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From: jls@yoda.Rational.COM (Jim Showalter)
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Subject: Re: HELP!
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Date: 6 Feb 91 21:29:33 GMT
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1) Lightning is static electricity, writ large. It kills. Nuff said.

2) Microamps can indeed kill if they have just the right frequency and
   hit just the wrong nerve in the heart at just the wrong time. Scientific
   American had a nice article on chaos and the heart within the last couple
   of years that went into this in some detail.