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Yehren

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Some cars I remember on the road had only three forward gears - standard/manual.

That was the default system in the 50s and 60s. It worked fine.

What a classic, there! about 1938-39?

1934-1937. Chrysler Airflow. First car to use streamlining to cut air resistance. It was a marketing failure, a design too advanced for its time.
 
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1955/56 Chevrolet?
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This is the 1956. My mother's very first brand new car was just like this, except that it was 4 door.
 

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My first car was a 56 like that, but a four-door, and green.
 
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My first car was a 56 like that, but a four-door, and green.
My own first car was a very old Ford stationwagon that always expelled a huge cloud of black smoke from the exhaust when I started it. Once it was running it ran fine without smoke. A police officer saw what happened when I started it and warned me once to get it fixed or off the road I had a mechanic friend look at it for me. He said would cost more to fix than the car was worth. It never got fixed. Eventually I have to remove it from the road.
 

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My own first car was a very old Ford stationwagon that always expelled a huge cloud of black smoke from the exhaust when I started it. Once it was running it ran fine without smoke. A police officer saw what happened when I started it and warned me once to get it fixed or off the road I had a mechanic friend look at it for me. He said would cost more to fix than the car was worth. It never got fixed. Eventually I have to remove it from the road.

Yes, I've had my share of those, in high school and college.
 
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Sadly, I don't expect God to hang around NZ for too much longer.
I don't think this situation would engender a great deal of enthusiasm in the heavenly realms, nor even in NZ. maybe He might take up residence over the ditch???
NZ PM rushes world's most extreme abortion legislation into law while country distracted with pandemic

Oh, no. Hold your horses Lord. It's worse here in Victoria Australia.... Now I await the mods to move this post to a more appropriate space...
 

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Has anyone ever seen anything like this? Wow....just speechless!

Every lightning strike that hits the surface of the earth, has a return bolt from the ground:
UmaAfter the stepped leader and the upward-moving discharge initiate the first violent, luminous discharge near the Earth, "this high luminosity (and the high current) then moves up the leader channel and out its branches at somewhere between one-half and one-tenth the speed of light. This movement from ground to cloud is called the return stroke and is actually the dazzling display we recognize as lightning. The eye is not fast enough to resolve the movement of the return stroke, and so it seems as if all points of the channel become bright simultaneously. "
Lightning Sequence
 

Yehren

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Most lightning is from one cloud to another, though:
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Photographing lightning is simple in principle; long shutter speed, on a tripod. The trick is timing. You get about one good image for every 10 exposures.
 

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Most lightning is from one cloud to another, though:
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Photographing lightning is simple in principle; long shutter speed, on a tripod. The trick is timing. You get about one good image for every 10 exposures.
I understand....it's a chain reaction of electrical charges that continues along a path until it finds its end.
My uncle was an electrician who worked for the power company. He got a huge jolt and it started at his arm and came out his foot.
Called a current I suppose.
 

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Current is actually the movement of electrons along a conductor. Your uncle is incredibly lucky, if that was AC. When it takes a path from arm to foot, it often disrupts heart rhythm and causes ventricular fibulation, which is fatal if not quickly treated.
 
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Current is actually the movement of electrons along a conductor. Your uncle is incredibly lucky, if that was AC. When it takes a path from arm to foot, it often disrupts heart rhythm and causes ventricular fibulation, which is fatal if not quickly treated.
His heart did stop but the crew he was working with is trained to perform cpr and use an AED machine....he has a huge chunk of muscle gone in his arm and his heal ball had to be replaced.
 
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Sorry to hear that. But he's lucky that his crew was well-trained and acted quickly.
 
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