On Tue, 30 Jan 2007 15:53:12 GMT, (Doug Miller)
wrote:

In article , Mark Lloyd wrote:

Another fact: The sun is very hot, but heat cannot exist in space. You
may get hot when you got out on a sunny day, but NONE of the sun's
heat can get to you directly. The energy gets here as light (the sun
is hot enough to be incandescent).

Just to clarify -- it doesn't all get here as *visible* light. Quite a bit of
it is UV and IR.

True, and that is also EM radiation. Just with a frequency outside a
certain narrow band.
--
Mark Lloyd
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"Unlike biological evolution. 'intelligent design' is
not a genuine scientific theory and, therefore, has
no place in the curriculum of our nation's public
school classes." -- Ted Kennedy