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Birds Can See Earth's Magnetic Fields, and Now We Know How That's Possible
- 40four 8y agoFor historical purposes, the last conversation on this fascinating article = https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16823201 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16823201
- stephengillie 8y ago> There's also been evidence in recent years that, in birds, the cryptochromes in their eyes are responsible for their ability to orient themselves by detecting magnetic fields, a sense called magnetoreception. How soon until someone in the body-mod community tries implanting these into their own eyeballs?
- kylnew 8y agoWith words like ‘cryptochromes’ and ‘magnetoreception’, I’m sure it’s going to have some misunderstood appeal.
- stephengillie 8y agoMaybe they'll find a way to store private keys in their eyes too.
- AstralStorm 8y agoLet's call it wifi-o-vision. Much more useful to see using the surrounding microwaves. (via backscatter) Compared to that, magnetic field sensing requires really strong fields.
- TheBeardKing 8y agoNo need for implants once we're all wearing AR glasses/lenses.
- barryp 8y agoYeah, it's kind of a natural HUD. However even though it could definitely be mimicked with electronics, a biological self-hack would have the advantages of not worrying about battery life, software updates, security, etc. If you were in a future Mad-Max dystopia, you'd definitely want a bio-hack to guide you around instead of a fragile piece of plastic and silicon.
- mmirate 8y agoIn such a dystopia, a clear blue sky might not be visible from the ground on a regular basis.
- PerryCox 8y agoI would love to see a simulation of what this type of vision looks like. I think that would be very interesting.