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NewBie said:
Just figured out what makes a flashaholic tic.
Buried deep in their subconcious...
They are afraid of the dark!
After seeing some of the collections around here, like jtice, kakster, and others, I must jump to the conclusion, the dark scares them sh*tless.
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I completely disagree!
I love to walk in the total darkness, and walking under a full moon is great, too. I have always taken walks at dusk, so that my night vision adapts at the same rate as the light fades. I have never been afraid of the dark.
Still, in some cases, you want to be able to SEE farther and clearer than your natural night vision wil allow. At this point you have two choices: a red light which will not spoil your night vision, or a bright light that will spoil it.
I used to teach astronomy lab when I was a grad student, and I dearly miss spending three solid hours in darkness, with only red lights glowing occasionally, looking up at the stars through an 8 inch Clark refractor, and a 12 inch dobsonian, and with the naked eye, and I really like red lights, but still the same problem remains: the need to see farther and clearer.
So that only leaves a BRIGHT flashlight, and if I'm going to spoil my night vision, I want that sucker to be bright, bright, bright!
Besides, you can't appreciate a bright flashlight unless it is dark out. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif
