My mention of wind was only related to the dryness of the air. Air is an insulator and dry air is aSparky wrote:From the smoke stack's output, I would not say that the wind was strong; maybe light. :?
Speculation that wind is in of itself, an electrical effect, would support moving charges theory. How that would affect a ionosphere to ground potential difference, I don't know.
real good insulator... So how is an electrical discharge going to path through miles of dry air?
As suggested earlier,,, i'd expect the highest charge differential to be across the ionosphere and when
an object leaves a large trail, of ablated material deep into the lower atmosphere, a short circuit is established
with the internal atmosphere. the object gets caught in the crossfire.
That is the impression i got when reading about the Columbia disaster, i may have misunderstood. d...z
http://www.holoscience.com/wp/columbia- ... lightning/
"Columbia was struck a fatal blow by a super-bolt of lightning from space, now referred to as MEGALIGHTNING."
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