Why do circuit breakers go up for on and down for off?

I have an 8000 volt trap for mice and rats. They look so funny cramped up and stretched out.

Hahahahahah!!! You stupid pathetic wimp. Gotta be safe..... oh, the thing you spent loads of cash on just costs you even more cash. Put. In. A. Fuse.

Yeah, more cost. Obviously the more devices you have the more they cost.

Because neutral is oh so dangerous.

But those shows are never in the real world. It used to amaze me that painters could get the perfect finish while they were applying paint when people were still sanding down the walls/plaster in the same room

- until the camera got too close. :)

or

Have you been into a carpet shop recently - 50 shades of grey is an under estimate. And then there are the various shades of silver (more grey).

What about the coloured bathroom suite - I think the one I had was called champagne but really it was a baby poo colour. At least with white sanitary ware it's more obvious where to clean.

Is that a good idea? I used to live in a place where the bog was piss colour. Er, fawn.

Blimey,is your piss fawn?

Mine is more tan to straw.

I'd get it analysed

Are not fauns tan?

"Regular urine color ranges from clear to pale yellow"

Tan is rather off the end of normal, but I have 'issues'.

If I did the maths I'd get a more complete answer.

But there are many wheels.

A fully laden truck/lorry/whatever you call them over there can't stop as quick as a car, but it can stop in a safe distance. A train cannot, it's not fit for purpose. If something unexpected happens, it just ploughs through it. Trains are outdated technology and it's high time we got rid of them. Maybe a maglev can stop quicker?

Then the wheels should be rubber like every other vehicle. Try driving your car without tyres.

Surely cogs can go over 10mph. Your car gearbox is full of them turning at very high speed.

Trains run on private tracks and make their own rules

Trains are about 5x as efficient as trucks for moving stuff.

Has maglev ever really worked? Most maglev systems came and went.

Lot darker than that if you haven't had enough to drink.

Bullshit.

More to the point, railway tracks are normally fenced off and it is illegal for the public to access them except at level crossings - which have lights/barriers to exclude the public when a train is approaching or require those crossing to check that it is safe to do so (visually for pedestrians or by phoning the signal box for vehicles). Unlike roads, no one without specific authorisation should be on the tracks at all, so trains should not need to stop suddenly.

RPI had a mostly working model maglev train and were trying to build a full scale demo with about a mile of track in Rensselaer, NY. That was c.

China and Japan at least have working systems but a cost/benefit analysis has never been friendly to the technology.

I suppose a mythological critter can be any color it damn well pleases.