Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84 chuqui version 1.7 9/23/84; site nsc.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcs!lsuc!pesnta!amd!nsc!chongo From: chongo@nsc.UUCP (Landon C. Noll) Newsgroups: net.physics Subject: Re: TeslaMessage-ID: <2442@nsc.UUCP> Date: Wed, 6-Mar-85 04:35:10 EST Article-I.D.: nsc.2442 Posted: Wed Mar 6 04:35:10 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 6-Mar-85 10:22:26 EST References: <131@azure.UUCP> <2436@nsc.UUCP> Reply-To: chongo@nsc.UUCP (Landon C. Noll) Distribution: net Organization: Rational Swamiconductor, Sanivale Lines: 18 Summary: In article <2436@nsc.UUCP> chongo@nsc.UUCP (Landon C. Noll) writes: >What Tesla did was made what is known as St. Elmo's fire. >The fireball effect can be created in nature as well. St. Elmo's fire >is often seen during very high wind storms in connection with lightning. I have been told by some folks that "St. Elmo's fire" noted above should have read "Ball lightning". Oh well I made a mistake and now you will have to read a zillion flames on the mistake, sorry about that. chongo <*sigh*> /\../\ -- If Tesla had been born in the early 60's, he might have been the builder of desk top Cray-VI like computers running a super 4.9BSD like operating system. Edison on the other hand, would have searched by trial and error for the ultimate 4004 based j-random spread sheet micro while claiming that the power of the Tesla machine could kill a programming project. Worse yet, historians might later credit Edison with forming the personal computer industry.