For fun: How fast would an open-front CRT kill an average human? [A?]

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The following in only for fun: If one would cut out the front of a CRT, how fast would it kill an average adult human? If the room needs to be filled with a gas, imagine the person wore a diving mask, if the room needed to be filled with acid, imagine there's some kind of protective gel or deep sea suit that would keep the victim alive (until the beam killed him/her), as long as it's not ridiculously expensive (eg 1M$). I suspect this might be an advanced topic, but I was conservative and marked it as intermediate, feel free to change it.

Happy dicking around
 
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Ask a silly question, get a silly answer.
The CRT would not kill you. The beam current is less than 100 uA, to continue functioning, the CRT would need to maintain a vacuum.

There is insufficient volume of vacuum in a CRT, to change the air pressure in the room.

Your blood would not boil, unless you evacuated the room to a vacuum, because you felt sorry for the electrons in the beam.
 
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Baluncore said:
our blood would not boil
My blood is boiling now.
 
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Good reply by @Baluncore so the thread is done now.
 

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