Today, I learned:
The "Green Flash" phenomena, in which as the sun sets a flash or ray of green light is seen, is not in any way caused by dead people escaping death, as Pirates of the Caribbean may have you believe. Instead, it is an optical phenomena caused by refraction in the air. Because the air is thicker the closer you are to the surface of the earth, light moves ever so slightly slower through it. This causes the sun's light to curve ever so slightly with the surface of the earth. Higher frequency light (ie: higher in the rainbow) curves more than lower frequency light, so green colored light (being a higher frequency than red colored light) therefor curves more.
This is not to say that the sun is green or red; it is in fact green, red, and blue, all mixed together so that the eye sees it as white. However, as the sun sets, the light begins to refract (that is, split into its different parts) much like it would in a prism due to the thicker atmosphere the light is passing through. Thus, the green, blue, and red components are separated, the green and blue components curving more and thus remaining visible ever so slightly longer than the red components. (Typically 1 or 2 seconds) The blue component is "preferentially scattered out of our line of site" and therefor, we just see green for a little bit. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_flash, rephrased and partially quoted from)
The song "Russian Lullaby" by E-Type (one of my favorites he has done) was co-written with a member of Ace of Base, another band I enjoy. (Lady GaGa draws heavy inspiration from Ace of Base, particularly in her hit single "Alejandro" parts of which confused me they sounded so Ace of Base like)
According to Michael Caine, Christopher Nolan intended interpretation was that the end of Inception was NOT a dream. It could be argued that the creator's interpretation of his work is merely one opinion in a sea of them and therefore irrelevant...but people will argue anything.
--Flynn
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