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ailsagirl

(22,897 posts) Sat Jan 20, 2018, 02:12 PM Jan 2018

Human eye blinking in slow motion-- be prepared!! It's WEIRD

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Human eye blinking in slow motion-- be prepared!! It's WEIRD (Original Post) ailsagirl Jan 2018 OP

That is fascinating, in a weird way. n/t dixiegrrrrl Jan 2018 #1

Weird is right ailsagirl Jan 2018 #3

Isn't that interesting. Ha ha. Anny61 Jan 2018 #2

Damn. I blinked and missed it. Baitball Blogger Jan 2018 #4

That is seriously cool! dhol82 Jan 2018 #5

That is quite a skill. I tried, but just can't do it in slow motion. Doodley Jan 2018 #6

Very interesting ! But it makes sense ... eppur_se_muova Jan 2018 #7

Now if they had filmed a real human instead of a reptilian alien... nt Binkie The Clown Jan 2018 #8

dixiegrrrrl

(60,010 posts)

1. That is fascinating, in a weird way. n/t

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Sat Jan 20, 2018, 02:25 PM

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ailsagirl

(22,897 posts)

3. Weird is right

Reply to dixiegrrrrl (Reply #1)

Sat Jan 20, 2018, 02:26 PM

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I never knew the eyelids actually ripple!!

Anny61

(100 posts)

2. Isn't that interesting. Ha ha.

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Sat Jan 20, 2018, 02:25 PM

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Baitball Blogger

(46,752 posts)

4. Damn. I blinked and missed it.

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Sat Jan 20, 2018, 02:29 PM

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dhol82

(9,353 posts)

5. That is seriously cool!

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Sat Jan 20, 2018, 02:34 PM

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Doodley

(9,112 posts)

6. That is quite a skill. I tried, but just can't do it in slow motion.

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Sat Jan 20, 2018, 02:49 PM

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eppur_se_muova

(36,275 posts)

7. Very interesting ! But it makes sense ...

Reply to ailsagirl (Original post)

Sat Jan 20, 2018, 03:10 PM

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The eyelid basically wipes any dust, discharge, old tears, and other debris toward the "drain". There is a continuous flow of tears from the tear glands above the outer (temporal) side of the eye towards the duct at the inside corner.

https://www.mayoclinic.org/-/media/kcms/gbs/patient-consumer/images/2013/11/15/17/42/ds00463_-ds01096_im02751_r7_tearglandthu_jpg.ashx

This raises an obvious question: Do reptiles, and other animals with a nictitating membrane, blink in a different fashion ? I suspect they do, and that what we see in the video is the mammalian alternative to that "third eyelid". (According to Wikipedia, some mammals, mostly aquatic to some degree, do have a nictititating membrane as well.)

Binkie The Clown

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8. Now if they had filmed a real human instead of a reptilian alien... nt

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Sat Jan 20, 2018, 03:41 PM

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