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To: JZoback

I would assume a lightning bolt could hit something moving at 12,500 MPH at 200,000 feet up ???

Those mph and altitude #s refer to the shuttle over Texas. What were they over Calif.? And how high does lightning go?

15 posted on 02/05/2003 3:34:14 AM PST by laredo44

To: laredo44

Lightening goes not much higher than clouds. Tops about 60,000 feet max under very extreme conditions.

23 posted on 02/05/2003 4:39:52 AM PST by MindBender26 (.....and for more news as it happens...stay tuned to your local FReeper station....)

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