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This video has been declared a duplicate; transferring votes to the original video and killing this dupe - dupeof declared by jonny.

*dupeof=http://www.videosift.com/video/Man-stands-in-Tesla-coil-spark-field

Awesome, but a dupe.

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Thanks Dag. No, none of that other stuff you mentioned. Not even sure what it is, but this just adds to my suspicions that Sifty is messing around with my votes again. I've recently been upvoting videos that I could have sworn I had upvoted before.

In reply to this comment by dag:
Hi Aresenault - I've removed your downvote - send me some examples of other bad votes, and we can look into it - any Thunderbird, Night Train or Yukon Jack in your recent past?

Umm... *discuss. I'm pretty confident in the fact that i have never seen this video before, until I watched it to see why I down voted it. I'm also confident in the fact that this is awesome, as I love Tesla coils.. theres also a couple other videos in my down vote list that I don't know why are there...

Whenever I see tesla coils going off I always imagine little blue uniformed soldiers getting zapped by them, running around screaming while on fire before collapsing into a heap of ash, then hearing the phrase "Unit lost".

Technically this is a dupe. This video is the last 1:30 of actual full video.

http://www.videosift.com/video/Singing-Tesla-Coil-at-Duckon-2007

I only know this because I recently made a telsa coil music playlist. And I was going to add this video. *blog
(someone else mark this as a dupe, I don't have the heart.)

most awesome vid of tesla coils in action ever!

I had no idea tesla coils could produce notes like that. If I'd seen this without any explanation, I'd have assumed something else was playing the music and they were just reacting to it.

SaNdMaN: Interesting parody, but a completely different scenario unfortunately - a head on collision between two objects of different densities at different speeds is completely different than the weakening/melting of steel with kerosene. It's like trying to compare driving your car into a block of ice with lighting a kerosene fire in the car.

Without another accelerant like Thermite/Thermate to raise the temperature of the fire, much of the metal components will survive, structurally. They won't look too nice, but the car's roof and frame will stay in place(assuming that you have an older steel-framed car, and not an aluminum or other alloy framed car[unless of course your car somehow has a Titanium alloy or Tungsten alloy frame or whatnot, which I don't know of any that do, but it's a nice thought]).

Of course, many cars have plastic based bodies, so the roof itself might not stay in place, but the frame shouldn't have too much of a problem.

Last I knew, the exterior of the WTC buildings were not made out of plastic, so there's really very little chance of a fire causing their destruction.

Actually, they caught on fire before, even, and didn't get destroyed(unless we somehow rebuilt them and I wasn't aware of it).

Of course, now I'm just ragging on you - sure, it's POSSIBLE(through such theoretical physics as Quantum Mechanics and whatnot) that kerosene could have caused the WTC buildings to collapse - making them the first, second, and third steel and concrete buildings to collapse in the recorded history of the planet, but the probability of it actually happening is about the same as the probability of you being able to push your hand through a solid steel plate without any resistance - sure, according to Quantum Mechanics, it COULD happen, but, well, how many times have you leaned up against a building only to find out that your elbow was half-submerged/half-merged with the brick and mortar?

To date, I know of only one person who can achieve this effect - a guy by the name of John Hutchison.

He uses something like 6 or 8 Tesla coils to do it, too, and if 6 or 8 Tesla Coils big enough to surround the WTC complex were around them that day, well then I probably wouldn't be arguing that the destruction of the WTC complex was not caused by just the planes alone...then again, it'd be way too obvious that the planes were not the only causes of their destruction that documentaries such as this one wouldn't be needed....not to mention the power requirement that'd take....lol

So yeah, get a solid steel plate and practice pushing your hand through it - let me know when you're able to, and I'll consider taking some of the things you say seriously. According to Quantum Mechanics, it's possible, and so long as you believe it's possible, well you should be able to prove it, huh?

Have fun!

how is that different from, say, my Violet Wand?

making a high-frequency tesla coil output a "probe" seems strange... they only have effects at the spark gap, for the most part. If you touch it, you don't notice anything at all. It's the air gap between the electrode and the target that causes the (sometimes very painful) spark.

/violet wands are fun...
//especially when you hold a body-contact probe directly, so your entire body has the ability to throw sparks

Tesla coils and Van de Graaff generators appear similar, however a Van de Graaff has very little current (no electrical storage, you might say) whereas the constant high voltage and frequencies of this tesla coil could no doubt cause very serious burns. Notice he appears to be holding a piece of wood that is being ignited by the arcing electricity.

Dr. Megavolt ( http://www.drmegavolt.com/ ) actually does hold a PhD, and currently enjoys building and demonstating tesla coil systems, as well as variations of metal cage suits that whisk away deadly voltage to grounded wires, allowing him to do what you see in the video above.

Are you sure that's a tesla coil? It looks more like a Van de Graaf generator