OK, but how does Gamara fly? (for all you MST3000 fans) -----Original Message----- From: Katrina Chapman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 9:39 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: <OT> Why the sky is blue (was RE: CFQUERYPARAM dbname attribute)
Acutally that's not why. This is why. Here is something interesting to think about: When you look at the sky at night, it is black, with the stars and the moon forming points of light o n that black background. So why is it that, during the day, the sky does no t remain black with the sun acting as another point of light? Why does the daytime sky turn a bright blue and the stars disappear? The first thing to recognize is that the sun is an extremely bright sourc e of light -- much brighter than the moon. The second thing to recognize is that the atoms of nitrogen and oxygen in the atmosphere have an effect on the sunlight that passes through them. There is a physical phenomenon called Rayleigh scattering that causes lig ht to scatter when it passes through particles that have a diameter one-tent h that of the wavelength (color) of the light. Sunlight is made up of all different colors of light, but because of the elements in the atmosphere the color blue is scattered much more efficiently than the other colors. So when you look at the sky on a clear day, you can see the sun as a brig ht disk. The blueness you see everywhere else is all of the atoms in the atmosphere scattering blue light toward you. (Because red light, yellow light, green light and the other colors aren't scattered nearly as well, you see the sky as blue.) That's from HowStuffWorks.com (http://www.howstuffworks.com/question39.ht m) --K -----Original Message----- From: James Maltby [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 9:24 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: CFQUERYPARAM dbname attribute Dunno about most of it, but the sky is blue because it reflects the sea.. . :) J -----Original Message----- From: Bryan Stevenson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 17:19 To: CF-Talk Subject: CFQUERYPARAM dbname attribute Hey All, The CF docs seem to be lacking an explanation of the "dbname" attribute f or CFQUERYPARAM. Now the obvious is that it is for naming the database (wow I amaze myself sometimes). That said, doesn't the datasource take care of this? is there a benefit to using the attribu te? is it just a typo in the docs? why is the sky blue? ;-) TIA Bryan Stevenson VP & Director of E-Commerce Development Electric Edge Systems Group Inc. p. 250.920.8830 e. [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------- Macromedia Associate Partner www.macromedia.com --------------------------------------------------------- Vancouver Island ColdFusion Users Group Founder & Director www.cfug-vancouverisland.com ______________________________________________________________________ Get Your Own Dedicated Windows 2000 Server PIII 800 / 256 MB RAM / 40 GB HD / 20 GB MO/XFER Instant Activation · $99/Month · Free Setup http://www.pennyhost.com/redirect.cfm?adcode=coldfusionb FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
