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And yet like us they have two eyes. I wonder if we meet aliens from another star-orbiting planet if their light-sensors will look anything like ours.
by rkagerer 2y ago
And yet like us they have two eyes. I wonder if we meet aliens from another star-orbiting planet if their light-sensors will look anything like ours.
- Wojtkie 2y agoWell, I'm not sure there'd be much benefit to spending energy on a 3rd eye. You can already achieve stereoscopic vision with just two eyes, why waste the energy on a third? It probably doesn't increase fitness enough to be worth the energy spend.
- john2x 2y agoDifferent sets for different wavelength ranges
- thfuran 2y agoIt might be too hard to parse, but an eye on each arm would give variable baseline and potentially 360° stereoscopic coverage.
- SoftTalker 2y agoYet some creatures have many more than two eyes. Spiders, for example.
- notheyarent 2y agoThose are not eyes though. Animals eyes always come in a pair and whether it’s a human, dog, cat, mouse etc they are Gods gateway to the soul. It’s self evident.
- r721 2y ago>Most spiders have eight eyes. Some have no eyes and others have as many as 12 eyes. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/spider-sense-fast-facts-on-extreme-arachnids https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/spider-se...