I guess I'm lucky to have good eyesight then. I didn't realize so many people needed glasses/contacts.
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Has anyone that travels noticed the gene-pool defect varies from place to place? For instance, I lived 3 years in Vermont, US, and plenty of people had lazy eyes. Here, in Mexico City, everyone has a bad sight and needs glasses (though, I must admit, it's a larger group, thus less defect-specific). Some people in a town outside of Amsterdam have an arm longer than the other one. There was a town in France where people were generally deaf. Might be me noticing too much, perhaps, but I wonder x). I also just noticed I've mentioned only small towns (save mexico city). Perhaps it's a more general defect because of common ancestry?
Hmm, I doubt it's caused by genetics if the sample size is that large. Perhaps it's an environmental factor causing those variations in the populations.
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Originally Posted by Dr. James We're built perfect (apart from needing glasses) in Saddleworth. Aryan race ftw, by force.
Aah, but half the people in Saddleworth don't actually come from Saddleworth.
I think the population in Rochdale are missing the gene affecting intelligence. Oh and a lot of people here can't pronounce letters right, R's become W's, TH's become V's. That's more up Littleborough way though.
Perfect eye-sight when I did a check-up some years back, believe it hasn't changed too much.
I have a very cool idea for MIND-ALTERING-GRASCZHEZZ.
Take a pair of glasses, but add a lens between the outer lens and the eye. The distance inbetween has too be tuned perfectly so that the extra lens flips the image once before reaching the eye. The entire construction needs to be made like a pair of googles so no light can reach the eye without passing through both pair of lenses. Something like this . The result will be that you percieve (not sure about the spelling) your surroundings upside down.
Now for the fun part!
If you wear these googles 24-hours a day for 3-5 days, the brain -amazing as it is- will reprogram it's sight centre (not sure it's called that in english though) to flip how you interpret the image, thereby allowing you to see "normally" if you continue to wear the googles! The bizzare part is that if you then remove the googles -wait for it- you will percieve the world upside down!
After an additional 3-5 days it will reprogram the brain once again to it's prior state. It does this because the input from your other senses is in such conflict with your sight sense input that the brain gets "convinced" that your eyes are malfunctioning.
Of course, I haven't tried this and can't therefore be assured that it will happen this way, but I have discussed it with several doctors and opticians. Everyone of them agreed on the outcome. As it turns out, some russian scientist (I belive this was sometime between 1930-1950) experimented with this and got the same results. But I believe he didn't continue these experiments since it was deemed quite unethical.
Interesting, huh?
BTW, I got the idea when laying upside down in a hammock.
Originally Posted by Eternal Entertainment Perfect eye-sight when I did a check-up some years back, believe it hasn't changed too much.
I have a very cool idea for MIND-ALTERING-GRASCZHEZZ.
Take a pair of glasses, but add a lens between the outer lens and the eye. The distance inbetween has too be tuned perfectly so that the extra lens flips the image once before reaching the eye. The entire construction needs to be made like a pair of googles so no light can reach the eye without passing through both pair of lenses. Something like this . The result will be that you percieve (not sure about the spelling) your surroundings upside down.
Now for the fun part!
If you wear these googles 24-hours a day for 3-5 days, the brain -amazing as it is- will reprogram it's sight centre (not sure it's called that in english though) to flip how you interpret the image, thereby allowing you to see "normally" if you continue to wear the googles! The bizzare part is that if you then remove the googles -wait for it- you will percieve the world upside down!
After an additional 3-5 days it will reprogram the brain once again to it's prior state. It does this because the input from your other senses is in such conflict with your sight sense input that the brain gets "convinced" that your eyes are malfunctioning.
Of course, I haven't tried this and can't therefore be assured that it will happen this way, but I have discussed it with several doctors and opticians. Everyone of them agreed on the outcome. As it turns out, some russian scientist (I belive this was sometime between 1930-1950) experimented with this and got the same results. But I believe he didn't continue these experiments since it was deemed quite unethical.
Interesting, huh?
BTW, I got the idea when laying upside down in a hammock.
Well you did know that the image we see is upside down already, and the brain rearranges it? The light gets flipped between the lens and the optical nerve, so really we're already doing what you suggest.
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. The result will be that you percieve (not sure about the spelling) your surroundings upside down.
