why is the london eye called so?
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The British Airways London Eye, sometimes called the Millennium Wheel (Coordinates: 51°30′12″N, 00°07′11″W), is the first-built and largest observation wheel in the world (a type of Ferris wheel), and has been the only one since its opening at the end of 1999. It stands 135 metres (443 feet) high on the western end of Jubilee Gardens, on the South Bank of the River Thames in Lambeth, London, England, between Westminster and Hungerford Bridges. It is adjacent to London's County Hall, and stands opposite the offices of the Ministry of Defence.\n\nDesigned by architects David Marks, Julia Barfield, Malcolm Cook, Mark Sparrowhawk, Steven Chilton, and Nic Bailey, the wheel carries 32 sealed and air conditioned passenger capsules attached to its external circumference. It rotates at a rate of 0.26 metres per second (about 0.9 km/h or 0.6 mph) so that one revolution takes about 30 minutes to complete. The wheel does not usually stop to take on passengers; the rotation rate is so slow that passengers can easily walk on and off the moving capsules at ground level. It is, however, stopped on occasion to allow disabled or elderly passengers time to disembark safely. Structurally, the Eye resembles a huge spoked bicycle wheel, and was depicted as such in a poster advertising a charity cycle race. The wheel is not the first in London; a much smaller ferris wheel used to stand opposite Earls Court station during the later part of the 19th century.\n\nThe wheel was constructed in sections which were floated up the river Thames on barges and assembled lying flat on pontoons. Once the wheel was complete it was raised into its upright position by cranes, initially being lifted at a rate of about 2 degrees per hour until it reached 65 degrees. It was left in that position for a week while engineers prepared for the second phase of the lift. The total weight of steel in the Eye is 1,700 tonnes.\n\nThe Eye was opened by British Prime Minister Tony Blair on December 31, 1999, although it was not opened to the public until March 2000 because of technical problems. Since its opening, the Eye, operated by Tussauds Group but sponsored by British Airways, has become a major landmark and tourist attraction. Recently, The London Eye was voted the world's best tourist attraction in a poll commissioned by the snack company Pringles.\n\nThe Eye enjoyed a warmer reception from the British public upon its opening than London's other significant Millennium project, the Dome, although the delay in opening had caused some press scepticism. By July 2002 around 8.5 million people had "flown" the Eye. It originally had planning permission only for five years, but at that time Lambeth Council agreed plans to make the attraction permanent.\n\nAlthough the Eye is listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the tallest observation wheel in the world, it is unlikely to keep that title for long. Plans have been announced to build a 170 m wheel on the Las Vegas Strip and a 200 m wheel in Shanghai. (By comparison, the original 1893 Ferris wheel was 75 m high).\n\nThe Tussauds Group own 66% of the Eye, with its creators holding the remainder. British Airways initially held a 33% in the attraction, but sold this to the Tussauds Group in November 2005 for £95m. The airline remains the principal sponsor of the attraction, however, and extended its franchise at the same time as it divested its interest.
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Because the Thames is English and the English can call it what they want?\n\nAll countries have different words for various things within them that are different from what outsiders call them.
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It depends by what you mean when you say "London Bridge." Most people actually think of the Tower Bridge when they hear "London Bridge," in which case this website may be of some use:\nhttp://www.towerbridge.org.uk/TowerBridge/English\n\nHowever, if you do mean London Bridge, you'll find that there are many versions that hold claim to this name, all on the same site at different points in history. \n\n"London Bridge is a modern structure built on the site of many bridges, one of which (built in 1825 and designed by John Rennie) is now in Lake Havasu City, Arizona. At one time London Bridge was the only bridge in London spanning the River Thames."\n\nThis information above (and more on other bridges in London, including the Tower Bridge) can be found here:\nhttp://gouk.about.com/cs/london/a/londonbridges.htm
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I never heard it called that before, but here's what I found:\n\nThe plica (PLY-ka) semilunaris (sem-ee-LOO-ner-is) is located around the eye. For many years, this organ was thought to have no function. But lo and behold, eventually it was discovered that this “useless” organ has an important function after all. \n\nIn fact, it is the “crusty” factory. It secretes a sticky mass that collects any foreign materials such as dust or pollen. All this trash is surrounded by the sticky gook so that it does not scratch the sensitive cornea in your eye. Once the garbage is collected, the plica semilunaris “escorts” it out of the eye just like a security guard would escort noisy troublemakers out of a theater.
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Because eyes are the windows to a person's soul, and you wouldn't want your women to have a bad soul would you?\nBeutiful eyes equal beatiful women.
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Close.  I would say it's because the photons from the object hit a smaller area of the cornea.  If you think of the surface of the cornea as a screen onto which the world in front of the viewer is projected through a lens, as an object is moved away the angle between its top and bottom gets smaller and so the relative size of the object in that projection gets smaller.
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My mum has had this problem all treated on the NHS.\n\nIt was a while ago but the opperation was nothing bad and the improvement is huge.\n\nI think it's probably the thought of it because your eyes are involved rather than the actual operation.\n\nHave a look at these:\n\nhttp://www.rnib.org.uk/xpedio/groups/public/documents/PublicWebsite/public_rnib003644.hcsp\n\nhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/health/conditions/cataracts1.shtml\n\nhttp://www.rcophth.ac.uk/docs/publications/CongenitalCataractLeaflet.pdf#search='congenital%20cataracts'\n\nhttp://bjo.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/85/9/1120\n\nhttp://www.patient.co.uk/showdoc.asp?doc=23068697\n\nThe BMJ.com one discusses why the operation is only done when the symptoms have progressed to a point where there is a significant loss of vision, which could answer why you haven't been offered it till now,
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In the physical body the eye views objects upside down. It sends the image of what it observes to the brain which interprets the image and makes it appear right side-up to us.\n\nBut the human body has another physical eye whose function has long been recognized by humanity. It is called the 'Third Eye' which in reality is the Pineal Gland. It is long thought to have mystical powers. Many consider it the Spiritual Third Eye, our Inner Vision. \n\nIt is located in the geometric center of the brain. This correlates to the location of the Great Pyramid in the center of the physical planet.\n\nThe Pineal Gland is about the size of a pea, and is in the center of the brain in a tiny cave behind and above the pituitary gland which lies a little behind the root of the nose. It is located directly behind the eyes, attached to the third ventricle.\n\nThe true function of this mysterious gland has long been contemplated by philosophers and Spiritual Adepts. Ancient Greeks believed the pineal gland to be our connection to the Realms of Thought. Descartes called it the Seat of the Soul. This gland is activated by Light, and it controls the various biorhythms of the body. It works in harmony with the hypothalamus gland which directs the body's thirst, hunger, sexual desire and the biological clock that determines our aging process.\n\nWhen the pineal gland awakens one feels a pressure at the base of the brain. This pressure will often be experienced when connecting to higher frequency. A head injury can also activate the Third Eye - Pineal Gland.\n\nWhile the physiological function of the pineal gland has been unknown until recent times, mystical traditions and esoteric schools have long known this area in the middle of the brain to be the connecting link between the physical and spiritual worlds. Considered the most powerful and highest source of ethereal energy available to humans, the pineal gland has always been important in initiating supernatural powers. Development of psychic talents has been closely associated with this organ of higher vision.\n\nThere is a pathway from the retinas to the hypothalamus called the retinohypothalamic tract. It brings information about light and dark cycles to a region of the hypothalamus called the suprachiasmatic nucleus(SCN). From the SCN, nerve impulses travel via the pineal nerve (sympathetic nervous system) to the pineal gland. These impulses inhibit the production of melatonin. When these impulses stop (at night, when light no longer stimulates the hypothalamus), pineal inhibition ceases and melatonin is released. The pineal gland is therefore a photosensitive organ and an important timekeeper for the human body.\n\nRetinal research done with hamsters demonstrates another center for melatonin production. Located in the retina, this center implies that the eyes have their own built in circadian timepiece. This retinal system is distinct from the brains body clock in the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN). Biologists found that they could throw the retinal rhythms out of sync with other circadian cycles. They also found that they could set and reset the retinal clock even when the SCN was destroyed.\n\nThe retinal clock produces (stimulates the production of?) melatonin. Researchers are now looking for the exact location (s) of this clock in the human eye (and expect to find it). No one yet knows what the separate clock is for or how it relates to the SCN. \n\nIn some lower vertebrates the Epiphysis Cerebri - Pineal Gland - has a well-developed eye-like structure; in others though not organized as an eye, if functions as a light receptor. In lower vertebrates, the pineal gland has an eye like structure and it functions as a light receptor and is considered by some to be the evolutionary forerunner of the modern eye.\n\nThe gland weighs little more than 0.1 gram. The gland is large in children and begins to shrink with the onset of puberty. It appears to play a major role in sexual developmen
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Sometimes, only one eye is damaged or has a problem. These people then have an option to wear a monocle or a pair of glasses where only one lens has a grade.\n\nThe monocle became popular back in the late 19th century. For more information, check on the wikipedia link below.
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I like light eyes very much, they're more uncommon than the dark ones... though I have to admit I love green eyes, just staring at someone with that eyecolour makes me feel like I'm floating. It's a really beautiful coulour.
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they are called phosphenes.\nit's caused by mechanical stimulation of the photoreceptors in your retina.
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the colour of his eyes
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We have two types of receptors (light-sensitive nerve cells) in the retina of the eye.  The two types are called 'rods' and 'cones.'  The 'rods' (so-called because of their shape) respond to low-levels of light and are useful for night vision.  However, since all rods are pretty much identical, they do not distinguish between colors ... our dim-light rod vision is "black and white."\n\nThere are three types of cones (again, so called becaues of their shape).  One responds to long-wavelengths of light, what we call the "reds".  One responds to medium-wavelengths, what we call "greens".  And the third responds to short-wavelengths (the highest energy), what we call the "blues" (unless you live in Mississippi, then the "blues" is something different :-) ).  \n\nThese ranges of wavelengths for the three types of cones are not exclusive ... they overlap.  In other words, the long-wavelength cones also respond to medium wavelengths, although to a lesser extent.  Because they overlap, every object that gives off different mixtures of wavelengths affect the different cones by different amounts.  This experience is what we call color.  (Unless you live in Britain.  They don't see in colors.  They see in colours.)
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Eyes. Is there life there, a spark?
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Through lack of illustrations it is difficult to get a clear conception of Greek and Roman knowledge of ocular anatomy, for the descriptions are frequently not only scant, but confused through a multitude of names, which may or may not have had the same meaning. \nGalen (129-200 AD), in describing the lacrimal apparatus speaks of two glands, one in the upper and one in the lower lid.
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because it passes thru our cornea and hits our retina
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If you are meaning the color of a person's eye, it is the iris that has the color that others see. If you mean someone having two different colors of eye, that is called heterochromia.