RE: TC & Lightning 2

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Original poster: "David Trimmell" <humanb-at-chaoticuniverse-dot-com> 

Somehow I doubt it would be the "carbon" in the rocket trail that would
attract the lightning. Why? Because any good black powder rocket
propellant will have consumed the carbon (in form of charcoal) to
produce CO2. The white trail you see is mostly KCl. But most of all, any
real attempt to attract lightning is seriously dangerous...

Regards,

David Trimmell

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Sent: Sunday, July 25, 2004 3:24 PM
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Subject: Re: TC & Lightning 2

Original poster: "Chris Roberts" <quezacotl_14000000000000-at-yahoo-dot-com>

Wow! Please tell me you have gotten some kind of video or pictures of
you
doing this! If you do, let us know because I am sure all of us want to
see
it! What kind of setup do you use for this? I know that when scientists
were doing this kind of thing, they used a pneumatic hose to activate
the
rocket, for fear of the lightning's energy coming back through any
wires.
Do you do something like this or is it more like fire the rocket and run

before it gets too high? =D
-Chris

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Original poster: "Gary Weaver"

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I have shot Estes stick rockets in the back yard to attract a lightning
strikes. I have noticed each thunder storm has its own personality. Some
thunder storms the lightning comes very regular. You can sometimes
predict the time between lightning strikes and find that lightning
strikes
are comming every 20 seconds or maybe every 15 seconds it just depends
on
the storm. The window of opportunity is very short maybe 3 to 5 mintues.
Fire the rocket about 3 seconds before the next predicted lightning
strike.
Rocket propellent smoke is full of carbon which is a good conduction for
high voltage. I can get a lightning strike to my back yard about 1 out
of
3 times in some storms and 1 out of 2 times in other storms. A good
lightning bolt sounds like a stick of dynamite, "BOOM." It shakes the
house. I learned not to do this very close to the house because high
voltage does not always follow the smoke trail all the way to the
ground.
I had! a lightning strike hit a tree and the amazing thing was the
electricity came down the tree, then followed the tree roots in the
ground
and about 50 large sparks jumped up out of the ground all around the
tree.
It was probably a 30 ft radius of 3 ft long lightning sparks shooting up
out of the ground. It split the 50 ft tall tree down the middle.

If I could get the rocket to pull up a wire without breaking it I might
be
able to get more lightning strikes. I was considering using a fishing
real will copper wire but am not willing to melt down a good fishing
real
for this experement.

This time I hope my email spelling checker does not remove the N from
lightning. Don't have time to proof read for errors it just got dark
here
and I am going on a 5 mile bicycle ride.

Gary Weaver
gary350-at-earthlink-dot-net
Why Wait? Move to EarthLink.