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Universalpsykopath tugs our coat and says: Tell us about your feats of deduction and the little mysteries you've solved. Alternatively, tell us about the simple, everyday things that mystified you for far too long.

(, Thu 13 Oct 2011, 12:52)
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Compared to the landing lights,
is backscatter all that much of a problem? (I ask that in earnest: I wouldn't have thought so intuitively, but may be wrong.)

The blinds thing, as with the explanations ^up there^, may have something to it, though it seems (again, intuitively) a bit tenuous...
(, Wed 19 Oct 2011, 15:42, 1 reply)
Perhaps not under normal conditions
If it's foggy/raining hard/snowing then it might have a greater effect. Remember how hard it is not to be distracted when driving in the snow?
(, Wed 19 Oct 2011, 17:30, closed)

In light aircraft at least, you're meant to turn stuff like strobes off in cloudy/misty weather, so that you don't have the whole sky as far as you can see blinking at you.
(, Wed 19 Oct 2011, 17:40, closed)

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