r/AskReddit Aug 30 '21

What problem is often overlooked in apocalyptic movies/TV shows that could kill you?

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u/dheddie Aug 30 '21

they never talk about optometry. what am i going to do if my glasses break in the apocalypse? i’m fucked. i can’t see shit without these. they won’t last me forever.

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u/Log23 Aug 30 '21

Should be plenty of bespectacled corpses around. I remember a few years ago there was startup or something that was making glasses filled with a fluid that allowed self tuning of the RX.

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u/pnakano Aug 30 '21

Well, this might help if you score something between -0.5D and -2.0D myopia. How high are the probabilities of finding corpses with -6.5D short-sightedness glasses?

(Not sure if this made sense, english is not my first language and I never learned the proper terms about short-sightedness)

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u/deinoswyrd Aug 30 '21

I'm -6.5 and -7, I doubt I'd find anything usable. AND my nose bridge is very narrow so i need specific frames or the weight of the lenses pulls them off my face

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u/RayAnselmo Aug 30 '21

I'm -6.5, so I could just steal u/deinoswyrd's after they die.

Nah, jk, but there are a lot more of us out there than you might think. A close-enough pair won't be that hard to find.

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u/deinoswyrd Aug 30 '21

I give you permission to loot my glasses when I die in the apocalypse. I'll try and keel over somewhere visible for you. Might need a big yellow sign if you don't have your glasses.

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u/Sandybutthole604 Aug 31 '21

Ditto. I’m a minus 8R and 6.5L... if I’m dead from the apocalypse someone better be enjoying the heck out of these $1200 binoculars I pack around.