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Science trivia of the day
Get above the atmosphere, where you're exposed to cosmic particles. Close your eyes. Those blue flashes you see are Cherenkov radiation - the photonic equivalent of a sonic boom - caused by cosmic particles moving through the liquid in your eyeballs at a speed greater than the speed of light in your eyeball. 

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Long may this state of affairs continue.
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In any case, no baby, I wouldn't want to see it. I'm pretty sure that there being Cherenkov in the visible part of the spectrum and near enough to you that you can see it guarantees that you're being hit by enough ionizing radiation to kill you within the fortnight.
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Ionizing radiation's bad, hm'kay ;)