Trying this again, to see if it will go out this time...  :)

-=> Quoting Mike Roberts to Nancy Backus on 09-12-12  08:27 <=-

 ->  MR> actuality, it is only about the size of a pencil. Is that true?!?
 ->  MR> I just can't imagine that. 
 -> It's something about the persistence of vision, and the fact that it
 -> moves so fast, that what the brain perceives is the long streak.

 MR> So it was not a mistatement? I never thought about seeing it that way.
 MR> So the lightning bolt because it is so fast, shoots through the sky
 MR> and we are seeing something like the tail on a shooting star? Not an
 MR> actual lightning bolt that is seeming crossing a huge part of the
 MR> horizon. Wow! 

Like other things light and electric...  :)

ttyl         neb

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