Wouldn't it be far more efficient to give everybody night vision than it would be to set up a lighting system on every street and in every building? Not night-vision goggles I mean, but if eye augmentation was widespread and being able to see a greater light spectrum was feasible? I suppose it wouldn't be nearly as aesthetically pleasing and you still wouldn't be able to see in pitch darkness, but it could reduce the amount of light fixtures we need. Also I'm probably being dumb and overlooking some other glaringly obvious problem.
Different wavelengths of light give very different information about the surface they reflected from. So seeing someone's face in IR would reveal information that we don't normally use (though could be useful in certain specific circumstances) while obscuring information we do use all the time under more noise.
I have a theory. All this doomsday end of the world because of this or that has been happening since the farm of time. The planet has always been just about to die, its just now we have the tools to see it and care enough to notice.
Wouldn't it be far more efficient to give everybody night vision than it would be to set up a lighting system on every street and in every building? Not night-vision goggles I mean, but if eye augmentation was widespread and being able to see a greater light spectrum was feasible? I suppose it wouldn't be nearly as aesthetically pleasing and you still wouldn't be able to see in pitch darkness, but it could reduce the amount of light fixtures we need. Also I'm probably being dumb and overlooking some other glaringly obvious problem.
Different wavelengths of light give very different information about the surface they reflected from. So seeing someone's face in IR would reveal information that we don't normally use (though could be useful in certain specific circumstances) while obscuring information we do use all the time under more noise.
fun fact: Glass windows are opaque to infrared light
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Also ultraviolet
That's why you can't get a tan through a window
I have a theory. All this doomsday end of the world because of this or that has been happening since the farm of time. The planet has always been just about to die, its just now we have the tools to see it and care enough to notice.
If my shadowrun characters are any indication, I would spend all my nuyen on cyberparts.
yeah, but you know, extra hit boxes are pretty fucking useful. and you can have a usb drive in your thumb and sword arms. Really, not seeing a downside.
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Ordinary glass is partially transparent to UVA but is opaque to shorter wavelengths, whereas silica or quartz glass, depending on quality, can be transparent even to vacuum UV wavelengths. Ordinary window glass passes about 90% of the light above 350 nm, but blocks over 90% of the light below 300 nm.
Take a clear PET bottle, fill it up to about 75%, shake the shit out of it for a couple of minutes and leave it in the sun all day. The sunlight will kill the vast majority of nasties in the water and make it safe to drink
Early Saturday morning, an unresponsive University of Tennessee student was dropped off at a medical center with a blood alcohol content that local police say was “well over .40,” the point at which death can occur. How did the 20-year-old student get that dangerously drunk?
Campus police went to the student’s fraternity house, Pi Kappa Alpha (aka Pike), to find out. They found several males intoxicated or passed out — and this scene, as described by a Knoxville police spokesman in a Monday statement that was obtained by The Post: “Upon extensive questioning it is believed that members of the fraternity were utilizing rubber tubing inserted into their rectums as a conduit for alcohol as the abundance of capillaries and blood vessels present greatly heightens the level and speed of the alcohol entering the blood stream as it bypasses the filtering by the liver.”
The act of getting wasted in that way is also referred to as “butt chugging,” “alcohol enema” and, well, “completely idiotic.”
there was some article about dartmouth? or some super yuppy school with a really serious frat scene in rolling stone a while back that mentioned that method of consumption
and Ellis and Templesmith's Fell had the protagonist investigating a murder that was caused by some old lady pumping her ill husband full of alcohol that way
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Early Saturday morning, an unresponsive University of Tennessee student was dropped off at a medical center with a blood alcohol content that local police say was “well over .40,” the point at which death can occur. How did the 20-year-old student get that dangerously drunk?
Campus police went to the student’s fraternity house, Pi Kappa Alpha (aka Pike), to find out. They found several males intoxicated or passed out — and this scene, as described by a Knoxville police spokesman in a Monday statement that was obtained by The Post: “Upon extensive questioning it is believed that members of the fraternity were utilizing rubber tubing inserted into their rectums as a conduit for alcohol as the abundance of capillaries and blood vessels present greatly heightens the level and speed of the alcohol entering the blood stream as it bypasses the filtering by the liver.”
The act of getting wasted in that way is also referred to as “butt chugging,” “alcohol enema” and, well, “completely idiotic.”
there was some article about dartmouth? or some super yuppy school with a really serious frat scene in rolling stone a while back that mentioned that method of consumption
and Ellis and Templesmith's Fell had the protagonist investigating a murder that was caused by some old lady pumping her ill husband full of alcohol that way
yeah it was dartmouth, i remember reading this
something about baths full of vomit and basically the most horrible shit
also if you got retrofuturism in there somehow that would be the most Warren Ellis thing ever
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I'd watch that
Different wavelengths of light give very different information about the surface they reflected from. So seeing someone's face in IR would reveal information that we don't normally use (though could be useful in certain specific circumstances) while obscuring information we do use all the time under more noise.
I know right?
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Maybe'd we'd just have to stick with light intensity NV
which would really suck when someone put a flash light in your face for fun.
I have a plan CD
We cross the lifestreams
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fun fact: Glass windows are opaque to infrared light
That's why you can't get a tan through a window
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what will that do?
. . .
yeah, but you know, extra hit boxes are pretty fucking useful. and you can have a usb drive in your thumb and sword arms. Really, not seeing a downside.
Take a clear PET bottle, fill it up to about 75%, shake the shit out of it for a couple of minutes and leave it in the sun all day. The sunlight will kill the vast majority of nasties in the water and make it safe to drink
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yeah sure your graphs look better
but I just can't remember all different regions in all the different forms
and isn't that what's most important??
Try to imagine all life as you know it stopping instantaneously and every molecule in your body exploding at the speed of light.
I'm gonna go and fact check tonight, but I'm pretty certain
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CDProjekt, so I am optimistic.
A quick skim of google scholar seems to say that yeah, it's good enough to be considered effective
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0043135404005640
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somehow I'm not surprised
I remember those guys
Their frat house loooked like a a drone strike had hit it
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and Ellis and Templesmith's Fell had the protagonist investigating a murder that was caused by some old lady pumping her ill husband full of alcohol that way
what a bunch of drunk assholes
yeah it was dartmouth, i remember reading this
something about baths full of vomit and basically the most horrible shit
also if you got retrofuturism in there somehow that would be the most Warren Ellis thing ever
damnit stop ignoring my posts, every single one of you
I mean even if we are all ignoring Futore
this is nothing new