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maxnugget
09-17-2005, 11:03 AM
Click below for a story about some of the potential downsides of having static electricity as your superpower.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20050916/od_nm/australia_electricity_dc

(yes, this story is supposedly real)
RAGNAROK13
09-17-2005, 12:08 PM
1. what the !@#$????
2.the B.B. GASMADE hIS BODY pretty much immune to the negative effects of eletricity
Kurtman
09-17-2005, 02:37 PM
What a bizarre piece of news...........
SilverKnight
09-17-2005, 04:41 PM
Two thoughts on this:

1) How could someone not know that the carpet they were walking on was catching on fire as they walked on it? (Sure, static electricity isn't exactly the first thing that would spring to mind, but if melted plastic and scorched carpet followed me whereverI went, I'd start to think that maybe I was causing it somehow. Just maybe.)

2) I'm waiting for someone to make a 'fashion police' crack. I really am.
nachonaco
09-17-2005, 08:25 PM
Wardrobe malfunction? :D
solarflere
09-17-2005, 08:29 PM
Well I have been shocked by 110W 220W and even 360Watt but never40,000-volt. Damn:sweat:
ROBOTRON
09-17-2005, 08:33 PM
WTF...I've never heard of anything like this before. I once saw a news report on TV about spontaneous combustion of humanoids...maybe this is a possible explanation.:ack:
MahouShoujo13
09-17-2005, 11:59 PM
Wow...that's really strange.

Well...all I know is is to never wear a woolen shirt and a synthetic nylon jacket together, since it'll cause something like what's in the article. Plus, it's tacky.
Alex Toon
09-18-2005, 04:41 PM
I submitted this to the Darwin Awards. They said it was near impossible that he could contain so much electricity in just his clothes.
Karl Olson
09-18-2005, 09:16 PM
Ah, but voltage is easy to build. However, amperage gets to be trickier. This guy must have had some amps to back up those volts, meaning the wattage he was throwing off was enough to do damage.
g_UnIt_GaNsTa
09-18-2005, 10:49 PM
I submitted this to the Darwin Awards.Don't you typically have to die to get those?

Well, he could get an honorary mention.
zmanjz
09-18-2005, 11:32 PM
Awesome.... so Wool shirts and Nylon jackets are the secret ingredients for the Tessla Death Ray.


Diabolicle.
Strollymonster
09-20-2005, 03:43 PM
The funny thing is, I REALLY want to try this now :D

Maybe not wearing them, but figuring out some kind of mechanism to continuously rub two items like that together to see what kind of electricity I can get up...I'd definitely like to see some spontaneous combustion.
solarflere
09-20-2005, 04:35 PM
The funny thing is, I REALLY want to try this now :D

Maybe not wearing them, but figuring out some kind of mechanism to continuously rub two items like that together to see what kind of electricity I can get up...I'd definitely like to see some spontaneous combustion. Step 1: Get a baloon and rub it agailst your hair or a carpet.
Step:2 Go nuts:p
Step3: repeat step 1.
zmanjz
09-20-2005, 10:28 PM
You know... except for that whole "Almost-bursting-into-flame-thing" that's pretty cool. I Wonder if someone could get the "Ernest goes to Jail" lightning power? :evil: :sweat:
Strollymonster
09-21-2005, 12:27 AM
Step 1: Get a baloon and rub it agailst your hair or a carpet.
Step:2 Go nuts:p
Step3: repeat step 1.
Heck, I know about that. I used to spend long car trips rubbing my head against the seat and listening to the crackles.

I want "scorching carpet marks" and "spontaneous combustion" level static. Enough to explode something.