>> ^messenger:

Because the light has shifted from visible through infrared to microwave due to the expansion of the universe since the Big Bang, 1100 times stretched, according to RFlag's link starting at around 3:11.>> ^SWBStX:
So maybe I'm missing something obvious that should answer this question but I'll ask it anyway. So if the night sky should be light everywhere we look, and the reason it isn't is because it's outside our visible spectrum, why do the pictures taken using an infrared camera still show darkness behind the stars it can see? Why isn't the CBR showing up brightly on the infrared pictures?



Ah, clearly I should have checked out that link. Thanks! Time for a microwave camera!

Because the light has shifted from visible through infrared to microwave due to the expansion of the universe since the Big Bang, 1100 times stretched, according to RFlag's link starting at around 3:11.>> ^SWBStX:

So maybe I'm missing something obvious that should answer this question but I'll ask it anyway. So if the night sky should be light everywhere we look, and the reason it isn't is because it's outside our visible spectrum, why do the pictures taken using an infrared camera still show darkness behind the stars it can see? Why isn't the CBR showing up brightly on the infrared pictures?

So maybe I'm missing something obvious that should answer this question but I'll ask it anyway. So if the night sky should be light everywhere we look, and the reason it isn't is because it's outside our visible spectrum, why do the pictures taken using an infrared camera still show darkness behind the stars it can see? Why isn't the CBR showing up brightly on the infrared pictures?

Actually, "laser" (or more correctly: infrared) keyboards have been around for at least a decade. They just don't work that well, but they do exist and have been physical, purchasable retail addons for the PalmOS devices as far back as 2001 (first time I encountered one).

Here's a vid of one for what looks like PC: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fdDRGr64TQ

They just happen to suck (lag, easily picks up interference and unintended input, etc)

Anyway, consumer-whores will be consumer-whores.

*promote

This is most likely the most AMAZING filament eruption to be caught on video. It is caused by a little process called magnetic reconnection. It's a little process that gives us our solar flares, these filaments, CMEs (Coronal Mass Ejections), auroras, and the possible potential for very dangerous radiation storms every few millennium--give or take a few. Basically, plasma flows along these field lines of magnetism. When things get out of hand, then those field lines distort and change and all of a sudden things get very dangerous (AND sometimes beautiful). The faster the magnetic field changes the faster the particles will travel making them more and more dangerous as the events unfold fast enough giving them more energy (kinetic & heat), which in turn if directed at us means it penetrates much further into our protective field and anything outside of the field, crispy--in the shredded DNA, cells, you name it sense.

Occasionally, Earth's magnetic field breaks down a bit (if I remember why correctly it was a certain "sequence" within our magnetic shield and it reacts badly with the Sun's--don't quote me though, I really need to look it back up again it was a very long time ago I remember this from), if a large solar flare directed towards Earth ever happened before Earth had enough time to fully build back it's strength we would be FAR more in trouble than usual, but this would be a rare event. Usually what happens is that the charged particles follow Earth's magnetic lines and go to the poles, which is the one place on Earth where you do suffer the most radiation from the Sun (basically wherever the poles are as the plasma follows the polarity or "field lines" of Earth's magnetic field). It's also why the closer you are to the poles the better your view is of the aurora as the particles streaming in, if there is a sufficient quantity moving very fast (the more energy, especially kinetic--speed, the farther the penetration into the atmosphere and the lower the aurora becomes visible), will enter the atmosphere and begin to be absorbed by various elements that our atmosphere is compromised of like Nitrogen.

Here's a quick explanation. Basically, the particles collide with atoms of molecules/elements or anything in the higher atmosphere, exciting their electrons into higher energy levels, which is known fundamentally in science as quantum leap/atomic transition/electron transition it's one of the atom's most fundamental abilities dealing with "extra energy" being pushed into a system that wants balance (this is a very common process that happens ALL DAY long, EVERYWHERE around you; it transfers photons essentially--pure energy--BUT, what is the energy in the form of as it's energy level makes it do very many different things; you could see things, what you consider the normal range of light--it's EXACTLY how light goes THROUGH a window--it doesn't go through the window it is transferred via the atoms from one side to the next, this is ALSO why people are trying to get invisibility to work as it just might; HEAT is another one that is transferred all the time--it literally radiates outwards from our bodies and then we are surrounded by excited electrons and the infrared range of light we are putting out, the heat of a human body...or any animal; this goes on and on, it happens everywhere and as I said ALL-THE-TIME, it's perhaps one of the most critical processes and abilities of the atom and how photons also transfer their energy between areas in a direction; a little off-topic information for those that don't realize how much is going on, everywhere, all the time, at any given second...it's a complicated, but beautiful world)), and making them give off light that we see when the charge they've taken on finally returns the molecule/element's electrons to their normal orbits in the electron shell; the color depends on what molecule/element was being bombarded and how much energy was involved from the particle that hit it). This of course transfers all the energy that those particles had and we get a nice light show.

/I thought I'd fill my promote with something useful; ...on why these happen...
//edit-For a little more clarity, grammar and a bit more information that I hope some will appreciate if it helps anyone learn something or atleast go look up some of this and learn some on their own; taking an interest in science, it's one of the most important things in the world that we have.
///Spreading science is just as important; it's the one literal thing we do/use that has ever allowed us to deal with the worst problems we have: fear, pain, death, disease, sorrow, despair, ignorance, etc... Science IS the light in the dark. It is our best hope for mankind's continued existence and a good life. It is the single most important activity we now do as a group; it's our savior from us and what's out there...

This is me in the bathroom whipping my hair taken with an L3 Thermal-Eye X200XP Thermal Imaging Infrared Camera (Y'all should getcha one a these babies!).... Check that aura, Dora.

I was disappointed to see it was just using the arduino to move the cards and toggle the picture, and that the image data still needed to be manually loaded into another pc. It would have been 700x better if the arduino used an infrared light bar detector or mechanical switchs like the real thing, and directly converted the cards to code, and THEN executed them.

>> ^deathcow:

I have no doubt that killing people like this and watching their glowing white (infrared cam) body parts get spread over a 400 sq ft area will mess (some of) these pilots up for life!! Just watching the videos alone is enough to make me freaked out.


I was thinking about this the other day. You've of course heard stories of the complete separation from their victims when you talk about bombadiers. I was wondering if stationing Drone pilots thousands of miles from their targets does the same thing. Does it become a video game, just sprites on a screen that don't hold any meaning. It's something to think about but I'm not so sure because as our technology has advanced to keep the "pilots" away from the entire battlefield, the optics has advanced to bring the close up images of the battlefield right to them. It must be an odd feeling, I can't imagine.

Also the people who flew those planes into the World Trade Center are braver than these Drone Pilots. So what the fuck does that say about bravery?

I have no doubt that killing people like this and watching their glowing white (infrared cam) body parts get spread over a 400 sq ft area will mess (some of) these pilots up for life!! Just watching the videos alone is enough to make me freaked out.

From YouTube description: "The images are taken in four different wavelengths of light, three visible, and one infrared. The infrared light appears orange in these images, and shows vegetation."

I wonder the same--those should probably be the green areas. Maybe it's false-color infrared? >> ^chingalera:

What are all those brown places??!!

Eye color can have an effect on vision sensitivity .. he still can't see infrared. Not so remarkable really.

>> ^deathcow:

Depends on the power I guess. Typical affordable mirror is probably in the 90% - 95% reflectivity. If they pack a megawatt laser than your mirror will be absorbing between 100,000 to 50,000 watts.


Not to mention that not all lasers are in the visible light spectrum. Infrared and ultraviolet lasers wouldn't be repeled by such means.

Man those on board cameras are stable. And that infrared camera is pretty badass.

Don't forget Danny, that there IS light in every direction, everywhere we look. It's just in the infrared end of the spectrum. Apparently, the creator didn't design us for seeing cosmic background radiation.