Pointless ExperimentsPavlov's Frog writes: I once spent 20 minutes with my eyes closed to see what it was like being blind. I smashed my knee on the kitchen cupboard, and decided I'd be better off deaf as you can still watch television.
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 24 Jul 2008, 12:00)
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A leyden jaris basically a big, simple capacitor made of glass, with a metal outer and an electrode out the top. You can charge them from a van der graaf generator and, if the generator can supply enough charge (in this case it couldn't, and the ticks had died away) you'll eventually get a huge discharge that goes through the glass. That takes about five minutes. But I'd dug out the biggest jar I could find and couldn't get it to charge and I was buggered if I was going to go anywhere near the thing. I'd already zapped myself with a small one and this thing was sitting there practically fizzing with energy.
No, let some other sucker put it away.
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