Dark Side of the Horse by Samson for December 03, 2018

Ooh, a flashdark. I gotta get me one of those.

Horace must have visited Xanth recently.

are these available on Amazon?

Horace has gone to the Dark Side?

I bet he heard they had cookies too.

We used to call shadows flashdarks.

A flashlight is actually a darksucker.

One of my technical journals had a special article every April issue. One year featured the “Dark Emitting Diode” or D.E.D. Another year it was the Flame Emitting Diode.

Allows you to take a dim view.

Well…something else to add to my Christmas wishlist.

What happens if Horace “shines” the flashdark on himself?

Clever idea. Plus it recharges the batteries as it absorbs the photons.

Powered, no doubt, by antimatter.

Cute

In the movie ‘Soldier of Fortune’ (with Clark Gable) a little girl posits the theory that one could gather up a big bag of dark night air and then let it out in the daytime when a nap is necessary.

5 years ago on Reddit someone actually asked about a flashdark: https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/1ovt1a/flashdark_negative_flashlight/

He’s been hiding well his flashdark till 2nd panel

Dark humour.

A type of flashdark is actually (seriously) possible, and anyone can make one, using common household materials:

Tear a piece of aluminum foil off its roll, then poke a small hole through it, using a pin (just as you would to make a pinhole camera—such pinhole devices are also used to project an image of the Sun onto a white screen or piece of paper, for observing sunspots or solar eclipses), and:

If you hold the aluminum foil containing the pinhole facing a bright indoor or outdoor background (even toward the Sun itself, but don’t point it directly at the Sun!) and look through the hole, you should see a tiny black disc in its center—this is where light rays of opposing phase are cancelling each other out, creating darkness. In “The Second Book of Experiments” by Leonard de Vries, there is an acoustic home experiment which demonstrates how two sound sources—if the sound waves they produce are properly “in-step” (or out of step)—will cancel each other out, producing silence. He also mentioned that two similarly-arranged light sources produce such mutual wave-cancellation, and thus darkness.

I want Juan.