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by CamperBob2 5085 days ago
No, he's made an X-ray machine, and apparently set it up in a department store.

This is why we can't have cool magazines anymore.

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You know I hadn't thought of that but at 45kV he probably is generating some soft x-rays. Sort of depends on what his anode is made of. I can never remember how to spell Bremsstrahlung sigh.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bremsstrahlung

Remember this one when the Darwin Award nominations come around.