Profile
Madeline the Edifying
Active Entries
- 1: I've picked up the best of craigslist posting style while half asleep aa!
- 2: Guys...
- 3: Reviews of a lot of movies and books!
- 4: Ambercon Northwest 2010, so how'd that work out for me?
- 5: Ambercon Northwest schedule 2010
- 6: Primary Election, June 8 2010
- 7: First lines, 20 songs
- 8: Mostly a gratuitous meme post thx windrose
- 9: Saga of the bus trip
Style Credit
- Style: Sherbert for Crossroads by
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
branchandroot - Resources: Believable response
Expand Cut Tags
No cut tags
no subject
Date: 2007-05-14 05:54 am (UTC)The human body doesn't have that many mechanisms for responding to light, and the significant color sensitive ones (the cones in the eye) smash all that spectrum down to three channels. If you can watch TV without the colors seeming intensely wrong, that's not the problem. (The rods have yet another spectrum; 4 spikes might be necessary...)
It's sort of odd how far incandescents are from sunlight without that bothering you: They're both pretty close to blackbody radiation, with sunlight being at about 6000 degrees, and incandescents being quite a bit cooler than that.
But yeah, outlawing incandescent bulbs is insane. An energy-cost offset tax, maybe, but they should go after the wasteful power supplies first.
(Portions of the above may need modification if you are colorblind, nonhuman (e.g., a honeybee) or tetrachromat for reasons I am currently too lazy to type.)