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19 January 2002

TVs on strike

Question: A lightning bolt recently struck the ground near my home. I could
accept the fact that local telephones were damaged, fuses were blown and
computers burnt out, but other strange things happened.

Some television sets switched on spontaneously and showed perfect pictures,
yet those that were switched on normally after the strike had an odd colour
shift. Red became green, white became yellow and green became blue. If you
switched them off for a minute, then on again, the problem was cured. Why did
this happen?

It might not be significant, but at the time of…

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