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Undertoad 04-04-2006 11:03 AM

4/4/2006: Housefly with glasses
 
http://cellar.org/2006/flyglasses.jpg

Couldn't stop chuckling when this one came around. National Geographic reports that
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An entry in a German science-photo competition, this image shows a fly sporting a set of "designer" lenses crafted and set in place with a cutting-edge laser technique. The glasses fit snuggly on the fly's 0.08-inch-wide (2-millimeter-wide) head.
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Manufacturing firm Micreon GmbH created the fly's eyewear using ultrafast laser micro-machining.
Clearly they didn't understand the problem. These glasses have only two lenses... they should have 8000.

barefoot serpent 04-04-2006 12:44 PM

Is it just the frames or are there actual lenses in them too? I can't tell from the pic -- but there appears to be no distortion from refraction.

ferret88 04-04-2006 12:48 PM

Is that a Gargoyles(tm) logo on those shades?

So, um, anyone wanna weigh in on the usefulness of this ability to make micro shades?

CaptainWingSauce 04-04-2006 01:41 PM

Just like the fly itself, the glasses also poop on everything they land on.

Pancake Man 04-04-2006 06:32 PM

Quote:

Is it just the frames or are there actual lenses in them too?
Acutally, they are just Drew Carey glasses. :D

Welcome to the Cellar, WingSauce!

xoxoxoBruce 04-04-2006 07:17 PM

Wonder what they're made of?
CaptainWingSauce, care to explain that? :confused:

Kagen4o4 04-05-2006 01:32 AM

flies only land to shit. (or so the legend goes)

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Originally Posted by UT
These glasses have only two lenses... they should have 8000.

i bet all the flies tease him and call him 8002 eyes.

Undertoad 04-05-2006 08:30 AM

Reminds me of an old joke which I think is cookied. Guy goes into a pet store and says "I'd like a fly, please." Shopkeeper: "A fly? We don't sell flies here!" "Oh but you've got one in the window!"

capnhowdy 04-05-2006 07:29 PM

This could be the 'fly on the wall' We've all heard about. Highly covert. Those are actually spy glasses.

How do I know? If I told you I'd have to......... :rattat:

Elspode 04-07-2006 02:03 PM

Yo, baby...dem glasses be lookin' really fly, man! Sheeit!

Lizsun 04-10-2006 05:06 PM

fly with me
 
I think he's really quite a cute one. Bet he does well on his college entrance exams. Maybe then he'll get a job and support me. "Don't swat me. Don't swat me! I'm not a fly! I'm Jeff Goldblum!"

Liz
http://lettingmebe.blogspot.com

Sun_Sparkz 04-11-2006 04:02 AM

rant/

this is just cruel. they would have had to restrain the frightened (if not drugged) fly to put the glasses on him.. and on top of that the glasses are resting ON his eye bits.. you and i know how much it hurts to have even an eyelash in your eye.. imagine having your sunnies resting on your pupils.

Doesnt the earth have more important issues to be wasting our resources on!

urgh!!!

/end rant

Kagen4o4 04-11-2006 06:44 AM

humans are at a stage where there is literally nothing better to do, than to put glasses on a fly.
and with all due respect for nature,
fuck the fly.

mlandman 04-11-2006 09:41 AM

couldn't agree more
 
What a F'n waste of research and money.

I truly truly hope that this company receives no grants from the government, which of course really come from the taxpayers.

Kind of like the dumbass 'marvin the martian' gate design that was made on one of the ASICs on the mars rover. And the real 'wake up songs' transmitted across space to be played by the rover when it switches into daytime mode.

FREAKIN GAY.

Cyclefrance 04-11-2006 10:56 AM

Might as well add the old chestnut to the fly jokes section that is building here:

What's the last thing to go through a fly's head when it hits the car windscreen?

Its arse!

(at least with the glasses - it should see that one coming in future)


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