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...miles of wire packed into his small Japanese garden. The lights themselves are mostly small and invisible, mounted on trees or behind bushes. "The important thing is to achieve an understatement of light-subtle and restful," says Watson. Many of his clients need considerable convincing on this point; a floodlight seems to them the best way to illuminate a tree that cost...
...Overall floodlight is repulsive," Watson says. "What I do when I show people my garden is to build the moonlight effect up slowly, then build highlights and subtle shadows. Then suddenly I turn it all off and flash a floodlight on the garden. Everybody always says, 'Oh, no!' and from that moment I know I've got a convert, and the husband knows he's going to have to spend some money. Floodlights are for finding your automobile in the driveway or for carrying the garbage out to the trash can. But not for gardens...
...their apparatus on a Massachusetts hillside, and at nightfall their wired moth began to detect the ultrasonic cries of bats. From the traces on their oscillograph, the biologists could tell whether an invisible bat was approaching or flying away. Later, when Roeder and Treat turned on a powerful floodlight, they could watch the bats diving on their prey and hear, through the captive moth's ear, the bats' searching sonar beeps and their final triumphant buzz. Sometimes they saw free-flying moths take evasive action, but the motions of both hunter and hunted were too fast to follow...
Dives & Loops. To learn more about the moth's methods of escape, the two scientists set up a floodlight and trained a camera on its beam. When an insect flew across the floodlit area, the operators opened the camera's shutter and turned on their electronic beeper to simulate a cruising bat. "Many insects." say Roeder and Treat, "showed no change in flight pattern when they encountered the sound. In others, the changes in flight path were dramatic in their abruptness and bewildering in their variety. One of the commonest reactions was a sharp power dive into...
...last Russian I saw was gazing up at the underside of the cars with a floodlight to make sure no one was riding the rods out of the workers' paradise...