*promote Hammond becoming the Star Wars Emperor

Self promoting this video and sending it back into the queue for one more try; last queued Saturday, June 5th, 2010 10:04am PDT - promote requested by original submitter Hybrid.

Shortly after this video was taken, some weird-looking small guy in a blue-and-red costume with web patterns all over it beat the living crap out of Richard Hammond. Then he swung away on a sticky rope that he apparently shot out of his wrist.

Mental downvote for narration. I really don't like this guy, this style of talking everything up, making it sound so daring and dangerous. Part of The Dumbening. The bits with electricity are neat, though.

750kv is still well short of actual lightning, as he also states he feels like "millions of amps" crawling over him. I can assure him if that was actually the case he would be not just burned to a crisp but instantly vapourized . Generously assuming they are accumulating from 240V @ 30A the resulting output is a nary thousandth of an amp.

Still, I envy being able to do something like that.

>> ^Croccydile:

750kv is still well short of actual lightning, as he also states he feels like "millions of amps" crawling over him. I can assure him if that was actually the case he would be not just burned to a crisp but instantly vapourized . Generously assuming they are accumulating from 240V @ 30A the resulting output is a nary thousandth of an amp.
Still, I envy being able to do something like that.


I am pretty sure he said "millions of ants" not "amps". The amount of electricity coming off his finger is still enough to kill a man, but it isn't pure lightning for sure.

I, too, am envious of that. I'd love to try that.

I saw somewhere that crossing the beams is bad.