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Sea Creature Provides Inspiration for Better Lenses

Posted by michael on from the tunnel-vision dept.

Frosty Inc. writes "BBC News has a story about a sea creature that may provide the key to improving the quality of optical lenses. Scientists are speculating that the study of this creature might lead to more than better cameras. They believe that this knowledge could be applied to optical fiber networks as well, greatly improving their efficiency and speed."

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  1. Wow.... by Dannon · · Score: 3, Funny

    What a fascinating creature! Lenses and vision all over its body? Would that mean its vision is 20/20/20/20/20/20/20....?

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  2. Neat but by Strange+Ranger · · Score: 5, Funny

    "...10 or 20 times better for optical communication."

    Just what we need, 10 to 20 times more unneeded Dark Fiber.

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  3. Re:Wrong by Havokmon · · Score: 3, Funny
    They believe that this knowledge could be applied to optical fiber networks as well, greatly improving their efficiency and speed.

    It's wrong to say that the speed can be improved, because it's obviously impossible to go faster than the speed of light. The bandwidth might of course still be improved though.

    First off, nothing is impossible.

    Saying that, I ask you: Faster than the speed of light traveling through WHAT?

    Remember light has been measurably slowed down, and 'C' is supposedly speed of light in a vacuum, is it not? Therefore, it's easy to speculate that the speed of light traveling through fibre != C.

    A simple Google search seems to confirm my theory.

    Now it's time to revel in my 1.9 GPA...Hope you didn't do better than that in HS.

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