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Computerized Flames. The scientists are also learning more about the habits of nature's arsonist, the lightning stroke. Their research tools include sensors for detecting electric-field charges, photoelectric devices for measuring luminosity, photographs and recordings of thunder. From studies of some 3,000 cloud-to-ground lightning flashes, two apparent patterns emerged: the number of lightning discharges from storm clouds seeded with silver iodide was from 32% to 38% less than from unseeded storms. One type of discharge, which lingers on the ground for a relatively long period of time (about one-fifth of a second)-appeared...
...portion in the sun, an oven, or - as one Chicagoan prefers - in a Laundromat dryer set at "Cotton." The cuttings are then "manicured" by forcing them through a screen (No. 12 mesh, a protective screening used in prisons and detention homes, does nicely). Roll, ignite, puff - and off to Cloud...
...hidden farside. Together with familiar maps of the lunar near side, the charts did indeed give man a clearer view of the moon's features than of the earth's surface, large portions of which are hidden by water, camouflaged by vegetation and frequently obscured by cloud cover...
...jumps, points to its long list of dos and don'ts for members. In the Ohio tragedy, there was an obvious FAA radar foul-up. Yet the chutists had broken every rule in their own book, rules that in any event are largely voluntary. Aside from the cloud regulation, no federal or state agency pays much attention. The theory apparently is that the only lives parachutists risk are their own. But that is a dubious assumption. At least it is to the Airline Pilots Association, which grimly speculated last week on what would happen if some day a skydiver...
...more fortunate pilots who did get back to their bases reported dodging some of the heaviest flak of the war. The Communists had taken ad vantage of last month's cloud cover to station more of their antiaircraft guns and SAM missiles just north of Hanoi. Air Force Ace Robin Olds noted that "there were also some MIGs to liven things up." Two of them were gunned down by Air Force Lieut. David Waldrop. The sky was so thick with planes that the North Vietnamese joined in the MIG-shoot too; they accidentally shot down one of their planes...