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Seeing Color in the Night
Roland Piquepaille writes "In 'Things that show color in the night,' the Boston Globe reports that a company named Tenebraex is helping color blind people to travel. But it's also developing goggles to help soldiers and physicians to see all colors at night, and not only the green color of current night vision systems. These goggles, which should become available this summer, will be sold for about $6,000 to the Army. But as states one of the founders of the company, with monochrome night vision, 'blood is the same color as water.' So these expensive night vision devices might be more targeted to Army physicians than to regular soldiers."
There are some non-gun-toting people who need to operate in a stealthy or semi-stealthy manner that would make use of this sort of thing. Think of the National Geographic-types that are setting up a pre-dawn shoot and trying to remain less visible, or the guys working on a forward helicopter refueling station who definitely prefer to be harder to see and definitely want to know the difference between stepping in a puddle of water and a puddle of hydraulic fluid.
Don't disappoint your bird dog. Go to the range.
Actually, as an infantry officer, I prefer the monocular. If you get whited-out, you still have one good eye. It takes a bit to get used to, but once you are used to it, the monocular is an excellent system.
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I'm "attacking" the Army by complaining how it doesn't adequately supply troops? Maybe I'm attacking the top brass that controls those things, but I don't think I'm attacking the Army as a whole, certainly not the soldiers who have to put up with doing battle without any armor, or having to accept substandard medical care.
Ultimately, the blame for these things lies at the very top.
And yes, I do bitch about my tax money being spent on the military: I can think of many better things to spend $1 TRILLION on than an unjustified war. A standing military for national defense is a good thing; starting wars in other countries for no good reason (and the consequential gigantic military expenditures) is not. If you disagree, I'm sure the Pentagon will happily accept your donations.
No. Ronald Piquepaille has mended his ways. The story links straight to the relevant article and not to his blog. The last few stories from him have done the same. It's time to declare victory and move on to some other gripe.
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This reminds me of a question my Grandfather posed to me when I was young (30+ yrs ago). When the lights are out, can you not see colors (objects) because it is dark or because they don't have any color w/o light shining on them, a bit like "does a tree falling make noise if no one is there to hear it". I haven't thought of this in a while, I am sure there is a scientific answer, I would guess the prior, the characteristics that make an object a certain color are still there when the lights are out.
If you could reason with religious people, there would be no religious people
Now, sorry for being blunt (i.e. trolling), but military equipment is expensive.
Suckers who volunteer to fight in wars are a dime a dozen.
I mean, nobody pays people to reproduce, but they do it anyway, eh? The more you kill, the more will spawn.
(Why, yes, I am a mizanthrope.)
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