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2026-07-13 01:33 UTC
@cptbutton@dice.camp @diazona@techhub.social @cherizilla@retro.pizza yea, it's not entirely nonsense, an infrared detector is just picking up light at such-and-such wavelength, and those do fall in IR. Not sure if that's reasonable for body heat, but it's a hell of a lot less unreasonable than most movies would give us (especially in 1981)
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@diazona@techhub.social 2026-07-13 01:37
@SnoopJ@hachyderm.io @cptbutton@dice.camp @cherizilla@retro.pizza Yeah I saw someone else make that point too, that about 12 micrometers is typical IR wavelength for the peak emission at human body temperature. I hadn't thought about that. But it's still kinda nonsensical to use a micron as a unit of temperature or heat energy, since it's not a linear scale. #Monsterdon #Wolfen1981