RE: Mysterious Streamers (fwd)

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Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 09:31:32 -0400
From: "Lau, Gary" <Gary.Lau@xxxxxx>
To: Tesla list <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: Mysterious Streamers (fwd)

But how can you possibly be sure that it wasn't "due to a magnetic or
electrostatic, cylindrically expanding, traveling wave in the
surrounding atmosphere (or space-time fabric)"?

Really - when we hear hoofs, we should think horses, not zebras.  Or
unicorns.

Gary Lau
MA, USA


> From: C. Sibley <a37chevy@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: Tesla list <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: Mysterious Streamers (fwd)
> 
> Here is another shot from the same evening, you can see the
streetlight near the
> top of the frame.
> 
> http://www.wackorama.com/teslalist/streetlight.JPG
> 
> I spoke to the guy who took the pix and he confirmed he was using a
long manual
> exposure and that the flash accidentally went off at one point.  I'm
pretty sure that
> the coil and toroid were captured by the flash, and then the street
light was panned
> across the frame by movement of the camera.
> 
> Anyway, I think this shot should put this question to bed.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Curt.