Scientists put 3D glasses on cuttlefish

Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/01/09/scientists-put-3d-glasses-on-c.html

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We have a grant from the 1960s for studying 3D glasses that runs out this year. Quick! Write up an experimental protocol!

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That title should have begun with “After a long night of drinking,”

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Do you want Godzilla?

Because I’m pretty sure this is how you get Godzilla.

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Cuttlefish vision is very weird from our pov, so this experiment seems apt, being out in left field.

For instance, we se them as incredibly colorful, and observe their rapid color changes and camouflage, yet they don’t have our kind of color vision:

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Well, it’s better than teaching poodles to fly.

I recall some speculation awhile back regarding prehistoric ammonites… how they would be the most intelligent creature on the planet, had they survived all of the extinction events.

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“I’m watching ‘The Creature from the Black Lagoon,’ and I am the creature.”

Unfortunately for them a comparatively simple, but substantial, F=m*a incident proved to be more relevant…

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