The Green Flash
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understandinguncertainty.org was produced by the Winton programme for the public understanding of risk based in the Statistical Laboratory in the University of Cambridge. The aim was to help improve the way that uncertainty and risk are discussed in society, and show how probability and statistics can be both useful and entertaining.
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Recently while admiring a sunset in the West of Ireland with a friend, I expressed a wish to photograph the 'green flash'. As he had never heard of this atmospheric phenomenon, I explained it to him.
A few hours later I was having dinner with a different group of friends when one told me that he had just returned from an Arctic Cruise. "We even saw the green flash' he told me !
Date submitted:Tue, 20 Nov 2012 08:52:04 +0000Coincidence ID:6687
