3rd August 2003, 7:28 PM
Sorry OB1, that's an inaccuracy. Yes, lightning doesn't strike JUST from the sky down, but it also isn't JUST from the ground up. It's BOTH. A single strike is actually a sudden burst from both at once. That's how it works.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)