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From: mikel@bmcg.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.physics,net.misc
Subject: Re: Those funny lines
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Date: Fri, 12-Oct-84 13:39:38 EDT
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Posted: Fri Oct 12 13:39:38 1984
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In article  ecl@hocsj.UUCP writes:
>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. ......
>
>					(Evelyn C. Leeper for)
>					Mark R. Leeper
>					...ihnp4!lznv!mrl


I have also noticed them.  I have always assumed that they are generated by
small rockets, and that the vapor trail are used to study the blast pattern
and the mushroom cloud wind currents.  I don't know anyone who knows for sure.


[Row, row, row your bits, gently down the stream...]

Mike Lesher
Burroughs ASG, San Diego, CA.
(..!bmcg!mikel)