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andai • today at 4:35 AM • 2 replies • view on HN

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.


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dghughes • today at 1:50 PM

Generations of cats too perplexed by humans staring at a box with a moving dot.

temp123477 • today at 7:14 AM

In those days. Oh no! I'm old.