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- From: lfoard@Turing.ORG (Lawrence C. Foard)
- Subject: Re: Unidentified Flaming Objects -- ball lightning?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec12.185036.6709@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
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- References: <2933004560.1.p00168@psilink.com> <Bz3KL2.LCu@dcs.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 18:50:36 GMT
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- In article <Bz3KL2.LCu@dcs.ed.ac.uk> pdc@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Paul Crowley) writes:
- >Quoting p00168@psilink.com (James F. Tims) in article <2933004560.1.p00168@psilink.com>:
- >>
- >>I have seen ball lightning. (Do I hear skeptical snickering?)
- >
- >Being skeptical of everything that isn't already well understood gives
- >ammunition to pseudoscientists and mystics, because you end up being
- >wrong quite a lot.
-
- I'm really surprised that the field seems to be ignored as much as
- it is. Even if it isn't useful it would still be a very interesting
- thing to study.
-
- Of course it might be useful if it is indeed possible to make aself
- supporting systems capable of storing large amounts of energy out
- of plain air.
-
- Ball lightning powered cars :-)
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