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To: blackpacific

All living things are marvels to behold, but insects don’t see like humans. As Jones writes: “Any insect would be astonished by our ability to see. Their eyes are built with not one, but hundreds of lenses, each of which concentrates light upon a sensor. That set of tiny and cheap cameras is a forceful statement of what evolution cannot do. Because of where they began, insect eyes are limited in what they see.” ... “Their worldview was described by the first scientist to take photographs through insect eyes as a ‘picture about as good as if executed in rather coarse wool-work and viewed at the distance of a foot.’”


67 posted on 10/21/2009 6:37:56 PM PDT by OldNavyVet
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To: OldNavyVet

They don’t need to see like humans. They don’t need the red=green=blue cones whose luminosity functions enable the brain to construct millions of colors, because they do not have reason. But they do have 30,000 receptors which give them 360deg vision and the ability to detect their own velocity up to 750fps or 750dps, it was in one of those articles I attached. Is Jones some antique scientist?


68 posted on 10/21/2009 8:09:30 PM PDT by blackpacific
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