[TowerTalk] spider balls.. they work

[Jerry Keller]

Tom....I'd be surprised if the Pope didn't acknowledge that ALL the Bible versions are probably correct... to some degree. 

So much dissension....It's almost as if a method or product must be absolutely preventive before it can have any value at all. Reducing the risk of a strike is a good thing, isn't it? So far, the claims I've seen for spiderballs and similar products and methods are NOT that they absolutely prevent a strike, merely that they can reduce the risk. I haven't seen anyone or anything (yet) that claims the risk of a strike can be reduced to zero.

Where I think the claims do go off-track is where they attempt to "prove" their efficacy by describing how they work. I don't think anyone completely understands HOW they work, but that doesn't mean they don't work... to some degree.

73,  Jerry K3BZ
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Tom Rauch 
  To: david jordan ; keith at dutson.net 
  Cc: TowerTalk 
  Sent: Friday, July 30, 2004 10:54 AM
  Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] spider balls.. they work


  >> NASA uses these devices extensively at it's launch
  platforms in addition
  > to the more conventional means to manage lightning risk.

  Dave,

  I'm confused.

  Why would NASA use them on their launch sites when they
  published a paper saying they don't work? K1TTT published a
  link to those papers.

  If NASA does use them, why did they never put them on their
  wind generator projects or mention them in the article link
  I posted?

  I know lightning makes some success claims, but they sell
  the things. Relying on them for unbiased fact is like asking
  the Pope what Bible is correct.

  73 Tom


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