Comment on Why does it feel like most art museums are for adults and most science museums are for kids?

• treadful@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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  Watching a beige box seems kind of dull.

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  • mycodesucks@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Did scientists figure out how to keep the beige box from turning into a yellow box?

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    • spizzat2@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Don’t expose it to UV or excessive heat.

      Also, the process is somewhat reversible: Retrobright

      However:

      The long-term effectiveness of these techniques is unclear. Some have discovered the yellowing reappears, and there are concerns that the process weakens and only bleaches the already damaged plastic.

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      • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Yeah retrobright is… Basically only a reasonable option if you want things to look good for gathering footage, it’ll go back to looking like shit within a year or two.

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  • anton@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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    I stood inside the grey box where the magic happens. It was not dull because there was a physicists explaining everything.
    Image of electron storage ring BESSY II

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    • treadful@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      That’s a big box.

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  • marcos@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Make the box transparent.

    But seriously, all of those have older versions that don’t work as well but look absolutely cool.

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    • mycodesucks@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      If you’re gonna make it transparent, make it out of this:

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