Name that colt contest

[ceejay]

Winner gets 5% of purses (if any). Colt was hit by lightning in 2002.

http://www.tvgnetwork.com/namethatcolt/index.html

[cj]

The wife and I entered...Odds On Lighting and Jolt from the Bolt

[BillW]

Mine -> Abby's Epiphany

[chrisg]

I went with Flash N Dash . But I like yours Bill.

[ceejay]

I entered:
VicarPhillipsBolt

based partly on pedegree:
Vicar out of Dear Abigale

Dear Abby's real last name was Phillips

[David McKenzie]

I suggested Zap!

[CumberlandBluesHSH]

you gotta be kiddin' me. I think I'm being all clever and the like and submit "Ben Franklins Kite" only to find out it's already been entered!?!

[Bubbles]

Mine was Sammy Shock.

[JustRalph]

Grounding Plug...........which is what he was..........

[blind squirrel]

Shock the world....that's what ALI said when he knocked
out SONNY LISTON.

[Valuist]

words also spoken by Khalid El Amin before UConn took out Duke in the NCAA final a few years ago. Kind of eliminated the "best ever" talk for the Dookies.

[freeneasy]

yeah, i put in "lucky for me" which is what the colt was and what i'll be if i win

[eclecticapper]

NextTimeShockAJock; since you're allowed 18 characters, I thought I'd use them all.

[superfecta]

Im in,Shock n all

[cj]

IsThatHorseISmell

[Bubbles]

Stepdad entered, Bolton's Sultan.

[Pace Cap'n]

And closing fast on the outside it's "Ol' Sparky"!

[Tom]

Shock Jock
Buzz the Vicar
St Elmos Vicar
Meadow Strike

[freeneasy]

i went with shock wave but that was taken
hey can you change the title after you made your entry

[Tom]

Dehere Abby :D

[freeneasy]

nice nice tom

[kenwoodallpromos]

Thanks for the thread!! My 1st choice, Luckystrike, was taken. I entered with Brandedbygod.

[VetScratch]

I entered "Scientific Paradox" since Japanese scientists have recently proved that lightening bolts go opposite to our perception. In this case, the lightening emanated from earth and passed through the colt on the way to the clouds. All lightening works in reverse this way... but you couldn't have convinced me either until the Science Channel in the Discovery Channel media group aired the show.

[JustRalph]

"Ohm's to spare"

[cj]

Originally posted by VetScratch
I entered "Scientific Paradox" since Japanese scientists have recently proved that lightening bolts go opposite to our perception. In this case, the lightening emanated from earth and passed through the colt on the way to the clouds. All lightening works in reverse this way... but you couldn't have convinced me either until the Science Channel in the Discovery Channel media group aired the show.

Recently proved, I don't think so. I was teaching this in a Principles of Electricity class almost a decade ago.

[VetScratch]

CJ,

Wow, just another case of the Japanese copying American science and technology! :) :) :)

They did have some wonderful rapid exposure footage that illustrated how our perception is an illusion... taken at what they called the world's lightening hotspot in Australia.

Prior to this, I had always heard that Tampa Bay billed itself as the Lightening Capital of the World.

How do lightening rods work? As a layperson, I thought about it after viewing the show, since the "common belief" has always been that lightening rods attract hits from the atmosphere.

After the TV show, all I could guess is that they provide conductivity from the ground that circumvents protected structures, like barns or houses.

[Tom]

Originally posted by JustRalph
"Ohm's to spare"

Ohm, Ohm on the Range? :D

[VetScratch]

Or since it's a colt... My Ohm Boy.

[BillW]

Originally posted by cjmilkowski
Recently proved, I don't think so. I was teaching this in a Principles of Electricity class almost a decade ago.

While we have known for a long time (a century?) that electricity flows from negative to positive, as it is the electron that is mobile, we also know that electricity flows at the speed of light in a theoretical in vacuo medium. I have often wondered what the cameras were actually capturing when they filmed lightning. How is a camera fast enough to capture something at say, half the speed of light?

It seems to me that the camera is capturing the slower flowing "friction wave". i.e. the densest concentration of electrons is at the strike point and therefore would heat up first and the wave front of heat/light would "flow" toward the less dense concentration. While the conclusion of direction of flow is correct, I don't think that the photography has any relation to the proof.

now, back to the topic :)

Bill

[JustRalph]

Originally posted by Tom
Ohm, Ohm on the Range? :D

Tom....

pretty sharp ........

I see you are going to have some new neighbors............

http://www.rochesterdandc.com/news/12123K2KFT6_news.shtml

[VetScratch]

BillW,

Both you and CJ understand the physics...

Would this be consistent with what you would expect?

I thought the exposures seemed aimed only at correcting our perception, by showing that light from the end of the bolt which visibly diminishes last is also the end which illuminates first. Of course, this was only demonstrated by showing single frames, and not many viewers could be expected to assess the quality of the timing and exposure mechanisms used. Could the exposures have been sensitive to light we cannot see... hence the results?

From what you guys say, the earth must be the negative pole while the positive pole is in the heavens. If so, religion, here I come! :)

[stuball]

Trying with HOT STRIKE


Stuball

[Observer]

My name thoughts:

Bolted
Bolted Blaze
Caught Ina Storm
Charged Runner
Charged Up Baby
Charged Up Runner
Electerfying
Full Lee Charged
Hi Voltage
Hit by Litening
Jolted
Jolted by a Bolt
Lightning Fast
Lightning Life
Lightning Runner
Lightning Strike
Litening Struck
Now Comes Thunder
Time for Thunder
Was Zapped

[Shacopate]

Just entered "Enlightning Abby".

[freeneasy]

g'nite dehere

[Tee]

My entry,

Igotlitup