Hello, George!


 10 May 06 at 05:46 you wrote to me:
 GP>>> Most people have normal nerve endings in their skin so when
 GP>>> the skin is pierced by thousabds of needles, there is what we humans
 GP>>> call "pain". . .
 NS>>  Actually, if the needles are big in number, the power of
 NS>> pressure is divided equally between them. So the pain will be
 NS>> great deal less if there are thousands of them.
 GP> Compared to one big needle of the same diameter as the collective
 GP> diameters, yes, but you're still having your skin PIERCED.  The
 GP> phenomenon you're referring to is how you can lie on a bed of needles
 GP> without getting pierced, because of the congregate spread of pressure
 GP> over them all -- in that case you're NOT being pierced. . .

 Huh.. Still it depends on the power :)

 By the way, I have tried to pierce my skin through a pleat. The highest
pain is when the needle is coming out the top surface of the skin from
inside.



                                                 Be happy, George!
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