Trevor Corson
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 9 Jun
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describe as a grid of mirrored boxes and it's mathematically perfect.
In each eye there's about thirteen thousand of these little tapered boxes.
This is so extraordinary that the lobster's eye has actually become this really controversial exhibit in the debate over intelligent design versus evolution, because intelligent design advocates feel there is no way that evolution could lead to a device like this, that it had to be designed by an intelligent creator.
And in a way, scientists agree that this design is so ingenious, they actually used it to um design and build an X-ray space telescope designed for the International Space Station.
And
It's directly modeled on the lobster's eye.
They're down on the bottom, right?
They're looking up.
So they're seeing the light from above.
The one thing that we know they need to detect is the arrival of a predatory fish.
And so that maybe is a very sensitive system for detecting the motion of a dark shape swimming up over you.
And at that point, you know, the lobster has early warning to get the heck out of there.
But they are really good at getting around underwater.
We know this.
They're very knowledgeable about their local uh area on the bottom of the ocean.
They know where everything is, and they're extremely well informed about other lobsters in the neighborhood.
Where uh you and I have a brain, they have a giant bladder right in their head full of urine.
And they also have very interesting little glands that create proteins and secrete hormones and stuff into that urine.
And scientists realized they were squirting something out of that.
It was discovered that actually this is how lobsters urinate.
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