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Superpowers Anyone?

???wtf??! That's 2 articles on Yahoo news that were utter bullsh!t.

We tested his clothes with a static electricity field meter and measured a current of 40,000 volts, which is one step shy of spontaneous combustion, where his clothes would have self-ignited," Barton said.

Yeah, right. I use a van de graaf generator in my physics class and routinely generate 100,000 to 200,000 volts. I have *never* seen anything spontaneously combust. I'd go on to debunk almost every statement of that article, but *sigh*, not in a repost.
 
That's nothing, back in the disco age we generated that much with our polyester ice cream suits and platform shoes doing back flips and splits on the dance floor. Boogie down.
 
Originally posted by: DrPizza
???wtf??! That's 2 articles on Yahoo news that were utter bullsh!t.

We tested his clothes with a static electricity field meter and measured a current of 40,000 volts, which is one step shy of spontaneous combustion, where his clothes would have self-ignited," Barton said.

Yeah, right. I use a van de graaf generator in my physics class and routinely generate 100,000 to 200,000 volts. I have *never* seen anything spontaneously combust. I'd go on to debunk almost every statement of that article, but *sigh*, not in a repost.

What I'd like to know is how they got a current of 40,000 volts 😛

-Tom
 
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