The sci-fi book Blingsight by Peter Watts explores humanity's 1st encounter with an alien object that contains extremely powerful magnetic fields. Has all sorts of interesting consequences.
How strong would a magnetic field have to be to kill you?
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Re: How strong would a magnetic field have to be to kill you?
#12I've wondered about this exact question for a while now.
If I were to become a lunatic dictator, this is how I would deal with dissidents. (Disclaimer: I have no intention of ever becoming a lunatic dictator!)
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#13Something called Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation alters brain activity at about one Tesla (10,000x earth's field).
TMS has been shown to induce euphoria, amnesia, and relieve depression. Unclear what stronger magnetic fields could do. A ten Tesla magnet can levitate a small animal.
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#14The sci-fi book Blingsight by Peter Watts explores humanity's 1st encounter with an alien object that contains extremely powerful magnetic fields. Has all sorts of interesting consequences.
There's also "The Invincible" by Stanisław Lem.
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#15So I guess this means we are safe from Magneto :)
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#16So I guess this means we are safe from Magneto :)
You mean this isn't possible? ;)
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#17I think a lot of new technologies will emerge when we can routinely control very large magnetic fields. I just think the technological implications are largely unexplored.
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#18earth is a very big magnatic field and it wont kill us. well i think we need a trillian times stronger magnatic field than earth to kill human.
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#19earth is a very big magnatic field and it wont kill us. well i think we need a trillian times stronger magnatic field than earth to kill human.
Earth has a very big magnetic field, but not a very strong one.
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#20earth is a very big magnatic field and it wont kill us. well i think we need a trillian times stronger magnatic field than earth to kill human.
It's big but it isn't all that strong at the surface of the planet.