How does she do that so quickly when she has only one eye? No depth perception would make it very difficult.

Interesting that you should mention the eyes, I will elaborate because it gets even more interesting. The owl was just to my left and a little behind me, so I only peripherally glimpsed (with one eye) his flapping silhouette against the twilight as he landed some distance away. I now re-estimate it to be much less that 100 meters, more like that in feet actually.

I scanned the branches once I realized it was too cold for moths, suspecting that it was an owl because of how big it was at a distance. Once I located it, I kept my eyes locked on him as to not lose him, and started to grope my way up the two-story porch and stairs in the back of the house. It's like this...


____| - where my binoculars are
_/__| - first floor porch
_/__| - where I was


Now, the first floor porch is built with 10 inch joists, plus the decking, and the stairs come up through the porch floor. So, in the time that it took me to dart my head past the thickness of the first floor porch to try to re-fix my eye on him he took off and left only that deeply swaying branch. I realized tha he was fixed on my eyes too. So yeah, he won that staring contest .

>> ^ForgedReality:
^Do you lack an eye? How did your depth perception not chime in? O.O
The owl would kick your ass in a staring contest.

^Do you lack an eye? How did your depth perception not chime in? O.O

The owl would kick your ass in a staring contest.

Just call me Ryjkyj. I was born and raised in Vancouver, Washington. (which is not in Canada)

I was a lurker on the Sift for about a year or two before I signed up. Some of my friends turned me on to it and I've been coming here ever since. I have what's considered by most to be a sarcastic and negative sense of humor, so I'm sorry for offending any/all of you with anything I've said in the past. George Carlin is my hero.

I am 28 year old high school dropout who now lives in New York or The City. I moved here because my girlfriend (now my wife) wanted to go to school out here. My background is in home remodeling and coffee for the most part and I got insanely lucky when I moved to New York to get a job here:

www.outsourceconsultants.com

So now I make way more money than I thought possible for my status and spend ALL OF IT on a tiny basement apartment that's more expensive than I could've imagined.

I used to be a gigantic stoner as only someone living on the I5 corridor can be but I stopped all that when I moved here. Now I barely even drink

I am still however, a pack-a-day smoker which has kind of limited my ability to practice my only real interest which is the martial arts. I do not respect Jean Claude Van Dam. I was in Tae Kwon Do from the time I was five until about 18. I know, I know, it's only a sport. Keep telling yourself that, couple it with the fact that I have never hit nor been hit by anyone in anger and take it how you will.

Now I basically just eat salty food and watch TV, though I do love to take long walks around this city and spend a lot of time at the museums here. I also spend any down time by picking up anything that even resembles a weapon and swinging it around like some crazy raver/Jackie Chan wannabe on speed until my arms nearly fall off. A pastime I have enjoyed since before I can remember.

I still haven't even bought a computer out here so literally all of my sifting time comes from screwing off before or after work. I miss all my friends at home (if any of them ever read this) but I love coming here and getting all the different perspectives from people around the world and watching videos until my eyes dry out and I start to lose depth perception.

Thanks to every single one of you, including Bill O'Rielly and even QM for making this a great place to hang out.

Puppies have big depth perception issues for at least 5/6 months. It's so sweet because they climb to get to your voice - in spite of their mental inablility to wrap their heads around what they see. Awww...

upvoting for watching the entire series (so far). I find it to be of good production values. Quite funny in some parts (Sagats lack of depth perception, guile). Story has more holes then homers underwear (how do world warriors all retire in the same city?) but for a lighthearted comedy, this ones gone several steps beyond most fan made videos.

The thing about these illusions when they're shown on TV is that it changes a biocular cue, into a monocular cue. This tends to make the illusion a bit more dramatic as we lose true depth perception, and which is replaced by depth perception more reliant on visual cues. Our ability to extrapolate depth in a 2 dimensional environment is solely dependent on size and shape. To me this is a lot like a painting, where our knowledge of how things work regarding size, shape and distance, helps us determine the relative sizes of things in a painting.

That's not to say this particular illusion doesn't exist when viewed biocularly, just that it's probably not as profound. I've been in a room like that (it was at some carnival or something) and let me tell you it was very disorienting.

see, pirates could never do this due to having no depth perception... or something.

N > P !