Re: Colorado Springs

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Original poster: Mddeming@xxxxxxx 

    One of the things that keeps science healthy but dismays the 
personality cults is that uncorroborated claims of unreproducible 
phenomena are met with extreme skepticism.  When they fly in the face 
of known scientific principles, they are usually dismissed as junk. 
This applies equally to Nicola Tesla of Smiljan, or Thomas Edison of 
Milan, as it would to Pete Jones of Mobile, or Joe Smith of 
Manchester - No Exceptions. While it might, on very rare occasions, 
cause something useful to be overlooked for a while, 99.99% of the 
time this approach is an effective BS filter, keeping quackery and 
nonsense out of the mainstream. This is one on the most difficult 
concepts for neophytes and scientific wannabes to get their heads 
around. Three or four authors quoting independently from the same 
uncorroborated source does not constitute independent confirmation.

Peace with reason,
Matt D.


In a message dated 4/19/07 1:29:07 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, 
tesla@xxxxxxxxxx writes:
Original poster: "resonance" <resonance@xxxxxxxxxxxx>




The 40 meter spark from Tesla's Co. Springs lab was a myth
perpetuated by J.J. O'Neil's book on Tesla.  It was published as a
"133 ft long spark eminating from the elevated 3 ft. dia. copper
sphere", however, this was not the case.  The longest spark was
around 36-38 ft. according to Richard Hull's analysis.

Dr. Resonance


>Is my memory faulty (always a possibility), or did I not read that
>Tesla's Colorado Springs coil went to 40 *meters* in spark length
>(not 40 *feet*) the night he also burned up the C. Springs town generator?
>
>For example, in "Tesla" (Cheney & Uth, Barnes & Noble, 1999), pp.89,
>"Bolts of man-made lightning more than a hundred feet in length shot
>out from the mast atop the station. The commotion could be heard in
>the mining town of Cripple Creek, fifteen miles away." I've read
>many other accounts of this event.






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