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To: Slagle who wrote (63515)	5/5/2005 9:16:57 PM
From: maceng2	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

You felt "tingley" all over Could of been just plain fear, or that you were charged above ground voltage to a few hundred KV and conducting electricity through the air from your body (there was a standing corona discharge off the top of the tower just above my head. supports that view) or a mixture of both. Typically I like to avoid situations where fear is a possible factor these days. Just getting old I guess -g-

To: Slagle who wrote (63515)	5/5/2005 10:49:59 PM
From: shades	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74559

That is very dangerous - in my halliday resnick walker physics book they had this picture of this girl on top of a metal platform and everyones hair was standing up and she was smiling and laughing at how COOL it was her hair was standing up - a few minutes later one of them got hit and died. We have so much lightning in florida - one of the top places in the world, I had some friends who worked with the university to luanch rockets up into the sky and capture lightning bolts - great source of untapped energy - I remember when there was some tether up in space and it glowed for awhile before it burned up - if we could send a lot of tethers up like that and channel the energy down into a useable form - we will have lots of new energy for free - carbon nanotubes may prove to help in this regard. I see these golfers with thier metal clubs and metal spiked shoes go out and play in storms and when the lightning really gets close and the rain comes down hard they go run under a tree or a metal covering - how they have not learned basic physics amazes me. I see divers with big metal scuba tanks when they see a storm come go grab onto the metal boat - why don't they know how dangerous this is - the metal conducts and if you want to be safe you have to get insulated some how. As for faraday cages, I have read many reports on ball lightning showing up in airplanes - which are essentially faraday cages no? How is this possible?