Flashlights for flashing at ghost?

[iapyx]

Yes I am actually. Classic red/green.

Then I have an interesting thread for you to which I contributed since I am colourblind too. (also classic green/red). At elementary school they found out that I am slightly colourblind. Colourblind people can see better in darkness. More specific: they adjust quicker to darkness.

Here's the thread: http://www.candlepowerforums.com/vb/showthread.php?t=173771

In post #5 I wrote about an article on colourblind people adapting better/faster to darkness [from a good reliable Dutch newspaper]

 

[da.gee]

Wow people. Very interesting experiences. I hope NOT to duplicate them.

Sgt. LED: that is one freaky story. Having seen 8 zillion sci-fi and monster movies I would probably have a heart attack thinking of what could be on the other side of the door.

 

[Lightcrazycanuck]

This is exactly why I wear a tinfoil helmet around the house. This affords me threefold protection against 1)Aliens 2) Ghosts 3)Jehovas Witnesses standing at my front door on Saturdays

You and I must be related,I do the exact same thing.:D:D

It works everytime.:laughing::laughing::twothumbs:twothumbs

 

[gsxrac]

Hah my fiance is colorblind (completly. She sees everything in shades of grey)
and for a long time when we first met she would walk around in the dark with very little light and I asked her how good her night vision is since she has horrible day time vision (usually cant leave the house without red sunglasses even on cloudy days) and she said she sees awesome in the dark. She is still completly happy with her e1 and original KL1 head and has no need for anything brighter accept she takes a G2Z with a solarforce strike bezel and a R2 dropin with her when we go on walks.

Yes I am actually. Classic red/green.

EDIT: OK I just looked it up, There is a link between colorblindness and seeing better at night! Cool
I noticed I saw better at night than others but I never knew why. That's awesome.
I also found this site that has a bunch of tests. http://www.moillusions.com/2009/04/color-blindness-test-ultimate-edition.html I failed bigger than sh*t. LOL

 

[Sgt. LED]

You know, maybe that's one of the reasons I tend to focus on lights with long runtime instead of high brightness!

What an interesting day. :thumbsup:

 

[gsxrac]

Hey im not even colorblind and I find myself focusing on runtime over brightness at least for an EDC. But toys have to be brighter!!!

 

[sappyg]

ok..... a quick experiment in the garage with a cigarette and led and an incan. this was very unscientific and completely inconsistant but the incan did give more definition to the smoke from the cig. to my eye it gave more detail to the smoke and was able to "define" where the smoke was as well.
the cool white led tended to wash out and loose the smoke.
i don't think ghosts are smoke but we can probably agree that they are at least opaque. in this case the incan supplied more definition to the subject. i'm thinking that the color spectrum is more relivent than lux or lumen for flashing ghosts if it is even possible. also consider the the notion that they (ghosts) must be a type, or form if you will, of energy. given this, perhaps the heat or warmth of incan might pick this up better.
a friend once told me that energy can neither be created or destroyed... only converted into something else..... when you boil water you see a slight vapor and then it's gone.... the water is still there but you'll be hard pressed to see it with any flashlight unless there was a large amount of convergent humidity. you'll have a better chance seeing it with an incan but you can't scare the humidity.
yet questions remain. would we know a ghost if we saw one? would there be any bennefit to flashing a ghost? and why do we need to flash a ghost?

 

[fiftycalibre]

I was reading this thread then I got a strange chill down the middle of my body.

Then I remembered I am eating ice cream :oops:


True story

 

[Lightcrazycanuck]

I was reading this thread then I got a strange chill down the middle of my body.

Then I remembered I am eating ice cream :oops:


True story

:eek::eek::eek: :crackup::crackup::crackup::crackup:

 

[arowana]

While a powerful flashlight maybe be powerless against a real ghost, it will be handy as a good indicator to banish 'ghosts' (ie pranksters or homeless people)... shine it right at its face and if it doesn't even flinch, run away FAST.

 

[M@elstrom]

That's a great link Sgt. LED thanks, most of those images were cut & dry, however some (including the first one) were not... I'm not sure if that indicates some level of colour vision deficiency or not :thinking:

FWIW my night vision is good enough to negate the need for flashlights under most night conditions :thumbsup:

 

[crizyal]

Ghosts are not bothered by visible light. They are invisible themselves so you need invisible light to drive them away. The simplest way to do this is put a thin insulating disc (2 circles of paper with a layer of garlic skin between them works well) between the batteries and the positive contact in your flashlight. The paper stops the regular electrons that make visible light from entering the bulb or led, while the garlic skin amplifies the ecto-electrons that make invisible light. As an added bonus this also works against vampires. Beware of the very cheap anti-ghost lights you see on places like Deal Extreme, since they often just leave out the batteries completely, stopping both visible and invisible light, so you think you are safe but in fact you are completely exposed.

True flashaholic form! LOL:crackup:

 

[MIKES250R]

OK, it's time to stop screwing around.......

This is a job for Elektrolumens :devil:

Wayne to the rescue

Some kind of new design called "Thermonuclear wall of light" or something :D

24 P7 or MC-Es in a trash can lid size bezel powered by an 18ah SLA..:naughty:

The ghost says "boo" and you say "BOOM"

Why not name it the Ghost Buster?

 

[beautifully-stupid]

Just watched ghost adventures last night on the travel channel.

The host used something called a "dark light" to attracts ghosts. Google pulls up random threads that lead to nothing...

Any ideas... speculation?

 

[M@elstrom]

AFAIK darklight refers to the UV range radiated by the given bulb/emitter the sort of thing once popular in night clubs that made anything white (or really light in colour) seemingly glow :D