Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.PCS 1/10/84; site hocsj.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!hou3c!hocda!twitch!hocad!houxm!hogpc!pegasus!hocsj!ecl From: ecl@hocsj.UUCP Newsgroups: net.physics,net.misc Subject: Those funny lines Message-ID: <170@hocsj.UUCP> Date: Wed, 10-Oct-84 08:54:23 EDT Article-I.D.: hocsj.170 Posted: Wed Oct 10 08:54:23 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 11-Oct-84 07:18:58 EDT Organization: AT&T Information Systems Labs, Holmdel NJ Lines: 13 Those funny lines: I have seen a fair amount of documentary footage showing above ground nuclear explosions. Some seem to have some peculiar vertical, white vapor trails before and after the explosion. The usually go off to the left of where the bomb goes off and are very much evenly spaced. My guess is that they are intended to give scale to the films taken of the detonation, but I have never gotten any confirmation of this. Anyone out there know what I am talking about? (Evelyn C. Leeper for) Mark R. Leeper ...ihnp4!lznv!mrl