But if you close or cover a single eye, you still don't perceive a blind spot. Your brain still manages to fill in the missing pieces. The only way to detect your blind spot is with a demonstration like this one.
You, me, and everyone else already have a scotoma that our brain effectively filters from conscious perception. It's right there in the second paragraph of the Wikipedia article you linked.
The trouble with using heat to power a device like this is that you need someplace for the heat to go in order to get any useful work from it. I can't see how you could get much of a thermal gradient across something as thin as a contact lens, or how you could get an effective heat sink/radiator on the surface of a contact lens.
My Acuvue contacts don't seem particularly unsafe. If they can make display contacts comparable to what I'm wearing now I'd give them a shot. If there are attached wires or too much wattage involved, I'll pass...
You're confusing two different phenomena. The blind spot from the optic nerve is not in the center of the eye. The reason for the astronomers trick is due to the distribution of rods (brightness receptors) and cones (color rectors) in the eye. There are more cones at the center of the retina, but the more sensitive rods are distributed more peripherally.
First: How are they envisioning powering a device like this?
Second: It's my understanding that human vision requires continuous eye motion to maintain visual perception. Try holding your eyeball still by (gently) applying finger pressure to it through your eyelid. You'll notice after a few seconds that your field vision slowly shrinks into nothing. If an image moves in perfect sync with your eyeball, isn't your brain likely to stop seeing it after a short time?
I don't see what the problem is if it just hanging from one line? Birds (the kind with feathers) don't cause you all that much grief in the UK, do they?
And then the OS (as long as it's less than 10-15 years old) does it all over again. A Modern BIOS should do as little as possible before handing operations over to the operating system.
We are the singularity. Everything within the even horizon of a black hole is part of the singularity. If you're looking around for some enormous lump of superdense matter, don't bother. For a black hole with the volume of our universe, the density could be absurdly low - like as low as the density of observable space.
So you support an open borders policy? I can sympathize with that philosophically, but it's not going to fly politically. Even the (big L)Libertarians are split on that point. Personally I think immigration needs to be heavily restricted until we can get rid of some of the incentives to abuse currently luring the less scrupulous immigrants.
But tell me, is there another candidate you think better fits your ideals?
I read RP's position on immigration as: 1. Stop subsidizing illegal immigrants. 2. Enforce existing laws against illegal immigration. 3. Expand options or legal immigration.
So either present some real facts and arguments or STFU and stop trolling.
Go ahead and give up your internet connection and donate the money to whatever cause you like. That's an admirable notion and I don't think there's any candidate that would try to stop you.
It's a completely different story if you want to force someone else (via the government) to make sacrifices to fund the cause of your choice.
To illustrate: A random number generator would have an equal probability of generating any of these strings of bits, 011010011010 000000000000 111111111111 010101010101 101010101010
If it's truly random, there is a very real possibility that the stream will be very compressible. You could even end up randomly generating the complete works of Shakespeare.
Just because something is random, doesn't mean you won't be able to assign patterns to it after the fact; it only means you couldn't have predicted the patters beforehand.
Primers go for about $20/1000. Powder goes for about $13-20 per pound.
So to load something like.38 Special with a powder charge around 3.5 grains, it costs less than $60 to stockpile enough materials for 2000 rounds.
If you forget to stock up on smokeless powder and primers, you could always use a percussion revolver like my 1858 Remington replica. Black powder isn't hard to make, and you can get a simple tool to make percussion caps from aluminum cans and paper caps.
Now there's a completely worthless angle to pursue.
I cast bullets bullets and load cartridges by the thousands in my shop. The tools and materials are simple and cheap.
Ammunition control would be nearly as big a time & resource sink for the government as it's current campaign to stomp out the production and distribution of a certain popular, easy to grow, weed.
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But if you close or cover a single eye, you still don't perceive a blind spot. Your brain still manages to fill in the missing pieces. The only way to detect your blind spot is with a demonstration like this one.
You, me, and everyone else already have a scotoma that our brain effectively filters from conscious perception. It's right there in the second paragraph of the Wikipedia article you linked.
The trouble with using heat to power a device like this is that you need someplace for the heat to go in order to get any useful work from it. I can't see how you could get much of a thermal gradient across something as thin as a contact lens, or how you could get an effective heat sink/radiator on the surface of a contact lens.
My Acuvue contacts don't seem particularly unsafe. If they can make display contacts comparable to what I'm wearing now I'd give them a shot. If there are attached wires or too much wattage involved, I'll pass...
You're confusing two different phenomena. The blind spot from the optic nerve is not in the center of the eye. The reason for the astronomers trick is due to the distribution of rods (brightness receptors) and cones (color rectors) in the eye. There are more cones at the center of the retina, but the more sensitive rods are distributed more peripherally.
First: How are they envisioning powering a device like this?
Second: It's my understanding that human vision requires continuous eye motion to maintain visual perception. Try holding your eyeball still by (gently) applying finger pressure to it through your eyelid. You'll notice after a few seconds that your field vision slowly shrinks into nothing. If an image moves in perfect sync with your eyeball, isn't your brain likely to stop seeing it after a short time?
It was either the Magnavox Oddyssey 3000 pong clone or a game called "Duck" on my Dad's Osborne 1.
I'm definitely another Keith Laumer fan, well met. Though I've got to admit that I liked Galactic Odyssey even more than the Bolo series.
The article didn't address the big question. Are we on track with the Bolo program?
In cases like that you should have the option to pay the "core charge" and get your part back.
Inductive or capacitive coupling.
I don't see what the problem is if it just hanging from one line? Birds (the kind with feathers) don't cause you all that much grief in the UK, do they?
And then the OS (as long as it's less than 10-15 years old) does it all over again. A Modern BIOS should do as little as possible before handing operations over to the operating system.
We are the singularity. Everything within the even horizon of a black hole is part of the singularity. If you're looking around for some enormous lump of superdense matter, don't bother. For a black hole with the volume of our universe, the density could be absurdly low - like as low as the density of observable space.
So you support an open borders policy? I can sympathize with that philosophically, but it's not going to fly politically. Even the (big L)Libertarians are split on that point. Personally I think immigration needs to be heavily restricted until we can get rid of some of the incentives to abuse currently luring the less scrupulous immigrants.
But tell me, is there another candidate you think better fits your ideals?
Show me where RP wants to restrict immigration.
I read RP's position on immigration as:
1. Stop subsidizing illegal immigrants.
2. Enforce existing laws against illegal immigration.
3. Expand options or legal immigration.
So either present some real facts and arguments or STFU and stop trolling.
The ART and PLAY teams are still both being paid from the same source of funding, correct?
I think the grand-parent's point still stands.
Would you care to back that up?
His immigration policy looks entirely reasonable to me.
Go ahead and give up your internet connection and donate the money to whatever cause you like. That's an admirable notion and I don't think there's any candidate that would try to stop you.
It's a completely different story if you want to force someone else (via the government) to make sacrifices to fund the cause of your choice.
...Ron Paul gets ignored by the media.
To illustrate:
A random number generator would have an equal probability of generating any of these strings of bits,
011010011010
000000000000
111111111111
010101010101
101010101010
If it's truly random, there is a very real possibility that the stream will be very compressible. You could even end up randomly generating the complete works of Shakespeare.
Just because something is random, doesn't mean you won't be able to assign patterns to it after the fact; it only means you couldn't have predicted the patters beforehand.
That's what they tell you.
The fact that you never hear from the people who survive an Amish beat down is proof of just how brutal they really are.
Primers go for about $20/1000.
.38 Special with a powder charge around 3.5 grains, it costs less than $60 to stockpile enough materials for 2000 rounds.
Powder goes for about $13-20 per pound.
So to load something like
If you forget to stock up on smokeless powder and primers, you could always use a percussion revolver like my 1858 Remington replica. Black powder isn't hard to make, and you can get a simple tool to make percussion caps from aluminum cans and paper caps.
Now there's a completely worthless angle to pursue.
I cast bullets bullets and load cartridges by the thousands in my shop. The tools and materials are simple and cheap.
Ammunition control would be nearly as big a time & resource sink for the government as it's current campaign to stomp out the production and distribution of a certain popular, easy to grow, weed.