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Re: Artificial horizon
From: Bill B
Date: 2005 Feb 20, 19:24 -0500
From: Bill B
Date: 2005 Feb 20, 19:24 -0500
>> A highly polished black surface >> (like a clean new black car) will want to >> absorb all visible wave lengths by virtue of being black, >> but actually acts >> like a mirror because of the polished surface, > > Does not blue or red clean new car act the same way? Not to the extent that a black car will, to both my eye and my camera's eye (which does not have nearly the range of the human eye, the camera being in the 2000:1 range). Bill