I wonder if this will lead to some breakthroughs in AM use. Maybe that is where the federation gets theirs, harvest lightning storms? Just don't want no AM warheads..bad juju those are....

http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2015/05/...

Good for you jbrenner! Making a stand is harder than getting made into one with the Borg. I hope they actually do discover AM can be made in thunderstorms, it could explain a lot (ball lightning, sprites?).

No, I am at Florida Institute of Technology, also called Florida Tech or FIT. This is in Melbourne. Florida Tech is the old Brevard Engineering College, but we have recently has grown into a great engineering school (top 200 in the world according to the London Times).

http://www.fit.edu/

My program is at
http://www.galtsgulchonline.com/posts/25...

Florida Tech is private and non-tenure-granting.
The fact that we were not tenure-granting was a key factor in us getting a $100 million grant from the FW Olin Foundation in 1998/1999. That was a game changer right as I was getting to FIT.
I refuse to be a looter/moocher and be at a state-supported school.
FIU is near Miami and is a state-supported school.

jbrenner, Are you at FIU? Back in the early 60's I went to Melbourne one summer with a couple of college buddies. Our goal was to find a job that would support our vices over the summer so our fathers wouldn't have to (very noble, don't you think?) Anyway, while we were job hunting, we stayed with his uncle who owned some kind of ad agency and flew around in his plane. His passion was supporting what was then Brevard College (?) who he predicted, through their association with NASA, would grow into a great engineering school. His first name was Sterling but I can't recall the last.

We ended up with jobs in construction up in Eau Gallie, had a real good time and got nice tans. We also had some adventures to share with our buddies when we got back to school.

Interesting, I hope he can actually explain what is going on, I wonder if it is connected to Sprites and Blue Jets, that would be really cool, I love to look at Sprite videos...

A fascinating report. Must know more.

Jan

Nickursis, your lightning story features Joe Dwyer, the world's leading lightning expert. Joe just left Florida Tech about a year ago to become a department head at a different university with a substantial raise. Joe had been an interim department head of Physics and Space Sciences and before that our Faculty Senate President. I will miss him.