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Re: About the skin effect in humans



Original poster: "mercurus2000" <mercurus2000-at-cox-dot-net> 

I hope you're not trying to say the 125 foot spark at colorado springs were
just a myth.:)
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Subject: Re: About the skin effect in humans


 > Original poster: "Jim Lux" <jimlux-at-earthlink-dot-net>
 >
 >
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 > Sent: Saturday, May 22, 2004 6:40 PM
 > Subject: Re: About the skin effect in humans
 >
 >
 >  > Original poster: "mercurus2000" <mercurus2000-at-cox-dot-net>
 >  >
 >  > Well trust me, Tesla himself said how many volts where in his coils.
Just
 >  > look up some info on him, especially biographies and interviews, he
 > explains
 >  > how he set his stunts up. I mean this is the man himself, I find it
 > somewhat
 >  > odd that many people here don't seem to know that much about the man
that
 >  > made the devices your building and his great work. If anyone is to know
 > what
 >  > the effects were, it was Tesla himself.
 >  > BTW, Many of Tesla's close friends even witnessed Tesla producing small
 > bits
 >  > of ball lightning and rolling them down his suitcoat arm, and actually
 >  > lighting the air in his lab itself a glow with spectactors in it,
without
 > a
 >  > light source. There are many secrets alot of engineers don't know that
 > Tesla
 >  > took to the grave with him, don't underestimate the man's knowledge.:)
 >
 > There are an enormous number of biographies and works about Tesla that,
 > shall we say, lack rigor.  Tesla was not only a gifted engineer, but quite
 > the showman and promoter.  However, as has been discussed at great length
on
 > this list (among other places), actual details of how he did some things
is
 > hard to come by.  There are also cases of "creative description", often
 > repeated and enhanced by later writers (consider, for example, the famous
 > 132 foot sparks from the Colorado Springs system)
 >
 > Whether or not Tesla ran RF power through himself, and survived, doesn't
say
 > much about the safety of doing it.  You'll have to admit that there is a
 > whole lot more knowledge about RF propagation AND about the effects on
 > humans than there was 100 years ago.
 >
 > As for Tesla taking secrets to the grave:  Aren't you aware that Tesla,
 > Edison, and Marconi are all living on a high Tepui in the remote
Venezuelan
 > hinterlands, having had eternal youth conferred on them by an application
of
 > potentials of high voltage and high frequency?  <grin>
 >
 > But really... The most rookie fresh-out-of-school engineer today knows a
LOT
 > more about some aspects of electromagnetics and propagation of EM waves
than
 > Tesla did.  Tesla did have a conceptual gift and an amazing ability to
 > conceive of an overall system, but in terms of raw information available,
 > there's been a lot discovered, both in terms of basic knowledge, and in
 > terms of analytical techniques.
 >
 >
 >