http://scott.blomqui.st/2006/01/how-not-to-die-while-jump-starting-a-car/ My online identity sandbox Tue, 15 Feb 2011 05:05:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://scott.blomqui.st/2006/01/how-not-to-die-while-jump-starting-a-car/comment-page-1/#comment-27 chad Sun, 29 Jan 2006 18:43:00 +0000 http://scott.blomqui.st/2006/01/28/how-not-to-die-while-jump-starting-a-car/#comment-27 Actually, a 12 volt batter *could* do some damage... Our skin is pretty resistive, but our innards, not so much... we're basically an aqueous saline solution which happens to lend itself quite readily to carrying electrons. If you were to have open wounds on both hands as you grasped the terminals of a 12-volt battery, and the current could run through your blood vessels, across your heart, and out the other hand, your heart just might get confused enough to stop beating. Actually, a 12 volt batter *could* do some damage… Our skin is pretty
resistive, but our innards, not so much… we’re basically an aqueous saline
solution which happens to lend itself quite readily to carrying electrons. If
you were to have open wounds on both hands as you grasped the terminals of a
12-volt battery, and the current could run through your blood vessels, across
your heart, and out the other hand, your heart just might get confused enough to
stop beating.

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