Re: Laser guided Tesla Coil

["Tesla list" <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Original poster: Ed Phillips <evp@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Hi All,

Since we are on this half way "on" half way "off" topic,  I remember 
a TV show on lightning where they were measuring the field strenght 
at a test site and at the proper time would launch a rocket.  The 
rocket's exhaust would create a trail of conductive gasses that would 
trigger a lightning strike at the test site.

So.....    Has anyone tried to put a bottle rocket on top of the 
toroid to see what would happen.

Gerry R."

   Are you sure that rocket wasn't trailing a wire?  That's a 
standard technique in lightning research.

Ed