What If Your Eyes Could Zoom 100x?

At 7:14 in the morning, you read the date on a yogurt from across the kitchen. Your eyes zoom a hundred times. By 9 p.m. you're on a roof looking at the rings of Saturn, and the man across the street is still stuck on seven down. Same you. Different rules. The premise is made up; every number in the episode comes from the research below. CHAPTERS 0:00 7:14 a.m. 0:21 What if your eyes could zoom 100x? 0:41 Pupils wider than a golf ball 0:57 A message you weren't meant to read 1:05 8:10, the bus 1:38 The eye test, from 600 metres 2:11 One ten-thousandth of the picture 2:53 Still on for tonight? 3:02 The girl in the yellow raincoat 3:45 Pixels 3:57 The roof 4:15 The space station, the Moon, Saturn 4:43 Galileo's 37 scrambled letters 5:07 Through her telescope 5:28 Seven down RESEARCH & SOURCES Sky & Telescope, "Telescope Calculator" (maximum useful magnification) Astronomics, "Highest Useful Magnification" American Academy of Ophthalmology, via Healthline, "Normal Pupil Size" USGA, Rules of Golf, Equipment Rules, Appendix III "The Ball" EyeWiki (American Academy of Ophthalmology), "Visual Acuity Testing in Adults"; the Snellen chart Reymond, "Spatial visual acuity of the eagle Aquila audax", Vision Research (1985) Space.com, "How to hold binoculars steady" Caltech IPAC Cool Cosmos, "How far away is the Moon?" NASA, "International Space Station Facts and Figures" Linda Hall Library, Scientist of the Day: Galileo Galilei MathPages, "Galileo's Anagrams" (the letter of 25 July 1610) MacTutor History of Mathematics (University of St Andrews), "Christiaan Huygens' article on Saturn's Ring" Sky & Telescope, "See Saturn at Its Best" (2006) Elliot, Dunham and Mink, "The Rings of Uranus", Nature (1977)