What Do We See in The Dark?
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Hey Vsauce I'm Jake and in the Chronicles of Riddick series, one of Riddick's unique features is his ability to see in the dark. Of course, this is due to a fictional operation called a shine job that creates something similar to what a lot of animals are born with, a tapetum lucidum. The tapetum is a reflective membrane in the animal's eye, behind the retina, that acts as a mirror, re-sending the photons back out for another chance to be collected. If you've ever taken a photo of your dog or cat with a flash on, the glowing eye effect is the light being bounced back from the tapetum. It is also what fueled the old tales of glowing eyes in the dark. Unfortunately we don't have shine jobs or tapetums to give us enhanced night vision, but whe...
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Hey Vsauce I'm Jake and in the Chronicles of Riddick series, one of Riddick's unique features is his ability to see in the dark. Of course, this is due to a fictional operation called a shine job that creates something similar to what a lot of animals are born with, a tapetum lucidum. The tapetum is a reflective membrane in the animal's eye, behind the retina, that acts as a mirror, re-sending the photons back out for another chance to be collected. If you've ever taken a photo of your dog or cat with a flash on, the glowing eye effect is the light being bounced back from the tapetum. It is also what fueled the old tales of glowing eyes in the dark. Unfortunately we don't have shine jobs or tapetums to give us enhanced night vision, but whe...
