Hi. Internet showed me another miracle man
called Biba Struja. He started from humble beginnings.
(At first glance, you would never...)
He could hold live wires,
and cook sausage with electricity holding wires,
and set fire by sending electricity through his body.
Later, he cooked more sausages and set more things on fire
and also heated water with electricity holding live wires.
[Epic music]
[Wires short]
But then, he started showing how he could turn a lamp on
with electricity generated through his body?!
And then, he got into healing people with electricity?!
Oh, for [bleep]'s sake!
Miraculously, though, I've probably got cancer watching his videos
and my IQ dropped to Patrick.
Well, I can understand a poor man trying electrical tricks
to get attention of viewers so he can grow his business
to make decent money, so he can support his family.
Hell, it sounds like I'm describing myself.
Well I mean, I have powers too!
For example, I can send out electricity through my fingers
enough to set a piece of paper like this on fire.
But you don't see me bragging about it!
Here, I'm gonna fold the piece of paper...
and set it on the table, so you know that it's not connected anywhere,
and put my paper on top of it somehow...
And you're ready to go.
Oww!
The problem is that it burns my finger, too!
So, I just use a piece of wire.
[Electric arc noises]
I give this guy two things only! First, he has his skin as dry as a camel's knee,
and second, he has knowledge of electronics.
Fortunately, this time, Dan Smith did a better job
having an actual professional check Biba
and he realized very little current,
of around 2 mA, runs through Biba's body,
and his skin is very dry and high-resistance.
I have friends that sweat drips from their fingers,
and some that are very dry. I have normal skin,
and can also tolerate 2 mA through my body.
But the difference between me and Biba is that
because of my lower resistance skin,
around 60 volt AC creates 2 mA through my body.
But around 220 volt AC creates the same current through Biba's body.
Which means that I can't tolerate voltages as high as Biba can.
Now, as soon as you leave Dan alone to judge,
he screws right up.
(With 220 volts of current flowing through these nails...)
WHAT?! 220 VOLTS OF CURRENT?!
It's like saying one light-year of time!
You know light-year is a unit of distance, right?
(Now Biba's going to attempt something I've never heard of...
actually use the current running through his body to boil water in his hand.)
Oh, come on, man. He's parallel to those metal bars, not series!
There is no extra current running through his body. He is just holding live wires, like before.
Anyways, let's do some experiments.
VERY dangerous! Never try this yourself.
I'm going to check my body with my autotransformer,
which is basically a variable transformer that can reduce AC on its output.
If you're interested, I got this and many of my other tools from CircuitSpecialists, as usual.
They are pretty good. Every time I need something for my videos, I just go online and realize:
“Yup, they've got it. I guess I'll get it.”
Now, to check my body's tolerance, I set the output to minimum.
At zero volts, it's pretty—
[Pain noises]
Oh [bleep], I set it to maximum. It's the other way.
It would definitely help if you measure the voltage you're about to touch and not assume its level.
Now I'm going to put my one hand fingers on the live wires
and increase the voltage until I feel it in my fingers.
And around 64–65 volts I feel it in my fingers which means, definitely,
any voltage above this level would be dangerous for me.
But I have super-thick and dry foot sole skin, so let's try that.
So here, I just step on the live wires, and start increasing the voltage.
[Beeping]
Well, look at that. I start to feel it around 145 volts.
So, skin condition is very important.
But you must never assume you are immune; otherwise, it could be your last mistake.
I can still do Biba's tricks with a 120 DC from my 9 volt batteries.
Cooking sausage, you say? You got it.
I hook my forks to the batteries and I don't feel the voltage much, because it's DC.
Now let's see if I can...
cook this.
Wow, look at it.
It's definitely cooking, but there is orange water coming out of one side
and green water coming out of the other side.
I would definitely not eat it.
Passing electricity through food changes its chemistry.
He touches live wires? No problem!
I have two metal pieces in my power bar and I turn it on.
I can easily touch those lines
and I can even turn a light on holding those wires.
Ahh!
I feel nothing!
Because I'm powering it from my batteries!
Maybe that's what he does, too!
He puts live wires in his mouth?
Now, 120 volts DC can be lethal in your mouth,
but I can do that, too.
[Pain noises, profanity]
Ouch! Stupidity, my elbow was sitting on one of these wires
and the current went through my tongue to my elbow.
Even the best magicians can accidentally kill themselves.
Let's try it again.
Hmm? Hmm?
See, the key to this trick is that Biba first connects the contacts together,
then puts it in his mouth.
Which means that both contacts and his body are at the same voltage,
so no current runs through his body at all.
Basically, everything he does is possible.
What's fake his him claiming he has a special power.
He's very good at doing those tricks, though;
one single mistake, and he's dead.
As for setting the paper on fire, I did kind of like what Biba did.
I have my musical Tesla coil
that, if you remember, plays music out of its arcs.
[Arc noise]
[Bleep!]
[Coil plays Mozart's “Eine Kleine Nachtmusik.”]
It is set up such that it's not arcing, but it's radiating energy to the environment.
and I taped the piece of foil behind my paper.
if I place the foil close to the coil...
OUCH! [Bleep!]
The foil picks up energy from the coil,
and then, from there, it jumps to my body.
[Arc noises]
These arcs are very high-frequency current, though,
so due to something called the conductor skin effect,
they run over the skin and burn.
Now, something none of those hosts figured was
that the arcs jumping from Biba's body to that metal rod
is actually going inside their own [bleep]'ing bodies.
And they don't feel it, either!
Come on! Make that brain work a bit!
GIVEAWAY TIME!
[Sad music] An electronic enthusiast without an oscilloscope is like...
Whatever, man! I mean you need an oscilloscope
to really FEEL the circuit!
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