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- From: deloura@cezanne.cs.unc.edu (Mark A. DeLoura)
- Newsgroups: alt.cyberpunk.tech
- Subject: Re: Glasses
- Message-ID: <18506@borg.cs.unc.edu>
- Date: 21 Dec 92 18:49:51 GMT
- References: <Sean_Hurley.0713@dream.uucp>
- Sender: news@cs.unc.edu
- Organization: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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- In article <Sean_Hurley.0713@dream.uucp> Sean_Hurley@dream.uucp (Sean Hurley) writes:
- >But folks, this lazer idea, even at nano volts is a bad idea -- think about
- >it, you'll have a laser "burn" an image into the retina...
- >
- >Indiscriminate of color receptors! All you will see, in all likelihood, is
- >a very bright white light -- VERY bright -- but only where the lazer hits.
- >Everything else will be Black -- pitch dark. Can you imagine what type of
- >cruel and unusual punishment you will be giving your visual cortex? The
- >retinal cells will adjust to some extent to pitch blackness -- by
- >increasing their sensitivity -- and then you'll hit them with this lazer.
- >
- >You won't be able to see in color -- or in only one color -- because you
- >will be hitting rods and cones indiscriminately.
- >
-
- Wrongo!
- I've tried it, a 1/4 microwatt laser into my eyeball-- worked fine for me,
- a tad blurry but definitely I could read the time off of the xclock that
- was being shown.
-
- And it was *red*.
- ---Mark
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- Mark A. DeLoura deloura@cs.unc.edu U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
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