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Comment Re:Sharks (Score 1) 225

But the eye is more sensitive to blue light than to red (in dark conditions), so shouldn't blue tinted be better for seeing than red tinted?

Witness: My watch, with its blue "indiglo" backlight, will light up my bedroom at night, but in daylight the light from it is impossible to detect.

The red-illuminated alarm clock on my nightstand appears to be of equal brightness whether the room is completely dark or it is very bright.

Cones and rods don't have the same low light color sensitivity.

Comment Re:Who's next? (Score 1) 243

...they used to go after gun manufacturers all the time. The only thing that stopped them was a law passed under Bush, The Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms act. (that is a rather crappy Wikipedia entry, but you get the idea)

Unfortunately, because Illinois is evil, they continue to bring lawsuits against gun companies, for the crime of...making guns.

Personal responsibility? You must be new here.

Comment Re:simulate 3d for those with only one eye? (Score 1) 261

Yes, we call it parallax.

I have two eyes, but no stereo depth perception because they focus on very different points (even with a prism in my glasses my brain refuses to let them form one image, see "horror fusionis").

Stereoscopic vision is not the most important part of perceiving distance, objects that are further away seem smaller, objects close to you pass in front of objects further away (observe birds with no overlap in field of vision bobbing their heads to get an idea of distance).

We already simulate single eye 3d pretty effectively, minus focusing.

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