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As many know me here, Blue Ts are my favorite Ts generally. Also, I constantly remind people of how rare blue is in nature. In fact it's the rarest color in nature, and from a linguistics standpoint it's often the last color to be given a word to describe it.
I saw this on NPR, interesting facts on the visible spectrum. http://apps.npr.org/lookatthis/posts/colors/
However, I copied and pasted this portion on Blue.
The most brilliantly blue things, like a peacock feather or even a human blue eye, don’t have a single bit of blue pigment in them. “Blue is fascinating because the vast majority of animals are incapable of making it with pigments,” says evolutionary biologist Rick Prum. Instead, many have developed structures on their surface that bounce light in just the right way to make them appear bright blue to the viewer.
Poec if you read this, see the link on blue bananas below. It may indeed lend support to your I. mira theory.
http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpscience/2008/10/why-do-bananas-glow-blue.html
I saw this on NPR, interesting facts on the visible spectrum. http://apps.npr.org/lookatthis/posts/colors/
However, I copied and pasted this portion on Blue.
The most brilliantly blue things, like a peacock feather or even a human blue eye, don’t have a single bit of blue pigment in them. “Blue is fascinating because the vast majority of animals are incapable of making it with pigments,” says evolutionary biologist Rick Prum. Instead, many have developed structures on their surface that bounce light in just the right way to make them appear bright blue to the viewer.
Poec if you read this, see the link on blue bananas below. It may indeed lend support to your I. mira theory.
http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpscience/2008/10/why-do-bananas-glow-blue.html
