarding the Corona Virus epidemic. The next day (the morning of the 12th) nothing was the same. I was delivering food as an independent contractor and my first run was to pick up a load of groceries. A local supermarket chain has what they call their “Curbside” service. The customer selects and pays for what they want online and people at the store collect the order. Then someone like me picks up the order and delivers it. Normal wait time once arriving at the store and notifying them you were in place was under ten minutes. When I got there that morning all the parking slots (you texted the store with the slot you were in and the order #) but one were filled. I waited ONE HOUR AND FIFTY MINUTES for that order! The system was not merely slammed, it was outright OVERWHELMED! People were hunkering down in their homes in abject terror and hoarding toilet paper and bottled water Dumb shits didn’t realize that if things had deteriorated to the point where they actually NEEDED that bottled water we would have been in a completely unprecedented level of hurt. Hardly anybody on the roads either. The next day (Friday) I was driving to collect my first load and the streets were freaking EMPTY! My first thought was “So this is how the world ends.” My 2nd thought was “Oh hell! This is Friday the 13th!”
Strange, in Georgia, (at least my semi-rural part) life has stayed pretty normal throughout the whole ordeal.
You wouldn’t even know anything had changed if it weren’t for some employees wearing masks.
The governor is fixing to pretty much end the lockdown here in Texas but Sam’s Club/Walmart plus the major supermarket chain I used to deliver for have vowed to continue requiring masks and social distancing no matter WHAT he says/does. Since property owners have total say over who can/cannot go onto their property they can legally order you off the property if you aren’t masked. Gotta love the woke. NOT!!!!!
I’ve been re-reading old pages. Boy, I really got hammered over errors in my depiction of surgical procedures. http://thegentlewolf.net/comic/tgw-736/
I LOVE IT!
No, I’m not a masochist. My storytelling has improved so much because of criticisms, help, and suggestions by
people who know more about a subject than I do. That’s you, by the way. You not only provide me with storylines,
you help me to write them better. So please keep it up.
Reading from page 001 shows how much this comic has improved, and you all can share the credit for much of that.
Thanks.
I hope we’re going to hear the story of the missing window screens.
Oh, I’m sure someone here will have some ideas.
Bunch of schmott guys.
they was thinking it (screens ) would work like a “faraday cage” an pass the current ‘harmlessly’ around them.. but.. key word “cage” an the screens were not copper..(gold works best..)
..this is where Tereasa steps in.. an makes em think their plan worked..
I suspect you’re right about the screens being used under clothing for protection, their less-than-perfect effectiveness, and Teresa using them as a cover. Sure, a superconductor is needed for a PERFECT Faraday’s cage, but any conductor is effective, IF the openings in the cage are smaller than the wavelength of whatever they’re blocking. That’s why the old steel superstructures on bridges would block AM radio reception but not FM. And they don’t work on DC at all — but the conductor will still reroute — or in this case spread out — the effect. I doubt the nerve disruptor was DC, though.
As an aside, ever test an electric fence by hand? I used to, back on the farm. And I knew of a guy that did the same thing with household current, until the last time.
Somehow having the screens under their clothing didn’t occur to me. I this instance, Faraday cage is not the right analogy, IMO, but it would distribute the charge over a much larger area of the body, so that skin resistance(and cat fur resistance) would have a greater protective effect. He probably got the worst injuries because he grabbed it with his unprotected hand, assuming that part of the device was charged.
Bill is right, any conductor can be a Faraday cage. Take your cellphone into a grounded metal building with no windows. No signal. I have Faraday bags for my phones for the same reason, made with multiple layers of a mylar material.
how? how is this “not a right anthology.” ?? Protective Gear for Electricians and Linemen: The protective suits worn by men working in hazardous environments are nothing but a type of Faraday cage. These suits are designed to protect workers from being electrocuted while working in close proximity to high voltage power lines. :from wikki..
I’m being picky. The suits the linemen wear do not keep them from being energized. The suit is actually attached to the power line, as is the metal liner inside the bucket they’re standing in. I forms an equipotential zone, everything at the same voltage = no potential difference = no voltage. A true Faraday cage is a shield, the charge resides on the outside, nothing going on inside.
Find a video of one of those barehand crews ‘clipping on’ to the line. It’ll make ya pucker.
Actually, any decent conductor is okay for a faraday cage. The problem is that a faraday cage is only good to shield against electromagnetic radiation (EMR). Unless you had a very good insulator between you and the cattle prod/taser/stun gun type device the electric current would still get you. If you were a good insulator a current based device wouldn’t hurt you. BTW, your skin (unless it is wet) is a halfway decent insulator – multiple megohm resistance there. With existing stun weapons my understanding is that it is the pulsed high voltage – 150 – 250kV – that zaps you.
R&D Engineering war story: When I worked at Motorola’s Austin Design Center, the group to which I was attached was working on an amazing imaging technology that worked on 750vDC minimum and really wanted 1kV to be happy. Moto made a chip that with a couple of outboard components made a dandy high voltage switching power supply. 2 to 3kV was nothing. One of the engineers in the group wanted to get rid of the stray dogs in the neighborhood. We built him a 2kV power supply that fit in a bud box the size of a pack of cigarrettes. He mounted the power supply on a dog harness, ran the hot lead to a WELL INSULATED bare brad on a muzzle and ran a bare wire hanging down from the ps to the ground. Then he put the contraption on his dog and let it loose in the neighborhood. Well, you know how dogs say hello. Yup! 2kV right up the poop chute. He said the first time it happened he heard a noise that he didn’t realize was anything a dog could make. When he looked up all he could see.was his dog standing there and another dog running ninety for nothing making that godawful sound. Couple of weeks and no stray dog would come on his block any more.
I swear that is a true story.
DAMN! My reminiscence of that child we cared for in Albuquerque was too damn close for comfort! I remember one child who we should never have gotten. She suffered from FAS (Foetal Alcohol Syndrome). She was a beautiful child with all the earmarks of FAS – wide-set eyes, elfin features – and she was highly intelligent. Flat out pushed me to the limit to keep up with her and I am 75th percentile Mensa. After a couple of months TPTB realized she needed care we couldn’t give her in group foster care and she was taken away to an RTC (Residential Treatment Center). That was in summer of ’91 and to this VERY DAY I can still hear that baby’s cries. “PLEASE don’t take me away! I’ll be good!” Sometimes duty is a stone-cold, unyielding, motherf***ing BITCH!!!
Nothing in the world will twist your soul like hearing a child scream “I’M SORRY!” when they don’t even know what they’re supposed to be sorry for.
“I’ll be good!” is a real close second, though.
I’m with the jury here, of course, given they were convinced Flea wasn’t lying. But that sort of thing can be devilishly hard to prove, or disprove.
…
Shame about the house, though.
My friends? Do you realize that today is TEOTWAWKI (The End O The World As We Know It) plus one year? One year ago today, around supper time Central Time, the President addressed the nation regarding the Corona Virus epidemic. The next day (the morning of the 12th) nothing was the same. I was delivering food as an independent contractor and my first run was to pick up a load of groceries. A local supermarket chain has what they call their “Curbside” service. The customer selects and pays for what they want online and people at the store collect the order. Then someone like me picks up the order and delivers it. Normal wait time once arriving at the store and notifying them you were in place was under ten minutes. When I got there that morning all the parking slots (you texted the store with the slot you were in and the order #) but one were filled. I waited ONE HOUR AND FIFTY MINUTES for that order! The system was not merely slammed, it was outright OVERWHELMED! People were hunkering down in their homes in abject terror and hoarding toilet paper and bottled water Dumb shits didn’t realize that if things had deteriorated to the point where they actually NEEDED that bottled water we would have been in a completely unprecedented level of hurt. Hardly anybody on the roads either. The next day (Friday) I was driving to collect my first load and the streets were freaking EMPTY! My first thought was “So this is how the world ends.” My 2nd thought was “Oh hell! This is Friday the 13th!”
Strange, in Georgia, (at least my semi-rural part) life has stayed pretty normal throughout the whole ordeal.
You wouldn’t even know anything had changed if it weren’t for some employees wearing masks.
The governor is fixing to pretty much end the lockdown here in Texas but Sam’s Club/Walmart plus the major supermarket chain I used to deliver for have vowed to continue requiring masks and social distancing no matter WHAT he says/does. Since property owners have total say over who can/cannot go onto their property they can legally order you off the property if you aren’t masked. Gotta love the woke. NOT!!!!!
I’ve been re-reading old pages. Boy, I really got hammered over errors in my depiction of surgical procedures.
http://thegentlewolf.net/comic/tgw-736/
I LOVE IT!
No, I’m not a masochist. My storytelling has improved so much because of criticisms, help, and suggestions by
people who know more about a subject than I do. That’s you, by the way. You not only provide me with storylines,
you help me to write them better. So please keep it up.
Reading from page 001 shows how much this comic has improved, and you all can share the credit for much of that.
Thanks.
The improvement I see the most of is your facility with the CGI software. You were already a damned good storyteller as evidenced by your photography.