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From: ecl@hocsj.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.physics,net.misc
Subject: Those funny lines
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Date: Wed, 10-Oct-84 08:54:23 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct 10 08:54:23 1984
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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