Until now, technology, which has done wonderful things, has not been able to match the functioning or perfection of the smallest of our organs. In Super curious we bring you the data further curious of the human view.
How many megapixels would the human eye have if it were a camera?
Answering the question, our eyes would be around 576 megapixels. Not bad, right? There is no human-made camera that comes remotely close to this amount.
There is no one sense more important than another, but certainly the sense of sight is the one that places us in the world, the one that gives us the dimensionality spatial and allows us to assimilate the concepts of depth, width and length, that is, the three pillars of the third dimension in which we live.
The color spectrum
When humans have 20/20 vision, that is, excellent, we are able to distinguish some 10 million colors different, within the extensive range of colors that the naturefrom the darkest to the lightest.
Even more curious is the fact that some women present a genetic mutation in the eyes that allows them differentiate several million further of colors than our usual 10.
Another curious fact is that people who have light eyes they seem to have a tolerance a lot elderly to the alcohol than those with dark eyes. An explanation that may give ideas why: studying the genetics of the Native Americanssome scientists realized that Europeans have a gene that allows them to process alcohol better and, although it does not mean that there are not immense levels of alcoholism in those coming from Europe, it does indicate that these last longer when they drink than the rest. Which, by extension, corroborates the thing about light eyes.
And continuing with the genetic line, those with blue eyes come from a single ancestor who lived, it is estimated, about 10,000 years ago in a region near the Black Sea. One more fact that confirms the super curious theory that we all come from a handful of homo sapiens from 150,000 years ago.
And when we close our eyes…
Not only at night, when we sleep, or meditate, or listen to music, or make love, in our lives we keep our eyes closed for only 10% of the day. blinking. If we did not blink, our eyes would dry out and we would suffer from countless diseases and illnesses. eye infectionssomething that does not happen to goldfishwhose eyes do not have eyelids and therefore never close.
Ours need to be lubricated with the tear pointwhich is activated by blinking.
And if the eyes Goldfish don’t have eyelids, can’t you guess who has theirs? bigger than his own brain? Well he ostrich, Although it is a beautiful and surprising animal, it is not the smartest.
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