Various folks wrote: > > >>At night the only color that will not damage your night vision is > > >>red. > > > > >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 > I'm reminded of an incident back in the days that I was doing a lot of TSD rallying in cars. Our local club had one highly skilled rallyest, VAnce Swift, who was known to use red lights in his car on night rallies. You have to have some illumination so the navigator can read the route directions and calculate time, speed, and distance. Anyway, one rallyemaster decided the time had come to get Vance, so he printed some of the directions in red. These didn't show up on Vance's sheet, so he didn't win for a change. It was only later that we all realized that the name of the event, the GVS Rallye stood for "Get Vance Swift". Or so the story goes. Steve -- Test Scoring & Reporting Services Sometimes, you never can University of Georgia always tell what you Athens, GA 30602-5593 least expect the most. *************************************************************************** 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 Fri Mar 05 1999 - 09:14:19 PST
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