RE: [TCML] Modern Marvels "Most Shocking"

[Matt Reid <the_fetus@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi All,
 
Just a snippet from that episode (I think)
 
Possibly one of my favourite non-Tesla clips :)
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-s8x2efUY5c
 
Now this could be the greatest job on the planet.
Matt R.
 
> From: davep@xxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: [TCML] Modern Marvels "Most Shocking"> To: tesla@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 05:43:38 -0500> CC: > > > >Did anyone see the Modern Marvels "Most Shocking" episode> >on the Discovery Channel last night (Monday PM, Dec 10)?> Handy Hint:> History Channel Web site sez next 'air'ing is:> 22 Dec, Saturday, 7 PM, EST, US> 'check local listings'> I'd guess History Channel website sells DVDs, has video clips.> > > It was a pretty interesting segment on electric shock and Tasers,> >difibrilation, (E)lectro-(S)hock-(T)herapy for chronically depressed> >patients, electrified fences for prisons, and a few other things.> >Sorry, there were no Tesla coils but they did show that huge> >Van de Graff generator at that science museum in Boston, MA.> Which makes it sorta OT, so maybe minimal follow ups?> 8)>>> > >They mentioned that 70 mA passing through the body was of> >suficient magnitude to be lethal.> Other sources list lower values. Lotsa variables.> > > It also showed a lineman working on live 500 kV transmission lines> > from a helicopter.> Yep. Also appears in other shows, the technique is a decade or> old, maybe a bit more.> > best> dwp> _______________________________________________> Tesla mailing list> Tesla@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> http://www.pupman.com/mailman/listinfo/tesla
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