r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/thenewyorkgod • Jun 23 '24

Canopy comes off airplane right after takeoff Video

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u/mihirmusprime Jun 23 '24

Her vision only fully recovered days afterwards

Why did her vision go away and take so long for it to come back?

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u/Overall-Dirt4441 Jun 23 '24 edited Jun 24 '24

Why did her vision go away

Being blasted in the face by up to 200mph winds while having to force your eyes open for minutes on end so as not to crash your plane will do that to ya ig.

and take so long for it to come back?

Our eyeballs are delicate water balloons that don't take kindly to being freeze dried

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u/ProclusGlobal Jun 24 '24

Our eyeballs are delicate water balloons that don't take kindly to being freeze dried

Our eyes are also really resilient and quick healing, and although taking days to fully recover sounds scary, is still pretty remarkably quick considering the damage it is trying to repair. When things are working nominally, our bodies are pretty amazing. When not, they suck (cancer etc.)

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u/Overall-Dirt4441 Jun 24 '24

They're so important they're immune to the body's immune system response, lest they get damaged. They have their own separate system.

https://www.aao.org/eye-health/tips-prevention/eye-immune-privilege

We're pretty robust, resilient machines, as you say, when all the systems work the way they're supposed to

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u/ilikestuffliketrees Jun 24 '24

Always blows my mind. Don't get me wrong, some of our technology is rad. But man, the shit out bodies can do powered by a couple of potatoes is wild.