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What would happen if you turn the lights on while wearing night vision goggles?

The Sum of Awe

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On Monk they did that and the guy in the night vision goggles didn't realize the lights turned on, it was the same.

On Step Brothers they did that and the one wearing the goggles fell in pain, i guess hurting his eyes.

What really happens?
 

YmirGF

Bodhisattva in Recovery
On Monk they did that and the guy in the night vision goggles didn't realize the lights turned on, it was the same.

On Step Brothers they did that and the one wearing the goggles fell in pain, i guess hurting his eyes.

What really happens?
Door #2
 

Kathryn

It was on fire when I laid down on it.
Your head explodes and what's left of your body spontaneously combusts.
 

silvermoon383

Well-Known Member
You'd toss them off with burning eyes.

We see things by photons (light particles/waves) passing through the cornea (lens) of your eye, with an image formed on your retina. Rods and cones (2 different types of cells) in the retina tell you how bright and what color things are, respectively. HOWEVER, they both require a certain amount of light to work (rods less than cones, that's why when it's dark you rarely see color.)

Night vision goggles work in a similar way, but instead they have a small electronic that works just like the rods in your eyes, but is far more sensitive. It can pick out the details that are too dim for your natural eyes, and displays the image on a screen that's on the eye-side of the goggle. This electronic is so sensitive though, that if you turn on the lights it floods (overloads) the imaging cell, and you get blasted with a vision full if incredibly bright light.
 

ninerbuff

godless wonder
You'd toss them off with burning eyes.

We see things by photons (light particles/waves) passing through the cornea (lens) of your eye, with an image formed on your retina. Rods and cones (2 different types of cells) in the retina tell you how bright and what color things are, respectively. HOWEVER, they both require a certain amount of light to work (rods less than cones, that's why when it's dark you rarely see color.)

Night vision goggles work in a similar way, but instead they have a small electronic that works just like the rods in your eyes, but is far more sensitive. It can pick out the details that are too dim for your natural eyes, and displays the image on a screen that's on the eye-side of the goggle. This electronic is so sensitive though, that if you turn on the lights it floods (overloads) the imaging cell, and you get blasted with a vision full if incredibly bright light.
Totally disagree. Sony handycams have "Night vision" which uses the same technology as night vision goggles.
All you'll see is a "green" image.
 
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