Wednesday 1 April 2009
Things Your Mother Said.
Its a subject that we have touched on before, but we come to another saying that your mother used to use . We were urged to eat up our carrots so that we might see better in the dark. This one I think, originated in the second world war when it was said that night fighter pilots should eat more carrots, rich in vitamin A, which were believed to improve your eyesight at night. I always wondered if the most famous carrot eaters, Rabbits, had such cracking night vision, why was it that they always seemed to come out during the day ?.
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The story about carrots helping you to see in the dark was disinformation put about by the government during WW2. So-called "Cats-Eyes" Cunningham was a successful nightfighter pilot who was said to eat piles of carrots to improve his night vision. The truth was that Cunningham was using an aircraft fitted with experimental airborne interception radar, then top secret, and the RAF didn't want the Germans to know we had it, hence the nonesense about carrots. I shouldn't think the Germans were fooled by the story as they had AI radar too.
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