Eye Spy
Posted by Sjixxxy on August 2, 2001
So i’m watching this movie the other day (other day meaning March) called Hollow Man, you may have seen it. It’s about a team of scientist who invent some crap that turns animals, including humans, invisible. I watch it, and began to thing of how fun it would be to be able to turn myself invisible with some magic brew. Then it hit me that complete 100% invisibility by means of turning the actual tissues of your body invisible isn’t possible. You wouldn’t be able to see anything.
Consider how the eye works for a moment. Light comes in through the tiny pupil of your eye causing the beams to flip and an upside down image is read by whatever the hell is in the back of your eye. Now, if the tissues of your eye are clear, light is going to pour in from every possible angle and rape your rods and cones with an overload of out of focus information until the walk crooked. What the invisible guy would be seeing would be similar to what it looks like if you look though a decent camera with the lens removed. Just a white blobby fuzz.
Therefore, because of this realization, the next time I watch a movie where the writers turn someone invisible without addressing how to deal with the sight problem in a reasonable way, I’m just going to stand up, bite my thumb at the screen and then hiss in a vile rage. That is, unless they use a light bending cloaking device like in Predator.
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