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When I went to high school the teacher told about a science fair where someone had put a sign next to his project reading:

      WARNING
   2 million Ohms
(or something like that, I don't remember the actual number of Ohms for this specific project)

A remarkable number of people kept their distance from this obviously dangerous experiment.

The chemistry-equivalent of this joke is to warn everyone around you of the presence of dangerous di-Hydrogen Oxide which kills hundreds of thousands of people every year.



In their defense, maybe those people didn't know if it's a project by a very clever student or by the one who mixes up units ;)


> The chemistry-equivalent of this joke is to warn everyone around you of the presence of dangerous di-Hydrogen Oxide which kills hundreds of thousands of people every year.

https://dhmo.org/facts.html


2 million ohms? Not bad, not terrible. Vasily, get the good Ohmmeter from the safe.




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