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From: robert@uop.EDU (/dev/null)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Living near high tension lines
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Date: Thu, 19-Nov-87 21:44:38 EST
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Posted: Thu Nov 19 21:44:38 1987
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i was bringing home some flourescent tubes in the backseat of a
VW bug as a kid, (dad was driving) and there was a rain storm
outside the car, the tubes were 8' long, and stuck out the front
window...

i found by accident, that as i moved my hand along the tube, it would
light up under my hand!

my sister thought i was nuts, and my dad did not want to look in the
rainstorm...

(yes it was dark!!)

there is a picture in an old life magazine, and i think it made it into
the time life series on photography, of some protestors waiving tubes
around under some high voltage lines...

all lighted up!!