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points by andai 3 days ago | 0 comments
One of my favorite things I read growing up was a passage about what it's like to be a fly watching TV.

In those days TV's were big CRT boxes, illuminated by the electron beam which would race across the screen row by row.

A housefly's "refresh rate" on its eyeballs is much higher than that of a human, so the fly wouldn't see an image as we do, but would presumably find it quite relaxing watching the dot of light slowly move across the screen.

[–] temp123477 3 days ago
In those days. Oh no! I'm old.
[–] dghughes 3 days ago
Generations of cats too perplexed by humans staring at a box with a moving dot.
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