Re: Article: Lightning emits X-Rays

[maury <maury@WEBTEXAS.COM>]

Next week's headline today:

              EPA CONSIDERS CLASSIFYING LIGHTNING AS CARCINOGEN

                           Denver may be moved to lower altitude

                                           Details at 11



Maury Siskel        maury@webtexas.com

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Mutations cause jagged lightning!

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"Franta, Jaroslav" wrote:



> More natural radiation !!  ....be scared ! ..be very scared !!

>

>        **** abandon all high-rise buildings, since they attract

>          higher-than-normal lightning strike frequency ****

>

>   **** windmill farms must be an absolute radiation hell, what with

> hundreds of those huge towers attracting all the lightning strikes in

>                             the area ****

>

>  **** windmill farms should certainly not be sited anywhere near farm

>    fields, as this would cause the crops to get irradiated, and the

>                 Sierra Club says that's dangerous ****

>

> Jaro

>

> PS. should be interesting what eventually comes out of this research

> -- the article doesn't mention other, older reports of neutrons having

> been recorded from lightning -- were those result bogus or not ? ...if

> not, what was the source of those neutrons ? ....low-level ICF of hail

> stones, as some claimed ?

>

> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

>

> -----Original Message-----

> From: Timm, Jason [mailto:jdtimm@EHS.UFL.EDU]

> Sent: Friday January 31, 2003 10:26 AM

> To: radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu

> Subject: Article: Lightning emits X-Rays

>

> FLORIDA RESEARCHERS: LIGHTNING EMITS X-RAYS

> Modern-day Ben Franklins use rockets to settle 80-year-old debate

> GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- Anyone who has heard a radio crackle during a

> storm knows lightning emits radio signals.



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