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- From: john@zygot.ati.com (John Higdon)
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- Subject: Re: Tell me about electric blankets
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- Date: 17 Dec 92 21:46:31 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec14.091907.20005@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com> billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson) writes:
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- >So, what advantage would there be in a DC EM field over an AC EM field?
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- When I heard the author of _Currents of Death_ speak once, he spent the
- good part of an hour relating this elaborate theory about "resonances"
- and "vibrations" of cells supposedly caused by 60 Hz electromagnetic
- sources. His entire premise hinged on the concept of 60 Hz current.
-
- It was highly amusing, therefore, to hear a caller ask about living
- near BART (a SF Bay Area transit train system) tracks, which have a
- third-rail. After all of this psuedo-scientific babble about the
- destructive nature of 60 Hz fields, the author cautioned that caller
- that indeed, there would be much concern about living in the vicinity
- of a BART third-rail.
-
- BART runs on direct current, as do virtually all electric train
- systems. So much for science.
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