[EZ-Cheeze]

I dream of a public room filled with devices that let you see what is normally invisible: acoustic camera, thermal camera, microscope, telescope, endoscope, ultrasound, high-speed camera, hyperspectral camera, schlieren imaging (airflow), cloud chamber (particle traces)... It would cost millions but would expand minds HARD yo.

[Terr_]

> see what is normally invisible

Note that this isn't exactly the same as getting more information.

Consider how terrible it would be if you were suddenly granted the ability to nitrogen gas: You would blindly stumble around in a dense fog before being eaten by a predator you never saw coming. Good filtering can almost be more important than good sensors.

I think that's also a great argument in favor of false-color/hyperspectral images of other planets: Why limit ourselves to the arbitrary wavelengths that were "chosen" just for Earth's atmosphere?

[thriftwy]

> Why limit ourselves to the arbitrary wavelengths

They're not arbitrary:

* These are the ones where the energy output of Sun's black body radiation peaks, giving the scene lighting.

* These are also the ones which coincide with many excited/base energy level transitions for electrons on molecular level, giving matter a color.

Perhaps it is a quirk of our universe that these two ranges coincide. I'm not sure if that's a given.

[Paddywack]

Then imagine it feeding all of this through Neuralink as extra senses...

[psadri]

Reminds me of Geordi LaForge in Star Trek TNG.

[vjulian]

All combined, it would allow for the perception of a different kind of reality for the person immersed in the multiple input streams. It would expand minds hard indeed yo.

[canadiantim]

This is a good dream.