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Cross - Wired Eyes

George Hammond ghammond at mediaone.net
Wed May 16 00:00:35 EST 2001


Kalman Rubinson wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 16 May 2001 02:38:03 GMT, George Hammond
> <ghammond at mediaone.net> wrote:
> 
> >Obviously an implausible answer.  At some point, with
> >the development of the "lens", animal vision suddenly
> >became "reversed"... the animal must have spent ages
> >crashing into things and turning the wrong way, until
> >finally a mutant arrived which had crossed wiring, and
> >could see straight.  Naturally he decimated the rest
> >of the backwards population, got all the girls, and
> >that was the origin of ducussation in the CNS.
> 
> Cute.    Now, when do you think that breakthrough occurred?
> Which lens-less animal was the antecedant?

[Hammond]
Figure it out.. it must have been back in the
Cambrian, before the vertebrates appeared.  I
dunno, I'm not a paleontologist, I'm a physicist.

> 
> Kal

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