Yeah, what were you thinking?
If you hadn't of posted this, someone could have used this space to post some more pictures of puppies....or another BBFS thread, or who's the best whatever thread, or birthday thread, or you know, something really important like that.

>>..... but never the less its factual. <<

Well, actually it's not.
We cannot really see these objects at all, only the light emitted from them, and the light reflected off of them from other sources at some moment in times passed.

In the case of the sun of our solar system and the stars, what we see is not the object itself, but the light emitted and/or reflected from the object that began it's journey toward us anywhere from approximately 8 minutes ago, to many, many millennia in the past.

Fact is, we really don't see objects at all.
We see light.

Maybe it is more correct to say that we perceive both light and dark, and actually see nothing?

I don't really know. Someone around here can probably answer this clearly and concisely right off the top of their head.

OK, I see now, I don't really see a nude Bettie Page, just the reflection of light.

http://forum.myredbook.com/dcforum2/User_files2/z9t3w5wqa7pqp7qw.jpg

Too much sex is still not enough

That would be true only if she were there before you.

In your example to us above, there most likely is/was no Betty Page at all (unless she was there and you took that pic).
All we see is the light emitted and reflected back at our eyes from her digital image on a monitor.

Light travels at a given rate, and the various functions of the human brain and nervous system react at a given rate. We can't see through or across space and time. We have to wait for the reflected light to reach our eyes for it to set off a chain of events in our eyes and in our minds that will present us with a highly processed mental image of what once was.

Time and distance, be they great or small, and the realities of our human vision systems and are always a factor.
Due to that lag, we are always seeing what was, and not what is.

Below is an excellent article on exactly how and why we see what we see
"The Human Vision System" with discussion on the properties of "Light"

http://www.wayfinding.net/vsionsys.htm

"Vision requires reflected light.

There is no information in direct light from the sun, a lamp, or any other light source.

In a science experiment called Project Eureka, author and scientist Arthur Zajonc constructed a box into which a powerful projector shown.

The experimenter took special care that no reflected light was seen from objects or surfaces within the box.

When viewers looked inside the box, they saw only pure light.

When viewed from the front (so the projector could not be seen) the observer sees nothing, there is absolute darkness.

If light is not shown directly into an eye, or is not reflected from a surface, it is invisible".

Too much sex is still not enough

Agreed. The chances of there being intelligent life somewhere else in the universe? Virtually 100%.

But the chances that intelligent life from other planets is visiting us? Well...UFO wingnuts aren't wingnuts for nothin'.

to me, it's far more mind bending to think that if the sun died, we wouldn't know it for 8 minutes....and that any number of the stars we look at every night may have died millions of years ago...yet we may not see their death for millions more years. Wrap that shit around your brain

-History never repeats itself but it often rhymes.

I don't know about being a 'wingnut'
but I do know that less than 100 years
ago we would've all been thought insane
to be communicating via computers
or cordless mini phones.

This may be of interest:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-z2hCUu6S5s

http://edgrimsley.com/videos.html

~Paige

~Always Mattress Soaking Good®~