Middle Earth is flat. When they sail to the Undying Lands, they actually just fall off the edge.
Remember kids: it it uses US American rando units, it’s probably not science!
With coherent detection I think the separation between eyes would allow for this.
i would just like to mention that the physics of the universe in LOTR are obviously very different, since you can sometimes see stars during the day, if you're in a deep valley
Not science (but related to huge eyes) but I recently learned that in The Sims 2 you can push the body control sliders to their max, hit a button to normalize the sliders while keeping your changes and then max out the sliders again, so you can do shit like give your sims Galaxy sized eyeballs.
i remember doing this to make a sim with a nose the size of a car. I named him Nostrildomus.
What are they not giving? Frogs? Flops? Fangs? Forts? Flies? What are they not giving?
Wrong.
It was forks.
Oh for fucks sake.
Meanwhile I am trying to think of the shape that gives a further focal point
I remember somebody making the argument that due to the diffusion of light he would not be able to discern their features at all.
Okay all you generative AI image hobbyists, let's see Legolas with big, shiny eyes!
Isn't there a bot?
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