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Explain Like I'm Five

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[–] Dalvoron@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 weeks ago

The retina is not as small as a pinhead, but the light from any source doesn't get focused over the whole thing, it gets focused to a point. Anything else would mean the image is blurred, defeating the point of the glasses.