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Jan 9, 2020 11:35 AM

hemmisfear

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Source: https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/08/us/3d-glasses-cuttlefish-scn-trnd/index.html

Did they start buying stupidity expensive popcorn?

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Cuttlefish complaining for low resolution

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I want a video of them trying to get the glasses on and keep in place

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Username finally relevant. In 3D.

6 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Just read an article about giving molly to octopodi. Ever get the impression scientists are just waiting for someone to call them on theirBS

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

It feels bad giving CNN a click

6 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 2

Oh sure! But I want to give pandas just a little bit of LSD and it’s not deemed scientific.

6 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

they went and left a scathing review on Rotten Tomatoes?

6 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I always downvote CNN

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

This is very important work.

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

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6 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

And it only cost taxpayers 80 million!

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Maybe we should eat the smart species

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

shoudln't...actually no maybe we should.

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

This is the kind of animal experimentation that ain't so bad.

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Let us not, dear friends, forget our dear friends the cuttlefish

6 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Cuttohfish or vanirra paste?

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Do you want Reapers? Because this is how you get Reapers.

6 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Fuck that how did they get a cuttlefish to wear 3D glasses?

6 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

They at first glued them to them but found they got hurt ripping them off, so they glued velcro onto them and attached the glasses like that

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Cuttlefish eyes are freaky as fuck. Each eye is dual-focus. Freakier, they don't see color. They see polarization. 1/

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Let me repeat that: the species with the most sophisticated chameleon ability on the planet CANNOT SEE COLORS.

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

So the fact they can make sense of an illusion designed for humans and their boring rods and cones is god-damned astounding.

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

You won't believe what happens next...

6 years ago | Likes 160 Dislikes 2

I for one welcome our new cuttlefish overlords

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Next page, 30 more ads

6 years ago | Likes 24 Dislikes 0

You won't believe #6!

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The cuttlefish goes broke due to buying a small portion of popcorn?

6 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

What?

6 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Go to the next page to find out

6 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Would you like the vanilla pudding or a cuttlefish?

6 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 1

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Figuring out the exact mechanics behind how various forms of eyes function and how very different forms of life interpret visual data.

6 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

Discovering that a species with very divergent brain and eye development in a very different environment is still able to use the old red

6 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Lens, blue lens 3D style indicates that, for all the very major differences, it’s perception works very similarly to humans. Convergent

6 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Evolution arriving at the same solution to a problem.

6 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Jesus christ man sorry i asked XD

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

How do I get a job getting high and thinking up weird experiments to do.

6 years ago | Likes 59 Dislikes 0

You might have just volunteered as a weird experiment

6 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

P H D

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Go to graduate school. You'll find you don't have much time to get high, but you will get to think up experiments.

6 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

WHO THE FUCK IS FUNDING THIS?

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What were they hoping to prove with this?

6 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

That they need all their grant money again next year.

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

Trying to figure out, if/how cuttlefish use stereopsis (convergent vision) to judge depth. Cuttlefish eyes are extremely interesting from

6 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

both an optics perspective & biological/evolutionary perspective, they use vastly different strategies for image processing than vertebrates

6 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Yeah, plus their close cousins, squid and octopi, don't/can't use stereopsis, also it's more complicated for them since they have 360 vision

6 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Plus it has possible insight into 360 degree image processing and visualization for robotics etc

6 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Why do they have to be "proving" anything? They were expanding knowledge of marine behavior and physiology. Learning how simpler brains...

6 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

and eyes work also can help us learn more about how they function in more complex animals.

6 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Allow me to restate myself, I wonder what their hypothesis was that led to this odd and random experiment?

6 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Do cuttlefish have the same type of depth perception humans do? (Experiment found no, they do not.)

6 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

How is this useful

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

They were shown videos of ‘How to cook cuttlefish’ and nothing happened and then they saw ‘Cats’. Two of them died, the others in coma

6 years ago | Likes 443 Dislikes 3

I haven't seen it. But come on. It can't be that bad.

6 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

some say it's the worst thing that happened to cats.. since dogs

6 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Worth it just to see Ian Mckellen go full cat

6 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

It's weird for sure, but the musical numbers are fantastic.

6 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 1

sexy cockroaches. i have not seen the movie but just the idea of that makes me want to gouge out my eyes with hot pokers

6 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

I used to shout that at friends about a decade ago to see it in a sentence now is nostalgic

6 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

It felt like I was being punished for sins I committed in a past life. It's a circle of hell Dante never imagined.

6 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 0

My friend has tempted me with acid, but I have to see it while on it. Your comment scares me.

6 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

It isn't. Good music, though I get why a number of people didn't like the visuals.

6 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I think it awful cgi aside it's actually all right of you understood the musical and treated it as a musical rather than a movie

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Did they die of shock or were they suicides?

6 years ago | Likes 56 Dislikes 1

Yes

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Autopsies are in progress

6 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Octopsies?

6 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

They pulled a Kars and just stopped thinking permanently in order to protect themselves.

6 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 0

I see that JoJo reference.

6 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Oh i thought that was a KITT/KARR REFERENCE...

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Next I wanna see vr headsets put on bears hooked up to flight simulators for science reasons

6 years ago | Likes 19 Dislikes 0

Jesus, don't do that. Give them a taste of flight and next thing you know bears will be hijacking planes.

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

How about vr headsets on cows?

6 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

THIS IS SATISFYING THANK YOU

6 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

put them in bear simulator

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

JFC, it's real: https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/advances/6/2/eaay6036/F1.large.jpg?width=800&height=600&carousel=1

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LOOK! OVER THERE!! *Steals meme and runs the other way*

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Well done Doom, well done!

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Fun fact: This is a gif option when you enter "science"

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

They were seeing if they used stereopsis for depth perception like humans since their cousins, squid and octopi don't

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Why not?

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Possibly to examine whether they perceive space in the same way. Cuttlefish brains are wired in a (from our POV) very weird way.

6 years ago | Likes 27 Dislikes 0

Basically yes, it was done because cuttlefish have independent control over their eyes and can see almost 360 degrees 1/2

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2/2 so they were trying to see if they still used something called stereopsis like humans for depth perception, since squids/octopi don't

6 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 0

Are scientists surprised to find that a creature with two eyes has binocular 3D vision?

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Yes since their eyes are independent and their cousins, squid and octopi, don't/can't use it

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They were testing to see if they had the same type of stereoptic depth perception that humans do (they do not)

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Did you read the article? They definitely found that cuttlefish do in fact use stereopsis for depth perception

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I did read the article. I said the SAME type of stereoptic depth perception as humans. Cuttlefish use it in a different way than humans!

6 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

(Also I work at the place where this work was done, so I promise I know what I'm talking about).

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Same guys that put stilts on ants I bet.

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How is this abuse

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

Yep, the good old “Institute for Advanced Dicking Around With Animals”.

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Science!

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I'm wondering how they got the tiny stilts on those ants.

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I’m trying to think about how they got those on and off them... then I realized taking them off probably wasn’t part of the consideration...

6 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Daddy-long-legs?

6 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

They also cut half of the leg of other ants, and those ants stopped half way to the food, and colony entrance.

6 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

They also immediately started calling all the other ants 'antlets'

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Undergraduate lab assistants?

6 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

So guys just remember, if u move a ant by hand they can guaranteed not find there way back

6 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Are you sure you're not thinking of a roomba?

6 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

This sounds like something Karl Pilkington would bring up on a podcast.

6 years ago | Likes 15 Dislikes 0

and no one would believe him even when it was true, which always got me mad

6 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

I think the problem there was that he would take the wrong idea or point of the story.

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MODIFICATION

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& now I’m left wondering what the fuck is wrong with scientists & how does one count steps with 6 legs?

6 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 1

Actually pretty much the same as you would with 2. They only have 2 basic movements: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLczo4N3CPI

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For the ultra-skeptics who want actual ant footage: https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2014-07/sfeb-hda062614.php

6 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Now I just feel bad for a bunch of ants.

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Have you seen how they cast aluminum structures of the inside of ant colonies? Lol

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You think that's bad? I guess i shouldn't mention my experiments with fireworks and their affect on anthills I did as a child.

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Don't worry they also cut down the legs of ants

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That doesn't make me feel better you monster.

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Would it help knowing that the ants who’s legs they chopped off had a family of 5000 to feed?

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This is a dark world. Especially for ants it turns out

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Must be a specific species of ants. Other ants use scent trails & they're so compelled by them they'll literally walk in circles until death

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It's just a joke

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If the trail gets messed up and essentially becomes a loop. There are videos of little ant hurricanes just marching until they expire.

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