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Seeing is believing?


Baby Astronaut

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Would be cool if you could have glasses which let you see the greenhouse gases as they're released.

 

And in other news (while on the topic of seeing the normally unseen) Google has added an "Ocean Bottom" viewer to its Google Earth app.

(Wonder if one day it'll let us see the huge garbage trail encircling a huge swath of the ocean and making contributions to our dinner plates?)

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I'm not really expecting answers to the question. They're just links to open up discussion.

 

You made a good point, but the video clearly shows the emissions and it doesn't seem there'd be a problem of anyone bumping into things.

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It is an Infrared camera.

 

FLIR stands for "Forward Looking Infra Red". AFAICT, what we were seeing were not "Greenhouse Gasses" coming from exhaust pipes, but footage of the hot exhaust gases. FLIR cameras see hot things, they do not discriminate between chemical compounds. Warm, pure O2 would show up as a "greenhouse gas" on that footage.

 

They're also good for spotting breast implants.

Ah, the things we study in the name of science. :D

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