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Shrimp's eye points way to better DVDs
Reuters ^
| Oct 25, 2009
| Ben Hirschler
Posted on 10/25/2009 3:27:05 PM PDT by decimon
LONDON (Reuters) – The amazing eyes of a giant shrimp living on Australia's Great Barrier Reef could hold the key to developing a new type of super high-quality DVD player, British scientists said on Sunday.
Mantis shrimps, dubbed "thumb splitters" by divers because of their vicious claws, have the most complex eyes in the animal kingdom.
They can see in 12 primary colors, four times as many as humans, and can also detect different kinds of light polarization -- the direction of oscillation in light waves.
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TOPICS: Science
KEYWORDS: allthumbs; color; dvd; dvds; eye; eyes; light; mantis; mantisshrimp; mantisshrimps; polarization; science; shrimp; shrimps
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To: Nachoman
...giant shrimp... Trying to get my head around this one.
Kinda like Pygmy Mammoth. I read elsewhere that they are not really shrimp. They are...whatever.
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10/25/2009 5:11:00 PM PDT
by
decimon
To: Yardstick
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posted on
10/25/2009 5:32:05 PM PDT
by
PeaceBeWithYou
(De Oppresso Liber! (50 million and counting in Afganistan and Iraq))
To: decimon
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posted on
10/25/2009 6:42:38 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/__Since Jan 3, 2004__Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
To: decimon
With the price of blu ray players dropping over time I have trouble imagining picture...or sound...quality being much better than that.
To: decimon
Rather than improving the DVD’s why not improve our eyes? I’d love to see “12 primary colors”...
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10/25/2009 7:29:14 PM PDT
by
GOPJ
(Stories 'in danger of leaching out" are concerns of storm troopers, not journalist - G.Joyce)
To: PeaceBeWithYou
The shrimp looks, well, a little gay..
To: goseminoles
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10/25/2009 8:19:19 PM PDT
by
xp38
To: goseminoles
“The shrimp looks, well, a little gay..”
I hope you know you just committed a hate crime there, buster. ;)
To: PeaceBeWithYou
And two pupils per eye?
Complex eye indeed.
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10/25/2009 8:31:39 PM PDT
by
IDFbunny
To: Viking2002
You can get one of these buggers pretty easily in a reef setup. They hitchhike in on live rock.
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10/25/2009 8:36:47 PM PDT
by
this_ol_patriot
(I saw manbearpig and all I got was this lousy tagline.)
To: decimon
They can see in 12 primary colorsThat's interesting since there are only three primary colors.
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10/26/2009 7:31:19 AM PDT
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T Minus Four
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To: T Minus Four
That's interesting since there are only three primary colors. For us.
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10/26/2009 7:40:44 AM PDT
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decimon
To: decimon
Well since we can’t see more than three, how would we be able to tell that fancy, gay sea critters could? :-)
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10/26/2009 7:49:07 AM PDT
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T Minus Four
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To: decimon
How long is the physical format even going to be around, though? More and more people are choosing to rent through on demand. The next player is probably going to be another Tivo-type hard drive unit.
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10/26/2009 7:53:59 AM PDT
by
mysterio
To: T Minus Four
Well since we can’t see more than three, how would we be able to tell that fancy, gay sea critters could? :-)If the we be me then...we can't. But that's why I'm doing this and not making the big bucks for cavorting with fancy, gay sea critters.
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10/26/2009 7:54:26 AM PDT
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decimon
To: decimon
OK, fine, how do "THEY" know, LOL!
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10/26/2009 7:56:39 AM PDT
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T Minus Four
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To: T Minus Four
OK, fine, how do "THEY" know, LOL! They know because they are them and not me. That's really all I know.
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10/26/2009 8:04:58 AM PDT
by
decimon
To: decimon
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10/26/2009 8:39:33 AM PDT
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T Minus Four
(This post is not approved by the White House!)
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