MD The Green Flash

From: Valence (valence10@hotmail.com)
Date: Sun Dec 22 2002 - 22:28:01 GMT

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    Hey all,

    PIRSIG (LILA ch.26, p385)
        When Phaedrus started to read yachting literature he ran across a description of the "green flash" of the sun. What was *that* all about, he wondered. Why hadn't *he* seen it? He was sure he had never seen the green flash of the sun. Yet he *must* have seen it. But if he saw it, why didn't he *see* it?
        This static filter was the explanation. He didn't see the green flash because he'd never been *told* to see it. But then one day he read a book on yachting which said, in effect, to go see it. So he did. An he saw it. There was the sun, green as green can be, like a "GO" light on a downtown traffic semaphore. Yet all his life he had never seen it. The culture hadn't told him to so he hadn't seen it. If he hadn't read that book on yachting he was quite certain he would never have seen it.

    RICK
        Yesterday, while net-surfing on an entirely unrelated matter, I stumbled across the following website which links to some photos of the "green flash" phenomenon. I thought I'd send this in for anyone interested in seeing what Pirsig was talking about. Some of the pictures are better than others and the "green" can be very clearly seen in many of them (although none quite show the "GO" light that Phaedrus saw).

    Here it is
    http://mintaka.sdsu.edu/GF/

    enjoy,
    rick

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