On Tue, 2 Mar 1999 11:24:49 -0600, Chuck wrote: >>At night the only color that will not damage your night vision is >>red. The yellow and green cyalume lights will ruin your night vision >>completely. Red has no effect. >I've heard it said lately that the color of the light is not so >important as its intensity -- that a dim white light will not harm >night vision more than a dim red light. I have also seen references >to the military using green lighting to protect night vision. I've also heard it said that the red light theory was a hoax developed by the Brits to annoy/distract the enemy during WWII and that there is no basis for red being any better than any other colour of the same intensity. -- cheers, Stephen stephen.bird_at_superaje.com *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ ***************************************************************************Received on Thu Mar 04 1999 - 14:27:39 PST
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