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On Thu, 21 May 2015 20:51:09 -0500, Byker wrote:
Those insulated towers containing lightning arrestors now
surround every launch pad and rocket.
Yet they are a recent phenomenon. Past launches, going back
to the beginning of rocketry, did not have them.
Why the change? If lightning wasn't considered a great danger
in the past then why is it considered a great danger now?
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