Wednesday, January 18, 2006

Not even bunk

If one more person suggests an investigation of orbs, I'll stub out my cigar in their eye.

Orbs are bunk. That's been proved, over and over again. Just look at what you need to find them.

A digital camera. Has to be digital because film doesn't react to near-infrared wavelengths.

A light, or flashgun, fitted on the camera. Lights separated from the camera won't work.

The light illuminates dust in front of the lens. The dust reflects strongly in the infrared. It's too close to be in focus, and too small to force an autofocus to react. So it's blurred into an 'orb'. This only works if the light beam is close to the focal axis of the lens.

People get so excited over these dust pictures that they get distracted from real phenomena. There could be a ghost waving his arms and calling 'Over here', but the ghost hunters are more interested in counting dust particles.

Forget about orbs. The're not even bunk.

To be classified as bunk, they'd first need to exist.

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