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Each nail provides a support force to hold up the weight against due to graity. If each nail does not have enough force applied to it for them to pierce the skin, then you can safely lie on the nailbed. If you were to only sit or do a handstand on the nailbed, then enough of you body's total force is applied to each nail for the support force to be strong enough to pierce skin.
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What is a Fakir bed?
i think its a bed of nails
What man in the bible slept on a bed of nails?
No one is recorded in the Bible as sleeping on a bed of nails.
Why can a person lie in a bed of nails?
A person can lie down on a bed of nails as the bed is large and the force is distributed evenly on the bed. Thus, making a much smaller pressure.
What type of bed is best for sex?
that would be a bed of nails
Which is lesser pain standing in a bed of nails or lying in a bed of nails?
I would say that lying on a bed of nails would be less painful, as your weight would be more evenly distributed over a larger surface area.
Who invented the bed of nails?
L.c.Bailey
Why can a man lie on a bed of nails without being hurt?
because they are strong! You don't have to be strong to lie on a bed of nails. The trick is a combination of pain control and physics. The pain control comes from the ability to ignore mild pain and the physics comes from the distance that the nails are spaced which evenly distributes the pressure of the weight put on them over a wide area which prevents the skin from being punctured. a bed of nails has lots of points that are close together -- there's a lot of surface area for the body to cover. Hundreds of nails support the weight of your body instead of just one. The resulting force is distributed over all of the nails, so you shouldn't be injured.
Why don't the nails at the Bed of Nails poke through your skin?
They are too closely spaced.
Someone who sleeps on a bed of nails?
Fakir
How do you stop false nails going off colour after using sun bed?
Don't use false nails in a sun bed. just dip your fingers in acid (not acetic acid, the kind you use to remove nails and remove them befor you sit in the sun bed.)
What are the release dates for Head Rush - 2010 Bed of Nails 2-9?
Head Rush - 2010 Bed of Nails 2-9 was released on: USA: September 2010
Why would a man lay on a bed of nails and not on one nail only?
The gist of this famous variety-show trick is that when the entire surface of the body is distributed evenly over closely-spaced nails, no puncture occurs, whereas it would occur easily if the whole weight of the body came down on one nail.
