Humans and many organisms do not look at a scene in steadiness; instead, the eyes move around, locating interesting parts of the scene and building up a three-dimensional ‘map’ corresponding to the scene.

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    17 days ago

    Would be interesting to see what they look like captured on video. Is that discussed in the book? Also do they avoid crowds?

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      17 days ago

      It is theyre not humanoid aliens. they’re kinda like if a starfish was a ring instead of a star and they have tendrils/arms that are constantly waving around and they hover. The team notices they’re invisible to someone watching because they send a member on to the alien ship with a camera crew. the ppl watching on the other side of the screen let them know there an alien smack dab infront of the person entering the alien ship. A team catches one to study in a holding cell but they don’t respond to humans because they’re too far from the main hive.

      The book is called blindsight by Peter watts highly recommend