Human Body: Pushing the Limits Page #2
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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
in the haze.
How is the house laid out?
Where is the fire?
Are there any survivors?
You're trying to determine
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 sensitiveto 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."
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 ]
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
l n fact' our brain interprets
most of our vision
out of a lifetime
of stored images.
Then Dan recognizes something.
a cup of coffee.
a half-completed crossword.
in the house?
There, through the smoke,
Dan sees a blurred
and unusual shape.
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