RE: Anyone ever successful with Ball Lightning generation here. . . .

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Original poster: "John H. Couture by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <couturejh-at-mgte-dot-com>


I believe it may be possible to produce a fireball like the one shown in the
photo on my web site. However, the test must be done correctly for it to
work. To my knowledge no one has made the test properly. The fireball I show
in the photo was destroyed by the next spark. The test requires a single
shot spark setup. Continuous sparks won't work. The photo is one of a series
and only the spark changed. I did not know about the fireball until after
the photo was developed. What makes it look authentic is that it appears
three dimentional and is surrounded by a halo. It is highly unlikely that
only one of a series of photos would would be affected by the lighting in
this manner.

John Couture

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Subject: Re: Anyone ever successful with Ball Lightning generation here.
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Original poster: "Brett Miller by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>"
<brmtesla-at-yahoo-dot-com>

>
> 	Although some would call it blasphemy, I've always
> felt that Tesla's
> description and explanation of whatever he saw
> didn't make much sense.
> With the power guys are running now anything he saw
> should have been
> seen again.
>
> Ed
>
>
>

I wouldn't call it blasphemy at all...I would call it
a good dose of scientific skeptical scrutiny.  I agree
with you 100% on this one.  Until someone comes up
with a repeatable, reproducable example of a "ball
lightning" event, I would consider most reports to be
highly dubious...including whatever anecdotal reports
from Tesla himself or anyone else for that matter.  Of
course, if someone wants to make it their project to
try to create ball lightning, I say that's great, I
would like it if it turns out to be a real phenomina.
Especially one that's lab reproducable.  But the
evidence out there seems to be lacking severely.

-Brett