Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site bmcg.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!sdcsvax!bmcg!mikel From: mikel@bmcg.UUCP Newsgroups: net.physics,net.misc Subject: Re: Those funny lines Message-ID: <1438@bmcg.UUCP> Date: Fri, 12-Oct-84 13:39:38 EDT Article-I.D.: bmcg.1438 Posted: Fri Oct 12 13:39:38 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 14-Oct-84 07:10:16 EDT References:Reply-To: mikel@bmcg.UUCP (Michael Lesher) Organization: Burroughs Corporation, San Diego Lines: 20 Xref: 1834 5949 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)