That implies the Engineers gave humanity modern wheat despite all evidence to the contrary. Or took our modern wheat back to their abandoned and dead planet despite all movie evidence to the contrary.
It’s just a stupid plot point in a movie full of them, but it did have xenomorphs murdering the dumbest scientists in existence so it’s not all bad.
Of course, this is also the series that had the engineers “life seed” Earth with literally just a dude breaking down into DNA. Because why shouldn’t an incredibly advanced alien species splooge into a river 4 billion years ago then just let it cook until it’s time to abduct and train Jesus?
It’s not that it won’t work - polarity doesn’t quite work like that in AC systems - it’s that as soon as you plug in one end, the other end has a pair of exposed metal contacts with mains voltage between them. One mistake, touching the contacts or having them come into something metal (like the ladder you are using to hang the Christmas lights) and someone dies
in AC, which is what home electricity uses, the polarity is constantly switching, from + , then - , then + , and so on, 50 or 60 times a second depending on where you live. This means that, unlike batteries, it’s symmetrical, and you can just splice the cables and attach two male plugs together and they will work regardless, even if you somehow attach the neutral to live and live to neutral, in fact in many countries you can actually buy just the plug without the cable and then you can assemble it yourself in whatever way you please.
of course tho, this should be done only if you have a decent understanding of electricity, and it should not be attempted by someone who lacks those competences, hence why hardware stores “gatekeep” male to male plugs. If you really need one and are sure you understand how they work, you can probably make one yourself.
I understand how power systems work. But, I can’t come up with a situation where I’d use a male-male AC cord rather than a safer and more reliable alternative. Most relevant is simply cutting off the female termination and reterminating through a breaker to the outlet ($15 and 15 min).
Picture this: It’s 8pm in early December. You’ve been hanging lights on your house since about 10 this morning, and it’s long after dark. As you’re laying the last section, you realize that you’ve got two female connectors next to each other. Do you tear it up and do it again, or do you hack a solution together so you can go inside and thaw?
and you’d be right. If you are sure about it, and you know how it works, just make it yourself, so that you don’t need to put anyone else in danger of getting sued.
The reason hardware stores don’t sell them is that people WILL use them in a dangerous way, and they don’t want to be held responsible.
This reminds me of the warning signs I saw in Taiwan. Their stick figures go hard. Being thrown out of busses and hit by cars, kicking at monkeys trying to take their food, shattering their everything from falling down stairs. I want the US to adopt more vivid stick figure warnings
So everyone is dancin And then a guy says: no moosic And the guy turns up the music and says “how’s that” And Killer Bean murders him and everyone in the same room as him And then it’s a China restaraunt And the asian bean says he hates the food And the guy gets the cook and says “he say yo food, taste like ass crack” And then the chef goes “YOOOOOO” And the asian bean fucking kills him And these guys are like “Dude” “Yeah” “Yuh” “Woot-woot” And a guy comes in with a baseball bat And hits 'em out of a window And then Killer Bean goes to a bar And uses the bathroom and says: “Sorry. It was a double flusher.” And the guy says “you only flushed once bruh” And then Killer Bean beats the shit out of him and steals his car And then the baseball bat guy ties him up And then he say “WHATTOYOUWANNFRUHME” And there’s an evil Killer Bean called Vegan And baseball bat guy says “Vegan you’re fired” And Vegan shoots him to death And then Chow Mein And the movie end
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