• KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    7 months ago

    you know whats even weirder? Some dude somewhere realized that lenses were a thing, and realized that your eyes were also just a glorified lense. And that theoretically you could just put a lense over a lense to fix the bad lensing of the lense. And it fucking worked.

    Natural selection my ass.

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      7 months ago

      Legend has it that it started with an old drunk man that decided to hold beer bottles to his eyes.

        • ℛ𝒶𝓋ℯ𝓃@pawb.social
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          7 months ago

          The “traditional” story (the one that “seems most likely” because we don’t really know) is that some kids were playing with discarded warped glass at a glassmaker’s shop and ended up with a magnifying glass or rudimentary telescope. Enter the simultaneous invention of the telescope in multiple places (very likely it wasn’t any one person in particular), Galileo starts using it for scientific stuff, now they’re making lenses on purpose. Old nearsighted lensemaker looks through it, maybe some charts or a book on the table, all of a sudden they can see well. Attach to frame. Glasses.

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      7 months ago

      Natural selection my ass.

      Exactly! The human butt looks as fat as it does precisely due to natural selection. It’s linked to bipedalism. If you weren’t human, you wouldn’t have that ass.