Ball lightning
"Until February of 2006 there was no convincing laboratory demonstration of ball lightning."
[ www.crystalinks.com/ball_lightning.html ]
Putting it another way: For more than 60 years my description of the ball lightning I'd seen as a kid in a Warwickshire school playground - a dozen classmates also saw it - was met with disbelief. Once the phenomenon had been produced in a laboratory, suddenly "everyone knows there's no such thing" had to be re-phrased.
My hope now is that scientists will one day prove reincarnation. If people knew they would have to be re-born (many times according to those who believe in it) they just might stop making such a mess of the environment. If the people causing toxic waste to be dumped knew there was a strong chance of being re-born as farmers in the affected area, would they be so cavalier in their behaviour? Would the poisoners of rivers be so slapdash if they knew they might have to drink from the same watercourse, two or three generations later?
[ www.crystalinks.com/ball_lightning.html ]
Putting it another way: For more than 60 years my description of the ball lightning I'd seen as a kid in a Warwickshire school playground - a dozen classmates also saw it - was met with disbelief. Once the phenomenon had been produced in a laboratory, suddenly "everyone knows there's no such thing" had to be re-phrased.
My hope now is that scientists will one day prove reincarnation. If people knew they would have to be re-born (many times according to those who believe in it) they just might stop making such a mess of the environment. If the people causing toxic waste to be dumped knew there was a strong chance of being re-born as farmers in the affected area, would they be so cavalier in their behaviour? Would the poisoners of rivers be so slapdash if they knew they might have to drink from the same watercourse, two or three generations later?
Labels: ball lightning, pollution, toxic waste
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