Episode: 68 Xenogenesis - 3-Imago: III: Imago Chapters 9 & 10

XenoThesis

In episode 68, Richard and Michael discuss how our eyes adjust to darkness and how much more powerful the construct Oankali are in creating an aphrodisiac.

Timestamps

00:00:00 - Start
00:00:32 - Welcome
00:02:14 - Chapter 9 predictions
00:02:46 - Chapter 9 begins
00:05:58 - Darkvision [1 - 5]
00:15:44 - Back to chapter 9
00:18:18 - “You know we won’t”
00:19:34 - Chapter 10 prediction
00:22:12 - Chapter 10 summary
00:23:11 - Constructs are much more powerful
00:25:12 - Back to Chapter 10
00:26:31 - Brave New World and 1984
00:28:46 - Santons and his mouth
00:30:33 - End of chapter 10
00:31:28 - Thermal vision
00:34:55 - Chapter 11 predictions
00:36:31 - Outro

References

Adaptation to darkness:

• [1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2140394/pdf/499.pdf - Review article from 1920 investigating the adaptation of our eyes to darkness.
• [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_eye#Components - Wiki article about the human eye.
• [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_phototransduction - Wiki article explaining the change in rhodopsin as well as the cyclic GMP involvement in amplification of the cycle.

Carrots and WWII propaganda:

• [4] https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/a-wwii-propaganda-campaign-popularized-the-myth-that-carrots-help-you-see-in-the-dark-28812484/ - A very nice article about the whole development of the propaganda.

Vitamin A and dark vision:

• [5] https://academic.oup.com/ajcn/article/72/4/1004/4729452 - An article about how Vitamin A and beta-carotene increases responsiveness to dark.

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