From: Elliot Lee <sopwith@redhat.com>
Date: Sat, 20 Jul 1996 16:11:54 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Responding to Pre-dawn Unannounced Ninja Raids
In-Reply-To: <199607200134.UAA01969@manifold.algebra.com>
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On Fri, 19 Jul 1996, Igor Chudov @ home wrote:

> 
> It the voltage is 10000 volts, it is always fatal, right? And if you set
> good enough resistors, then the voltage for the human body itself would
> be much less than 10000V -- most of the voltage will be taken by resistors
> themselves.
> 
> Right?

Wrong. What kills is not voltage but current. That is why you can safely
recieve a static shock (on the order of thousands of volts, but
microamperes) and yet still be killed by ordinary AC power (110 volts
here, a whole lot of amps available :).

- --Elliot

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