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Ball lightning
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- Subject: Ball lightning
- From: FERNLEA4@aol.com
- Date: Thu, 7 Oct 1999 15:16:19 EDT
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Hi folks,
I hate to sound a bit negative over all the ball lightning sightings and
claims, but everyone seems to have assumed that it really does exist!
There is no logical reason for the existence of ball lightning, it's far from
proven and has definitely not yet been accepted as a real phenomena.
You have more chance of winning the lottery this weekend than witnessing ball
lightning in your whole lifetime. There are several old woodcuts and sketches
that are supposed to show ball lightning, plus a few 20th century
photographs, but there are also plenty of photographs of ghosts!
Ball lightning remains a mystery and is still far from proven fact.
However, eye witness accounts all tell a similar tale of a small
glowing,hovering plasma ball, often accompanied by a hissing sound, that
darts up,down,left right,forwards,backwards completely at random, at or near
ground level and it usually detonates in a loud explosion.
No-one knows of any likely scientific reason for it's existence, nor has
anyone been able to produced it artificially in the lab in anything but an
almost microscopic scale.....and then it still remains extremely doubtful
that the "ball lightning" was anything other than molten metallic globules
produced by the electrical short circuit trigger.
Sorry guys, but ball lightning is a myth that is still undergoing
evaluation.....much in the same way as UFO's, ghosts, Bermuda Triangle and my
neighbour the Loch Ness Monster. There may be something in it, but all the
evidence to date clearly shows it to be extremely rare and, more importantly,
highly questionable!
Regards,
Rob.
http://hometown.aol.com/fernlea4/forsale.html
Fernlea Meteorites,
Milton of Balgonie, Fife. KY7 6PY
Scotland. UK.
Tel: +44-(0)1592-751563
Fax: +44-(0)1592-751060
Email: FERNLEA4@aol.com
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