I read the newspaper trick is done with potassium permanganate and glicerin, the electrical... maybe he's feeling those too but he's trained to ignore them. I remember I used to do things like that with one as a kid, now that you mention it

The thing is that bunch of capacitors cannot store a lot of charge, but they store it a a high voltage, so they can give you a good jolt, but only for an extremely short time. Good enough to stop your heart if you're lucky.

You don't really need a lot of capacitors to get them in more voltage than their source is, one will do: [en.wikipedia.org]

How does one get a very high voltage and a very low current? the current depends on the load, and if the current is limited, you can't get the voltage, right? It would drop as soon as the guy touches the other guy.

But, with everyone spending SO FUCKING MUCH in marketing, it's probable that people wouldn't even hear of that movie, right? It would need to really be something incredible to get so big just in word of mouth. But has that ever happened except for The Matrix? (I'm not sure movie costs, are we talking "The Matrix"…

The question is actually pretty easy to respond in a way that does appeal to conservatives and doesn't make you look like an imbecile to them, just like a bigot to people who weren't going to vote you anyway. Luckily for the US, she's not even good at demagogy.

Well, I don't feel like another session of pubmed, but the article mentions a couple studies that show an increase in tumors in the places where you put the phone, in the specific side where you use it. Feel free to drop some link and I'll read it if it's not too dense.

It's actually really easy to understand:

I've never bought that theory. Either it's another way of blaming the victim "hey, all you needed to do was hit that guy who weights twice as much as you, is one foot taller, gets in fight every other day and has other four guys to help him, you deserve it because you're such a coward".

You're still thinking that I'm talking about long-term reactions. I'm not, because that's NOT Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity.

non-crazy Christians should be much more active in those things, they're the only ones that can convince some self-defined "moderates" (moderates my ass, IMO), and by the way convince religious institution that they're so out of touch that in 20 years nobody's going to want to touch them with a ten feet pole

Those tests are done with people who report EM fields to be extremely disruptive to them, immediately causing them symptoms , and those people show the symptoms when they think there is a disruptive field. That doesn't disprove that EM fields may have, but proves those symptoms are psychosomatic.

The article they link: [www.popsci.com] is pretty decent, and it says pretty much what I summed up:

The helmets amplify frequency bands that coincide with those allocated to the US government between 1.2 Ghz and 1.4 Ghz. According to the FCC, These bands are supposedly reserved for "radio location" (ie, GPS), and other communications with satellites. The 2.6 Ghz band coincides with mobile phone technology. Though…

There are some, not thousands. And the scientific method allows to confirm or discard the fact that there is a phenomenon, regardless of whether current science has an explanation for it.

That's what the scientific method is for: to learn whether or not there's an effect. There are physical effects, obviously, but there's nothing so far that points to effects in health or to them being perceived by patients

A bunch of people have done it before. Every one (at least the proper ones, double blind etc) found that the symptoms appear when the patient thinks there's radiation, nothing to do with actual radiation.

I think I've seen that picture before. Those are the guys who did a paper on the effectivity of tinfoil paper hats, right?

Actually, that's a very good idea, give some option for the kind of user who spams everyone with friend invites for some reason I don't know because I don't play, to build a network of players without geting his feed filled with complete strangers' posts

Not really, the extremists are just as vocal and pushy in Europe, but we all now they're just the crazies and don't pay them much attention. It's just a matter of perspective and how they're seen. Somehow American media presents religious extremism as "centered". Well, I don't know, I don't live there, but I refuse to…