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- drproteus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+25I've spent about 8 months of my life at sea always trying to see one. I thought for a while it was a myth but then this summer we were sailing to Greenland about 200 miles past the straits of belle isle between nova scotia and the tip of greenland and I saw one.
I felt kind of nerdy being so happy, but hey there isn't much else to do at sea. We had just got into really cold waters (~2 degrees) and it was probably caused by temperature inversion. From what I have read, it was a really good one - saw the full spectrum including indigo. I was lucky that night, i also saw the aurora borealis - coldfusion055, on 10/12/2007, -4/+26You're a douche.
- rocketnick, on 10/12/2007, -1/+18@baxtermadux
psssttt....
he wont be able to read that :)
seems kind of pointless to say - soogy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+17I prefer this image, which shows the fade of a green flash: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:GreenFlash.jpg
- coldfusion055, on 10/12/2007, -2/+17You're a douche +2.
- vbsurfer, on 10/12/2007, -2/+15@baxtermadux
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Flash
and you're blocked. - daRoach, on 10/12/2007, -2/+15The myth is that the sun was temporarily turning green.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -6/+17The article states that it's a prism effect from the light refracting off the atmosphere layers, so why would people consider it a myth?
- Dundasbro, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10http://digg.com/users/baxtermadux
Uh-Oh, Spaghettios... - z00k, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10Very nice photo, with great details about the photo.
Appreciated and dugg.
-Zook - sinfony, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10Get a ***** hobby.
- coldfusion055, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10That's five consecutive non-constructive comments in a row! High five!
- Murdats, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8do you know what happens if enough people block you? goodbye account
- ViktorVaughn, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8So I guess that means you win. Way to go.
- 0x0000ff, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6blocked+2
- neilpan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4hundreds of pictures here:
http://mintaka.sdsu.edu/GF/pictures.html - dukeinlondon, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5nice one
- Joe091, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4"The Sun itself does not turn partly green"
No, really? - defcon8, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I have seen a green flash myself. It happened on a cloudless evening. The green flash went across the whole horizon just as the sun set. It seems to be a very rare ocurrence and very hard to capture with a camera. But for those who haven't seen it, don't lose hope :).
- coldfusion055, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5I agree. I like this one better. I never knew such a thing existed.
- anachronaut, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4If enough people block you you'll end up losing that account, smart guy. (oh yeah, blocked)
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Yay! You can read!
- taotehue, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4but you would still be a douche. That would carry over, and it would be apparent.
- RyanOC, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I saw one on st pete beach in florida where I live. Its the only one Ive ever seen in my 33 years. I didnt know about it untill a guy that was there said something about it. He was in his 50s and watched for one for many years untill he saw ont that day.
RyanOC - aquax, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2For years my mom has been always saying "let's look for the green flash" whenever the sun went down. I started to think she was just repeating some urban legend, but hey, I guess Mom's smarter than I thought.
- apache2, on 10/12/2007, -4/+6the green flash is a myth because it is very very hard to see and you need to be at the right spot at the right time for it to happen. it is very rare, and only people looking for it will see it.
this is probably why it is a myth - borisspider, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2The sun actually has its peak light output in the green part of the spectrum; technically it is a green star. However, our eyes do not pick up that part of the spectrum as well as they pick up the yellow part of the spectrum, so we generally we see the sun as yellow.
- 1randomnumber, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I've seen it once in South Carolina, on vacation. Twas quite cool, just kind of a "wtf" moment and then I realized what I had seen.
- Crusty, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1When I lived on the Big Island, I tried many times to see it, but never did. Then one day when I wasn't looking for it, I happened to look over as the sun went down and saw it for a brief bit. So it is real, just really hard to spot.
- xWintermute, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I've seen it once as well on a lake at sunset in Michigan. Never really knew what it was until I read this article. awesome.
- schibs, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I've seen this at my house on the Gulf in Florida. Pretty neat.
- gnorb, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1If you take a spectrograph of the sun you realize a good chunk of it shows up in the green range. In fact, if we had to pick only one color for the sun, it would be a greenish color, since that's where our sun peaks as far as light and color emission are concerned. We see it as yellowish due to evolutionary conventions, and because we also see every other color it puts out at once. (You do realize there are colors which exist for which we have no names, right? We can't see them because we haven't evolved that capability. Likewise, we have evolved to see our sun in the color most benefiting us, or rather our ancestors.) The yellowish should give you a clue that the sun is not uniformly putting out light across the entire visible spectrum. Some alien looking from afar would actually see our sun as greenish (or rather, whatever color they saw green as given their own evolutionary biology and what their eyes have evolved to most easily picking up).
You can see more information on the green flash here:
http://mintaka.sdsu.edu/GF/explain/explain.html - RMorris, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1A couple of nice ones from neilpans link.
http://mintaka.sdsu.edu/GF/pictures.html
http://mintaka.sdsu.edu/GF/pictures.html - ihsubandos, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1If you like this sort of thing the Atmospheric Optics site is worth a visit
http://www.atoptics.co.uk/ - inajeep, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Looks like the sun farted.
- defcon8, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Actually, It is green, I think because of the angle at which the light from the sun enter the atmosphere. All the air particles are filtering out all colours but green to the place where we see it from. The same can be said for sunsets. I forget the name of this effect.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4Another comment by you? Blocked.
- swaters, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0And in many places it's not that rare. There are thousands of photographs of the green flash here on Maui where someone sees it almost every day. The effect is real, and I'm surprised at how many people don't' believe it. All it takes is a clear horizon with no clouds and you need to be watching at the precise moment when the last bit of the sun is hidden.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+4Someone buy Kevin and Alex some Green Flash to drink on the podcast:
http://www.fh-weihenstephan.de/la/acs/green-flash.jpg - noblepenguin, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1lisa, i want to buy your gold bar…
- kjinx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I've seen one. Sarasota, FL 2002 and I was sober. Me and a friend were trying to watch for the last light from the sunset and I saw a green flash and asked him, "Did you see a green light?", he said "Yeah that was ***** weird." I didn't know anything about the phenomena at the time but read about it later. So ... say what you will about it being "impossible" ... I seen it.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Hey *****! Here's some news for you: retarded comments => blocked; retarded replies => lots of blocks => ban. Have a great day!
- SportBilly, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1And it looks real too
- seabreezemm, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0The blue tint of the atmospheric gases + yellow from the sun = green (simple color theory)... it's not a flash from the sun but rather an atmospheric anomaly caused from light refraction on the atmosphere. It is similar to the waves you see coming off the road on high heat days
- snowwrestler, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Saw this in Tahiti in April, even got a picture of it. It's really cool looking in person but you really have to be looking for it; it's usually pretty small. I was psyched because this was one of things I really wanted to see while I was there.
- n3m6, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0i've seen this out on a boat, during sunset.
- azuriel, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Yup. It's called refraction, same principle as a prism. Light in space hits the more dense atmosphere, and bends towards from the normal line. Red bends the least, so when the sun is below the horizon, all we see is the refracted red light of the sunset. I had no idea this happened with green light too, never heard about it before until now.
- azuriel, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0What kind of fake science is "it takes 3 1/2 suns to emit the color green", turn on a lightbulb. If it wasn't emitting green light, it'd be a nice, bright purple instead of white. Plus, the peak radiation of the sun (blackbody radiation, Wien's law) is actually in the visible green, so what you're saying REALLY doesn't make sense.
- fuckingusername, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Nah that's a North Korea Nuke test.
- Jeeum, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0Why is my post being dugg down?
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