General Chat

[Scorpia]

home alone is playing in the background...i'm now considering matricide because my mom put it on to spite me...

[Blightmare]

Going to be leaving soon to pick up Deus Ex in a minute. Heard so much good about it I'm actually anxious. O_o

[Scorpia]

^ DO IT! you won't regret it!

[Blue]

What would I do if I had cybernetic augmentations...?

 

I'd probably look into doing an Iron Man or equivalent exercise thing.

[Scorpia]

assuming i could afford them, i don't know what i'd do with 'em..

[BTGBullseye]

I'd break into a bank, dance in the vault, then leave without taking anything just to mess with their heads...

[Blightmare]

Back from 8 hours of Deus Ex. Lord it's easy to get pulled out of reality with that game. Love the stealth.

[Scorpia]

told ya

 

what i'd do with them, if i could somehow fly eventually, get x-ray vision(what guy wouldn't? don't judge me) probably the social thingy...i'd want the cloak for a lot of reasons....

[Blue]

If I had super vision, I wouldn't care for X-rays.

Wider bandwidths is where it's at.

Normal humans can see between about 700 nanometers and 450 nanometers in bandwidth. (red is 700, violet is 450. This is why electromagnetic spectral information with a bandwidth slightly shorter than 700 is InfraRed, and longer than 450 is UltraViolet).

Being able to see between 10 meters and 10,000 nanometers would enable one to see everything from medium frequency radio, low pitch sounds, heat, microwaves and low ionizing radiation.

 

Think about the implications of being able to see heat alone. (Like body heat.)

Let alone being able to intercept a wide variety of wireless signals just by seeing them.

[Blightmare]

I'm curious what the world would look like if you could see between those ranges. And also kinda curious how it would work, like would you see everything at once (cluttered world) or would you be able to willingly change the frequency at which you see?

 

Not that anyone can truly answer these questions since no one is capable of such sight, but still...

[Eedo Baba]

If I had super vision, I wouldn't care for X-rays.

Wider bandwidths is where it's at.

Normal humans can see between about 700 nanometers and 450 nanometers in bandwidth. (red is 700, violet is 450. This is why electromagnetic spectral information with a bandwidth slightly shorter than 700 is InfraRed, and longer than 450 is UltraViolet).

Being able to see between 10 meters and 10,000 nanometers would enable one to see everything from medium frequency radio, low pitch sounds, heat, microwaves and low ionizing radiation.

 

Think about the implications of being able to see heat alone. (Like body heat.)

Let alone being able to intercept a wide variety of wireless signals just by seeing them.

 

You can't see low pitch sounds. They aren't electromagnetic radiation, they're just athmospheric vibrations.

[Blue]

Yeah, I realize that.

Technically radio would be in electronic signals. In order to be able to understand radio signals as sound, your brain would also have to be able to interpret, decode and possibly decrypt them.

 

If you could see those ranges, I think it would demand the ability to comprehend them all at once as opposed to being able to switch between ranges at will. You can see the entirety of the spectrum you comprehend with your eyes all at once, you don't need to sweep willingly between reds to violets up from orange, yellow, green, blue and indigo.

 

To that end I don't think we could imagine what seeing radio signals and what not would actually look like seeing as we don't really have methods of comprehending them right now beyond transmission and reception. Visibility of the intermediate would be very queer indeed.

[Eedo Baba]

Once again, increasing senses would require either reducing other senses, or having a giant brain.

[alphabetagamma]

Once again, increasing senses would require either reducing other senses, or having a giant brain.

Just like seeing X-rays would require something like lead eyes. We're talking about cybernetic augmentations here.

[Scorpia]

^second, besides we're really far away from that stuff.

[Kyon]

When does the Narwhal Bacon?

[Scorpia]

it's a secret known only to a special order of Ludwicks, it involves mysticism, magic, and a big-ASS griddle...

[Blue]

Big ass-griddle?

[Scorpia]

my xbox360 is broken, i'm guessing the big storm we had last night fried it. it won't turn on, yes all the cords are plugged in. there's a disc stuck in there too. so yea my day is basically fucking ruined!

[Blightmare]

I guess it would be a bad time to talk about my fantastic day. O_o