I'm with Jim. Let's talk about more current topics. We must be positive about each other, not negative. It's so re-volting to see such off-topic subjects on the VFB, so please show some resistance. Let's strike up a new subject. Remember that the VFB is like family here, it's ohm-sweet-ohm or hit the road, Jack.
Buggs (Sniffin DonO's tent glue again...) ----- Original Message ----- From: jim phillips To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2007 3:48 PM Subject: Re: [VFB] Now Lightning! This whole discourse has become irrelevant. The original question from Chuck was " Should I or should I not get to shore and get out of my boat during an actual or threatened lighting storm" and many messages ago it was answered - YES but go where there are a lot of trees and DO NOT stand by the biggest. The education process of these messages, although at first were positive and enlightening, have long past become boring and now to say one persons comments are irrelevant; makes the educational process negative and non-enlightening. Not all of us have education beyond high school. It took me 10 years to get a college degree by going to night school after returning from VietNam. But I know enough not to put others down and look down upon them because they can't fully grasp a concept put forth. It is sort of like the Avant Gard of Fly Fishers that look down upon bait fishers. Let's end it and talk FISHING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Deserttrout06 Jim On 7/11/07, Niclas Runarsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Don't know which part you're refering to as I can't see where I said anything about which travelled farther than the other. Please specify or leave out the irrelevant parts. (Don't forget that English isn't my first language.) Nick -----Ursprungligt meddelande----- Från: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] För Allan Fish Skickat: den 11 juli 2007 22:32 Till: [email protected] Ämne: [VFB] Now Lightning! >Chuck, > >It depends on the part of the cloud. The most common thundercloud has >one negative pole and one positive pole. The ground-to-cloud bolt goes >between the negative part of the cloud and the positive charge sent out >by objects on the ground as the negative package approaches the ground. > >Leaving what I learned in school and going further with help from a >magazine, I want to correct "up-down depends on balance in charge" >(obviously misinformed in school): The cloud-to-ground thundercloud is >a three-part cloud... positive-negative-positive. A cloud-to-ground >bolt is simply the exact opposite. It goes between the upper positive >charged part of the cloud down to the negative ground. TOTALLY it's >less common than the ground-to-cloud since it needs to be closer to the >ground (so they are more common in places with higher altitude). So, Nick. Are you telling me that the much heavier positively charged ions travel farther than the miniscule-weight electrons? I find that a tad difficult to grasp. Of course, it's be *^*&^ years sends I had physics (the class, not the tablet!). a. -- Allan Fish Greenwood, IN [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.476 / Virus Database: 269.10.2/894 - Release Date: 7/10/2007 5:44 PM
