Re: Funding 2nd request and report

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Original poster: Chip Atkinson <chip@xxxxxxxxxx>

Those are awesome!

Thanks for helping out like this!

Chip

On Wed, 5 Oct 2005, Tesla list wrote:

> Original poster: Bert Hickman <bert.hickman@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Chip and all,
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> 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
> >
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