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Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2006 16:44:26 -0800
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While reading the morning paper, Canada's 'Globe and Mail' I found this 
interesting little quip:

"On this date in 1847, The Globe reported: 'The various wires of 
telegraph beginning to intersect so many sections of our country are 
said to have a decided effect upon electricity. That eminent scientific 
man, Prof. Olmstead of Yale College, states, that as the storm comes up 
and especially when over the wires, say 50 or 100 miles distant, the 
lightning is attracted by the wires... 'It is my opinion,' he says, 
'that we shall never have very heavy thundershowers or hear of lightning 
striking, so long as we have telegraph wires spread over the Earth.' ' "

Source: Glode and Mail, Monday, November 6, 2006

If this where only true! Or, perhaps the demise of the telegraph and the 
rise of radio did us all in and doomed us to thunderstorm static forever ;-)

73 Scott