human body sparking..the "zap" thing.. ever experienced it?
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It is just the equalizing of electrical charge between two people or a person and a conductive object.\n\nFor example, if your dragging your feet on the carpet, you are building up a greater negative electrical charge on your body.  When you come in contact with someone who has less negative charge than you, nature tries to make everything equal by sharing some of your negative charge.  \n\nSimilar concept if you add saltwater to pure water, the mix shares the salt with the "less salty" water.  Now the pure water is more salty, but the salt water is less salty than it was.  Hope this helps.\n\nThe link below is a bit more complex, but explains the underlying priciples.
135737
2*(feet + carpet)*shuffling = ZAP!
257020
do you mean spontaneous combustion? I think thats just a myth.
557005
I don't believe in ghosts, but I do know what I saw wasn't human. Me and a friend were driving on the highway when suddenly a large 10 ft white object floated over the median and into my lane. I swerved to avoid it and got a weird feeling about it. I thought maybe it was a trash bag or some tarp or something, but it looked smokey.. almost like fog, but yet it was in a defined form that looked like a being. I asked my friend if it was a trash bag, and he said no it definitely was not. I saw what was that? And we both had a period of silence. We both decided that it had to of been a ghost. This was out in the middle of nowhere, I belive near some battlegrounds. I've also had another experience with the same friend. We were both working on our computers when suddenly there was a loud CLAP to the left of us. It sounded like someone clapped right next to my ear. Inquiring what it was, we never decided on anything logical. I tried to calm myself saying maybe it was something electrical, or mechanical, but there was no logical explanation to be found. Very very strange.
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I used to work for a wire company and it sometimes ran the wire through a part of the machine called the Hi Pot test it would run 10,000 volts through the wire and if it burned through the insulation than the machine would stop and you would cut the defected wire away and retired the machine but I would get shocked every time the hi-pot machine would kick off.  It made my mussels contract abit and made me jump.  Some times when I didn't have money for coffee I would stick my finger in the hipot to get a zap to wake up. It hurt a little but it woke me up just the same.  Any how it isn't the Volts that kill you it is the Amps.  The Higher the Amps the greater the current is.  Like you could get killed with only 12 volts if the amps are high.  consider Water the smaller the hole the faster the water goes because of pressure.  Well Amps are like that.  The Higher the Amp the greater the pressure.
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Various things you do cause a build up of static potential about your body.  How effectively you can release this potential affects how much you zap things/people around you.  Every person's individual resistance to electric current is different.  This along with things like whether or not you are constantly grounded, thus discharging any built up static potential on your body, affect your "electrifying" personality. :P  This is why people employed in working with sensitive electronics use things like grounding wrist straps or ground mats, etc before and while working with the electronic components. The mats and straps help get rid of any static potential build up.\n\nYou're just lucky enough, like my oldest sister, to be able to pop someone else at will.  I always stay out of arm's reach of her in the static filled winter time.
832531
Yes, it happens to me at least once or twice a year.  a very strange sensation.  Usually lasts less than a minute, though.
667746
yep. it's called a firecracker.
1107107
Saw the demo on TV the other day - pretty cool! I wouldn't recommend trying it that way -- not that you'd explode (I think, I hope) but you might feel very uncomfortable if the gas gets trapped!  (you kook! LOL!)
349740
Yes the electricity sparks can cause an explosion. I read about that a long time ago.
1040415
I read a whole book of supposed  instances of spontaneous human combustion, and most of the time it was caused by excess drinking in a hot room or near a fireplace. It kinda makes sense because the amount of alcohol in your blood could cause you to be more flammable. Again, none of this is proven scientifically.
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You will definitely know when it happens. It's not a metaphor to say it's like an explosion. That's exactly what it feels like, an explosion of pleasure. There is no mistaking it.\n\nI know it's irritating to hear people say that, but it's like asking "what does a sneeze feel like." How else would you describe that than saying "you'll know when it happens, it's like an explosion." Actually, sneezes ARE very similar to orgasms.\n\nAs for biological signs: your vagina will contract and spasm, you'll feel a sudden release and you may get goose bumps.\n\nTry more self-exploration. The water stream from a detachable shower head, or from the facet on your bath are good places to start.
795474
one time i saw someone put metal in a microwave and all of a sudden electricity was shooting around in the inside of the microwave. it was awesome
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Of course it can. Its not highly likely to, but it CAN. Any appliance or device that is plugged into a power source basically has power in it's "veins", meaning in it's wires.\n\nIf there is a short anywhere internally in the unit it can create a spark that could cause a fire. Again, not terribly likely but it does happen.\n\nI don't have any stats on this but if you google it I'm sure you can find some.
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Not personally, but in college my roommate did. He didn't believe that you could light farts, despite my conviction. So, he had to try it for himself. He kept his boxers on and held the lighter up there, then let one rip. To his surprise, a small fireball lept from his anus, burned his hand, and caused him to drop his zippo...onto himself, lighting his boxers on fire. He put the fire out pretty quickly, but let's just say he lost a little ball hair in the process. Good times.
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There are several websites that discuss this phenomenon and I have even read about some cases in Vedic shastras.  Here's a small commentary that I found fascinating:\n\n"What exactly is SHC? By all accounts, it is the process by which humans allegedly burst into flames suddenly without having been in contact with any igniting source. It supposedly happens chemically, inside the body.\n\nInterestingly, almost every case attributed to this singularity has seen the victims being consumed almost entirely, including the bones, while leaving extremities such as feet unscathed. The rest of the room usually remains intact as well, the fire not having spread out.\n\nCenturies ago, it was believed that imbibing alcohol would amplify inflammability; in other words, getting drunk would be the cause of their demise. However, modern research has proven that it was a false belief. \n\nStill, a number of cases have broken out throughout the last decades that have left firefighters and arson investigators boggled and several theories have been elaborated to explain the phenomenon. \n\nSome believe that a large enough quantity of methane gas could build up within the intestines, ignited by enzyme activity (this theory has been deemed rather implausible). Another rationalization involves a subatomic particle called pyrotron , which could act as the required spark. Others look elsewhere for answers and accept that forces from a cosmic energy are indeed at work. Even balls of lightning have served as an explanation. \n\nFor a number of years, scientists have tried to find a logical solution for this mystery. First, they have realized that the reason extremities like feet sometimes aren't turned into ashes is that fire usually burns upwards; it rarely burns laterally. The flames have enough material to sustain them by consuming the upper body without having to go down to the feet. \n\nThe fat content of the human body is not challenged. Tests have proven that flesh and bones contain enough flammable material to sustain a fire. A "wick-effect" from human body fat could be at play and fire can burn hot enough to consume even bones. What is contested is that nothing in humans could actually ignite it all."
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I used to do this with a cheesy air purifier that relied on negative ion generation for air purification.  They called it an ionizer. \n\nWe would touch the conductive element, which was giving off the negative ions, for a while and then touch someone's ear.   ZZZZap\n\nIt really gave a painful spark, especially on soft ear lobes when the victim (my brother) was well grounded.  The fun wore off after he started giving sparks back.