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Using the human hand as a powerless infrared radiation source
Phys.org ^ | APRIL 8, 2021 | Bob Yirka ,

Posted on 04/11/2021 6:49:19 PM PDT by BenLurkin

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To: House Atreides

It’s talking about using the invisible (to the human eye) light from the heat source. Very interesting article.


21 posted on 04/12/2021 3:49:57 AM PDT by livius
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To: Kipp

“OMG, 45 years ago I thought my MIL was nutty for trying to cure my headache with johrei - energy emanating from her hands. (It didn’t work.)”
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My grandma cured my childhood warts I had in my hands by rubbing them with a potato. Only later in life did I learn that warts are caused by a virus and usually just go away on their own.


22 posted on 04/12/2021 3:57:01 AM PDT by House Atreides
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To: Salamander

LOL, I can occasionally “smell” snow on those miserable, gray days...

On a more realistic note, why would this be considered to be unusual, that human hands are an infrared radiation source. Anyone who has held a living hand knows that.

Now, a “powerless” source...that would be something different altogether. Humans as IR emitters are “powered”. Take away our food (power source) for a few weeks and see what our IR emissions look like.


23 posted on 04/12/2021 4:52:35 AM PDT by rlmorel (Leftists are The Droplet of Sewage in a gallon of ultra-pure clean water.)
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To: BenLurkin

Claude Monet could see uv light when he had a lens removed from his eye because of blinding cataracts.
Isn’t it amazing now that we know that parts of our bodies emit infrared light? Now that we’ve been using body heat detectors for what...50 years?


24 posted on 04/12/2021 4:55:52 AM PDT by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and diamonds, and harder to find.)
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To: rlmorel

I got tired of visible light photography and got into IR and UV.

I can look at a scene and tell if it will make a worthy IR photo or not.

Normally that would be lots of foliage and such but there are other things that emit/reflect IR quite well and I have a weird knack for ‘seeing’ them beforehand.

UV photography is even stranger.
Full spectrum is really bizarre.

Very little of the world looks like we think it does.

If we could see what critters do, we’d go insane.

/there is something wrong with me, I think

o_O


25 posted on 04/12/2021 5:21:35 AM PDT by Salamander (Salamander has barbaric tendencies.../Gundog)
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