[LRflex] Re: Was: Comparison of M8 Photos in Infra-Red - is now "rubbish?"

Hi Colin, you're right,
 From breakfast to photography, the readiness is all
Shakespeare time now. ;-)
Phil
 

Colin Howarth wrote:

>On 21.11.2006, at 21:27, Philippe Amard wrote:
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>>may I maintain that dark wolour transfer heat (or cold) faster?
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>You are free to maintain whatever you wish.
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>>This is science, not me.
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>No, maintaining something is not science, as such :)
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>>BTW why do you think the people in the Sahara desert dress in dark  
>>clothes?
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>It looks really cool :)    Or because they want to get hot quickly  
>during the day, and cold quickly during the night?
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>>They must have had time to have "hands-on-experience", long before
>>scientists got any interest in that.
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>There are plenty of people wearing white clothes in hot sunny places  
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>I've had hands-on experience with black and white objects in  
>sunlight. The black ones get hotter.
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>There are a variety of ways of transferring energy to and from a  
>body. Absorbing / radiating light is one of them, and black objects  
>are indeed "better" at absorbing / radiating than white ones.
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>That doesn't apply to conduction though. Indeed covering something  
>with a nice thick insulating coat of paint will reduce conduction.
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>In any real life problem, there are a variety of factors at work, and  
>the system probably isn't in equilibrium. Good luck with the egg  
>experiment. You'd need identical eggs and a very accurate way of  
>measuring the egg-readiness :)
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>colin
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