Re: Camo Schemes - Rot Hafen

Nyrath the nearly wise wrote:
> 
> Alan E and Carmel J Brain wrote:

> > Must be something in the washing powder
> > that absorbs natural light and radiates near-UV.
> 
>	  Yep.	Check the detergent box and see if it
>	  includes "whiteners and brighteners"
>	  They fluoresce under UV in an attempt to fool people
>	  that their clothes are somehow cleaner when you
>	  use that brand of detergent.	And as you have just
>	  proved, they produce more UV than visible light.

Good Lord. The Wonders of the Steam Age.
 
>	  How do you see one of those 1960's style hippy
>	  "black lights", used to make psychedelic posters
>	  glow?  To the non-UV senstive, they glow
>	  a dull purple.

Same here, but bright purple-silver rather than dull. I suspect they use
fairly high frequency UV, which the KraVak may be able to see, but I
can't.

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