Robert: I value life too much to want to go that way just yet! However I do know what a conductor is, i was just trying to figure out what that metallic looking plate in the tower case was that housed the motherboards etc and was not a conductor...?
On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 10:00 AM, Robert G. Brown <r...@phy.duke.edu> wrote: > On Sun, 14 Dec 2008, Geoff Jacobs wrote: > > Yes, it is possible to kill yourself with low voltage. You have to >> really work at it and/or be unlucky, but it can be done. A DC resistance >> from leg to arm of 100 ohms or so is hard to achieve. Stabbing oneself >> with electrified needles, for starters. >> > > As in: > > http://www.darwinawards.com/darwin/darwin1999-50.html > > Improving the human race one incident at a time... > > There was also the joy of touching a 9V battery across the tip of your > tongue (safe enough, but more than enough to convince you that 9V can > make you go "Ow"). Or the dangers of 12V batteries in a saltwater > environment or even when it is raining and your hands are wet and your > skin is maybe a bit split when you grab one by the posts. > > As I said, do NOT mess with even "low" voltage electricity unless you > know things like what a conductor is, or you too might qualify for a > Darwin! And we'd hate that...:-) > > rgb > > > Robert G. Brown > http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/<http://www.phy.duke.edu/%7Ergb/> > Duke University Dept. of Physics, Box 90305 > Durham, N.C. 27708-0305 > Phone: 1-919-660-2567 Fax: 919-660-2525 > email:r...@phy.duke.edu<email%3a...@phy.duke.edu> > > > -- Best regards, arjuna http://www.brahmaforces.com
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