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You know that game everyones played where you have to move a metal hoop along a bendy bit of wire without touching the wire and if you do it makes a buzz - How about a tight metal maze through which you have to navigate - having first charged yourself up on a Van de Graaf (Static Generator).
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rules are as follows:
1) Object : To get from one end to the other without making a sound (the discharge should be of sufficient strength to cause the player to scream).
2) Once you start you must keep trying untill you complete it.
3) 1st attempt requires a 1 min charge, 2nd 2mins, 3rd 3mins etc.
4) If you should be rendered unconscious - each player is entitled to slap you in turn untill you wake.
5) Someone with long hair must participate : see : http://www.amasci.com/emotor/bill3.jpg
[ajwhunter]'s link as a link...
http://www.amasci.com/emotor/bill3.jpg ...which doesn't work for me. [phoenix, Oct 04 2004]
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When I was a kid, they kinda Baked this at the local public library - nylon carpets, metal book racks. No van der Graaf generators, but the sparks flew if you didn't keep well back from the railings, the shelves and other people. |
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[phoenix: I can see the picture, but it doesn't work for me either.] |
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one man's horse is another's monkey |
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I was liking this up until the 'enough voltage to make you scream' bit. Howabout a joy-buzzer type technology that simply vibrates? |
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That would be no fun - where's the risk? |
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excellent way to paint the ceiling though |
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[Hunter] are you the man in the photo? |
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If so, please please please lose the comb-over. |
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No - but I could pretend to be - snip snip - happy? |
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(2) Connect hairspray can to the negative terminal at the base |
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(3) Connect bloke to Van de Graaf |
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(4) Spray hairspray on hair; oppositely-charged nature of hair and spray particles will economise on both hairspray and CFCs |
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