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Spookfish Uses Mirrors For Eyes
Kligat writes "The brownsnout spookfish in the Pacific is the first known vertebrate to use mirrors to focus light into its eyes. Despite being a species known for 120 years, this was not known until a live specimen was caught between New Zealand and Samoa last year. The fish lives over 1,000 meters below the ocean's surface, so the light focused by the mirrors' perfectly curved surfaces provides a major advantage over other fish."
How does it taste?
If it uses mirrors to focus light in its eyes it doesn't need lenses. And the use of mirrors means no chromatic abberation, which means a sharper image! What a smart 'design.' The things Nature comes up with never cease to amaze me.
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Any Spookfish got a mirror?
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The dangers of knowledge trigger emotional distress in human beings.
According to the article, "The mirror uses tiny plates, probably of guanine crystals, arranged into a multi-layer stack."
I know the British spell things differently than us, but there wasn't an 'a' in 'genuine' last time I checked.
This evolutionary development is in response to the Spookfish's natural enemy, the Medusa!
God, schmod. I want my monkey man!
I just stumbled around trying to find a catalog of the number of types and design details of the number of times eyes have evolved.
Wiki has it at 6. Is this 7?
Texas Instruments, the holder of several patents related to DLP technolgy has filed suit in a Texas court with a complaint related to the use of their tiny mirror imaging technology.
//first thing I think of when I hear mirror eyes/shades
We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold. - HST
And the corresponding link to what you were talking about... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye#Types_of_eye
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There's an old saying that fish rot from the head first. Perhaps no dead specimens have been found with the eyes intact, and they've not yet cut the live specimen up to test the eyes.
There, now it's been done.
I've lost all my marbles except one & It's fun to test angular & centripetal acceleration in my skull
In order to determine something to be irreducibly complex, all one has to do is find an evaluator with absolutely no analytical ability or imagination.
Thankfully, those people are everywhere.
If I eat two pieces in a single bite it gives me a headache. I feel like I taste it over and over and over and over...
I was having trouble visualizing how this works but then I found this link with a diagram of the eye's anatomy
I suspect that any fish meant to live 1000m deep would undergo explosive decompression on being brought to the surface, eyeballs first.
There is also a type of fish that have telescopic eyes:
The telescope fish
Telescopefish
I wonder if human bred species should get a mention:
Celestial Eye Goldfish
Bubble Eye Goldfish
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Sexuality is not irreducible at all. You have this small couple-cell organism that reproduces asexually by division and cloning its minute DNA. This goes on for millenia, so that in any given hospitable location these organisms are incredibly densely packed, as in, in constant contact.
Then sometime, there is a mutation during the cloning process of two of the microbes whereby instead of an exact copy of each being made, potions of their DNA is instead swapped, because they are trying to reproduce adjacently in so close quarters. Boom, you have the first sexual reproduction. Extrapolate over billions of microbes over thousands of years, with this sexual reproduction happening all over the place. Evolution takes hold, microbes with better DNA out-compete the others, and you are off to the races.
Dissolved oxygen...
Alexander Peter Kristopeit bought his basement from his mommy for one dollar.
The fluidic pressure inside the fish would have to equal the water pressure outside the fish. The eyeballs would burst.
Also, as stated above, the gasses dissolved in the bodily fluids of the fish would precipitate out, if brought to the surface, causing bubbles in the eyes, which would eventually burst.
Divers who come back up too fast don't have decompression sickness from their lungs, its the extra gas dissolved in their blood at depth that does it.