Human Body: Pushing the Limits Page #2

Synopsis: Showing the limits of the human body
Genre: Documentary
Actors: Bray Poor
 
IMDB:
8.1
Year:
2008
3,097 Views


Now firefighter Dan Fleming

enters a dangerous world

of shadows and shapes...

...so murky and cloudy,

you'd think it impossible

to see anything.

Dan struggles to build a picture

of the whole house

from frag ments he makes out

in the haze.

[ Heavy breathing ]

How is the house laid out?

Where is the fire?

Are there any survivors?

You're trying to determine

what the house looks like,

what the occupants are about'

who would be inside this home.

NARRATOR:

Despite the darkness,

Dan's eyes im mediately start

to adjust.

They have amazing sensitivity.

l n complete darkness,

from 1 4 miles away,

we can detect the light

from a single candle.

You try to find bits and pieces

of light

to help you

find your way through.

[ l ndistinct talking on radio ]

NARRATOR:
l n low light'

we rely on the rod cells

that cover most of the retina.

Highly sensitive, they only

register black and white.

But Dan needs to see in color.

He's searching for a fire.

FLEM l NG:

lt was very faint at first.

l thought to myself' "That must

be the seat of the fire."

very orange glow --

l mean, it was really orange.

NARRATOR:

To see color'

you use cone cells

at the retina's center.

We get all our color vision

from being able to distinguish

only three colors.

SADU N:
The cones are sensitive

to different colors.

There's those that are

particularly sensitive

to blue light' those to green

light' and those to red light.

And they need a lot more light

to fire.

So if they get enough of

the photons of the right color'

they fire and say to you,

"There's a spot of green

or red or blue at this point."

NARRATOR:
Using these red,

blue, and green signals,

the brain creates an impression

spanning the entire

visual spectrum...

...a range

of over 1 0 million colors.

[ l ndistinct talking on radio ]

Color vision leads Dan

straight to the fire.

FLEM l NG:
To my surprise,

it went out very quickly.

And l started scanning around to

see what else was in that room.

Whenever you can get glimpses,

that's so important'

but l'm taking the whole room in

as l'm scanning.

NARRATOR:

l n a flash,

Dan's brain calculates

what has to be there,

even though he sees

only tiny frag ments.

This is what our brains do

constantly --

fill gaps with data

from our visual memory bank.

l n fact' our brain interprets

most of our vision

out of a lifetime

of stored images.

Then Dan recognizes something.

A white shape --

a cup of coffee.

Black and white squares --

a half-completed crossword.

Are these crucial signs

that someone could still be

in the house?

There, through the smoke,

Dan sees a blurred

and unusual shape.

FLEM l NG:
My initial instinct was

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