[net.misc] Those funny lines: the answer

ecl@hocsj.UUCP (10/23/84)

I have now gotten a number of answers to my question on vertical lines
and nuclear blasts.  The answers seem to run 2 to 1 that it is rocket
vapor trails to and explanation that it is natural (if I may use that
word) effect of the detonation and its air patterns.  In spite of some
fairly authoritative explanation for the latter viewpoint, I am almost
certain that I have seen the lines before the detonation as well as
after.  This seems to argue in favor of the rocket vapor theory.  Thank
you for satisfying my curiosity.

					(Evelyn C. Leeper for)
					Mark R. Leeper
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