You Must Be Joking
To the Editor:
Okay, it's about that lightning
protection article, May '89. Sure it
has some funny stuff in it. Like those
positive charges that flash out to
meet the negative charges--what are
they? Electrons that hate their
mothers? Heavy metal atoms on
steroids?
But it wasn't that funny, and it
wasn't tongue-in-cheek, so I was
trying to figure out what the story
was. I think it's a false story you put
in to see if everybody's b.s. detectors
were tuned and operating. If you're
giving away a free subscription to the
first 100 letters or so, please note my
address below.
There was one cute paragraph
about how ". . . only lightning
currents of small