Gypsy Jan
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Sadly, No Green Flash Tonight
For the sunset, we had a perfectly clear horizon with a few black popcorn clouds in the sky, but the sun went down without a flash.
Maybe tomorrow.
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow mindedness.”
—Mark Twain
\"La vida es dura, el corazon es puro, y cantamos hasta la madrugada.” (Life is hard, the heart is pure and we sing until dawn.)
—Kirsty MacColl, Mambo de la Luna
\"Alea iacta est.\"
—Julius Caesar
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DENNIS
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There's no such thing as a Green Flash except a synapse that takes place in what's left of a brain that went through the sixties.
Gawwwwwdammmmm.....it's amazing that rational people are still being led to look for fantasies that can't be caught on film without the insight of
Photoshop.
Pleeeeeeze. Overdose and get it over with.
Thank you.
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Gypsy Jan
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Whatever You Say Dennis
I didn;t believe in green flashes until I saw them.
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow mindedness.”
—Mark Twain
\"La vida es dura, el corazon es puro, y cantamos hasta la madrugada.” (Life is hard, the heart is pure and we sing until dawn.)
—Kirsty MacColl, Mambo de la Luna
\"Alea iacta est.\"
—Julius Caesar
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DENNIS
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That's what I said about ghosts.
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karenintx
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Georgetown Grand Cayman = April 1992 as we set up for twilight dive.
Mazatlan = May 2003 while drinking a glass of vino and watching the sunset.
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wessongroup
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Only get green flashes with excessive xanax and 5 Cadilac Margarita's..
Get a different color with 5 shots of Wild Turkey ... more of an orange...
Ghosts... well, hell ... see them all the time, and they are waiting for me right now .. it's the colors that I like however, not the "folks" ....
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BornFisher
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Are you guys nuts (Dennis, wessongroup)? You really think green flashes are just a snipe hunt? I`ll cut you some slack because I think you may be
teasing Jan, but they are common in winter clear skies.
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mike odell
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Just finished up dinner here at my roadhouse, I'm sure a
a lot of folk saw the green flash ,some mighta seen the elephant!
Anyway, a good time was had by all.
All of ya iffin your in the area, stop by!
Mike
latrinidadrvranchrestaurant.com
Everybody knows Murphy\'s Law.
Martinez Law; Murphy was a damn optimist!
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DENNIS
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Timothy Leary saw lots of green flashes. He said they had arms and legs and ran around the house.
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mike odell
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,Damn , Dennis, How did you know Tim was here tonight?
He spoke well of everyone here on the board, you in particular, but didn''t look at
all well for his age. Maybe he had a bad gastronomical experience?
Hope he comes back soon though, I could use a nice restaurant review.
latrinidadrvranchrestaurant.com
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Martinez Law; Murphy was a damn optimist!
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goldhuntress
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_flash
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mooose29
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Ive seen it 3 or 4 times. I think the problem is that people tend to look for this very large flash accross the horizon in my experience it is more
of a green dot right at the spot the sun went down.
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Bajaboy
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This is my idea of Green Flash:
http://www.greenflashbrew.com/
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mike odell
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Soulpatch,
I must have double retina displacement, whoosa, there it is again! And
by the way, what is the speed of dark? I don't have a theory, but I really
relish one.
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Martinez Law; Murphy was a damn optimist!
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wessongroup
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| Quote: | Originally posted by mike odell
Soulpatch,
I must have double retina displacement, whoosa, there it is again! And
by the way, what is the speed of dark? I don't have a theory, but I really
relish one. |
Would that be the speed of dark in a "Black Hole"... or just plain dark traveling in a vacuum straight line ...
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tripledigitken
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I'm with you.
Their 30th Street Pale Ale is awesome.
Ken
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mcfez
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Interesting topic, for I have seen green in the sunset myself. I was not smoking the ol stuff
On a serious note here.....here's a research paper on the matter.
The famous but seldom seen "green flash" or "emerald flash" which occurs just before the last part of the sun disappears from view at sunset is caused
by the same atmospheric refraction and scattering effects which produce the red sunset.
A rich subject for debate over the years, the green flash is rarely seen, but its observers wax eloquent about the brilliant green or emerald color
when it is seen. In uniform air, the dispersion is apparently so small that the separation of red and green images is not visible. It takes more
unusual layering of the atmosphere to enhance the separation.
Such a seldom seen and dramatic effect as the green flash tends to collect myth, so some care must be taken to separate fact from myth. I had reported
from another reference that the perceived brilliance of the green might be heightened by the low-light enhancement of green vs the red end of the
spectrum (see "Rods do not see red!" in color puzzles). Andrew Young contests this, stating that sunsets are so bright and provide so much light even
in the green that significant bleaching of the pigment for both red and green may occur, certainly not the conditions for the scotopic or low-light
vision. Young maintains an excellent website of resources about green flashes, "An Introduction to Green Flashes".
The index of refraction for red is 1.000292 and that for blue is 1.000295. Out of a total refraction of about 0.53°, the dispersion is only 0.006° or
about 20 arc seconds, compared to a 120 arc sec resolution for the eye. Thus under normal conditions the eye would not see this.
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/atmos/redsun.html
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Floatflyer
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We watch the sun rise all winter long overlooking the Sea of Cortez with a cup of coffee and while looking through binoculars and probably half the
time we see a "green flash". There is no damage to our eyesight, either.
Our view of sunsets are impaired by the hills to the west of us, so I can't comment on those flashes.
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Phil S
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Is a 'green flash' anything like a 'hot flash'????? Wife used to talk about those many years ago. Glad I never had to worry about 'that' experience.
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