[plug] Daylight Rubbish [V-OT now]

[Shannon Carver]

What's even more interesting is, is he had have died on that fateful night
how long would it have taken for his ideas to take on?  Or for someone else
to discover the same thing?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: plug-bounces at plug.org.au [mailto:plug-bounces at plug.org.au] On Behalf
> Of Alex Polglaze
> Sent: Tuesday, 12 December 2006 12:06 AM
> To: plug at plug.org.au
> Subject: Re: [plug] Daylight Rubbish
> 
> 
> > Wasn't he that silly man who went out and flew a kite in a storm, and
> > got struck by lightning?
> He certainly was. He wanted to prove that lightening was electricity,
> used a silk thread as a kite string and tied a house key near the end.
> Then he used the back of his hand to get a spark from the key to his hand.
> 
> Very bloody dangerous if you ask me, and he lived to tell the tale, but
> then in those days they didn't know.
> 
> The pursuit of knowledge.
> 
> What a cause.
> 
> 
> Alex
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