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- tehWyman, on 08/19/2009, -2/+92I wish I was a bee. The flowers look better.
And I could sting people. - Jazzillion, on 10/10/2007, -6/+96Beauty is in the eye of the beeholder.
- SantaClauz, on 10/10/2007, -3/+84So just wondering... how the hell do we know how bees see?
- Ocelot13, on 10/10/2007, -1/+64um, bee goggles. duh
- AnteChronos, on 10/10/2007, -7/+55"And I could sting people."
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And then die as the stinger rips your guts out when you try to pull away. On an unrelated note, this headline makes use of one of my grammar pet peeves. Bees don't see flowers "differently to us". They see them "differently THAN WE DO". I'll even allow "different than us" without too much complaint (but I'll still complain a little), but using "to" is downright wrong. I mean, would you say to a waiter "wait a minute! That's different to what I ordered!" Nope. Because it's grammatically incorrect. Okay, rant over. - devindotcom, on 10/10/2007, -0/+26Actually, I wrote a short paper on it in a Neuroscience class. Bees and other insects have a fundamentally different system, not only in the range of light they can see, which is not really such a big change, but in the physical organization of the eye. It's made up of many little wells that catch light individually and relay it to a dedicated light-sensitive spot - as opposed to our system, where all light available is focused into a single "beam" which is caught by many rods and cones in a large array. So really.... we don't really know how they see, especially because so much of how one sees is in the brain rather than the eye. It could be that the bee's visual system takes the information from the individual wells and makes a single, larger image from it. Or maybe each little eye (ommatidium I think) is semi-independent. It's very interesting.
- Sornos, on 10/10/2007, -0/+22We are the Destroyers of Worlds.
- GeneralGore, on 10/10/2007, -0/+17If we were bees, the whole world would be one big Target ad.
- Scotty87, on 10/10/2007, -2/+14bees on acid!
- chanman2468, on 10/10/2007, -2/+13So what does a human look like to a bee?
- dasdef, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8is 'Effa' cooler than 'Ever'? I'm sorry, im just trying to follow.
- rubbad, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8you fail
it's Bee-U-Tiful... - MilitantRabbit, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7Warm bony flesh piles.
- LowROI, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6swing and a miss.
- Matteos, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6I wish I was a butterfly...
Why?
Because nobody blames the butterfly! Muwahahahaha... - devindotcom, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7I agree on the grammar not - the poster could also have said "differently _from_ us."
But remember that wasps and yellowjackets can sting more than once, having a little lancet to inject the acid rather than a hook that buries itself in the skin. So I'd be a wasp. - MilitantRabbit, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6And even more beauty to the holder of the bee eye.
- stephant, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5So I was having a discussion with a friend and I stated that there is no such thing as truth, there is only perception. (I don't claim to have invented the argument that there is no truth.) Anyway, he made the most common counter argument that truth surely exists because only a moron would deny that the sky is blue. I replied that a color blind person might disagree and the fact that the sky is blue to him is a matter of perception. I thought it was a pretty good reply. This article, however, would have been far better.
- wushu18t, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4through bees eyes they look like irresistible red beacons of sweetness.
- usherzx, on 10/10/2007, -3/+7i have wasp and hornet spray that shoots 27ft.
i win - lavoie0ca, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Except the colorblind person is perceiving it inaccurately. Truth exists independent of perception, and the real question is, is it possible to perceive the truth exactly as it is.
- lintmonkey, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4It sounds a little vulgar.
- devindotcom, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Not so tricky, really - you isolate the photoreactive chemical, expose it to sections of the spectrum in turn, and see what makes it reconform/reconfigure/whatever. Not that I could do that.
- pinguz, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3http://pbfcomics.com/?cid=PBF094AD-The_Chaos_Grid.jpg#161
- thydzik, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3do the lady bees have their own landing strips?
- Firehed, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3Satan, when holding a fly-swatter.
- devindotcom, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2christ, what an *****
- whatthefu, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2So what colors do bees see each other as?
- meatmcguffin, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Very awesome, very funny and very smart TV comedy show with Steven Fry where you get points for saying interesting things.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_L1Ju8ISDFY - ithasfourtoes, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2the real question is:
if we showed them our human interpeation of how they see flowers, what would it look like? - JimmyTheClam, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3 izzybr, you are a dick.
I don't give a ***** what you know because I tune self-important pedantic ***** like you OUT.
PS: That happens a lot to you in real-life too I bet. - po43292, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2a bull's eye target to sting
- lowerlogic, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2I wish I could see a broader spectrum of light.
- tehpwnrate, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2This: (Sorry, it was on the same page and it grossed me out, so I had to share) http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/showbiz/showbiznews.html?in_article_id=474034&in_page_id=1773
- dasdef, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2whoa dude, its a mystery wrapped in a twinky
- PueSi, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Looks the same to me ***** i gotta go make some honey
- Terh, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Let's both give the same answer to a question, then argue about its complexity so that we can wave our dicks around and feel like we're important because we know how to figure out what a bug can see.
- SkippyDoorknob, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I "guess" that I "believe" I will digg down your comment.
- simpleid, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1if they can't see our spectrum of light, then they just see what ever light reflects off of the image which holds our interpretation (probably nothing). all we did was map the UV frequencies proportionately to a spectrum we can see. they can see what we see as well as I understand, so considering that they would see what we do, the image of the same flower with two different colors mappings.
we can "see" any spectrum by mapping its values of intensity proportionately to our visible spectrum. just normalize the values and adjust for how ever you want to present the information. - simpleid, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1i think we can define truths relative to systems in which context we speak. outside of that context the same truth does not hold for all systems. i hope i phrased my thoughts correctly, if not i'm sure you can see where i'm going with it.
- brainache, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Hey come on - if you are going to rant get it right.
Although AnteChronos's suggestion is better than the original poster's, the best way to express this grammatically would be "Bees see flowers differently from how we do". You aren't technically meant to use 'than' after different(ly) ever, however a lot of people (particularly in North America) do, and so it has become semi-acceptable in casual speech. Not by me, you understand, I am a grammar Nazi and so you MUST NEVER EVER use 'than' after different(ly) in my book, only ever 'from'.
/rant - LogicBomB, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Don't be so deep - it makes you come off as a pretentious "holier than thou" ass.
If someone says something stupid like "well *bla bla bla* is an absolute fact, there's no arguing it" then you could probably throw a sentence or two his way but just letting you know that to the average person, you are the "stay away from his conversations" guy. - TeatimeGrommit, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Evil science. All it takes is a little gene splicing to make a bee-man (you may have seen pictures in National Enquirer).
- drgmdp, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1their heads would explode
- drakenlot, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1It'd be stained white, and loose.
But I still want to stab you with a rusty, dull knife for making my imagination act up. - Ngai, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1lol
- jc7012, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2wow, this article sure is creating alot of buzz...
...be gentle - jtbandes, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1What if you told a bee that a dandelion was solid yellow? Besides the whole communication difference thing, I'd be willing to bet it would disagree. Which view is "right"?
- rayxtime, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1The flowers actually enjoy the bees in their own special way.
http://www.pbfcomics.com/?cid=PBF067AD-Bumble_Buzzin.jpg#134 - windowboxes, on 11/12/2008, -0/+1I Always see bees and butterfly Around my Flower Window Box but now i saw by their own vision..
http://www.flowerwindowboxes.com/ -
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