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liquidspace | 12:17 Fri 09th Mar 2007 | Animals & Nature
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Why do flies have eyes that are sectioned into hundreds of different pieces?
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They are compound eyes with many individual facets, each representing a separate light-detecting unit.
12:28 Fri 09th Mar 2007
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Why do flies get the high tech super duper eyes? Shouldnt we all get eyes like that?
12:30 Fri 09th Mar 2007
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well we can always buy glasses, use a telescope, even have laser eye surgery, the poor fly only needs their for 24 hours anyway, we need ours alot longer.
12:36 Fri 09th Mar 2007
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Besides, a fly couldnt use a white stick or control a labrador.
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16:29 Fri 09th Mar 2007
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It wouldnt need to, it would just jump aboard the labrador and catch a free ride!
16:52 Fri 09th Mar 2007

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