From: David Woolley (david@djwhome.demon.co.uk)
Date: Sun Jun 30 2002 - 02:16:39 PDT
> Then I had a eureka moment. If there are lakes, there has to be rain. If
> there is rain, there has to be thunderstorms. Therefore there must be
> lightening.
The reverse logic doesn't work; Jupiter certainly doesn't have free, liquid,
surface water, but does have lightening bolts.
>
> A lightening bolt releases and radiates a huge amound of energy. The spectrum
> is wideband, from DC to Daylight. It is very easy to receive this
The electromagnetic pulse purt is quite low frequence, and much of the energy
is trapped in the ionosphere. The optical pulse is generated by heating
effects not by the same mechanism that generates the radio static.
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