Forget the Goggles: Chlorophyll Eye Drops Give Night Vision

Discover ^ | September 4, 2009 | Melinda Wenner

[decimon]

Seeing in the dark could soon be as easy as popping a pill or squeezing some drops into your eyes, thanks to some new science, an unusual deep-sea fish, and a plant pigment.

In the 1990s, marine biologist Ron Douglas of City University London discovered that, unlike other deep-sea fish, the dragonfish Malacosteus niger can perceive red light. Douglas was surprised when he isolated the chemical responsible for absorbing red: It was chlorophyll. “That was weird,” he says. The fish had somehow co-opted chlorophyll, most likely from bacteria in their food, and turned it into a vision enhancer.

[DManA]

What do you do? Put a drop on a sugar cube? Oh waw man. Colors in the dark. Goovie.

[Blueflag]

Basic biology FAIL:

“The fish had somehow co-opted chlorophyll, most likely from bacteria in their food, and turned it into a vision enhancer”

Acquired traits are not inherited.

If it ain’t in the genes, it doesn’t pass to the offspring.

[martin_fierro]

[Daffynition]

I can explain.......

[counterpunch]

Ummm. No.
This ability to use chlorophyll acquired through their diet can be a genetic trait.

[Leftism is Mentally Deranged]

Discover is a magazine of pop science, not true science. The depth and reliability of their articles leaves much to be desired. Forget the eye drops.

[Uncle Chip]

It was chlorophyll.

So then should the nightowls amongst us eat those leafy green vegetables or just stuff them into our eye balls???

[decimon]

So then should the nightowls amongst us eat those leafy green vegetables or just stuff them into our eye balls???

I watched a wasp open up some katydid looking creature to extract a ball of chlorophyll looking stuff. Maybe looking for some green, tree inhabiting insects to eat would help with the nighttime looking.

And that's how looks my scientific analysis.

[decimon]

What do you do? Put a drop on a sugar cube?

On the lenses of something like sunglasses would be good.

[Blueflag]

True, but the genes had to change first. Actions or conditions in the biome do not generationally affect progeny unless the genome of the species is altered and sufficiently propagated in the population.

Just ‘cuz the parents had some symbiotic relationship with bacteria does not CAUSE the offspring to have the same, unless the genes are in place.

I don’t have time to go into it here, but here’s what I mean:\

http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Acquired_characteristics

[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

Let’s just hope the drops are cheaper than a night vision monocle, which I’ve wanted for a couple of years but still cannot afford.

[ArtDodger]

Tony Kennricks “Nighttime Guy” Old novel

[SunkenCiv]

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[decimon]

I'm sure the night vision supplements will appear soon in the health food stores.

Try taking some chlorophyll along with the fish oil.

[TMSuchman]

I got mine at a Dunham’s Sporting Goods store for a real good price. It even makes it’s power so I do not have to use battries on it.

[Kevmo]

bmflr

[Mmogamer]

Warhammer 40k?

[ConservativeMan55]

eh?