RE: lights?

I watched the WTC lights on the news last night. They said they are the second most powerful lights. I would have to think the one coming out of the Luxor in Vegas is #1. Their promo material says you can see it from the moon. I guess there are no planes flying around the strip...

> -----Original Message-----
> From: James J. Morrow [mailto:jmorrow_at_warthog.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 1:46 PM
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> Subject: Re: lights?
>
>
> There is something similar in Kansas City, MO. A church
> designed by Frank Lloyd
> Wright (on the Plaza) has a shaft of light projecting
> straight up from the
> roof. The shaft of light was part of the original design by
> FLW. However, at
> the time, the lights required to achieve the intensity and
> coherency required by
> the design would have weighed too much for the roof to
> support. About 10 years
> ago, they finally implemented the design using high-intensity
> halogens (which,
> of course, weigh significantly less).
>
> http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/Campus/5886/ccc3.jpg
>
> DENISE_at_wvnvaxa.wvnet.edu wrote:
> >
> > Rachel,
> > From what I heard on NPR, they need to avoid blinding pilots and
> > distracting migratory birds with the lights. It was rather
> awesome on tv.
> > Please let us know how it looks in person.
> >
> > Denise Gwinn
> > denise_at_wvnvms.wvnet.edu
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