ah sorry, Sometimes hard to tell. And you know when somebody is wrong on the internet, well, something must be done…
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Wow, thanks a lot! Post like yours are why the BBS is one of my favourite internet places!
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Man, lots of RAEG from people who came here immediately after glancing at the title. Title was theirs. Shoulda been “why is blue pigment so rare in living things?” It’s a video tagged kids/family, so it’s oversimplified in lots of ways.
“Incredibly rare as a pigment” quotes the expert in the vid.
As far as flowers, someone claimed that blue is THE MOST COMMON COLOR or some other all-caps thing, so let me cite a paper:
The data are;
yellow-orange 31 % (St.D. 1,8),
red, purple and violet taken together 29 % (St.D. 1,9).
white 26% % (St.D. 1,4),
red-pink 15 % (St.D. 1,4),
green 7 %% (St.D. 0,8),
purple 7 % (St.D. 2,8),
violet-lilac 7 % (St.D. 2,4),
and rounding out last place (unless you count black as a color):
blue 5% % (St.D. 1,1)
Source:
http://natuurtijdschriften.nl/search?identifier=538911
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That original comment raised my eyebrow. Thank you for chasing that down.
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False-ish.
Plants often are even photoperiod sensitive, they also change their behaviour depending of light color (wavelength). You’ve clearly never grown cannabis (well).
Some types of plant grow towards shade, suggesting they not only sense light but also see the dark and aim to get there.
Heliotrope plants aim exactly at the Sun all day long, but not when it is out of sight.
Slime molds are quite intelligent and aware seeming when they run around the forests hunting, they will speed under some soggy wood or moss when a sunbeam threatens to hit them.
I would be surprised if no bacteria could see light, but I don’t know.
Green. Plants can not see green light at all.
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Many species of fish are blue or at least have some blue coloring.
Came here for GIFs (etc) and music.
Enjoying myself.
(Botanist here, thanking @AndreaJames for the paper link. Also, as said before, anthocyanins aren’t exactly blue, me dears.)
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After this, there is no turning back. You take the blue beer—the story ends, you wake up in your bed with a massive headache.
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its that or Rolling Rock
Blue 5%? Well,well.
This is interesting as English and many other languages do not distinguish between a cyan-ish 500nm and a 470nm blue, but call them all ‘blue’. Newton’s ‘blew’ was probably a sky blue as he also had ‘indigo’ as a colour. If you were Hungarian or Russian or Japanese you might split this category into two.
Remember, internet kiddies out there, always put anything that you haven’t checked IN CAPITALS. Thank you.
Just don’t take the blue “cider”!
White Lightning quickly gained brand recognition in a competitive marketplace by its distinctive large deep blue coloured thin plastic bottle’s design, very low price and high strength, making it popular with those seeking strong alcohol with minimal money to spend.
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