Posted on 09/08/2013 8:04:59 PM PDT by LibWhacker
One of the reasons why God made us was because He needed someone in all of creation who could appreciate His handiwork.
Anyway, like I was sayin’, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. You can barbecue it, boil it, broil it, bake it, saute it. Dey’s uh, shrimp-kabobs, shrimp creole, shrimp gumbo. Pan fried, deep fried, stir-fried. There’s pineapple shrimp, lemon shrimp, coconut shrimp, pepper shrimp, shrimp soup, shrimp stew, shrimp salad, shrimp and potatoes, shrimp burger, shrimp sandwich. That- that’s about it.
A little genetic engineering and we can all have three pupils and have UV and polarized light filters.
One of the things I see heaven as being is where every day God reveals some new wonder about Himself or His creation.
You forgot shrimp scampi, one of the yummiest!
LOL — okay, God, you win.
Sometimes you just have to laugh at the amazingness of this stuff.
lol
Maybe He just felt like showboatin’ a little the day He made Mantis Shrimp....:)
Much of vision is in the processing.
30% of the human brain is devoted to vision.
The shrimps' problem is the opposite of the "Garbage in Garbage out" computing dilemma.
They have the best input, but lack the computer power to appreciate most of it.
As you go deeper under water red gets filtered out. Eventually only blues and blue-green are there, along with some UV that us humans can’t see well. UVA penetrates some 600 feet. So a visual system tuned to discriminate many shades of blue and indigo and violet and ultraviolet would be an advantage.
It’s tuned to what light is there where the shrimp live, as ours is tuned to daylight. A deer, which is mostly crepuscular in habit, can see more shades of blue than we can, same model- adapt the eye to the light that’s available. Twilight and morning are very blue.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XprDF7Lk2CY
Amazing.
But.. But... That would take an eternity...
...And judging by that graphic, microwave shrimp, too.
I’ve always been amazed that birds have effectively 360 degree vision - that is, they can see and entire panorama at once. Of course, how much of that is acute, or how much of that they can process at once is questionable. I’ll bet that they have motion detection 360 degrees, though.
I once got polarized prescription sunglasses. I thought something was "off" glare-wise in the store, when I picked them up in the dead of Winter one night.
Out and about the next day, sunny, all the minimized glare seemed to be shimmering.
I had an inkling of what was wrong, so I put on another pair of polarized sunglasses over the prescription pair, and one eye went dark.
They had ground one lens 90deg off, so my brain was trying to process vertical polarization in one eye, with horizontal polarization in the other.
I would imagine that JJ Abrams is annoyed that he probably can't annoy Mantis Shrimp with his lens flare.
So, Shrimpy, you see a copy of the Mona Lisa with a big grin? You don't just see a 74?
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