#lights
Out for a walk in south #Ottawa this evening with @dailyjoy@diasp.org to look at some #Christmas #lights.
#BLUE #AVALANCHE #LIGHTS IN #CHINA: This might be something new. On the night of Oct. 27th, Chinese astrophotographer Shengyu Li set up his camera to record star trails over Mount Xiannairi in Sichuan, China. The long exposure had just begun when an icy serac broke free from a hanging glacier. Note the blue flashes within the ensuing avalanche:
"We have not found any previously documented cases of such an event, making this discovery both thrilling and intriguing for us," says Li. "Our initial hypothesis is that the luminescence may result from friction-induced lighting during the fragmentation of ice."
The phenomenon is called "triboluminescence." Legendary physicist Richard Feynman explains it best: "When you take a lump of sugar and crush it with a pair of pliers in the dark, you can see a bluish flash. Some other crystals do that too. Nobody knows why." You can create triboluminescent flashes yourself by smashing Lifesavers.
The avalanche Li witnessed was rich in ice. "It started with a blocky serac, which randomly calved from a glacier near the mountain's peak," says Carson Reid, a mountaineer who analyzed Li's movie. "The serac would have fragmented as it tumbled down and smashed into natural obstacles." The most significant "smash points" seem to have produced the most blue light.
Li shared his movie with other astrophographers in China. One of them found a similar blue flash in footage of a completely different mountain in Xinjiang, China three weeks earlier:
https://vimeo.com/1033143984
"This is a timelapse video taken by Ms. Lu Miao on Oct. 3rd," says Li. "It also shows a blue flash during an avalanche." The mountain is Muztagh Ata, which means "Iceberg Father" in English.
"None of us photographers noticed the blue light with our naked eyes—it was only discovered later when reviewing the photos," says Li. "However, I asked some friends who frequently photograph snow-capped mountains, and one of them mentioned having seen blue light with the naked eye during an avalanche, though they didn’t capture it on camera."
#lights #wiring #myphoto
November 25, 2024
SECURE HOME BASE
Antique Lead Crystal Light Fixture
Ceiling Light is having problems. LED light bulbs are flashing and flickering. Going off and on. I don't know if its the bulbs, which are only a few years old, or something is wrong with the wiring. I'm having nightmares about an electrical fire, and I'm trying to escape.
Several months ago there was a giant fire in an apartment above me.
I've looked up the problem on the Internet. I've spent the day calling a list of electricians. Better safe than sorry. An electrician is arriving in the morning. I've been leaving the light OFF and using flashlights.
#RebeccaMarina ¦ #Cymatics and #sound #therapy, " #darkfield" #microscopy, and #prayer
https://x.com/BrianRoemmele/status/1854969616482943247
In this fascinating video clip shared by Brian Roemelle on X we witness what he describes as the following:
"Dr. Rebecca Marina had her red blood cells studied under different emotions and states.
When she felt sad, her blood cells actually became tear-shaped!
But when she felt #love, her cells turned back to normal and even #sparkled with tiny #lights.
Oh get ready for the #woo woo. When scientists prayed over her blood cells (separated from her body for hours), they started glowing and pulsing at the same rate as her heart.
The cells that weren't prayed over?
No movement at all."
We've a really good repository on the forum of the effects of sound on healing of course but seeing a clip of the effects of prayer biologically is really very remarkable indeed.
"This is because emotions are amphipathic peptides, which bind to the lipid bilayer of red blood cells leading to agglutination (clumping).
Praying at a distance helps due to loving intention communicated via biophotons, transmitting oxytocin release, which relaxes blood vessels increasing red blood cell mobility.
All cells in our body release and communicate with others cells via biophotons at the speed of light, just like the internet."
In Jacksonville Florida, citizens take action
"We thought we'd get 35 people for the bridge," he said. "We thought that would be a good night — that we'd get a couple of pictures and send them to our friends and say we did something. That this took off in such a way is so pleasing."
#LBGTQ+ #Jacksonville #Florida #PrideMonth #June #rainbow #lights
Florida won't light bridges in rainbow colors. So Jacksonville's LGBTQ community did.
#LED #lights #photography #myphoto
Close Encounters of the 4th Kind
The Neighbor Next Door. Light Pollution. Light Trespass. Light Assault.
#led #lights @Muse
December 22, 2023: 5:51 AM. Friday
Dear Miss Muse,
Thank you for your last message concerning your Full Spectrum Lights. They sound very nice. I've been up in the night packing the
flood lights I received. I'm shipping them back to the company. They were simply awful, of course, and not what I excepted.The lights were suppose to help me deal with the excess number of bright LED lights next door, and the city street lights as well. I'll keep trying different things until something works. It's not just light pollution/light trespass - it's outright light assault. I won't bother you with the long, complicated saga. It gives me a headache just to think about it.
I have a small Light Therapy Lamp, and a 2nd one for my indoor plant/tree, a Weeping Fig. There is very little sunlight, especially during the Winter. I also have a "grow light bulb" for the trees I've tried to grow in my apartment. These are my only experiences with Full Spectrum Lights. I think you'd be rolling on the floor laughing if you could have seen me with the Flood Light in my small kitchen. Hahahaha!
Showing off the seasonal LED collar
This is just here to show off the accidentally seasonal LED collar we got. Celebrate the holidays if you do!
(Meta: sometimes this effing artificial portrait mode exposes all the AI shortcomings. Cute dog, but the artifacts do suck.)
#dogsofmastodon #dogs #dogsofthefediverse #dogsofthefederation # #goldenretriever #狗 #fidofriday #mastodogs #Christmas #decoration #lights #pixel6