Re: Funding 2nd request and report

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Original poster: Bert Hickman <bert.hickman@xxxxxxxxxx>

Chip and all,

OK - I'm donating two 4" x 6" x 0.5" (Style 09) Interior Discharge 
Lichtenberg Figures. All of the proceeds will be donated to Chip 
Atkinson to upgrade the computing facilities that support the Pupman 
Tesla Coil Mailing List. The auction is planned to last for one week. 
The two highest by 11:59 PM on Thursday, October 13th will receive 
these specimens.

A Lichtenberg Figure is a specimen of permanently "captured 
lightning" inside clear acrylic (Plexiglas). These particular figures 
were created by using a 5 MeV particle accelerator to trap a layer of 
excess electrical charge within the specimens. Before manually 
discharging, the internal space charge layer reached an estimated 
potential of ~1.6 million volts.

The lightning-like discharge causes permanent fracturing, creating a 
"fossilized" record of its passing. And, because the branching 
fractal patterns consist of chains of microscopic fractures, they 
readily capture and reflect ambient light. Applying external light 
from a string of LED's makes the discharge glow brightly from within. 
More information about these beautiful objects of scientific art can 
be found here:
http://205.243.100.155/frames/lichtenbergs.html

The two specimens will be similar to the one pictured here:
http://205.243.100.155/photos/For_Sale/June04/4x6Panel/center1a.jpg

Please submit your bids to the Teslamania message board:
http://members.boardhost.com/tesla/msg/1948.html

Thanks in advance and good luck on the bidding!

Bert

Tesla list wrote:

> Original poster: Chip Atkinson <chip@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Greetings all,
>
> Thank you very much to all who have donated to the list.  It will really
> help keep it running.  I think I've settled on a machine -- A Dell Power
> Edge 1800, near the base level.  It's about $1400, which is a little more
> than we've raised so far.
> Right now we are at $1155.59, which is a really good showing and a strong
> indication of how people love the list.
> I would like to ask people who have not yet contributed to see if they can
> spare a little bit for the list.  Like I said earlier, this is not a
> common occurrence, but is about the third time in 10 years that the list
> has been operational.  If you can contribute, you can use either pay pal
> or send check, money order, or even cash (but at minimum put it between
> layers of thick paper to keep prying eyes away).  Here's my information:
> PayPal:
> chip@xxxxxxxxxx
> Check/Money order:
> William W. Atkinson
> 705 Sedge Way
> Lafayette, CO
> 80026
> (303)828-3649
> Thanks in advance!
> Chip