Clooney's wedding will take place this weekend

LornaDoone wrote:Ok, I love Mr. Darcy too but did this wedding happen?  I was out all afternoon and away from a computer/news!

Frankly, I'm hoping not cause it's going to be freakin hot tomorrow and head to toe black clothing and hot weather don't go well together!!!

Lorna...Good News just for you here....!!! 

Plus a short physics lesson for us all.


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The Physics that Explain Why You Should Wear Black This Summer


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We're all encouraged to wear white in summer, since white clothing is supposed to keep us cool — but it doesn't. In fact, black clothing is the best way to keep cool in the heat. It's basic physics. And biology. Find out why cool people will wear black this summer.
Generally in summer, we're treated to lines of loose summery white clothing. Not only is the white supposed to look nice floating around the edges of a picnic — until a few seconds into the event, when it has its first grass stain — people claim that white is the ideal way to keep cool in the summer. When we see white, we're seeing the combination of all possible visible light. This means that white clothing reflects a great deal of wavelengths of energy coming in. This means it should reflect the sun's rays back, instead of letting them cook us. And that's perfectly correct.
Except that this explanation is also incomplete. Heat is not just coming in off of the sun. It's also coming off a person's own, sweating, warm-blooded, mammalian body, which is a lot closer than the sun is. When all that body heat hits the white clothing covering it, it gets reflected right back towards the body. When we wear white, we cook ourselves.

The best color to keep cool in the heat, it turns out, is to wear black. Black absorbs everything coming in from the sun, sure. But black also absorbs energy from the body instead of reflecting it back. Now, the helpfulness of black clothes depends on finding black clothes that are the same thickness and looseness as those summery white clothes. Black clothing also needs a little help from atmospheric conditions. Once it has absorbed heat, it has to have some way to radiate it away. If there's even a little wind, black clothing is the better choice for those who want to keep cool, like goths who understandably don't like sweating through their make-up. So find something black to wear this summer.


And if people ask you what you're in mourning for, tell them you mourn their
 limited grasp of physics.
Via Straight Dope.

Well ashtrays know...black is the new white!  Thanks for the info.

But does anyone know if they tied the knot?

So far no news I don't think it happened. They are expected at fight night in Florence tonight.

LornaDoone wrote:Well ashtrays know...black is the new white!  Thanks for the info.

But does anyone know if they tied the knot?

Maybe they did and they would confirm that tonight in Florence.

Somebody's got a bit confused.............

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Funny how they use a picture of Jean and her daughter.  Stupid people.

Waiting for this wedding to actually take place is like waiting for an appointment with an endodontist for a root canal.  Just MO.

On no PP.....it's much more fun than that !
IMO of course.
I think weddings are happy & joyous occasions....even from afar !

It's OK PP......I know that you're joking.....
of course.
(Hope you are well)