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Nov 22, 2009, 11:35:14 AM11/22/09
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On Nov 21, 5:29 pm, Fred Ellis <fkel...@xstic.net> wrote:
> Tim Bruening wrote:
>
> > "David V. Loewe, Jr." wrote:
>
> >>Anyone else watching the Kino videos on the web?
>
> > Not me. I didn't even know they existed.
>
> > When Eli turned on the kino's night vision in "Time", the scene looked
> > white, and the gun flashes looked black. However, whenever I've seen
> > scenes on TV shot through a night vision goggle, (such as reports from
> > the fighting in Iraq) they have looked green. Why the difference?
>
> Because the 'kino' is using infrared to enhance the vision at night, not
> an ambient light source. Night vision goggles use ambient light to
> enhance a person's vision at night. That's why it appears green.
> Tim Bruening wrote:
>
> > "David V. Loewe, Jr." wrote:
>
> >>Anyone else watching the Kino videos on the web?
>
> > Not me. I didn't even know they existed.
>
> > When Eli turned on the kino's night vision in "Time", the scene looked
> > white, and the gun flashes looked black. However, whenever I've seen
> > scenes on TV shot through a night vision goggle, (such as reports from
> > the fighting in Iraq) they have looked green. Why the difference?
>
> Because the 'kino' is using infrared to enhance the vision at night, not
> an ambient light source. Night vision goggles use ambient light to
> enhance a person's vision at night. That's why it appears green.
So Terran night vision goggles would be useless if its completely
dark.
Kino: We have nothing to unlock the lock with!
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