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The Nazgûl are coming (sh.itjust.works)
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[–] Muehe@lemmy.ml 3 points 11 months ago

Biochemically adjusting to a brighter environment takes the eyes a fraction of a second, but adapting to a darker environment takes them 20-30 minutes. This is the reason pirates wore eyepatches despite both eyes being intact, you can enter the belly of a ship and have at least one eye already adapted to darkness.