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From: mcovingt@athena.cs.uga.edu (Michael A. Covington)
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Subject: Re: HELP!
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Date: 26 Jan 91 16:29:13 GMT
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My point was that "Voltage doesn't kill, only current kills" is a
dangerous half-truth.

Of *course* high voltage isn't dangerous if supplied through a very
high resistance, as in a Van de Graaff generator.

But I've heard of people who believed that "voltage isn't dangerous
-- only current is dangerous" and concluded that, e.g., sticking one's
finger into a 120-V outlet isn't dangerous because that's a source
of volts, not amps.