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I can make one that can! It shall be made of half-inch nichrome tape connected to an electrical outlet and we shall call it the cauterizotron.
Oh, ghods, don’t google that. Yuck.
whoah - wait - “sportswear” ? - srsly? - electric underbewares? - would that be considered “performance enhancing”? - are electric undergarments (which sounds so deliciously Edwardian) going to become a sexualized fetish? (knowing human nature the asnwer is an obvious Yes) - but srsly - electric … sigh …
With the added benefit of making the user smell like delicious steak!
The ability to kill biofilms is actually pretty amazing since they are notoriously difficult to kill.
Three words: electric sex pants.
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I can see how it can zap bad bacteria… but does it zap good bacteria too? There’s a lot of good stuff living on and just below our skin that is vital to our survival.
I guess, when you are facing off with a super-bug, nuking the entire site from “orbit” of the epidermis is the only way to be sure.
The only good bacterium is a dead bacterium.
Raw organic honey kills antibiotic resistant bacteria and it helps with healing.
The only way to stop a bad bacterium with horizontal gene transfer is with a good bacterium with horizontal gene transfer.
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