Re: Finger power?

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Re: Finger power?

Sorry Ray, it's clear that you don't know how the process works.  The moisture
on the skin becomes the electrolyte (fact, not fiction).  Electrodes are made
from two different types of metal, for example aluminum for one and copper for
the other.  When the electrodes are in contact with the electrolyte current
flows, whether or not you want it to.  This is in part how lie detector
apparatus work.  I don't mind dreaming ahead to the 21st century, even if it
is so far away.  You can get better results, by the way, by sticking your
electrodes into a banana.  You could run you calc (in the future) off your
lunch.--D

Ray Kremer wrote:

> Well, since you've decided that I'm being unfriendly, I'll just let it all
> out.  This idea, while interesting in a science-fiction sense, is
> impractical beyond belief if not plain silly.  Harnessing the "natural
> current" of our skin would be so hard to do if it's possible at all (which
> I obviously doubt) that it would be more productive to just use batteries
> and concentrate on inventing things that are within our reach here in the
> 20th century.  Most of the messages on this list are wishful speculations
> on ways to alter, add on to, or otherwise improve these calculators which
> are already very good machines just the way TI made them.  Some of these
> ideas are achievable and have been done (assembly shells, turboing).
> Others are rather 'out there' and are given a few dozen responses saying
> how cool that would be, then forgotten.  If you really wanted to get
> something done on the "body power" idea, go talk to real physicists about
> it.  This is a calculator group, not NASA Research and Developement.
>
> Yes, I know I'm going to get about a dozen flames for this, and I just
> don't care anymore.  Go ahead and waste more server space.
>
> >
> >Aha, well why don't you cool down then and let us have the idea and
> >relish in it. If you don't like it you could at least point it out in a
> >more friendly pose.
> >
>
> Oh, for what it's worth (nothing), I'll let you have the "fotosynthesis"
> thing.  I can accept foreign spellings.  You have enlightened me as to
> European languages, for whatever that's worth (again, nothing).



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Douglas S. Oliver
Department of Anthropology
University of California
Riverside, CA 92521
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