At Zürich Zoo there’s an electric eel tank, and when it’s feeding time, they also stroke the eels with rubber gloves. There’s an LCD display that shows how much electricity is being discharged and it always goes wild at feeding time.
If you have work in a plastics factory you then would know how the prey of an electric eel feels. You can get a static discharge from nearly 15cm/6 in away from the metal grinder machines and the machines themselves . It can drop individuals to their knees for those not used to the sensation. BTW yes OSHA said this phenomena is uncontrollable.
@@theenzoferrari458 There is a story online, a plant in GA, USA that made plastic sheeting. It had some rollers that moved the sheet up over and down for a pass through for employees. On the rare occasion that it was cold and dry, it created a sort of force field of static electricity that blocked (or was just hard) to walk through. amasci.com/weird/unusual/e-wall.html Note that it says high humidity, and it wasn't there, yet when lower, it was.
Lmao i feel your pain. Worked weekends in a plastics factory during college, those stupid rolls at face-height would zap your ears from halfway across the solar system. The metal trolleys we used to collect scraps were the worst though, they would sometimes zap you hard enough to make your head spin for a couple of seconds.
ElectroBOOM begs to differ regarding the so-called "Baghdad Battery." It's a very recent video (days or a week or so before this one). You should seriously give it a watch!
Fine episode. It provides somewhat of a refresher for me ; having graduated in Pure & Applied Sciences in college, 1981-1984, but never having again taken any chemistry or biology courses, meaning a lot has been forgotten. As for the *EEL*, not sure, but 600 volts is a lot, and I don't know what normal household amperage is, but 110 volts, definitely common in the US and Canada, can send a person flying across a room ; depending on how a person touches the current. Saw my brother and an aunt's apt companion both go flying, fully in the air, maybe a foot off of the floor, when they were "tinkering" around with a wall outlet, having used two pieces of metal and placing them in the two main holes of the wall outlets. Both times, I was just coming back, entered the main corridors, saw these two playing with these wall outlets, and the suddenly were projected through the air, ramming the walls on the opposite sides of these hallways. Brother didn't hit his head, only his back, but my aunts friend seriously smacked both and I thought, " _Oh, damn, head concussion_ ", and yep, concussion, thought not severe enough to need to go to a hospital. She was still dazed some weeks later but was able to function ; I suppose more gently, say, than normal, but still functioning on her own. This is with only 110 volts, and if not mistaken, then I think this was due to the alternating current. Our bodies then form like a circuit ; something like that anyway. 200 volts, DON'T TOUCH, I learned when working for an electrical commerical sign cie. If recalling correctly from a physics course in Electricity & Magnetism during college, the amperage is of even greater danger, if it's high enough anyway ; but, I don't know how high. What we learned about voltage in that course was that it provides the thrust, push, say, whereas, so we were told, the amperage is the real killer. Of course, voltage being strong enough to propel/throw us through the air could be fatal, depending on where and how we land, but the amperage was said to be more dangerous. Still don't want to get 200 volt charge, for 110 is enough to send a person flying, and my brother wasn't a small guy, but he took off like a rocket.
Love your vids and this one was especially interesting, one thing to note is you said " 0.8 to 2 volts of electrical current" referring to the Baghdad Batteries, this should be "0.8 to 2 volts of potential energy" your mixing two different units is like saying your car has 100HP of torque
These guys are amazing to learn from but hearing that "0.8 to 2 volts of electrical current" was liken to hearing Irregardless. I do love these guys. They are informative, entertaining and absolutely well researched. Kudos to you guys for enlightening the rest of us. Thank you.
Electrons rotate around nucleus is not technically correct: “Early on, we thought that electrons were revolving around the nucleus like planets,” Cooley said. “We no longer think of it that way because of experiments that came later on.” Now we know that electrons do not orbit around the nucleus like planets around the sun. However, because of the simplicity of this model, this misconception is often taught in many science classes today. www.columbiatribune.com/article/20140115/lifestyle/301159869
I *guess* he could have dragged out the video by talking about spherical harmonics, but as the title is about how to generate electricity biologically, the details of QED are not that important.
Thanks for bringing this up. I wish the article was more specific and detailed to show how the electrons actually reacted to cause the energy moving them to a higher energy cell. It is probably too detailed and needs a fairly good knowledge of physics involved to keep most viewers involved with the piece. Carrying all that detailed science to the video would probably have gone over most of the viewers' heads.
Actually recently a related species of the Electric Eel was discovered and this particular species of Electric Eel has a much higher voltage discharge.
the woman who fell 2 miles to earth into the jungle and then walked for days to find rescue said the only animal she really fear in the jungle was the electric eel
An idea for next video: Why can animals drink almost any water in the nature, but humans get sick without boilding it first? Also why animals can eat raw food while humans can mainly eat processed food (fire).
Voltage is energy per unit of charge commonly described in joules per coulomb. Current is charge flowing past a point per unit of time, typically coulombs per second. When you multiply the two you get power typically measured in watts. HTHs.
Even if you reduce this to shells, the amount of energy an electron releases is a quantum, not a shell. Ya dropped the ball intern, ya dropped the ball.
A lot of low level chem classes still teach the bohr model so quit bein a pedant, I think it’s likely for the sake of simplicity. Imagine trying to explain orbitals to the general public. IT’S LIKE, QUANTIZED MAN
Yeah my boss is an electric eel ; She sneaks up behind me when I’m napping at my desk and she Zapps me in order to get back to work, Ugh 😩; This video piece is very enlightening 👍
Dunno why I'm watching this vid when I have a degree in biochemistry with neurobiology and understand this in a fair bit more detail than the video covers but I guess that's the simon whistler effect for ya
Electric "eels" are some of the ugliest MFs on Earth. However, they are incredible creatures. Apparently, part of their "echolocation" includes being able to sense the speed of light (speed of electricity). If you think about it, that is truly amazing! I've always thought that "electric eels" and ants are some of the most amazing creatures on the planet. Great video TIFO!!!!!!!!
I remember ElectroBoom did a video on the Baghdad battery not that long ago, and that’s how I already knew how pathetic they actually were. He even posited the batteries may not even be such and might instead be an accident instead of for electricity storage.
Nooooo not the Bagdad battery!!!! "Continue to argue" as in "there's no actual evidence that the thing was ever used as a battery - it would have to be modified extensively to even produce a current."
Elsewhere there's a vid of someone hooking up a buncha modded "Bagdad batteries" like a couple dozen to light *a single LED*. (The modding was necessary because batteries have two poles. Yea. the BB has just one "pole.")
Lately I’ve been shocking everything I think it’s because of a new pair of shoes but not wearing them I’mstill statically charged It’s going to the point where I tap things to get the shock away before actually touching them
I'm going to guess you're living on the northern hemishpere since you used "lately", it's a pretty normal thing during the colder times of the year. Two major contributing factors play a part in this as far as I'm aware: 1. Outdoor temperature leads to low humidity after heating the air up to our comfort temperature range -> air becomes a better insulator making it easier to hold on to electrical charge 2. Multiple layers of clothing are more likely to be worn, rubbing different materials and certain synthetic materials really contribute to the buildup of static charge. I guess you could run a humidifier after verifying the humidity is too low.
Extra stuff low humidity 😂 I live in the Mojave desert The sand creates static! I also have two titanium rods going from my lower neck to my ass crack which caused me to be a little bit more conductive. Some people don’t believe me when I say I’m a TV antenna you don’t believe me find an old TV and I’ll show you. And that lately thing that’s pretty funny but does it really matter do you have to point out that you don’t live in the northern hemisphere are you better than others for some reason I don’t get it why?
@@mybackhurts7020 Oh the reason the northern hemisphere matters is because depending on which side you're on the seasons are a bit different. So if you're for example in Australia it's like this: spring = september - november, summer = december - february, autumn = march-may, winter = june-august. Not sure which exact day of the month they pick, honestly doesn't really matter that much. It's just a matter of physics/cosmology, when the northern side gets shorter days they get longer days.
@@mybackhurts7020 Well since your original remark used "lately" as well and if it happened more than normal the last couple of months it wouldn't seem unreasonable that it's climate dependant. In my european fairly moderate coastal climate I pretty much only get zapped during winter by door handles and my cat looks at me angrily at times when static discharges pass through her ears while petting when not taking precautions. Outside winter it won't happen to me here. So I figured maybe a similar scenario could be in place for you. However given that you're in the Mojave desert that's not all that relevant. I'm guessing humidity is low enough that situations are suitable for static build up year round. I just didn't know your location initially, so I specified the northern hemisphere initially as we've lately been going through the cold seasons. Seemed like an obvious thing to me that didn't need extra clarification at the time.
Correction: all elements have the same number of electrons as they do protons. If the count of electrons is different than the count of protons then it is an ion not an element.
What causes me to have to have something, like duct tape, between my skin and watch? Seriously, if I don't do that, the watch will start losing time... as if I'm taking the battery's electric.
I don't wish to dampen your collective enthusiasm Simon et al., but electrons do NOT whizz around atomic nuclei in shells. Exactly how they are associated with the nucleus is is not fully understood but they can be said to be in a location that is somewhere in a cloud of probabilities, the shape and arrangement of which varies enormously between atoms. these 'probability clouds' (my description) are commonly pear-shaped and tend to arrange themselves such as to avoid each other due to several reasons, only one of which is connected with their similar electric charge. However, saying that they are in 'shells' with a particular amount (or quantum) of energy per shell is still correct.
Wow didn't know that electric "eels" produced such a high current. Might just be for two milliseconds but only 100-250 milliamps or 0.2 amps directed at the heart are enough to stop the heart and prevent it beating. Of course everything between our heart and that electricity will have a large amount of resistance reducing the current but 1 amp for two milliseconds will still feel like hell
600V for 2 milliseconds isn't normally fatal, yet coming into contact with 480V in a wire for a few milliseconds will be fatal almost every time. Electricity is weird.
Aight, here's what we gotta do. Go to the Amazon, (or wherever the hell electric eels are found), and catch a bunch of 'em. Then, bring them back to America and hook them up to cables like the machines do to the humans in the Matrix movies. Boom! Just solved the energy crisis, bitches! On my way to the patent office now...
I have to wear an ancient, wind up watch, because I can kill a watch battery in less than an hour. Wind up watches are expensive to buy and have repaired. I also don't own a cell phone, because I fry them too. I have to use a wireless mouse and keyboard for my computer. I'm really hard on electronics for some silly reason.
@@Carlos7Matute they still upload daily. I just don't find the new stuff interesting. Simon Whistler however has been interesting for a long time. I'm subscribed to all his channels
Try to imagine what the Bronze Era authors of the Bible would have made of the electric eel, if they knew of its existence (of course they had no clue of the whole Western Hemisphere’s existence). Pretty sure the horrific invisible weaponry would have made the creature a much better candidate for depicting “The Devil” than the goat, with its’ pitiful horns and hooves.
It’s got electrolytes. It’s what plants crave.
BRONDO.
idiocracy XD
I scrolled down just to leave this very comment, seems I've been beaten to it.
oh well, Epstein didn't kill himself
I gotta check with Upgrade...🤣
Ooh a scholar's gathering place... how lovely.
At Zürich Zoo there’s an electric eel tank, and when it’s feeding time, they also stroke the eels with rubber gloves. There’s an LCD display that shows how much electricity is being discharged and it always goes wild at feeding time.
That's pretty damn cool! Gruetzi u merci vielmal!
Rick C bitteschön Rick und alles guete!
This channel is great at "this question never occurred to me but now I need to know the answer" videos.
If you have work in a plastics factory you then would know how the prey of an electric eel feels. You can get a static discharge from nearly 15cm/6 in away from the metal grinder machines and the machines themselves . It can drop individuals to their knees for those not used to the sensation. BTW yes OSHA said this phenomena is uncontrollable.
Increase the humidity, it will lower.
@@trellend smart man. Osha's is dumbs.
@@theenzoferrari458 There is a story online, a plant in GA, USA that made plastic sheeting. It had some rollers that moved the sheet up over and down for a pass through for employees. On the rare occasion that it was cold and dry, it created a sort of force field of static electricity that blocked (or was just hard) to walk through. amasci.com/weird/unusual/e-wall.html Note that it says high humidity, and it wasn't there, yet when lower, it was.
Lmao i feel your pain.
Worked weekends in a plastics factory during college, those stupid rolls at face-height would zap your ears from halfway across the solar system.
The metal trolleys we used to collect scraps were the worst though, they would sometimes zap you hard enough to make your head spin for a couple of seconds.
15cm ?!?! Holy crap that takes thousands of volts to ark that far
Rename it to Electric Danger Noodle
ElectroBOOM begs to differ regarding the so-called "Baghdad Battery." It's a very recent video (days or a week or so before this one). You should seriously give it a watch!
skeptoid.com/episodes/4640 also covers the "Baghdad Battery", and Brian Dunning is skeptical of that particular usage of the artifact.
By turning to the dark side of the Force, obviously.
I know you were joking but that's not how it works
Simon: Mentions Baghdad batteries
Me: Has nostaglic flashbacks about Mythbusters
Fine episode. It provides somewhat of a refresher for me ; having graduated in Pure & Applied Sciences in college, 1981-1984, but never having again taken any chemistry or biology courses, meaning a lot has been forgotten. As for the *EEL*, not sure, but 600 volts is a lot, and I don't know what normal household amperage is, but 110 volts, definitely common in the US and Canada, can send a person flying across a room ; depending on how a person touches the current. Saw my brother and an aunt's apt companion both go flying, fully in the air, maybe a foot off of the floor, when they were "tinkering" around with a wall outlet, having used two pieces of metal and placing them in the two main holes of the wall outlets.
Both times, I was just coming back, entered the main corridors, saw these two playing with these wall outlets, and the suddenly were projected through the air, ramming the walls on the opposite sides of these hallways. Brother didn't hit his head, only his back, but my aunts friend seriously smacked both and I thought, " _Oh, damn, head concussion_ ", and yep, concussion, thought not severe enough to need to go to a hospital. She was still dazed some weeks later but was able to function ; I suppose more gently, say, than normal, but still functioning on her own. This is with only 110 volts, and if not mistaken, then I think this was due to the alternating current. Our bodies then form like a circuit ; something like that anyway.
200 volts, DON'T TOUCH, I learned when working for an electrical commerical sign cie. If recalling correctly from a physics course in Electricity & Magnetism during college, the amperage is of even greater danger, if it's high enough anyway ; but, I don't know how high. What we learned about voltage in that course was that it provides the thrust, push, say, whereas, so we were told, the amperage is the real killer. Of course, voltage being strong enough to propel/throw us through the air could be fatal, depending on where and how we land, but the amperage was said to be more dangerous. Still don't want to get 200 volt charge, for 110 is enough to send a person flying, and my brother wasn't a small guy, but he took off like a rocket.
Love your vids and this one was especially interesting, one thing to note is you said " 0.8 to 2 volts of electrical current" referring to the Baghdad Batteries, this should be "0.8 to 2 volts of potential energy" your mixing two different units is like saying your car has 100HP of torque
These guys are amazing to learn from but hearing that "0.8 to 2 volts of electrical current" was liken to hearing Irregardless. I do love these guys. They are informative, entertaining and absolutely well researched. Kudos to you guys for enlightening the rest of us. Thank you.
You're mixing your "your"s lol
Electrons rotate around nucleus is not technically correct:
“Early on, we thought that electrons were revolving around the nucleus like planets,” Cooley said. “We no longer think of it that way because of experiments that came later on.” Now we know that electrons do not orbit around the nucleus like planets around the sun. However, because of the simplicity of this model, this misconception is often taught in many science classes today.
www.columbiatribune.com/article/20140115/lifestyle/301159869
The bohr model is good enough for this video shuddup NERD
Its for simplicity, that’s why they teach it at low levels
I *guess* he could have dragged out the video by talking about spherical harmonics, but as the title is about how to generate electricity biologically, the details of QED are not that important.
Thanks for bringing this up. I wish the article was more specific and detailed to show how the electrons actually reacted to cause the energy moving them to a higher energy cell. It is probably too detailed and needs a fairly good knowledge of physics involved to keep most viewers involved with the piece. Carrying all that detailed science to the video would probably have gone over most of the viewers' heads.
We're all just potato clocks, at heart.
Christel Headington Word..
no, humans are potatoes, large, sitting all day and sometimes irish, and the hart is the clock
Actually recently a related species of the Electric Eel was discovered and this particular species of Electric Eel has a much higher voltage discharge.
This is a fascinating thing. I sort of remember when I used to be fascinated by LEMONS have a tiny amount of power in them.
You should do a whole video on the Baghdad batteries
LOVE YOU SIMON BUT THE MUSIC UNDERNEATH DRIVES ME CRAZY.
the woman who fell 2 miles to earth into the jungle and then walked for days to find rescue said the only animal she really fear in the jungle was the electric eel
An idea for next video: Why can animals drink almost any water in the nature, but humans get sick without boilding it first? Also why animals can eat raw food while humans can mainly eat processed food (fire).
_@ __3:45__ "Sir you have an Aneurysm."_
Jessie Ventura: *_"I ain't got time to Aneurysm."_*
You're really amping up these videos.
THE SHOCKING TRUTH
This video is quite electrifying
That looks like a delicious new berry that id love to eat .
Voltage is energy per unit of charge commonly described in joules per coulomb. Current is charge flowing past a point per unit of time, typically coulombs per second. When you multiply the two you get power typically measured in watts. HTHs.
What did the eel say to the other eels on prom night?
_"What is this chemistry between us? "_
"...objects around the eel..." (6:25) and "...making it so that the eel..."(6:30)? Hmm, I thought you just said it wasn't an eel. he he
I think it is easier to call an animal by its common name
Did anyone else hear that as "Toothless: the electric fish," and imagine a flying dragon-eel discharging those signature lightning blasts.
Even if you reduce this to shells, the amount of energy an electron releases is a quantum, not a shell. Ya dropped the ball intern, ya dropped the ball.
Thank you google, thank you.
A lot of low level chem classes still teach the bohr model so quit bein a pedant, I think it’s likely for the sake of simplicity.
Imagine trying to explain orbitals to the general public. IT’S LIKE, QUANTIZED MAN
@@CitizenSnips69 Its actually quite easy. Look up "quantum physics for babies" its a great book and my 3 year old loves it
@@tando6266
There is also a book entitled "Complete Idiots Guide to the Internet". Look how well that has worked out.
@@viracocha How do you know I only do it part time?
I vote that Simon be forced to watch Idiocracy
I second that.
We’re living it.
0:14 got it thanks!
Why am I addicted to this guy?
And as always, thanks for sharing :)
Yeah my boss is an electric eel ;
She sneaks up behind me when I’m napping at my desk and she Zapps me in order to get back to work,
Ugh 😩;
This video piece is very enlightening 👍
Good work nice upload my freind
Dunno why I'm watching this vid when I have a degree in biochemistry with neurobiology and understand this in a fair bit more detail than the video covers but I guess that's the simon whistler effect for ya
Humble brag
It should also be noted that dehydration and hyperhydration are in effect electrolyte imbalances
Thank you
So-called "Baghdad Batteries" are most likely NOT batteries.
What are they then?
Is lightening an a/c or d/c current?
Electric "eels" are some of the ugliest MFs on Earth. However, they are incredible creatures. Apparently, part of their "echolocation" includes being able to sense the speed of light (speed of electricity). If you think about it, that is truly amazing! I've always thought that "electric eels" and ants are some of the most amazing creatures on the planet. Great video TIFO!!!!!!!!
Whenever I feel like shit, I eat a banana for the potassium and I'm all better.
I remember ElectroBoom did a video on the Baghdad battery not that long ago, and that’s how I already knew how pathetic they actually were. He even posited the batteries may not even be such and might instead be an accident instead of for electricity storage.
*UNLIMITED POWER!*
*the final order*
DEW IT!
Execute order 66
Nooooo not the Bagdad battery!!!! "Continue to argue" as in "there's no actual evidence that the thing was ever used as a battery - it would have to be modified extensively to even produce a current."
Elsewhere there's a vid of someone hooking up a buncha modded "Bagdad batteries" like a couple dozen to light *a single LED*. (The modding was necessary because batteries have two poles. Yea. the BB has just one "pole.")
So you're saying that I CAN have 1.21 gigawatts to send a DeLorean... "Back To The Future" 👉⚡
i've heard before that electric eels can do thunderwave, but you're say they can actually do thundershock too! wow!
I often wonder if I'd sit thru these videos if I saw ads. I doubt it.
3 electrical organs! Moog, Korg, and Hammond B3.
The Baghdad Battery likely wasn’t an actual battery. ElectroBOOM did a video on it not long ago.
well actually it is a ability only seen in powerfull sith lords such as darth sidious or count docu.
What's shown at the end is an electric cell, and a battery is literally a bunch of them linked.
Was that the List25 music?
Funny little fact, ALL eels are fish, "electric" or otherwise.
Lately I’ve been shocking everything I think it’s because of a new pair of shoes but not wearing them I’mstill statically charged
It’s going to the point where I tap things to get the shock away before actually touching them
I'm going to guess you're living on the northern hemishpere since you used "lately", it's a pretty normal thing during the colder times of the year.
Two major contributing factors play a part in this as far as I'm aware:
1. Outdoor temperature leads to low humidity after heating the air up to our comfort temperature range -> air becomes a better insulator making it easier to hold on to electrical charge
2. Multiple layers of clothing are more likely to be worn, rubbing different materials and certain synthetic materials really contribute to the buildup of static charge.
I guess you could run a humidifier after verifying the humidity is too low.
Extra stuff low humidity 😂 I live in the Mojave desert The sand creates static! I also have two titanium rods going from my lower neck to my ass crack which caused me to be a little bit more conductive. Some people don’t believe me when I say I’m a TV antenna you don’t believe me find an old TV and I’ll show you. And that lately thing that’s pretty funny but does it really matter do you have to point out that you don’t live in the northern hemisphere are you better than others for some reason I don’t get it why?
@@mybackhurts7020 Oh the reason the northern hemisphere matters is because depending on which side you're on the seasons are a bit different. So if you're for example in Australia it's like this:
spring = september - november, summer = december - february, autumn = march-may, winter = june-august. Not sure which exact day of the month they pick, honestly doesn't really matter that much.
It's just a matter of physics/cosmology, when the northern side gets shorter days they get longer days.
Extra stuff learned that in school in like fourth grade what does it have to do with saying lately?
@@mybackhurts7020 Well since your original remark used "lately" as well and if it happened more than normal the last couple of months it wouldn't seem unreasonable that it's climate dependant.
In my european fairly moderate coastal climate I pretty much only get zapped during winter by door handles and my cat looks at me angrily at times when static discharges pass through her ears while petting when not taking precautions. Outside winter it won't happen to me here. So I figured maybe a similar scenario could be in place for you.
However given that you're in the Mojave desert that's not all that relevant. I'm guessing humidity is low enough that situations are suitable for static build up year round.
I just didn't know your location initially, so I specified the northern hemisphere initially as we've lately been going through the cold seasons. Seemed like an obvious thing to me that didn't need extra clarification at the time.
Correction: all elements have the same number of electrons as they do protons. If the count of electrons is different than the count of protons then it is an ion not an element.
Holy crap I thought this was gonna be V-Sauce. lol Awesome vid thanks for making it
There is a theory that the Bagdad batteries used in the electroplating of small metal objects such as jewellery.
So glad i learn, I always wonder how it is created in our body. When I grounds on the multimeter teminals I got 0.3 volts.
This video made me feel stupid. Gonna go watch a Flerf video to feel better about my mental faculties.
Think I just learned more in 10 minute than in all of Chem 1,🤓
this video is so charged with facts, it's shocking :-)
New question, Simon -- how did this capability evolve?
Nope, electricity is magic, pure magic
*PS: I'm an electrician*
You don’t get a discharge from a positively charged particle. Electrons flow from the negative to the positive.
- huh?
What causes me to have to have something, like duct tape, between my skin and watch? Seriously, if I don't do that, the watch will start losing time... as if I'm taking the battery's electric.
You are right sir
Whoa coming from Business Blaze back to here is weeeeeird. Not bad, just different.
This is shocking. (Pun intended)
I don't wish to dampen your collective enthusiasm Simon et al., but electrons do NOT whizz around atomic nuclei in shells. Exactly how they are associated with the nucleus is is not fully understood but they can be said to be in a location that is somewhere in a cloud of probabilities, the shape and arrangement of which varies enormously between atoms. these 'probability clouds' (my description) are commonly pear-shaped and tend to arrange themselves such as to avoid each other due to several reasons, only one of which is connected with their similar electric charge. However, saying that they are in 'shells' with a particular amount (or quantum) of energy per shell is still correct.
Can we electrify someone or something without being electrified?
_Watching South-American natives suddenly plank on top of the water = Comedy_
Nothing pisses me off more than seeing an electric moray eel in movies. Amazing Spider-Man 2 comes to mind.
What chemicals created that epic beard bro? On point Simon. On point. 👌
Electric eel facts start at 4:38
Wow didn't know that electric "eels" produced such a high current. Might just be for two milliseconds but only 100-250 milliamps or 0.2 amps directed at the heart are enough to stop the heart and prevent it beating. Of course everything between our heart and that electricity will have a large amount of resistance reducing the current but 1 amp for two milliseconds will still feel like hell
Electrify has weight. You lose weight of electrify, when you die.
are friends electric?
Only if thay like driving in my car
@@ape3774 =)
That fish can kill a gator? Brutal 😈😈😈
Simon, ever thought about going on Jeopardy?
Wouldn't be good he just researches his videos
0.8 to 2 volts of electrical current?!?!?! Check your units. Volts is potential. Amps is current!!!
600V for 2 milliseconds isn't normally fatal, yet coming into contact with 480V in a wire for a few milliseconds will be fatal almost every time. Electricity is weird.
Aight, here's what we gotta do. Go to the Amazon, (or wherever the hell electric eels are found), and catch a bunch of 'em. Then, bring them back to America and hook them up to cables like the machines do to the humans in the Matrix movies.
Boom! Just solved the energy crisis, bitches!
On my way to the patent office now...
Peta wants to know ur location
So I watched the entire video just to find out that electric eels are just fish, not eels
I have to wear an ancient, wind up watch, because I can kill a watch battery in less than an hour. Wind up watches are expensive to buy and have repaired. I also don't own a cell phone, because I fry them too. I have to use a wireless mouse and keyboard for my computer. I'm really hard on electronics for some silly reason.
For a sec there at the beginning I thought this was a list 25 video.
What ever happened to them.
@@Carlos7Matute they still upload daily. I just don't find the new stuff interesting. Simon Whistler however has been interesting for a long time. I'm subscribed to all his channels
@@lunarlancer yeah I wish list 25 got more interesting like before.
Echolocation..? 🐬
Nah, electric location ⚡📍
Didn't The Matrix already cover this?
I just got static electricity and wonder does body produce electricity thanks for the explanation
I just read something on this an hour ago haha!
6:30 Simon slipping the truth in after doing the Illuminati's bidding for the episode - making everyone call it an "ELeCtriC fIsH". Fight the power S!
Electrons don't actually orbit the nucleus; that's just a diagram design.
I'm so amped up
>uses metric system
>"two volts of electrical current"
bruh that can't be right because volts measure voltage.
It’s all MAGIC to me
I wonder if the Electric fish could be the answer to South Africa's failing power grid.
What would those batteries actually be capeable of
This guy is the host of so many popular RUclips channels, are those all owned by him? Or he's just a host and doing partnership? I'm very curious.
Try to imagine what the Bronze Era authors of the Bible would have made of the electric eel, if they knew of its existence (of course they had no clue of the whole Western Hemisphere’s existence). Pretty sure the horrific invisible weaponry would have made the creature a much better candidate for depicting “The Devil” than the goat, with its’ pitiful horns and hooves.
I hope my body keeps making electricity.
Same
Me, a biology and chemistry major: “yes, please continue explaining what an atom is to me”