Re: Useless questions

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Original poster: "Alexander Rice by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <ajjrice-at-yahoo-dot-com>

Jim,
	Are you sure the colour of ths streamers is not more to do with the
nitrogen in the air being excited into photoemission rather than because
thy are at several 
tens of thousands of kelvin - a body this hot would be radiating a
stupendous amount of heat and surely you would feel it, i seem to remember
once calculating in our 
phsyics class that a kilo of iron heated to 100,000k would produce a
similar radiation intensity to the sun 70miles away!

Alex



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