Very cool Light Show
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If this is real I'm not sure whether I'm more impressed or freaked out at the person that did it. Whatever the case, this is unreal: http://members.cox.net/transam57/lights.wmv[^]
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That is freakin' awesome. I'm not really into most of the gaudy Christmas stuff you see around, but I want my house to do that :cool: Cheers, Drew.
I must be the only one who thinks it's horrible - poor neighbours. regards, Darka
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I must be the only one who thinks it's horrible - poor neighbours. regards, Darka
Agree 100%. Whatever happened to reducing energy consumption and light pollution? I bet any nearby amateur astronomers are delighted. It's just selfish. Asynes yw brassa ages kwilkynyow.
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I must be the only one who thinks it's horrible - poor neighbours. regards, Darka
Poor astronauts. regards, Paul Watson Ireland Colib and ilikecameras. K(arl) wrote: oh, and BTW, CHRISTIAN ISN'T A PARADOX, HE IS A TASMANIAN!
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Holy crap. I wish I had that kind of time...David, do you know how to make a simple button for Firefox that can fit into the toolbars? I have a bookmarklet which I want to turn into a button that I can move up alongside the Google searchbox. I can't see how you can move a bookmarklet outside of the bookmarks toolbar so I assume I will have to do something a bit more involved. regards, Paul Watson Ireland Colib and ilikecameras. K(arl) wrote: oh, and BTW, CHRISTIAN ISN'T A PARADOX, HE IS A TASMANIAN!
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Agree 100%. Whatever happened to reducing energy consumption and light pollution? I bet any nearby amateur astronomers are delighted. It's just selfish. Asynes yw brassa ages kwilkynyow.
viaduct wrote:
I bet any nearby amateur astronomers are delighted. It's just selfish.
I guess it all depends on your point of view. I bet the onwer of this installation is disgusted at the amature astronomers demands for darkness. There is enough room for everyone to do their thing. The amature astronomers just have to travel into the country side for thier hobby.
My: Blog | Photos "Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in." -- Confucious
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viaduct wrote:
I bet any nearby amateur astronomers are delighted. It's just selfish.
I guess it all depends on your point of view. I bet the onwer of this installation is disgusted at the amature astronomers demands for darkness. There is enough room for everyone to do their thing. The amature astronomers just have to travel into the country side for thier hobby.
My: Blog | Photos "Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in." -- Confucious
Amateur astronomers here in the UK in built-up areas already have to travel a *long* way to find a dark site, and people like this one are only making it worse. How far would you be happy for it to go? So that it's impossible to see any stars at all unless you go to the Scottish Highlands? Personally I wouldn't want any children of mine to grow up in such an environment. Your scenario is that the astronomers have to move because this guy wants to spill photons across the sky. Where's *his* compromise? Asynes yw brassa ages kwilkynyow.
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Amateur astronomers here in the UK in built-up areas already have to travel a *long* way to find a dark site, and people like this one are only making it worse. How far would you be happy for it to go? So that it's impossible to see any stars at all unless you go to the Scottish Highlands? Personally I wouldn't want any children of mine to grow up in such an environment. Your scenario is that the astronomers have to move because this guy wants to spill photons across the sky. Where's *his* compromise? Asynes yw brassa ages kwilkynyow.
viaduct wrote:
Your scenario is that the astronomers have to move because this guy wants to spill photons across the sky. Where's *his* compromise?
On behalf of the astronomers het gets the local authority to cut off the streetlights for the remainder of the year. (That's a joke, in case you don't get it) Amature astronomers have to move out of a city anyway because of the light pollution - so for all practical purposes it really isn't changing their situation. My uncle goes into the country side for to observe these things. He doesn't want to have the light in the city reduced because it increases safety of people who walk around after dark so he makes the compromise because he understands the safety aspect. This guy who has the light show on his house really isn't making that big a difference except in a very localised area.
My: Blog | Photos "Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in." -- Confucious
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viaduct wrote:
Your scenario is that the astronomers have to move because this guy wants to spill photons across the sky. Where's *his* compromise?
On behalf of the astronomers het gets the local authority to cut off the streetlights for the remainder of the year. (That's a joke, in case you don't get it) Amature astronomers have to move out of a city anyway because of the light pollution - so for all practical purposes it really isn't changing their situation. My uncle goes into the country side for to observe these things. He doesn't want to have the light in the city reduced because it increases safety of people who walk around after dark so he makes the compromise because he understands the safety aspect. This guy who has the light show on his house really isn't making that big a difference except in a very localised area.
My: Blog | Photos "Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in." -- Confucious
Colin Angus Mackay wrote:
My uncle goes into the country side for to observe these things. He doesn't want to have the light in the city reduced because it increases safety of people who walk around after dark so he makes the compromise because he understands the safety aspect. This guy who has the light show on his house really isn't making that big a difference except in a very localised area.
For ordinary outdoor lighting you can achieve both safety and minimal light polution goals at the same time, and cut energy costs as well. See Hawaii and a number of southwest observatory towns. Hooded reflectors that bounce all the light from a light down isntead of allowing half to shine into the sky will greatly reduce LP, halve energy costs, and by by blocking direct line of sight between a pedestrian and hte bulb eliminate glare actaully improve visibility. Running the lights on motion detectors instead of a timer also has a major benefit in sparsely traveled areas. For photographic astronomy replacing exterior incandescent bulbs with low pressure sodium vapor puts the LP in a frequency range that's not astronomically relevant. LPNaV bulbs are also the most efficient conventional source of light (possibly excluding LEDs I don't know the numbers on those). They're not usable for interior lighting because the light is very yellow and gives colors an odd appearance, it's not an issue for safety illumination though.
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If this is real I'm not sure whether I'm more impressed or freaked out at the person that did it. Whatever the case, this is unreal: http://members.cox.net/transam57/lights.wmv[^]
I am redoing my lights now.... :)
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I must be the only one who thinks it's horrible - poor neighbours. regards, Darka
Heh. Ya I think it's one of those "like it" or "hate it" kind of things. As for the neighbours - who's to say he (or she) didn't talk to them about it ahead of time? For something like that to go on for several weeks during the holiday season I'm thinking the neighbours have to be on board with it. Cheers, Drew.
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Agree 100%. Whatever happened to reducing energy consumption and light pollution? I bet any nearby amateur astronomers are delighted. It's just selfish. Asynes yw brassa ages kwilkynyow.
viaduct wrote:
I bet any nearby amateur astronomers are delighted. It's just selfish.
I bet any nearby astronomers don't plan on doing too much observing from their homes during the holiday season, when darn near every house has lights up. As for energy consumption - I'd venture a guess that the fact the lights are off most of the time means it doesn't consume nearly as much energy as one might think. Cheers, Drew.
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If this is real I'm not sure whether I'm more impressed or freaked out at the person that did it. Whatever the case, this is unreal: http://members.cox.net/transam57/lights.wmv[^]
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David, do you know how to make a simple button for Firefox that can fit into the toolbars? I have a bookmarklet which I want to turn into a button that I can move up alongside the Google searchbox. I can't see how you can move a bookmarklet outside of the bookmarks toolbar so I assume I will have to do something a bit more involved. regards, Paul Watson Ireland Colib and ilikecameras. K(arl) wrote: oh, and BTW, CHRISTIAN ISN'T A PARADOX, HE IS A TASMANIAN!
Welcome to XPCOM and Extension-ville. It's actually not that hard, but you would have to code up an extension and write some XUL. :)
Picture a huge catholic cathedral. In it there's many people, including a gregorian monk choir. You know, those who sing beautifully. Then they start singing, in latin, as they always do: "Ad hominem..." -Jörgen Sigvardsson
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Welcome to XPCOM and Extension-ville. It's actually not that hard, but you would have to code up an extension and write some XUL. :)
Picture a huge catholic cathedral. In it there's many people, including a gregorian monk choir. You know, those who sing beautifully. Then they start singing, in latin, as they always do: "Ad hominem..." -Jörgen Sigvardsson
Damn, was hoping you wouldn't say that. I know it is not that hard but is a bit of a luss for just one button. What would be nice is a "Buttoner" extension that let you create XUL buttons with a snippet of code to run. So you don't have to go through all the hassle of setting up an extension for each button. Just have little packages to load into Buttoner. Thanks mate, I'll go and make my first extension, woot. I'll enter it into the Extension competition and win that nice box ;) regards, Paul Watson Ireland Colib and ilikecameras. K(arl) wrote: oh, and BTW, CHRISTIAN ISN'T A PARADOX, HE IS A TASMANIAN! -- modified at 14:33 Wednesday 30th November, 2005