Space Daily September 19, 2026 • 14:00

Reef fish on a Curaçao coral patch never bolted from a black disk expanding on an iPad below two metres a second, and that threshold sits just under the speeds at which bar jacks on the same reef were filmed attacking - Space Daily

Reef fish on a Curaçao coral patch never bolted from a black disk expanding on an iPad below two metres a second, and that threshold sits just under the speeds at which bar jacks on the same reef were filmed attacking - Space Daily

The threshold sits at two metres a second. Below it no fish bolted. Above it they did, and the bar jacks filmed hunting on the same reef reached fast-approach speeds of 2.7 to 9.0 metres a second.

Looming is the word for what an approaching object does to an eye. The image of the thing grows, and it grows at an accelerating rate, and that rate carries information: how fast the object is coming… [+8862 chars]

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