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1 posted on 11/23/2015 4:20:47 AM PST by Daffynition
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To: Daffynition
They can't become pilots, firefighters, electricians, police officers or take part in several other professions.

Note: Color blindness has a very large continuum, ranging from no color vision at all to very mild. As an inflicted individual, I could get a general aviation pilot's license but not a air transportation / passenger-carrying endorsement. Primary reason is that under some emergency conditions, a pilot would need to be able to see and differentiate between the red & green signal light guns from the control tower.

It will be interesting to see if these glasses can handle the wide variation of degrees of color-blindness!

2 posted on 11/23/2015 4:46:44 AM PST by SES1066 (Quality, Speed or Economical - Any 2 of 3 except in government - 1 at best but never #3!)
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To: Daffynition

They will fix ya if’n you are left handed also, and even help to prevent pubescent blindness in young men.


4 posted on 11/23/2015 4:54:41 AM PST by Delta 21 (Patiently waiting for the jack booted kick at my door.)
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It would be interesting to see more detail. Are they putting a notch filter in between the long and mid wavelength comes or are they doing different filters on each eye to allow the user to see green with one eye and red with the other?


5 posted on 11/23/2015 5:05:43 AM PST by KarlInOhio (CNBC = Clowns Neutered By Cruz)
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That’s RACIST!

We need glasses that ENSURE color blindness!


6 posted on 11/23/2015 5:16:29 AM PST by G Larry (ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS impose SLAVE WAGES on LEGAL Immigrants.)
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To: Daffynition

As an aside, there is an optical illusion called a Benham’s top (or disk), which produces what are called Fechner colors directly in the brain, so do not need cones in the eyes to be seen.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fechner_colors

Some years ago, it was discovered that people with total color blindness, who only see things in black, white and shades of gray, can still see Fechner colors.

They are amazed by perceiving colors for the first time, something that their brains can do even if their eyes can’t.


7 posted on 11/23/2015 5:27:31 AM PST by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("Don't compare me to the almighty, compare me to the alternative." -Obama, 09-24-11)
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To: Daffynition

I hate articles like this, because the reporter is either a moron, or is deliberately suppressing all REAL information.


10 posted on 11/23/2015 6:42:39 AM PST by Arthur McGowan
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MLK would not approve.


12 posted on 11/23/2015 6:48:02 AM PST by a fool in paradise (The goal of Socialism is Communism. Marx and Lenin were in agreement on this.)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rsy0Zo9yHho


17 posted on 11/23/2015 9:38:05 AM PST by samtheman (I will build a great, great wall on our southern border... - DT)
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