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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