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Original poster: "alfred erpel" <alfred@xxxxxxxxx>



        The purported physics is pure hyperbole.  How can the reporter know
the square miles of effect reported?  High voltage experimentation is done a
disservice.
        But then; what an awesome teacher.  All teachers of the next
generation should be as he.  Salaries should be doubled (tripled?, more?)
for the most important job there is; teaching.  With the one large codicil
of accountability.  Subject to the rules like the rest of us.

Al Erpel

USA, PA, 18901

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>FELTON, Calif. -- "The Boom" is bouncing around the classroom like an
>overgrown kid. With his bushy gray eyebrows and mad scientist's grin,
>he's demonstrating the density of methane to 25 rapt teenagers at San
>Lorenzo Valley High School. "Again?" gasps one girl.
>
>Explosions are nothing new to Preston Q. Boomer's physics and chemistry
>classes. Neither are flash fires, electric shocks, spark-spitting
>transformers or deafening gongs, sirens and klaxons. He begins many
>lectures with the subversive come-on: "Want to blow something up today?"
>
>It's the Boom's Big Bang Theory of teaching: Noise is fun, even
>instructive. But his wacky experiments can go awry. One day the cops
>showed up as a result of a half-baked Boomer stunt. The teacher was
>testing whether a 1.5-million-volt Tesla coil could shoot a spark
>across the room. In the process, he cut off all police radio
>communications for miles.