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From: al@gtx.com (Alan Filipski)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: How can I recognize true ground?
Message-ID: <1119@gtx.com>
Date: 7 Aug 89 18:59:03 GMT
References: <18425@mimsy.uucp> <1547@unccvax.uucp> <3283@kitty.uucp> <5651@stiatl.uucp> <178@zip.eecs.umich.edu> <fqSWQ#11dxbq=michael@xanadu.COM>
Reply-To: al@gtx.UUCP (Alan Filipski)
Organization: GTX Corporation, Phoenix
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In article <fqSWQ#11dxbq=michael@xanadu.COM> michael@xanadu.UUCP (Michael McClary) writes:
->
->(Story circulated when I was at UofMich EE school:  Bunch of freshman
->EEs at another school had bet going on whether you could kill
->somebody with a single dry cell.  Guy betting "no" put hands into
->two buckets of salt water, guy betting "yes" applied 1 1/2 between
->buckets.  They couldn't get "no" defibrilated.  R.I.P.)
->

Yikes.  I frequently test a 9-volt battery by touching the electrodes to
my tongue.  Is this dangerous?


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