"Lee Michaels" wrote in message
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Reminds me of the electronics lab at my old technical school. We were
tasked with not only generating huge amounts of static electricity
with/without our bodies, but we had to discharge it and MEASURE it! It
became like a horror movie, mad scientist laboratory.

We had different kinds of synthetic material that we would rub with glass
rods and our feet. We would build up a charge and go out into the hallway
and look for victims. After enough complaints, we got shut down. Talk
about being politically incorrect.


I learned the key trick in my college physics class. We too were working
with high voltage static electricity. I first started using the technique
for practical use when vacationing in the mountains, I could actually feel
the jolt up to my elbow.