{"id":115167,"date":"2020-10-27T16:22:21","date_gmt":"2020-10-27T23:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/this-whiter-than-white-paint-is-like-the-opposite-of-vantablack"},"modified":"2020-10-27T16:22:21","modified_gmt":"2020-10-27T23:22:21","slug":"this-whiter-than-white-paint-is-like-the-opposite-of-vantablack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/this-whiter-than-white-paint-is-like-the-opposite-of-vantablack","title":{"rendered":"This Whiter-Than-White Paint Is Like the Opposite of Vantablack"},"content":{"rendered":"

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CREATING ARTIFICIAL SKIES IN UNDERGROUND HABITATS ON MARS & MERCURY. This will be an interesting subject for much deliberation in the future: how to best create artificial skies in sealed habitats. Metamaterial vantablack is a surface so perfectly dark that if you stood in a room where the ceiling, walls and floor were covered with it, you would feel like you were floating in black space. Disneyland must get off its butt and create a big room like this. Now a new paint (not quite the opposite of vantablack as it claims) has been invented, which will reflect back nearly 100% of light hitting it, an interesting way to augment existing lighting in a building by painting the ceiling with the stuff.<\/p>\n

And here is something which I told you before: if the human eye stares at a totally uniform color, with no discernable features it doesn\u2019t know where to focus, and psychologically can see this as a kind of \u201csky.\u201d Since there is nothing to focus on, the eye assumes it is the far away sky and focusses to infinity or goes into its least-energetic focusing mode, as in looking at a blank sky.<\/p>\n

View a large computer screen with a totally uniform color, through a tube which blocks the edge of the screen from view. You already see this effect with this small experiment.<\/p>\n

New paint reflects nearly all light hitting it, can help cool down space probes:<\/p>\n

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A team of scientists have created<\/a> a white paint that\u2019s so white, they say, that it reflects 95.5 percent of sunlight that reaches its surface.<\/p>\n

Essentially, it\u2019s the exact opposite of Vantablack<\/a>, the substance that makes objects appear so dark, by absorbing close to 100 percent of light that hits them, that it\u2019s as if you\u2019re staring into a black hole<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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CREATING ARTIFICIAL SKIES IN UNDERGROUND HABITATS ON MARS & MERCURY. This will be an interesting subject for much deliberation in the future: how to best create artificial skies in sealed habitats. Metamaterial vantablack is a surface so perfectly dark that if you stood in a room where the ceiling, walls and floor were covered with [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":603,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/603"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}