Anyone know what a blue flash means?

“Tonight we had to go pick up my boys from the neighboring town (where CMB and Spirit live, in fact) in the middle of this winter storm. It was kind of fun driving through the drifts in the 4x4. On the way back while driving through a neighborhood, we noticed a blue flash and then all the neighborhood went black. Then the power came back on. A couple seconds later, another blue flash, then no power again and it came back up after a second or two. We figured it was someone had just hit a pole somewhere near. But then as we continued eastward, it happened again about 2 miles further down. Then when we got back to my neighborhood, another 2 miles or so east, it happened again. It seemed almost like it was traveling with us. So we started making jokes about how the aliens were following us and would abduct us at any moment.

Anyway, what could cause this?”

“You were probably right. Aliens.”

“So we started making jokes about how the aliens were following us and would abduct us at any moment.

Anyway, what could cause this?”
Ruby
9:17:24 PM
2/13/07

I would say an overactive imagination. Not theres anything wrong with that.”

“we have the green flash at sunset. doesn't happen all the time, but does occasionally.”

“Very funny, people! lol


It was a blue flash like an arc.”

“Isn't that called lightning?”

“Electric Power Companies put very large fault circuit interrupters on their distribution lines at substations.

More than likely the heavy snow had a tree limb brushing a power line and causing a fault to ground, an electrical arc.

The substation circuit interrupters detect the ground and turn the power line off for a couple of seconds, then back on. If the grounding is still on the line it will try again, turning off, then on. After three trys, it shuts off the power till the Power Company resets it.

This is to keep the power line from burning down and maybe killing someone.”

“Is a blue flash when someone who is either A) sad; or B) suffocating, takes his clothes off?”

“Only in below freezing temps, BowlderMan.”

“you got flashed by smurfs”

“Yes, a blue flash means you have received a blow on your head.”

“I have sat in on a few electrical engineer deps and figured it had something to do with that. I like Stovey's explanation the best.”

“I simplified a rather complex process and tried to put it into terms a mass audience of non Electrical Engineers could understand with ease. ;-)”

“It actually sounds a lot like discriptions of power failures in Galveston during the hurricane.”

“BTW... when a transformer blows it flashes green.”

“Blue flash?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YY7TGnSaHw”

“Stovie...as freaking usual is correct. Most transmission systems are set up to "trip and reset" three times in succession.

Normally if you see three resets...the next time is for good.

LOL...even more impressive is seeing a tranformer get hit by lightning....All I can say is BRIGHT WHITE/BLUE LIGHT>”

“I had a transformer get hit right in front of the window of our house and I almost sh$t a brick!”

“..Get a .22 pistol, and shoot up into the bottom of a transformer on a pole...now back away and shoot it again somewhere close to up top to vent the canister...

when the oil drains, the transformer overheats....


and finally, if you're out for kicks, try this...take two quarter inch link 8 foot long chains and walk over to a substation...swing the chains overhead and let them fly into the wires feeding the substation....(I did this once in a suburb of Istanbul)...shall we say spectacular?
last edited: 2/14/07 8:04:32 AM”

“What Stovie said.”

“ST...you know we had a family at the burn unit that was sitting at lunch when a transformer exploded...it dumped burning oil all over them...of the four I think three died.”

“It seemed almost like it was traveling with us. So we started making jokes about how the aliens were following us and would abduct us at any moment.

mmmm...no offence meant, but are YOU the aliens? Maybe that's why the blue lightning was traveling along side you on the power line? Maybe? Maybe you don't even know you're aliens and in truth you were abducted by earthlings?”

“Marvin stood at the end of the bridge corridor. He was not in fact a particularly small robot. His silver body gleamed in the
dusty sunbeams and shook with the continual barrage which the building was still undergoing.

He did, however, look pitifully small as the gigantic black tank rolled to a halt in front of him. The tank examined him with a
probe. The probe withdrew.

Marvin stood there.

''Out of my way little robot,'' growled the tank.

''I'm afraid,'' said Marvin, ''that I've been left here to stop you.''

The probe extended again for a quick recheck. It withdrew again.

''You? Stop me?'' roared the tank. ''Go on!''

''No, really I have,'' said Marvin simply.

''What are you armed with?'' roared the tank in disbelief.

''Guess,'' said Marvin.

The tank's engines rumbled, its gears ground. Molecule-sized electronic relays deep in its micro-brain flipped backwards and forwards in consternation.

''Guess?'' said the tank.””

“Many of the pictures that you have seen from the surface of the moon were faked, because the actual pictures showed that there was "stuff" all over the place. Yes, they did go, but there was manipulation of the result involved. The United States government has 53 of its own disks stationed on the moon. The astronauts were told to shut up and not say anything. The gravity on the bottom of Copernicus crater is equal to that in Chicago, Illinois. Apparently, it is not the rotation of planets that creates gravity, but some aspect of solar radiation. I know this flies in the face of what you have been told, but it is a fact. Now, our moon does not turn on its axis. We always see only 59% of it. Our moon is the only one that does that. The depiction of NASA's view of how moon bases would look in a 1958 issue of National Geographic is in fact exactly what they actually built on the moon in February 1958. When Kennedy said "we are going to send men to the moon," part of our government - the NSA - was already there. The humans on the moon are Aryans by birth, there with extraterrestrials. You can read between the lines to gauge the implications of that last statement.

Now, you don't hear much about the Russian space program, but let me tell you something. They are also a major player on the moon. They don't work for us, but for the international bankers, who are the new "priesthood".

According to the Andromedans, there were 9 huge domed cities on the moon on the far side, and these domes housed up to 5 million extraterrestrials at one time. There was water, vegetation and everything. These covered hundreds of square miles. When Richard Hoagland shows you pictures of the "shards" that are miles in height, he's right. There's an atmosphere on the far side of the moon. The astronauts took pictures of clouds.

Along the equator on the far side of the moon, there is a pyramid. There are four pyramids on the moon. According to the Andromedans, almost all the planets in our solar system have pyramids on them. Some people say they are tombs, but the Andromedans say that these are "weights", and if you put them in strategic location they balance the rotation of the planet. This means if the ET's are there colonizing, the planetary system needs to be balanced. That's why the pyramid at Giza is exactly dead center of the landmass on planet Earth.”
Marvin Gardens
3:55:50 PM
1/15/02”

“...uups?!?
Did I say soemthing wrong? I shouldn't have suggested you're aliens?”

“

...?”

“Blue Flash? That's what I saw the millisecond after I had a beer bottle bashed into my head at a honky tonk in Union County in the early 80's. The only reason we didn't get arrested was because the Sheriff didn't want to be responsible for taking me to the hospital. We were invited to never come back to Union County again. I waited over 20 years before I as much as drove through there.”

“YOU been kicked out of a WHOLE COUNTY...wow....

the closest to that is a friend of mine who was a Royal Marine in the 1980's we were on a drunken tour of Wales and walked into a pub. The Pubkeeper looks up and says,"YOU...yeah I threw ya outahere fifteen years ago so STAY OUT!"

Turns out fifteen years ago he and his brother were working at an abattoirs and spending their nights downing pints and quarts....

One afternoon his brother took a certain appendage from one of the bulls and hid it in a lunch pail. SO they go to the pub after a while of good drinking his brother goes in the loo. When he returns the appendage is hanging out. They lean up against the bar for a few minutes when this little old lady wanders up and mentiones "he forgot to tuck back in."

My friend's drunken brother looks down and says,"OH BLOODY 'ELL, always embarrassing me it is.." pulls out his knife and cuts it off.....”

“You have it all wrong a blue flash is what you get when I go Backpacking in sub freezing temps!!!!”

“Another blue flash occurs if you are near a nuclear event which goes critical. Its called a criticality, and is not a nuclear blast. Its more along the lines of a chemical explosion in power, and the explosion usually blows the material apart and stops the criticality. At the moment of criticality a burst of neutrons is emitted, and the neutrons race out in a wave from the event. The neutrons pass right through your body with no damage. As the neutrons pass through your retina, they have the effect of making you see blue for an instant, and thus you have seen the blue flash. There have been several criticalities at nuclear facilities in the U.S., at Hanford, INEEL, and other places, but not for 40 years.”

“Euro Hike, I think you're relatively new around here. I was joking about a past poster here, Marvin Gardens. That was his usual kind of post. ;)



Thanks, everyone. I'm getting quite an education.”

“So they were minding their p's and q's?”

“I was believing the moon thing Ruby. I didn't notice or appreciate the Marvin's Gardens tag line. Now you are saying there are no ETs and space stations on the moon? Now I'm confused.”

“pints & quarts?”

“LOL

That's why I had a pyramid installed in my back yard. It keeps my world in balance.”

“One of my favorites - a 3 phase 230 kV air switch opening.
As for the blue flash, that is precisely the reason I wear catagory 2 FR clothing every day at work.”

“I knew you'd be along with a solid answer.

I just didn't know you and Stovestomper would both have the most plausible ones. I'm not used to you two being in the same category!!”

“Maybe it was this”

“This one's more impressive:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2674646408572574875&q=transformer+explosion”

“Scary thought, Kemosabe.


What if a guy in the bucket of a bucket truck had a gas attack at just the wrong moment... ?”

“UM


http://emuse.ebaumsworld.com/video/watch/13205”

“the teacher one was better”

“I just read this story:
Blue Flash? That's what I saw the millisecond after I had a beer bottle bashed into my head at a honky tonk in Union County in the early 80's. The only reason we didn't get arrested was because the Sheriff didn't want to be responsible for taking me to the hospital. We were invited to never come back to Union County again.

Can somebody explain to an unknowlegeable foreigner what was going on there? How comes a man, that got a beer bottle whacked over his head, gets evicted from a county? I mean, what's the charge. Attacking a beer bottle with the head? Is that criminal offence in some places?
Or is there a twist to this story that Mr. Chili didn't tell?”

“I am sure there's much more to his tale!”

“LOL
Can't wait to hear it.”

“In many parts of the U.S. it still matters who is the whacker and who is the whackee (the assailant could well be the sheriff's cousin, for example... and the sheriff could have many cousins, LOL).

Euro, there really are places here where you can still be told "Get out of town before sundown" LOL! (The Wild West isn't dead, it just smells funny.)”

“Wow?!? I truely beliefed that just happens in the movies.
Well, I am ready to start the DVD and watch 'Rio Bravo' again. Let's see what I can learn this time :-)”

“From an aesthetic point of view, most of those guys have switched to baseball caps over the years, but quite a few do continue to wear the cowboy hats. Life does imitate 'art' (saints preserve us): cowboy hats, pointy-toed boots and large belt buckles made a serious comeback after John Travolta's mechanical bull-riding movie hit the theatres. Many of the discos that sprang up after his previous movie installed robotic bovines and changed the music format to Country.

At that point I dreaded what his next movie might be.”

“
If anything, art imitates life in this respect. I grew up in the southwest, and still live there. Cowboy hats and boots are not considered fashion statements when you're riding. The hat keeps the sun or the rain off your head and neck, depending on the weather. The boots don't hang up in the stirrups, or get caught in the brush.

I haven't ridden as a matter of necessity since I left the farm at the age of 20, and to be honest with you, cowboy boots aren't all that comfortabe. Needless to say, I don't wear them much anymore.

The only cowboy I ever saw who didn't wear cowboy boots was wearing a pair of adidas in the saddle. When I asked him why, he told me so nobody would mistake him for a truck driver.

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