Hear me out pirates used to do this all the time. Cover one eye to retain night vision so they can raid other ships.
Is it actually effective?
covering one eye to retain night vision?
Hear me out pirates used to do this all the time. Cover one eye to retain night vision so they can raid other ships.
Is it actually effective?
I just so happen to follow as historian that specializes in the gold age of piracy.
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No
Was going to link this video as well.
But is he really a historian? Still, his videos are better sourced than most other history videos on YouTube.
There's no historian license or something. Anyone can assemble information into a story and provide sources to prove their claims.
Having a history degree just be means you really like history and have access to university resources (most of which are available online now).
When it is stated that Peson X is a historian an academic background is usually implied. The liscence in that case being the academic degree.
>Anyone can assemble information into a story and provide sources to prove their claims.
True, and regardless of his academic background, he makes a very fine job.
Has he stated that in one of his Q&As?
>he shilled his new channel on PrepHole however many years ago
Lmao really?
Yeah like 95%. Some thread on pirates over there. He had like 20 subs or something at the time. You can watch his early videos and tell what audience his vids were for
For all we know he's still shilling his channel on 4chonnel here
That very short window when PrepHole had a few history related threads and wasn't entirely /intpol/d into shitposting haplogroup oblivion
IIRC he actually did study the golden age formally.
I remember subscribing to this lil nigga after he shilled his new channel on PrepHole however many years ago. Pretty sure he has studied the history but at the very least he has clearly read loads of books on the subject
Not as effective as covering one eye with a pvs-14, but a lot cheaper
I would think giving up depth perception in a stabbing fight would outweigh any possible benefit.
This is logically what they trained me to do in scouts.
Thus isn't some hidden knowledge.
No they didn’t and it doesn’t work.Your covered eye is going to have trouble seeing for a while even in low light conditions.
Wrong. You only cover for an hour or so.
As a kid I watched the Mythbusters and they did a test. It works.
When I go take a leak at night I hold one eye closed when I turn on the bathroom light, so I can walk back to the dark bedroom without waking the missus and banging onto every object on the way in the dark
Quiet pisser
Why would you make a thread instead of just trying it?
But, yeah it works, no clue if pirates actually used it but I use it for pretty much the same as
I do exactly the same. It works
That episode of Mythbusters was life changing
You can train your eyes to adjust faster
Seamen in the past were some of the most superstitious people that ever existed, I wouldn't count it actually works.
Jungle killer here.
Your brain combines the vision from both eyes, so glare in either eye tends to fuck your vision.
But there is a trick that works, your night vision is FAR better in your peripherals.
There are two ways I exploit this. Firstly you can practice going out of focus, because when you do this it tends to stop you focusing in on things, thus you can "look at" things without focusing on them.
The other way you can do this is to tap into your spacial brain and think of somthing in your peripheral vision as a spacial object.
>but you don't know what thing is
You imagine somthing moving in your peripheral as a target, a phisical target, a target object. This helps you track thing which for whatever reason you can't look directly at.
Can you see black people though?