Cats

From: Mark Firestone <pdp11_70_at_retrobbs.org>
Date: Mon Nov 10 03:21:41 2003

That's interesting. What experiment did they use to determine this?

I must really like my cat (which I got second hand... he came with the
house...) as I just spent ?450 on that fleabag!

Take Care,

Mark

Bob Shannon wrote:

> Off topic, but...
>
> Most cats don't watch TV simply because they cannot see the picture!
>
> Cats have a 'flicker fusion rate' of about 400 hz, as opposed to the
> human rate of about 20 hz.
>
> So to a cat, a TV set is a flickering mess. Some cats are able to
> 'get' the idea and put the picture together, usually only if there is
> a lot of motion to track.
>
> But a still image in a TV is nearly invisible to a cat. They cannot
> quite see the beam sweeping, but they are far closer to that than we are.
>
>
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