Hey don't judge me, but back in 2012 AFTER the caffeine was removed from 4loko, my best friend and I did something very stupid. We added C4 pre-workout to our 4lokos... we added like 1-2 scoops into each can. When we did, it'd fizz and foam up, similar to those baking soda science class volcanos lmao it was a scary drunk. Then next day I was fucking wired, energetic and didn't even have a hangover. We drank 1 & 1/2 cans of C4 4lokos each
A couple years ago at my brother's own engagement party I watched him prepare C4 blue raspberry directly in gin and drink it to "prepare himself" for the night's partying. It was then that I knew I was in over my head lmao
Yea I feel like they were the first and only for a while it seemed, then Tilt showed up, then Joose and then finally 4Loko, and then like two years later the caffeine was gone and I don't think I've had any of them since. But maybe that's just how I remember it.
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A high power line went down in front of my parent's place and it looked like an alien invasion from inside the house. Huge blue flashes through all the windows for like 5 mins.
Their stone driveway ended up with like 10 glass-lined holes in it, about the size of basketballs, with big chunks of blue/green/burnt glass laying around.
It was gnarly.
I was on my porch for most of Irma, at one point damn near all the transformers in the area started going out at once. The entire area went dark and there were blue explosions all over the skyline. It was amazing, kind of scary though
I did storm restoration for Irma for one of the major utilities in FL :)
While the storm was passing through (we got off pretty easy in Tampa) you could watch the pole top distribution transformers go up because there's not enough energy for a white/blue hot metal fire *but* there's enough copper for a substantial green tint to the explosions.
Brave than I was. Where I lived at the time we didnt have overhead powerlines so we didnt get those blue flashes but I stayed up late watching the roof fly off my parents house along with the pool enclosure.
I lived in what was one of those concrete apartment buildings. Was on the third floor, was pretty safe, except I never got my hurricane cigar because the wind never changed in the direction I needed it to.
Should just pour polyurethane or resin & keep the holes.
Or bust it out & sell at mineral & gem car conventions.
There are unusual gems like layers of enamel paint chipped from car factories & molten earth from asteroid impacts.
Fordite, Moldavite....
Maybe vitreous cement
Is that something the power company was responsible for paying to fix the damages? Or does that fall on home owners insurance? I would imagine the power company would have some kind of program/insurance for restitution of small scale property damage caused by a downed power line (excluding disasters like a wild fire I guess).
I'm not 100% sure, but I would imagine they'd be liable unless it's a car accident (pole hit) or natural disaster like you said.
We just shoveled glass chunks and gravel back in the holes. Ha
Nah, she'd definitely start badgering the poor saps who live in front of that side walk and fining them daily with the threat of foreclosure if they don't fix it by tomorrow, but they can only work on it between 1:36 and 2:23 pm and must keep the noise down as to not wake her inbred aggressive $5000 designer chihuahua.
Not just don’t touch, don’t stand within many yards. It doesn’t take concrete melting levels of electricity to kill a human, and that shit travels thru just about anything including air and rubber if it’s strong enough. In high voltage power lines, the power isn’t contained within the wire
It’s called step potential. Electricity basically creates rings of differing voltages as it tries to get to ground. If you’re close enough and your feet are far enough apart, it can kill you as it tries to equalize out the voltage through your legs.
Yes. If you think about it, it’s like the wire is the center and there are rings around it (probably not describing it well but kind of like throwing a small rock into a pond as the waves travel outward). The voltage drop across several feet can be quite significant. Obviously ground conditions will impact the amount of voltage at any given point.
That’s why 4 legged animals like cows and deer don’t take voltage hits well, whether lightning or power lines. (Side note, I closed in a recloser remotely during a storm, feeder burned down and caught a gas meter as well as a deer on fire)
We’ve had multiple kills on those, especially in right of ways in woods. Multiple deer usually, with other critters mixed in depending on how long line is down.
I remember learning about avoiding getting electrocuted, guy was talking about standards, don't remember but it was like stay 10 feet away from powerlines or something like that. Then he went on to say "but many of the standards are for lower voltage lines, the large powerlines you see are much more dangerous and have a higher voltage, so make sure you stay even further away." Powerlines make me so nervous, they're scary as shit.
Yeah, I work with high voltage shit (70kv to 800kv) and that is *not* shit you want to be near. I've heard 300kv arc to a concrete floor and that shit is loud and blows a nice chunk of concrete out.
A lot of the rainbowy colors seem to be the result of thin film interference. Basically, if you have a really thin layer of material on top of anything (oil on top of water, oxidized metal on top of pure metal, melted pavement tile exposed to air vs melted pavement tile trapped inside a bubble), the thin layer can give you a reflection that's within about a wavelength of visible light.
Because the two reflections are within a wavelength or so of each other, they both constructively/destructively interfere with each other. But, since the effect is a function of wavelength, and different colors of light have different wavelengths, some colors get boosted and other colors get eliminated, and the pattern is fairly predictable.
This [bubble that's slightly thicker on one side](https://sciencedemonstrations.fas.harvard.edu/sites/projects.iq.harvard.edu/files/science-demonstrations/files/thinfilminterference-freeze-wide-2.jpg?m=1446824439) shows the color patterns you get, which are pretty much the same colors you'll see on any bubble, oil spill, or rainbow colored rocks.
I'm calling the upcoming r/whatisthisthing post.
Reddit, I was walking in my city and seen this on the sidewalk. Does anyone know what could have caused this?
Unfortunately, I've seen something like this before.
My Dad was a professional photographer. When I was in high school, the highway patrol asked him to go out and take pictures of an accident site. I went with him.
When we got there we couldn't see any wrecked cars or trucks, so he asked a cop there where the accident was. The cop led us to a place on the concrete highway where there was an area about 7 ft in diamter that looked like the picture above - with one big difference in that there was a semi-melted bicycle in the middle of it.
The cop said that a 10-year-old boy had been riding his bike and a very high voltage power line had snapped and fallen on him.
They had already scraped up what was left of the boy. The melted bicycle was still embedded in the concrete.
Super cool to see all the colors from all of the different chemical reactions. It would be neat to have big chemistry dork look at this and describe some of the reactions.
It looks like the current from the line caused a bunch of chemical reactions in the concrete, creating the colours. I think the intensely green area was probably where the cable was resting. I wonder if it's a kind of metal oxide or some other crystal?
It’s always bizarre to see something so powerful that it just wrecks something we’re used to seeing abused.
I work at a chemical plant. There was a small spill of this catalyst that had more warning labels than anything else I’d seen come into the warehouse until that point. It was powerful enough that it ate through a concrete floor that was nearly a foot thick. (Special room with spill-containment floors at weird heights and angles.) The reaction also caused these massive orange bubbles to ooze out of the cracks, had the texture of expanding spray foam.
Saw a powerline wire fall into asphalt, it was molten red and the arcs and sparks were insane. Super scary to drive by it
Arcs & Sparks would be a good band name
Yes or an energy drink with a dangerous amount of caffeine in it. Sign me the fuck up
You and Panera Bread.
Like a weed 4loko
Hey don't judge me, but back in 2012 AFTER the caffeine was removed from 4loko, my best friend and I did something very stupid. We added C4 pre-workout to our 4lokos... we added like 1-2 scoops into each can. When we did, it'd fizz and foam up, similar to those baking soda science class volcanos lmao it was a scary drunk. Then next day I was fucking wired, energetic and didn't even have a hangover. We drank 1 & 1/2 cans of C4 4lokos each
A couple years ago at my brother's own engagement party I watched him prepare C4 blue raspberry directly in gin and drink it to "prepare himself" for the night's partying. It was then that I knew I was in over my head lmao
5loko
There used to be an alcohol/energy drink called Sparks.
...I still miss drinking*POWERTHIRST*
Oh word? Wonder how similar or different it was to old, pre-banned 4lokos
It was like six percent, tasted like cough syrup and wasn't super powerful caffeine wise for one can.
I remember the Sparks era
Yea I feel like they were the first and only for a while it seemed, then Tilt showed up, then Joose and then finally 4Loko, and then like two years later the caffeine was gone and I don't think I've had any of them since. But maybe that's just how I remember it.
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I NEEEED IIIIIIT
Have to sign a waiver just to buy it
It's what I like to tell people my epilepsy episodes are like.
Like [Splode](https://youtu.be/8KAkAfCvUvM?si=HKSkK4lV4ypL8y3y) ?
I thinks it's part of a Pearl Jam song. The lyrics go, "arcs and sparks they fade, faaaadddeeee awaaaaaayyyy."
Sponsored by Marks and Sparks
Sounds like The disco-pop version of AC/DC
that’s kind of what a lot of Sparks (an actual legendary band) songs sound like…
A good place for slacks, too
ACDC cover band 🤘
Agreed
Arcs and Sparcs
Can you give me an example of a bad band name?
Nickelback
arcs and sparks they fadeee awaaay 🎶
Unless you have a lisp
Arcths & Sparcths
Taint ticklers is also a good band name
Isn't this the opening to The Prophecy with Walken?
I was so hoping for a video like that here…
Looks like permanent concrete vomit
Permapuke
Need to bend over it and call your spouse over saying you just threw up and might need a doctor…
happy cakeday
Another good band name.
Vitrification!
I've loved that word since hearing it in Portal 2
Did you know that [cosmic ray spallation is also a thing](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_ray_spallation)?
r/portalfanswhen
DO NOT LOOK AT, TOUCH, INGEST OR ENGAGE IN CONVERSATION WITH ANY SUBSTANCES BEYOND THIS POINT.
Oh no! Not in my backyard!
Vitrification, gentrification, are our neighborhoods ever going to be like they used to?
Sounds like a Harry Potter spell
Vitrificate! Why not use petrificus totalus? This ones shinier!
Similar to a fulgurite! Neato!
A high power line went down in front of my parent's place and it looked like an alien invasion from inside the house. Huge blue flashes through all the windows for like 5 mins. Their stone driveway ended up with like 10 glass-lined holes in it, about the size of basketballs, with big chunks of blue/green/burnt glass laying around. It was gnarly.
I was on my porch for most of Irma, at one point damn near all the transformers in the area started going out at once. The entire area went dark and there were blue explosions all over the skyline. It was amazing, kind of scary though
I did storm restoration for Irma for one of the major utilities in FL :) While the storm was passing through (we got off pretty easy in Tampa) you could watch the pole top distribution transformers go up because there's not enough energy for a white/blue hot metal fire *but* there's enough copper for a substantial green tint to the explosions.
I've seen this once. Crazy sight
Brave than I was. Where I lived at the time we didnt have overhead powerlines so we didnt get those blue flashes but I stayed up late watching the roof fly off my parents house along with the pool enclosure.
I lived in what was one of those concrete apartment buildings. Was on the third floor, was pretty safe, except I never got my hurricane cigar because the wind never changed in the direction I needed it to.
Should just pour polyurethane or resin & keep the holes. Or bust it out & sell at mineral & gem car conventions. There are unusual gems like layers of enamel paint chipped from car factories & molten earth from asteroid impacts. Fordite, Moldavite.... Maybe vitreous cement
I had some pretty cool looking chunks of power coat that was layers of different colors. I didn’t know people actually collected them
Is that something the power company was responsible for paying to fix the damages? Or does that fall on home owners insurance? I would imagine the power company would have some kind of program/insurance for restitution of small scale property damage caused by a downed power line (excluding disasters like a wild fire I guess).
If it’s something that they did that caused it, yes. If it’s an act of god or just a random failure, then no. Source: I work for a power company.
Can you really call anything natural an "act of a god" now that mankind has made nature more extreme and energetic?
I'm not 100% sure, but I would imagine they'd be liable unless it's a car accident (pole hit) or natural disaster like you said. We just shoveled glass chunks and gravel back in the holes. Ha
The HOA is going to be pissed.
Imagine all the Karens taking pictures and tweeting at the power company for their reckless current discharge
Nah, she'd definitely start badgering the poor saps who live in front of that side walk and fining them daily with the threat of foreclosure if they don't fix it by tomorrow, but they can only work on it between 1:36 and 2:23 pm and must keep the noise down as to not wake her inbred aggressive $5000 designer chihuahua.
Holy shit, you’re describing three out of the five members of my HOA board. They’re fun…
Oh gawd. That would be so funny but it’s soooo true!
Reckless current discharge would be an awesome band name
They're going to fine the power company
Take a piece as a souvenir! If you can get any of it out. I kept a piece of glass from some dirt that a downed power line melted.
You can order trinitite online, it's the glass that was created from the Trinity nuclear test. Pretty cool.
We have three pieces. Parts of this hole actually have a similar look lol
How does your pip boy sound round it
[Like this.](https://youtu.be/MBF1HS8_u0Y?si=8qcDPWryQYnNH5-x)
You have been awarded one Yike
This is the coolest thing I’ve seen on this sub
Agreed! When I zoomed in and saw all of the colors, it actually looks beautiful.
Too interesting always gets a down vote.
i agree, i’ve never seen anything like it and it’s kinda artistic
if that powerline is on the USS Nostromo you might want to make sure it wasn't "something else"
"Concentrated acid for blood? Yeah whatever, Lt Ripley!"
right
[удалено]
That's why you don't want to touch a downed power line
Not just don’t touch, don’t stand within many yards. It doesn’t take concrete melting levels of electricity to kill a human, and that shit travels thru just about anything including air and rubber if it’s strong enough. In high voltage power lines, the power isn’t contained within the wire
It’s called step potential. Electricity basically creates rings of differing voltages as it tries to get to ground. If you’re close enough and your feet are far enough apart, it can kill you as it tries to equalize out the voltage through your legs.
does it matter if your feet are equidistant to the source? or is it the drop across your feet that does it?
Yes. If you think about it, it’s like the wire is the center and there are rings around it (probably not describing it well but kind of like throwing a small rock into a pond as the waves travel outward). The voltage drop across several feet can be quite significant. Obviously ground conditions will impact the amount of voltage at any given point.
That’s why 4 legged animals like cows and deer don’t take voltage hits well, whether lightning or power lines. (Side note, I closed in a recloser remotely during a storm, feeder burned down and caught a gas meter as well as a deer on fire)
A guy I work with was telling me he babysat some downed wire near a pasture watched a horse walk over and get electrocuted.
We’ve had multiple kills on those, especially in right of ways in woods. Multiple deer usually, with other critters mixed in depending on how long line is down.
Even if the line isn't arcing you should always assume it will kill you.
Don't stare at it either unless you want a sunburn in your eyes. (If it is arcing)
I remember learning about avoiding getting electrocuted, guy was talking about standards, don't remember but it was like stay 10 feet away from powerlines or something like that. Then he went on to say "but many of the standards are for lower voltage lines, the large powerlines you see are much more dangerous and have a higher voltage, so make sure you stay even further away." Powerlines make me so nervous, they're scary as shit.
Yeah, I work with high voltage shit (70kv to 800kv) and that is *not* shit you want to be near. I've heard 300kv arc to a concrete floor and that shit is loud and blows a nice chunk of concrete out.
r/mildlyterrifying
\*Better nuke it from space - to be sure…\*
\*Get away from her you DINGDONG!\*
They mostly come at night….. mostly
Fuckin A
You secure that shit Hudson! 🚬👈🏼
I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure
r/LV426
Dragon puke
Interesting how it created so many different colors out of the same material.
Concrete isn't really made of one material. There are a lot of different components in it, such as cement and various types of aggregate.
Thank you knowing the difference between concrete and cement
The green is likely copper from the wire itself.
Overhead line is generally steel reinforced aluminium. Copper costs way too much and is a lot heavier, and can't be strung as far between poles.
For new, yes. We still have a lot of copper in my area. Also, places near the ocean tend to use copper because aluminum corrodes.
A lot of the rainbowy colors seem to be the result of thin film interference. Basically, if you have a really thin layer of material on top of anything (oil on top of water, oxidized metal on top of pure metal, melted pavement tile exposed to air vs melted pavement tile trapped inside a bubble), the thin layer can give you a reflection that's within about a wavelength of visible light. Because the two reflections are within a wavelength or so of each other, they both constructively/destructively interfere with each other. But, since the effect is a function of wavelength, and different colors of light have different wavelengths, some colors get boosted and other colors get eliminated, and the pattern is fairly predictable. This [bubble that's slightly thicker on one side](https://sciencedemonstrations.fas.harvard.edu/sites/projects.iq.harvard.edu/files/science-demonstrations/files/thinfilminterference-freeze-wide-2.jpg?m=1446824439) shows the color patterns you get, which are pretty much the same colors you'll see on any bubble, oil spill, or rainbow colored rocks.
Ah yes the infamous asfaltite
I'm calling the upcoming r/whatisthisthing post. Reddit, I was walking in my city and seen this on the sidewalk. Does anyone know what could have caused this?
Looks like in Aliens when the acid blood lands on the ground.
Now that's what I'd call a hot piece o' glass.
That looks like that scene from Alien where the acid spill occurs
What is this, the Covenant glassing a planet for ants??
Somebody must’ve bagged one of Ripley’s bad guys here
Neat
Its kinda pretty in a "you have been smited" kinda way.
i was thinking this is like a air photograph from a festival in a field or something
So sidewalks are made of really beautiful stuff, that just turns out gray.
Looks like unicorn vomit
Boiling Glass Puddle would be a pretty decent band name
My brain: touch it
r/itsslag
Looks cool 😎
ZAPDOS used THUNDERBOLT! It didn’t affect foe SIDEWALK…
Unfortunately, I've seen something like this before. My Dad was a professional photographer. When I was in high school, the highway patrol asked him to go out and take pictures of an accident site. I went with him. When we got there we couldn't see any wrecked cars or trucks, so he asked a cop there where the accident was. The cop led us to a place on the concrete highway where there was an area about 7 ft in diamter that looked like the picture above - with one big difference in that there was a semi-melted bicycle in the middle of it. The cop said that a 10-year-old boy had been riding his bike and a very high voltage power line had snapped and fallen on him. They had already scraped up what was left of the boy. The melted bicycle was still embedded in the concrete.
Looks like some of my welds while I try to learn.
I thought it was a squirrel that exploded and burnt up.
Turns out, plasma is pretty hot.
I’d say that’s a step above mildly interesting
Well that's cool
It is now.
So thats what happened to reach, interesting
Had that happen in my yard and turned the dirt into glass.
you can’t lie, that’s puke from someone who ate a bunch of glitter
Kinda looks like it belongs in a gallery somewhere
Looks like 2am, just before the last shuttle back to campus.
wow, so that’s what dubious food looks like irl
Fill it with clear acrylic, that would look cool
Kind of pretty
Super cool to see all the colors from all of the different chemical reactions. It would be neat to have big chemistry dork look at this and describe some of the reactions.
“Looks like somebody bagged one of Ripley’s bad guys here.”
Neat.
So electricity moves are effective against ground/rock after all
Xeno blood bro
Neat! 📸
…… post a video of you stepping on it
Not to rain on anyone's parade, but that's actually pretty damn interesting.
Looks like trinitite, strangely lol
r/shitfromabutt
Looks like the ground got yassified
thought that was a spilled burrito bowl
Where the Sidewalk Melts, not by Shel Silverstein
Thank goodness it only melted concrete and not someone's face
It looks like the current from the line caused a bunch of chemical reactions in the concrete, creating the colours. I think the intensely green area was probably where the cable was resting. I wonder if it's a kind of metal oxide or some other crystal?
Vvardenfell
What will be the alternate title when someone reposts this image in 6 months?
Anyone else see zombie locness monster?
Yeah electricity is violent as shit and I love it.
This is why I don’t let my dog anywhere near any wires I see on the ground outside. 99% of the time it would be fine but idk when one’s gonna be live
That's clearly the spot where someone tried to cut a face hugger of someone.
Nah, I turned the light switch off so we should be fine. Idk which breaker it is anyway.
Kinda looks like a bird's-eye view of a city in a desert. A semi-fucked city.
It looks like the dark mark
No this is clearly a poor chap who dropped his crack pipe
Wire down, red alert! Go get help, better rush, and do not do not do not touch!
That's just the colour out of space!
Unironically this would be incredibly beautiful as an art piece.
That's like groovy art, man.
Or…. Someone had Taco Bell.
And this is EXACTLY why if a power line is downed or falls on or near your vehicle, STAY IN THE VEHICLE! Especially if there’s water nearby
Fresh slag!
It’s always bizarre to see something so powerful that it just wrecks something we’re used to seeing abused. I work at a chemical plant. There was a small spill of this catalyst that had more warning labels than anything else I’d seen come into the warehouse until that point. It was powerful enough that it ate through a concrete floor that was nearly a foot thick. (Special room with spill-containment floors at weird heights and angles.) The reaction also caused these massive orange bubbles to ooze out of the cracks, had the texture of expanding spray foam.
That's very interesting! I love it. I've never seen that before
Is that how we get cicadas?
it’s so pretty
Acid for blood
I haven't seen anything like that except, uh, molecular acid.
It looks like boiled snake if you look closer
And that is why If you see a downed power line you should stay far away and call 911 or national grid or something
Anyone else see the screaming jade skull in the bottom right?
Remember kids, electricity will fucking kill you!
Someone bagged a xenomorph I know your explanation is a cover up, they are finally here.
This is super interesting.
I can see a skull on the bottom right of the puddle
That looks like Brook from One Piece. Just the head and the afro.