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Cake day: June 14th, 2023

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  • SomeoneSomewhere@lemmy.nztoAnimemes@ani.socialWakey Wakey
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    14 days ago

    If you mean the bar, then even stainless of that size is going to be very low resistance - milliohms?

    If you mean the body, then I believe it gets complicated. Skin resistance will be diminished by the piercings having a relatively large contact area and probably being somewhat sweat covered - I’m not sure exactly what the ‘skin’ inside the piercing tunnel is like. Certainly you can feel current from a 9V across the wet inner-body skin of your tongue.

    The internal path will be quite low resistance because the inside of the body is a sack full of salty water.

    It wouldn’t be fatal, even across the chest, but it could hurt.


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    14 days ago

    Wouldn’t expect the bar itself to get hot; just the battery. The bar will be very low resistance and therefore only a tiny portion of the total heat will end up in it.

    Now, if you stuck one terminal to one piercing and another terminal to another piercing, then you might have a bad time…







  • Yeah; it’s ‘sufficient’ for a lot of purposes. It’s like complaining about things being made out of cheap plastic; it’s not as good but it’s often good enough. There are ethical concerns but they won’t generally stop its use.

    Using it to make decisions or write actual technical documentations is different. But most art doesn’t need to be correct; it’s art.