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...theory about lightning suggests a cosmic-ray connection
...theory by a Johns Hop kins scientist indicates that there might be some truth in the old myth after all. At a meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco last week, Physicist James W. Follin Jr. of Johns Hopkins University theorized that lightning is probably triggered by cosmic rays from deep space...
...phenomenon, scientists have been at a loss to explain how droplets within the cloud-or any other mechanism-can generate the tremendous potential (about 100 million volts) necessary to produce lightning or why the bolt follows so jagged a path. The answers may well lie in the action of cosmic rays, which are actually protons or other atomic particles that continuously plunge toward the earth from outer space...
ACTUALLY, the best part of the film has very little to do with the Dead themselves. The opening sequence features some gimmicky, funky animation, including a wild sequence of what can only be characterized as cosmic pinball. Also involved in the animated sequence, which runs about five minutes, is the skeleton character featured on several Dead albums...
...even the sky is the limit on the real estate deals available through the friendly brokers at the United Planets Commission of Van Nuys, Calif. The firm will sell you your own little acre on the sun, "cosmic fishing grounds on Venus," or the entire Milky Way. The price on every piece of property in the brochure is a flat $4. The buyer receives a "star-deed," printed in gothic script...