Jump to content

HOOK'EMHOOAH

Burnt Ends
  • Posts

    3518
  • Joined

  • Last visited

Posts posted by HOOK'EMHOOAH

  1. 5 hours ago, Aphelion said:

    That is an interesting effect; but it is not caused by gravitational lensing.  Your fingers do not have enough mass to bend light by any noticeable amount.  Even earth’s gravity field doesn’t bend light by any noticeable amount. 

    Im not saying a person's finger is causing gravitational lensing to occur. All I'm saying is that its light bending around the finger.

  2. 18 hours ago, El Diablo said:

    Cool. I only asked because I only have one functioning eye and almost every single optical illusion is dependent on binocular vision and I'm never able to perceive the illusion that everyone else sees. Still hard to believe that the thumb has enough mass to bend light in a way that is perceptible to the human eye.

    That really sucks. I'm glad I was able to bring this one to your attention and help with some science along the way. Despite any visual imparity, you still see well enough to know the correct side of the red river.

  3. 15 minutes ago, El Diablo said:

    Interesting. Without your explanation I might have thought that the observed phenomenon was related to binocular vision and how the eyes try to "solve" what they see. I guess even with just one eye the same can be observed to be happening? 

    Yes. The same phenomenon would be observed because this is a matter of spacetime being warped, not an instance of our perception of the light. This is because " Spacetime tells matter how to move; matter tells spacetime how to curve" as expressed by John Archibald Wheeler's interpretation of Einstein's Theory of General Relativity. Even if we were unable to use optics to detect this and were forced to use another type of experiment to derive what was happening, the galaxies behind intermediary lens would still emit everything they already do across the electro-magnetic spectrum and it still be be bent around any such bodies. What I mean by emissions across the electro-magnetic spectrum is everything from radio waves up to Gamma rays, this includes the visible spectrum of light that we see optically and is broken down into the various colors.

    Bonus note - there are black bars in the light that become visible with a sensitive and large enough prism. These black bars correspond to the elemental makeup of our local Star, Sol. This technique is used to understand the composition of distant stars as well, however the corresponding light and bars are always shifted up to the blue if the star/galaxy/light source is advancing toward us or red if receding away from us. Astrophysicists use these markers to identify characteristics in stars that would otherwise be impossible to know since we can't travel to them.

    • Like 1
  4. Having worked in biometrics, I can offer a unique perspective that probably no one else here can.

    First, there is already biometrics in use at international terminals that is used to bypass customs for those who have nothing to declare and are csrrying less than $10k. Anyone can still be flagged and searched even if they use this system, but it bypasses the long ass lines to get to the customs officer who stamps passports on the way into the country and receives the declaration forms. For purchases made when not in a store, a person could use another type of 2FA through a smart phone.

    Second, the use of biometric data, if it should ever be proliferated to this extent, to secure financial data would basically kill identity theft. No two finger prints, irises, tongues, or footprints (on the skin, like a baby's footprint) are the same, so if fingerprints were added to the chip on your credit or debit card and you had to scan a couple of them when you purchase something in a store, it becomes another form of 2 factor authentication.

    Third, biometrics and voting would be a very big winner because every citizen would be able to verify every vote they made for their entire voting history. This does two things in itself first it allows each citizen to flag errors which might indicate tampering, second it ensures everyone who is elligible to vote does so and does so only once.

    Finally, biometrics does not have anything to do with implanting anything into anyone. Nor does it seek to use anything except a persons own biological measurements - hence bio and metrics - to ensure the accurate identification of the individual.

  5. The visuals we receive from our current array of satellites are awe truly inspiring; however, they are but a sliver of the entirety of all there is to behold when compared to what we cannot see or even comprehend and what we have yet to discover in the vast expanse of the cosmos. We are lucky to live in an age where technology affords us an opportunity to discover the oldest questions of our species and ask new questions. We have front row tickets to a frontier our ancestors never could've dreamed possible. In the coming years and decades, our scientists will develop new and better ways of detecting that which our natural senses can not further expanding our ability to augment ourselves beyond what evolution has afforded us. Now is the time to lean further into the fold in pursuit of the answer; the ultimate answer - to life, the universe, and everything.

  6. 1 minute ago, BrazilHorn said:

    I know. I admit I’ve a problem 😀

    cant figure out punter issue going from north to south. 

    he's having issues because his compass is pointing in the wrong direction now that he's in the northern hemisphere...

  7. Just now, BurntOrangeSatire, LLC said:

    Problem with living on the west coast. 2 hour earlier start time. Probably a good chance I gotta view it on youtube when it pops up in a couple days. 

     

    no doubt. ill catch it all then as well.

×
×
  • Create New...