In reply to Terry Blanton's message of Fri, 13 Apr 2012 18:07:25 -0400: Hi, [snip] >On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 5:41 PM, Jones Beene <jone...@pacbell.net> wrote: > > >> It did >> set off the rad alarms at the port of Oakland. > > >Do we know the nature of the detector alarms? What they were sensing?
My guess would be the gamma rays generated by the lightning bolts. (Particles accelerated fast enough by high voltage and a high current squeezed by the magnetic field into a thin filament must produce some fusion gammas &/or bremsstrahlung x-rays). > >T Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/project.html