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R-32 got me thinking about antennas and what would be a good antenna.

I wonder if you could turn yourself an antenna if you had enough piercings with metal on your skin... Now only if there was somebody here that we could use to test that theory??? You know somebody they could NOT make it through the metal detector at the airport.

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You do realize that most piercings are made of surgical grade metals... so that they are not magnetic and thus don't pop metal detectors; actually they are made that way so that when they put screws/leave something in you and you go into a MRI machine it doesn't rip your body apart. (I have four screws in my shoulder so I knows )   Most high quality piercings are made of the same metal.

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Stop bringing facts into this...



This is all about experimentatioin.

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If someone has bilateral nipple piercings we could try a dipole...


Or maybe someone that just has a single ring... A loop?

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1500W PEP is going to sting just a little.

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I think we should have a R-32 piercing party!

We can get him drunk, as well as us, and just go crazy putting different metals all over him and see what happens!!!!!

Hell, I got some tall ass trees here we can run him up also!!!

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Except you can't use 1500W PEP me and R-32 can.

Pierce the techs!

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You do realize that most piercings are made of surgical grade metals... so that they are not magnetic and thus don't pop metal detectors; actually they are made that way so that when they put screws/leave something in you and you go into a MRI machine it doesn't rip your body apart. (I have four screws in my shoulder so I knows )   Most high quality piercings are made of the same metal.

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I need to know it this is true...

PAGING Cn7

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You do realize that most piercings are made of surgical grade metals... so that they are not magnetic and thus don't pop metal detectors; actually they are made that way so that when they put screws/leave something in you and you go into a MRI machine it doesn't rip your body apart. (I have four screws in my shoulder so I knows )   Most high quality piercings are made of the same metal.

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Not totally true.  Most external piercings are made from surgical stainless steel and are quite magnetic as they are still mostly iron.  I'll skip posting pics of a magnet hanging from my nipple rings though.
Titanium was used for longer than the MRI has been widely used because it's a great metal for that purpose.  The body doesn't often reject it, and grows into it very well.
Surgical stainless is still used in more temporary conditions.  The pins and screw that are going to be removed usually.  Like the ones that held my buddy's toes straight after his surgery.
Now, I would have to remove them if I do need MRI however.  Luckily I haven't needed on in a while, and the CT techs at madigan are cool with them in. Usually.

Even the titanium pins and joint replacements will set off metal detectors if they are large enough.

The metal detectors don't really use magnetism, even though they are called magnetometers, or they wouldn't pick up the huge key rings some people have (keys are usually chromed brass) or a pocketfull of change (copper and silver).  Or ammunition. They can have their sensitivity adjusted so that it takes a certain mass of metal to set it off, passing a reasonable amount of change, or a couple keys in the pocket, but not a small knife or gun.  It's all about the amount, and the mass.  Any large chunk of metal would set it off, and these days they have the sensitivity set pretty high at most airports.
Something I learned working security at a federal facility in the DC area, bored enough one night to acturally read the directions and play with the walk through metal detector, and wands we had.

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I remember reading somewhere that that isn't a guy.  It's a "female."


Not sure what species, however.

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Well, that's twice in two days.
Yesterday I was stopped at a light when the two chicks in front of me started making out. I honked the horn and when they looked back I gave them the OK sign with both hands bumping the circles together. They started making out again. When the light changed I pulled up next to them to find the passenger was an ugly assed dude with piercings and a pony tail.