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articianToo many shots where they don't show his hands. Modern day peddler of the ever-popular snake-oil.
braindonutsays...Looks like complete BS. If anyone constantly had high voltage running through them, I bet their face would look just like that.
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KrupoHad to read up on it: http://www.skepdic.com/skeptimedia/skeptimedia105.html
A response to the article mentions this insight:
"He has some kind of odd skin deformation - his skin sample was clinically tested at VMA (Military Medical Center) in Belgrade and was found to have two skin layers less than a normal person. He also has no sweat glands (as you noted in your article) and also no hair, eyelashes, eyebrows, and so on.
His skin is very dry and its electrical resistance is extremely high, which enables him to hold wires under high voltage with practically no current flowing through his body. [Note: current = voltage/resistance. "Under dry conditions, the resistance offered by the human body may be as high as 100,000 Ohms."* ]
There are also some side effects of lacking sweat glands: when it is hot outside, he can not go for a walk without a wet t-shirt or some other cooling tool, otherwise his life would be threatened.
I also saw the video demonstration linked in your article, and I have to say that it is more sensational than truthful - the current is NOT coming "straight through his body" but through the electric wires straight from the electrical outlet, clearly visible on the video. His body is just a good insulator which mechanically holds conductors (forks) and nothing more than that. The reason for this misunderstanding is certainly the ignorance of Ohm's law and the relation between electrical current and voltage. Everybody can do the same thing if he has rubber gloves - or Biba's skin, which is the same.
There are also claims that he can direct electrical current through his body as he wishes, generate electrical current, switch on and off a nearby electrical appliance by his mind, and so on, but there is no evidence for those claims. "
StormsingerThanks @Krupo, Facts are much more interesting and entertaining than magical or mutant powers that don't stand up to inspection.
antWasn't it fake with someone else?
siftbotElectrical Tricks of Biba Struja the Battery Man has been added as a related post - related requested by PlayhousePals on that post.
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