Re: I'm trying this at home.

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Original poster: "Terry Fritz" <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>

Hi Chris,

Neat!! :-))

Although the "stunt" has and is being performed, it is a very messy
business.  A heck of a lot could go deadly wrong...  It simply takes a lot
of time, experience, and engineering to make such a human+electricity thing
"sort of" safe...  Not at all something one should decide to do on a whim...

Although it "looks" easy, there are many ways of dying that look easy too...

I am happy you decided not to do this :-)))  I am also happy that the dear
Tesla list help you decide to live :-)))  This is a very hard thing to deal
with for the moderator and I am happy that sticking to my principles
regarding openly discussing messy things once again paid off :-))) 

Many of us will sleep easy tonight :-)))

Cheers,

	Terry


At 05:08 AM 7/2/2001 +0000, you wrote:
>>From: "Tesla list" <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
>>Original poster: "randy by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" 
>><randy-at-gte-dot-net>
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>>Duck:
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>>Have you read your own sig file lately? Freeclimbing? Street Luge? You seem
>>obsessed with
>>taking un-necessary risks.
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>Read your other post too (and the 50 others...)
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>I'm not doing the experiment.
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>(and the crowd goes wild)........................
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>ok ok .................
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>ok......sit down, thank you............
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>ok
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>This is why......
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>1. The main reason I'm not doing the demo is the repercussions to the Group 
>and the Tesla community if I have a "Catastrophic" failure.
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>2. the learning curve is too steep, and if I fall off there's no safety net. 
>This isn't like sterrt lugeing where I can get some road rash, or climbing 
>where I pull a muscle and get some harness bruises. This is a pass-fail 
>thing, and I've simply got too much to loose.
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>3. I'm a teacher, and I run a large Group with a hundred impressionable kids 
>who hold me as a mentor, and a role model. I will not be responsibe for the 
>deaths of my students and fellow Group members.
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>4. I can't control the situation like I want to. There's no possible way to 
>be in complete control of the coil when I'm on the platform, and this isn't 
>like climbing where I can have a belay person that I trust with my life, 
>it's different, things happen too fast here. Even with climbing you can 
>yell, Watch Me!
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>As far as my other pursuits, yeah, I'm a serious adreniline junky. But it's 
>different. I can always control most of the variables. With Lugeing, 
>Climbing, and Racing (I don't drive anymore, I lost my ticket years ago when 
>I could no longer pass the physical for a year, no practice, no racing, no 
>track-time, no points, no license....) When you're Lugeing, you're 
>completely alone, same as climbing, if I make a mistake, I die, and I'm 
>responsible, and I'm also the only one who gets hurt (as long as I don't 
>land on my Belay, lol).
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>I have a thing for danger, as long as I'm in control. I can do 200+MPH only 
>a couple inches from the Ground on a racetrack all day long....but I can't 
>ride a rollercoaster at all, because I'm not in control.
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>Now I have the wreckage of a Teslathon to clean up, more on that tomorrow :)
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>duck
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