Re: Laser guided Tesla Coil

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Original poster: gary350@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 

I saw the same TV show NOVA they shot rockets into the air and the 
carbon filled smoke exhaust provides a conductive path for the 
lightning to follow to the ground.  It works to I have done it in my 
back yard.  Success rate is about 2 lightning stricks to the yard out 
of 3 rockets launched.




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>From: Tesla list <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Feb 17, 2007 10:23 PM
>To: tesla@xxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: Re: Laser guided Tesla Coil
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>Original poster: Ed Phillips <evp@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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>Hi All,
>
>Since we are on this half way "on" half way "off" topic,  I remember
>a TV show on lightning where they were measuring the field strenght
>at a test site and at the proper time would launch a rocket.  The
>rocket's exhaust would create a trail of conductive gasses that would
>trigger a lightning strike at the test site.
>
>So.....    Has anyone tried to put a bottle rocket on top of the
>toroid to see what would happen.
>
>Gerry R."
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>    Are you sure that rocket wasn't trailing a wire?  That's a
>standard technique in lightning research.
>
>Ed
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