Xref: utzoo comp.dcom.modems:3930 sci.physics:8348 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!sco!brianm From: brianm@sco.COM (Brian Moffet) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems,sci.physics Subject: Re: TrailBlazer Plus vs. lightning Message-ID: <2790@scolex.sco.COM> Date: 30 May 89 17:51:38 GMT References: <3784@phri.UUCP> <2289@pur-phy> Reply-To: brianm@sco.COM (Brian Moffet) Organization: The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc. Lines: 29 In article <2289@pur-phy> piner@newton.physics.purdue.edu.UUCP (Richard Piner) writes: >In article <3784@phri.UUCP> roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) writes: >> >> My physics question about all this is, what was the click I heard? >>I thought it was just the phone line relay, but my wife, in the next room, >>claims to have heard it too (the relay is *far* too soft for that). Does >>up-close lightning make a >click< just before the *BA-ROOOM*? >>-- > > I've been lucky (???) enough to see/hear lightning real close. What I am curious about is why the click *before* he saw the strike (flash of light)? Mr. Smith, is the correct order which you heard/saw things Also about seeing lightning real close, If you could see through it, wouldn't a photograph also show an image through the lightning? Or is lighting being transparent just an optical illusion? brian moffet -- Brian Moffet {uunet,decvax!microsoft,ucscc}!sco!brianm -or- ...sco!alar!brian "I was everything you wanted me to be. You were afraid, I was frightening." My fish and company have policies. I have opinions.