sci_starborne | Twitter Updates for 18-02-2012

@ZeroShiBlue Unless it's a swingers club, ew. in reply to ZeroShiBlue 01:10:05, 2012-02-18
Rather hungover today. Should have had more water before bed. 14:09:26, 2012-02-18
@ThrashWolf Why? in reply to ThrashWolf 14:47:55, 2012-02-18
@ThrashWolf That's bollocks. No kid gets to choose their parents situ. The bio lady was infertile, & they had a unique option available. in reply to ThrashWolf 15:00:31, 2012-02-18
@ThrashWolf Should hermaphrodites be allowed to bear or father children? in reply to ThrashWolf 16:21:02, 2012-02-18
@ThrashWolf I feel the argument is insulting. Adapting to circumstances by accepting temporary changes is part of human nature. in reply to ThrashWolf 16:21:59, 2012-02-18
Knuckles in right hand are throbbing with light pain. Suspect an early sign of the arthritis that effects Dad's side of the family. 16:26:31, 2012-02-18
At these times I ask myself if automating so many workshop processes is guarding against the future where I can't do them by hand. 16:27:17, 2012-02-18
@Aiannucci @bengoldacre Just like the Olympics public text-vote, there's only an option to vote "Yes". in reply to Aiannucci 16:29:10, 2012-02-18
Off to the shops! Food must be had. 16:48:38, 2012-02-18
Fovea of human eye takes up centre 2degrees of human vision, able to resolve up to 1/60th of a degree. Pi*r^2 makes that 11311 "pixels". 21:12:41, 2012-02-18
Fovea makes up about half of all retina cells in the eye, so total number of "pixels" of the human eye is about 22622. 21:13:27, 2012-02-18
Field of view is about 120×90 degrees, or about 3:4 ratio. So the human eye has a total resolution of about 174*130. Less than QVGA. 21:22:53, 2012-02-18
Basically there's no image sensor out there that can't match the human eye. Hard bit is the lens. 21:25:45, 2012-02-18
Lens needs to focus the centre 2degrees over centre half of an image sensor & squash the rest to the margins. 21:26:54, 2012-02-18
Grr, that furnace is going for more than it did last time. ¬_¬ 22:43:23, 2012-02-18
Ends in 20hrs. but does look like someone's dragging it along on smallest increments now. 22:43:57, 2012-02-18

Mirrored from The blog-hub for Peter "Sci" Turpin.