Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site mit-eddie.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!ihnp4!mit-eddie!lkk From: lkk@mit-eddie.UUCP (Larry Kolodney) Newsgroups: net.physics,net.misc Subject: Re: Those funny lines Message-ID: <2886@mit-eddie.UUCP> Date: Sun, 14-Oct-84 16:12:51 EDT Article-I.D.: mit-eddi.2886 Posted: Sun Oct 14 16:12:51 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 16-Oct-84 04:52:30 EDT References: <170@hocsj.UUCP> Organization: MIT, Cambridge, MA Lines: 10 I beleive that vapor trails are put their by overflying planes so that when the bomb goes off, they can judge the intensity by how much the trails are displaced by the blast. -- larry kolodney (The Devil's Advocate) UUCP: ...{ihnp4, decvax!genrad}!mit-eddie!lkk ARPA: lkk@mit-mc