Friday, July 29, 2011

Not a picture of Mars -


It's the inside of an eyeball - specifically, mine. The machine that takes these can display them on a computer screen in another room, and this is a picture of that other computer screen. The doctor says this looks OK and there's nothing showing that we should worry about. That white spot is the optic nerve, not the North Pole, and this isn't a picture of Mars, although there is some similarity.


 This one, on the other hand, really is Mars - and it is similar, except that the white spot on this one really is its North Pole, not its optic nerve....


4 comments:

  1. Cool what they can do, these days, isn't it, Ray? Glad your eyeball is still healthy! :-D

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  2. Well Ray, you know what some say... Women are from Venus and men are from Mars.. :-)

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  3. @ TC -

    Dr. Debbie asked me to read the smallest thing I could see on the eye chart, so I looked at the very bottom, and it said "20/20" so I told her that, and she said, "Same old Ray,
    but you're right."

    @ Tommy -

    I have a long and involved theory about Mars and what happened to it about three and a half billion years ago, but we won't go into it just now..... let's just say I don't think we're looking at the whole thing as it was originally.
    I think what's there now is just the core of the former planet after it got hit by that huge meteoroid.

    Mars rovers finding evidence of former water or oceans on it just confirms what I've suspected for years.

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  4. Hi, guys! GOOD ONE, Tommy! Funny you, Ray! :-)

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