Re: [TCML] Brent Turner Playing "Thor" on History Channel

[John Forcina <forcijo10@xxxxxxxxx>]

I caught the last 20 minutes of the show and saw the whole tesla coil part.
In my opinion, that is really nothing to imperessive because i know a couple
people who has done similar.  I thought they went WAYY overkill on the
safety by taking it out into the desert far away from anything but i guess
that's how they do it theses days for tv.

On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 2:51 PM, Dex Dexter <dexterlabs@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Didn't watch it,but hmm...part of the trick is that Brent wears a special
> conductive suit which covers vital parts of his body,no?
> I think he must wear it,becouse when arcs connect with grounded targets
> :OUCH!
> And what if sparks suddenly break out from his nose or face somehow?
> Very dangerous trick for sure.
>
> Dex
>
> --- drieben@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> From: "David Rieben" <drieben@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "Tesla Coil Mailing List" <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc:
> Subject: [TCML] Brent Turner Playing "Thor" on History Channel
> Date: Thu, 7 May 2009 10:09:54 -0500
>
> Hi all,
>
> I happened to catch a 1 hour segment on the History
> Channel last night (Wed. May 6, 7 PM CDT) called
> "Superhuman", which was about people who are ap-
> pear to be real life "X-Men". It was hosted by this
> guy (can't recall his name, as I am absolutely HOR-
> RIBLE at remembering names) who was pretty much
> a human "stretch man" himself. He searched out and
> interviewed three other people with "unique" talents.
> One was a "magneto" man in Malaysia who could
> make metal objects stick to himself, as if by magnetic
> attraction. The other was an "Iceman" who had truly
> amazing tolerance for very cold temperatures. The third
> and final one in who we are interested was Brent Turner,
> who did the well-known to us trick of sitting on an insu-
> lated platform that's connected to a fairly large Tesla
> coil and throwing sparks from his finger tips. It went on
> to explain how he did it and also warned to no "try this
> at home". A check of History Channel's website may
> reveal when it will replay?
>
> David Rieben
>
>
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