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The latest links are at the top, and an unrelated question is at the bottom ;-).
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  • An asian - Wu!
  • cooking - Reason #1092 I am a vegetarian.
  • an umbrella. - Usually circular canopy mounted on a central rod.
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  • Love - Love means not smiling.
  • red - Poussin nu chaud entouré dans le rouge.
  • gently. - Some worthwhile flash that was new to me.
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  • Natural - Absolutely no enhancements.
  • itchy - Hello doctor? I need an antihistamine.
  • dreams. - For more dreams like these, please insert 25 cents.
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  • Suicide, - What modesty committed.
  • sex, - Age, Blank, Location?
  • and pennies. - They should convert that to dinars.
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Here is today's "unrelated to porn" question!

If a surgeon carefully plucked out a human's eyeballs, turned them 180 degrees clockwise, and then stuck them back into the patient's eye sockets, what would happen? Would the patient wake up and see everything turned upside down?

Your thoughts ;-) ?

--gal

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  • Not unless they reversed the sockets, which would require a rather skilled surgeon.
    • Upon further thought, you would probably see crap and get a headache for the first few days. Your brain could probably adapt and perhaps eventually you'd have normal vision again. Aside from the inability to move your eyes due to the torn muscles, of course.
    • I see (no pun intended). When you stand on your head and see everything upside down, everything is also switched left to right, right? To get the same effect as twisting my head clockwise 180 degrees, I'd have to switch the eye sockets and twist the eyeballs 180 degrees clockwise. Would that then make everything appear upside-down? This is assuming of course that each eye is reconnected to their original brain connecting tissues. That would require quite a skilled surgeon ;-).

      So in the original scena

      • I can't verify this, but I recall hearing a story about some sort of study where people wore glasses or contact lenses or some such which performed a mirror across the horizontal. This is different from a rotation, though, as a mirror across the horizontal doesn't reverse left and right. So the overlapped area remained consistent. I was no older than eight when I heard this, but as I recall, the individuals in question became used to this new arrangement, and although it looked upside down, it looked corre
      • Yes, quite interesting. If you just wear goggles then what you see is flipped vertically, whereas if you stand on your head the effect will be that of rotating everything 180 degrees.

        Presumably what you propose would be more confusing as initially the brain would cease to get an overlap in the forward field of vision (perhaps?), since the original inner parts of both eyes are now on the outside?

        Maybe things will originally appear upside down, split into two down the half with a very confused, blurry mix

  • The answer: malpractice suit.

    Great to have you back btw, I like my /me/amigos to be a careful mix between random fortknox JE's that are more interesting than slashdot front page, and porn.
    • BTW, I love /my/amigos [slashdot.org] as well. Was that feature of slashdot ever announced anywhere? When did it start working?
      • err, yeah, /my/. Lets pretend like I use the preview button.
        As far as I know they never announced it, It just randomly happened like all of the other slashcode changes. Someone really should make a 'slashdot' for slashdot. If CmdrTaco wont do it, Someone else should. Just a little slash site running to keep people current on all the times they break/change slashdot, Maybe some 'warning' posts about things happening in slashcode. Anyone interested?
    • Its...erm... great to ...umm... be your non-porn interests?

      That's just wierd, man ;-)
  • If a surgeon carefully plucked out a human's eyeballs, turned them 180 degrees clockwise, and then stuck them back into the patient's eye sockets, what would happen? Would the patient wake up and see everything turned upside down?

    When the patient wakes up everything will be upside down.

    The eye is a pretty interesting piece of equipment. The image actually implanted on the back of the eye is *normally* upside down. However, the brain "flips" it, so everything looks correct to us. Now that the image is
    • Well, we can assume the brain would eventually compensate for it, probably... but the immediate effects aren't quite as you describe.

      We have to assume the nerves are still connected. So, rotating it 180 will flip the left image 180 and the right image 180... but your 'vectors' would be 180 off. Picture trying to triangulate a position when your angle increments are all the opposite of what they should be...

      To be more clear. You look at something 1 meter away, that is directly between your eyes. No

  • The asian chick is nice, except for the fake boobs. ;)

    That second link... [shudder]

    Welcome back, btw! :)
  • I've seen a similar "experiment" where with a somewhat less radical approach people were fitted with goggles with a mirror installed which gave them an upside down view of the world. They were then asked to walk around for an hour and report back.
    The results were that despite initially being almost impossible to walk or navigate most people started to figure it out within the time.
    The bottom line is that even within one hour the mind is able to compensate consciously, over time that compensation would fal
  • If the eye were just rotated, wouldn't it still see the exact same way? The ceiling/sky/whatever will still be seen by the top of the eye and the floor/ground/whatever will still be seen by the bottom of the eye. IANAD
  • this experiment was preformed, i don't know where when or how but it was. the doctor put the eyeballs in upside down. the person's vision was upside down for a few days then the 3rd or 4th morning they reverted to the norm.

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