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David Blaine Called Out By Scientists Over Latest Stunt [PICS]
08 Oct 2012 by Steyn du Toit in Entertainment
David Blaine has just completed a shocking new stunt. Billed as “a death-defying act which was his most dangerous yet and would astonish millions”, the event saw Blaine stand in the middle of a million volts of electric current streamed by Tesla coils. He stood there for 72 hours straight. His only protection was a suit of armour and a specially designed helmet. He describes the sensation of being electrocuted to being “banged very hard on the back of the head”.
David Blaine: Electrified took place over the weekend. And while a lot of fans were blown away by his ability to do this, some members of the science community were not terribly impressed.
According to John Belcher, a physics professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a co-investigator on a plasma experiment aboard NASA’s Voyager 2 craft, there is “no danger in this that I see”.
He is wearing a Faraday suit made of highly conductive stainless steel. All the current is going through the suit, nothing through his body. Workmen use one if building high-voltage power lines and amateur physicists sometimes fashion their own while studying Tesla coils. I would do [this stunt], and I am 69-years-old and risk-averse. I just would have to take a nap.
William Allen Zajc, a physicist at Columbia University, was also unimpressed:
The only notable thing was that Blaine was having to stand for 72 hours.
Check out a video as a well as some images from Blaine’s performance, below:
[Source: Daily Mail]
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