possible? The desert sky is clear.
2007-08-17 16:20:24 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
lol I love how Australians and Europeans "never have heard of" the Luxor in Vegas...
It's only the brightest light on Earth..
Yeah, I've never heard of "The Eiffel Tower" or "The Great Barrier Reef"....
2007-08-17 16:36:37 · update #1
The air is not as clear as you think. The light is reflecting off of dust particles in the air. If you were to shine that light while on the moon, it wouldn't have the same effect.
2007-08-17 16:28:25 · answer #1 · answered by RickB 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The light from the Luxor does hit something - the air. While there may be very little pollution in Vegas, there is still air (oxygen, nitrogen, and other gases) and that is made up of molecules of elements and compounds.
If the Luxor was in outer space, we wouldn't see the beam of light the way we do on Earth, we would only see the lit peak of the building (because the light strikes our eyes and registers).
2007-08-17 18:10:35 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Inside the Luxor's top, there are a lot of powerful lights and huge mirrors to bounce the light off of. Also in Vegas the air in very polluted.
2007-08-17 17:01:58 · answer #3 · answered by Shifter 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I saw a show on the history channel about this. They said, "The Luxor light is a very powerful beam of light, But light can only be shown if it reflects off something, So it hardly does it justice" Something like that they said. Then they said " The other problem is when airplanes fly over the beam, for it blinds the pilots" Lol, that is funny right? I thought so.
2007-08-17 16:40:54 · answer #4 · answered by Nobody 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
easy would not come into view until eventually it enters the attention and stimulates the cells in the retina. once you 'see' a torch beam, that's with the aid of fact easy has bounced ('scattered') off dirt debris or liquid droplets, and a number of the scattered easy is going in direction of and enters your eyes. in case you place some dirt or droplets in a laser beam, the comparable factor happens after which you would be able to 'see' the laser beam in the comparable way as you will discover the torch beam. .
2016-10-16 00:10:56 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
light is only visible to us if it reflects off something and back into our eyes. im from australia so never heard of the luxor in vegas not sure what it is sorry :)
2007-08-17 16:29:03 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Light is visible directly from the source and from the objects on which light hits.
2007-08-21 15:05:19 · answer #7 · answered by Joymash 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wow, thanks, now I feel like a foreigner (which might not be such a bad thing considering that Bush leads America). I was born and raised in America and I have to ask...
What the heck is the Luxor???
2007-08-17 19:14:08 · answer #8 · answered by Echo 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
What the light hits is the light receptors in your eyes.
2007-08-17 16:28:55 · answer #9 · answered by d_cider1 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it's bouncing off the air and heading to your eye. it's so bright that even if just a little does that, you can see it.
2007-08-17 16:39:13 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋