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Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution

From "James Wilkinson Sword" <imvalid@somewear.com>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.advocacy, comp.sys.mac.system, alt.comp.os.windows-10, alt.cellular-phone-tech
Subject Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution
Date 2017-04-15 23:53 +0100
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On Sat, 15 Apr 2017 23:35:11 +0100, Mark Lloyd <not@mail.invalid> wrote:

> On 04/15/2017 01:14 PM, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
>>> We'd still have eyes, and doctors who know they use RGB.
>>
>> But as I said, you only know orange is made of red and yellow light
>> because you're told so.
>>
>
> Before I knew anything about frequencies, I considered orange to be
> between yellow and red. Orange, yellow, and red are similar colors.
> Blue, green, and purple are similar colors.
>
> BTW, the last group is sometimes called "cool colors", from before it
> was discovered that they were associated with HIGHER temperatures.

One thing that's always bothered me - red and blue light makes us see purple.  But purple is the other side of blue in the spectrum.  Is this some kind of limitation of the human eye?

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Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution "James Wilkinson Sword" <imvalid@somewear.com> - 2017-04-15 19:14 +0100
  Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution Mark Lloyd <not@mail.invalid> - 2017-04-15 17:35 -0500
    Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution "James Wilkinson Sword" <imvalid@somewear.com> - 2017-04-15 23:53 +0100
      Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2017-04-15 19:10 -0400

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