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From: Robert Watkins <bob@**.NTU.EDU.AU>
Subject: Re: Optical Mag. Eyes
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 1995 11:05:11 +0930
cocheese wrote:
>
> My friend's argument was that with the imaging of the thermo, it needed an
> electronic method of vision or whatever, that is electric mag. eyes can do it.
> I've used night vision and thermographic imaging devices, both personal and
> those on a tank and I don't see why not. I was wondering if I'm wrong in the
> use of the tech or if there was a rules decision on the topic.
> CoCheese

No. Thermographic vision _can_ be done organically. It requires different
receptors in the eye to what native humans have got, but both Dwarves and
Trolls have natural thermographic vision. So either an organic or an
electronic approach is possible.

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