hi All,
Newbie here, don't shoot me down this post is meant to be fairly light hearted...
I watched mythbusters the other day, they tested a theory that pirates wore an eyepatch, to ensure that one eye always remained in night vision. They could switch it over at dusk and have good nightvision, therefore helping preventing suprise raids and mutinees.
They concluded that it seemed to work, by keeping one eye in darkness via the eyepatch, when they went into the darkened room and removed it they were able to see quite well immediately.
I was wondering as i have some light pollution in my garden (though not heaps)...........
If i wore an eyepatch and only lifted it to look in the lense, would I have amazing nightvision.
Does anyone know? has anyone tried this? Are there any pirate astronomers?
If it hasn't been tried, in the name of science I will give it a go...of course i'm going to need to borrow a parrot.........?
Cheers all
Steve
PS i couldn't find a pirate smilie
