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Let's define '''''Umwelt Hacking'''''. So what's the Umwelt? The Umwelt is that what you can perceive. Right? So for example, you and I would be mesoscale phenomena. We're not at the size of galaxies, but we're not at the size of electrons either. We're somewhere in the middle. And, you know, we have a hearing range, we have a visible light range, we can say what it is that we're set up to perceive from the moment we're capable during development of understanding our world.  
Let's define '''''Umwelt Hacking'''''. So what's the Umwelt? [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umwelt The Umwelt is that what you can perceive], right? So for example, you and I would be mesoscale phenomena. We're not at the size of galaxies, but we're not at the size of electrons either. We're somewhere in the middle. And, you know, we have a hearing range, we have a visible light range, we can say what it is that we're set up to perceive from the moment we're capable during development of understanding our world.  


Then the tools came and they said, you know, Galileo pointed a telescope at the sky and was able to see moons of Jupiter. Okay, so he changed his Umwelt. He was able to focus light, and be able to see things that were too faint without an instrument and be able to deduce things about them. Now, that wasn't that helpful to see moons of Jupiter, but, you know, ultimately, we were able to land Cassini Huygens on was it Saturn's moon Titan? So it's pretty amazing what you're talking about.  
Then the tools came and they said, you know, Galileo pointed a telescope at the sky and was able to see moons of Jupiter. Okay, so he changed his Umwelt. He was able to focus light, and be able to see things that were too faint without an instrument and be able to deduce things about them. Now, that wasn't that helpful to see moons of Jupiter, but, you know, ultimately, we were able to land [https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/cassini/overview/ Cassini Huygens] on—was it Saturn's moon, Titan? So it's pretty amazing what you're talking about.  


I talked to my grandfather about this, that he was born in 1913, and he went from planes being so rare that he and his friends would run out to greet them in the fields where he lived when when they flew overhead, to seeing somebody land a probe and send back a picture from the surface of Titan. Well, that had to do with Umwelt Hacking.  
I talked to my grandfather about this, that he was born in 1913, and he went from planes being so rare that he and his friends would run out to greet them in the fields where he lived when when they flew overhead, to seeing somebody land a probe and [https://rps.nasa.gov/resources/44/first-color-view-of-titans-surface/ send back a picture from the surface of Titan]. Well, that had to do with Umwelt Hacking.  


Like if you look at [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doc_Edgerton Harold Edgerton]'s [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doc_Edgerton#/media/File:Tumbler_Snapper_rope_tricks_moire_cancelled.jpg photographs of the first atomic explosions], he was able to slow time down using high speed photography, to actually see what was happening in the first atomic blasts.  
Like if you look at [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doc_Edgerton Harold Edgerton]'s [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doc_Edgerton#/media/File:Tumbler_Snapper_rope_tricks_moire_cancelled.jpg photographs of the first atomic explosions], he was able to slow time down using high speed photography, to actually see what was happening in the first atomic blasts.