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RE: Stealing Celestial Fire

Original poster: "Daniel A. Kline" <daniel_kline@xxxxxxxxxxx>

The Japanese did this sort of thing by bouncing the laser beam off of a
mirror mounted on a grounded tower. The lightning took the ground-path
through the tower and didn't follow the beam back past the mirror to the
source.
Dan K.

> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2005 11:43 AM
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> Subject: Re: Stealing Celestial Fire
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> Original poster: "Gerald Reynolds" <gerryreynolds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> I can just see it now. The lightning follows the ionized
> filament all the
> way to the laser. No more laser :o))Gerry
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> >Original poster: Terry Fritz <teslalist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> >At 01:59 PM 4/20/2005, you wrote:
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> >>They employed their Teramobile laser, whose pulse lasts for
> a mere 100
> >>femtoseconds and packs a peak power of 5 terawatts
> >>
> >>That's 100E-15 seconds * 5E12 Watts = 0.5 Joules... if I
> got my prefixes
> >>right...
> >
> >WOW!! The light pulse is only just over 1/1000 inch long!!
> Even if it is
> >just 0.5 joule, I don't think I would want to get in it's way!!
> >
> >The spark seems very straight and uniform!
> >
> >I see they use the little semi-spheres for the top in what I
> think is a HV
> >multiplier in there lab picture.
> >
> >Cheers,
> >
> > Terry
> >
> >><http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/WEBONLY/resource/apr05/0405nlas.html>
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