Re:What if EMP leaks out of the factory? (Score 1)

Nonsense. The human body has an average resistance of 300-1000 ohms. Not great, but far weaker than modern electrical insulation.

The magnitude of the induced current depends largely on the inverse of the resistance for which steel is magnitudes lower than human flesh. That means that the field would need to be truly colossal to do the same thing to a human being that this punch is doing to the steel.

Evidence has been shown that some frequencies in the EM spectrum indeed do cause damage to DNA and in some cases that damage is propagated to future divisions of that cell, meaning the damage is permanent.

ionizing EM radiation certainly. Terahertz can also create bubbles in the DNA helix which can impair proper cell division but there is *zero* evidence that the fields involved in the EMP press do any of this.

I noticed in the article they said this works based on magnetic repulsion, and also that it works on stainless steels. I'm curious if this works on the largely non-magnetic 300 series SS.

The punch works because it induces a current in the metal which creates a magnetic field to oppose the one that induced the current in the first place. It does not depend on the magnetic properties of the metal. This means that roughly anything that is highly conductive like Aluminum, 303 stainless, copper etc. could be punched with the device. Largely non-conductive materials like humans can not be punched with the EMP punch.

Yeah, we are not carbon or water are we? Of course we are conductive. We just need to be grounded. However, I imagine the scientists insulate the area in such a way that the metal is grounded and the floor humans stand on is insulated. I remember one time walking about one hundred yards from huge electrical wiring that was about five stories up. However the ground was usually near saturated in the surrounding fields. You could hear an electrical buzz in the area, and get a little tingly zap from any metal surface that is in contact with the ground. My guess is the height of the tower, the humidity, and ground water nullified the insulating properties for the electrical wires, therefore allowing some leakage through the metal towers to the ground. With the ground water being high and metal objects being a great conductor and us being so conductive (snicker), when we walked near (without rubber soles) and touched metal, and thus being grounded caused a discharge. We aren't conductive or anything though? Right? Carbon and water brah!