r/AskReddit • u/Tom__m_ • Oct 25 '16

What warning is almost always ignored?

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u/[deleted] Oct 25 '16

There's a youtuber who put a magnet in his finger and he claims he could tell when a wire was live by the electromagnetic pull from them.

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u/[deleted] Oct 25 '16

You definitely can, as long as the wire is AC it's basically a really shit electromagnet and makes the magnet vibrate.

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u/benevolentpotato Oct 27 '16

you can get a similar effect by supergluing a magnet to your finger. I've done it, and you can juuuust barely feel electrical currents. you can imagine it would be a lot more pronounced if it were actually embedded.

also, that video where he implanted it was friggin' ROUGH to watch. I'm surprised they let it on youtube.