It won’t even work through the fabric.
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NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 7 months ago
FYI, this won’t shock anybody, the piercing bar will just get real hot, as will the battery in your hand as you’ve just short-circuited it.
lurch@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
then_three_more@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Won’t it? I remember touching the contacts on a 9v to my train track braces when I was a teenager Fucking felt that.
bizarroland@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Saliva is the difference. You can taste the electricity if you lick a 9v.
A piercing would probably heat up instead of tasting spicy
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
Tastes like copper, like blood, but burning, btw.
Just in case anyone wants to know, lol.
TwilightKiddy@programming.dev 7 months ago
Metal piercing has much lower resistance than skin. The less resistance the path is, the more current will flow on that path. So, even if you spit on the piercing and lick it to your heart’s content, the path of least resistance between two battery contacts will still be that metal rod instead of your skin. In other words, the probablility of a miniature skewer cosplay happening is much higher than that of an electrocution.
0ops@piefed.zip 7 months ago
Can confirm, I used to be a professional idiot-kid who liked playing with batteries and paperclips
SomeoneSomewhere@lemmy.nz 7 months ago
Wouldn’t expect the bar itself to get hot; just the battery. The bar will be very low resistance and therefore only a tiny portion of the total heat will end up in it.
Now, if you stuck one terminal to one piercing and another terminal to another piercing, then you might have a bad time…
Cris_Color@lemmy.world 7 months ago
There’s not enough voltage to drive current through that big of a resistance
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 7 months ago
Cris_Color@lemmy.world 7 months ago
The person I was replying to (to my understanding) was talking about connecting it across a two nipple pericings, one on each side
I would be flabbergasted if 9v were even remotely capable of overcoming that kind of resistance
mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
You missed their point. They were suggesting connecting the battery to different nipple piercings, thinking that would cause the electricity to travel across the chest
SomeoneSomewhere@lemmy.nz 7 months ago
If you mean the bar, then even stainless of that size is going to be very low resistance - milliohms?
If you mean the body, then I believe it gets complicated. Skin resistance will be diminished by the piercings having a relatively large contact area and probably being somewhat sweat covered - I’m not sure exactly what the ‘skin’ inside the piercing tunnel is like. Certainly you can feel current from a 9V across the wet inner-body skin of your tongue.
The internal bath will be quite low resistance because the inside of the body is a sack full of salty water.
It wouldn’t be fatal, even across the chest, but it could hurt.
Cris_Color@lemmy.world 7 months ago
If you touch the contacts of a nine volt battery to your bare skin you generally don’t feel anything m you might if there’s sweat, you’ll feel it on your skin, but across two breasts worth of chest like I understood them to mean in the comment I was replying to?
Thats a fuckton of resistance compared to 9v of electrical pressure
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
So basically this is the extreme version of putting a sleeping person’s hand in a glass of warm water.
mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
No, because that’s supposed to make them pee themselves.
This is more like painting their fingernails with Nair to chemically remove them
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
Oh dear god that last one is absolutely diabolical!
mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Yeah, I come up with horrible pranks. Which is why I generally don’t prank people