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Re: streamer hit

Tesla List wrote:

> Wow! Sounds like a neat experiment to determine if the RF currents really
> are going through our internal organs and such (as opposed to the skin
> effect which suggest they just flow on the outer surface of the skin).
> However, It would be easier and cheaper to use clear Jello type gelatine
> with some salt added to simulate the human body rather than expensive meat
> (works fine for bullet testing).  The neon bulbs or LEDs would be very easy
> to see and it would be very easy to encase them uniformly in the Jello.  I
> always have wondered if RF currents arcing to our heads would pass through
> our brains??  If so, arcs to the head may not be a good idea!
> 
>         Terry :-)

Or, get some of the liquid crystal stuff that changes color with
temperature and cast that into your gelatine block.

The coolest thing would be to sort of combine these techniques. 

Step 1: Make a mold of your arm using plaster, or some convenient
substance (alginate?)

Step 2: Cast an arm of conductive gelatine

Or, more sophisticated, make a clear female casting of your arm in
acrylic or polyester resin (probably using some sort of lost wax
technique, because your arm would cook in the curing block of resin)

Then, fill the cavity with a saline solution. If you could find a dye
that is field or current sensitive, even better.

You could also fill the cavity with fine fibers in suspension, and the
fibers will align with the local electric field.

Even more elaborate, you could cast an entire body model. (Note: if you
use plaster of paris, don't cast the entire body of the live model at
once, or you'll cook them... It gets really hot). For proper realism,
you need to cast the person standing up (or at least mostly vertical,
leaning on a board, typically), or the body will be weirdly misshapen.

I note that this has all been done by researchers into RF safety,
although, I doubt much work has been done at tens or hundreds of kHz.
Most of the work is at 13 and 27 MHz, and at .915 and 2.45 GHz, which
are industrially useful.
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