Darkfeather
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ORIGINAL: momndaughter Somebody wanted cites... ? Armed Services Technical Information Agency, Arlington Hall Station, Arlington 12, Virginia, USA. TCREC Technical Report 62-72. Helicopter Static-Electricity Measurements Task 9R38-01-017-30, June, 1962. Babrauskas, V., “Some Basic Facts About Ignition Events During Fueling of Motor Vehicles at Filling Stations” California Fire/Arson Investigator 16.25 (Apr. 2005). Born, G.J. et al. The Princeton Pennsylvania Army Avionics Research Program. A Fundamental Study of Static Electric Phenomena (Applied to Helicopters) Prepared for the Army Electronics Command, March, 1972. AD-750 617. Bulgin, D. et al. “Static electricity on rubber-tyred vehicles” British Journal of Applied Physics 4 Supplement (1953): 83-87. Chubb, John “The Control of Body Voltage Getting out of a Car” Presented at the Static and Textiles meeting, 18 March, 1998, during the Institute of Physics Annual Congress in Brighton. Crow, Rita M. Static Electricity: A Literature Review Defence Research Establishment Ottawa, Technical Note 91-28, Ottawa, Canada, November, 1991. Fish, Raymond M. et al. Medical and Bioengineering Aspects of Electrical Injuries Tucson: Lawyers & Judges Publishing Company, 2003. (screenshots of pages in ZIP file). Greenwald, E.K. Electrical Hazards and Accidents: Their Cause and Prevention New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1991. Liska, J.W. and Hanson, E.E. “Static Electric Problems in Tires” Industrial and Engineering Chemistry 34.5 (May, 1942): 618-624. Nabours, Robert E. “Static Discharge Hazard During Refueling at Retail Gasoline Stations” IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications 40.4 (July/August, 2004): 1003-1005. NFPA 77 Recommended Practice on Static Electricity Qunicy, MA: NFPA 2007 Edition. The Naval Air Systems Command, Electromagnetics Branch. Airframe Electrical Grounding Requirements Program, Final Report. AIR 5181-1000, February 17, 1981. No one is disputing static discharge causes problems with electronic systems or fuel, sheesh. Show me one case, other than the one Mr. freedomdwarf comically provided, that shows a death caused by a normal static discharge? Not lightning, not will-o-wisps, not faire-fire, or any other spectacular example one can infer
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