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fastfed · 03-28-07, 12:50 PM

Here is something cool..

Mythbusters did this.

Pirate Patches over one eye, The reason they figured it out was when a captain or pirate would go from the top of the ship to the bottom, its pitch black and espically in battle it would be bad to not see, so after being topside they would go below and switch eyes with the patch.. Mythbusters made a pitch black obsitcle course, and tried it both ways, with the patch moved from the lite eye to the dark eye they noted they were able to see as easy if it were light out..

I tried it myself with a dark garage and it worked great!

Obviously we don't really know the TRUE reason for the pirate eye patch but we know not thousands of pirates lost an eye, and when you lose one eye not due to birth ( Accident, sword,gun powder ) you usually lose both eyes ( The vision )

03-28-07, 12:50 PM	#11
fastfed Grey Wolf Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 786 Downloads: 254 Uploads: 0	Here is something cool.. Mythbusters did this. Pirate Patches over one eye, The reason they figured it out was when a captain or pirate would go from the top of the ship to the bottom, its pitch black and espically in battle it would be bad to not see, so after being topside they would go below and switch eyes with the patch.. Mythbusters made a pitch black obsitcle course, and tried it both ways, with the patch moved from the lite eye to the dark eye they noted they were able to see as easy if it were light out.. I tried it myself with a dark garage and it worked great! Obviously we don't really know the TRUE reason for the pirate eye patch but we know not thousands of pirates lost an eye, and when you lose one eye not due to birth ( Accident, sword,gun powder ) you usually lose both eyes ( The vision )