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- From: hall@vice.ICO.TEK.COM (Hal Lillywhite)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics
- Subject: Re: Blue Sky
- Message-ID: <10018@vice.ICO.TEK.COM>
- Date: 22 Jul 92 22:34:32 GMT
- References: <BrrMJB.Brv@acsu.buffalo.edu> <1992Jul22.145723.24741@galois.mit.edu> <9930@sun13.scri.fsu.edu>
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- In article <9930@sun13.scri.fsu.edu> jac@ds8.scri.fsu.edu (Jim Carr) writes:
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- ...
- >George did that routine before blue-corn became popular enough to
- >show up as corn flakes as well as tortillas, or squid-ink pasta made
- >it into american grocery stores. Interesting that there are blue birds
- >and flowers but not blue animals; where is a biologist when we need one!
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- And I find it peculiar that although there are blue birds, there are
- no blue raptors that I know of. Can you imagine the advantage a sky-
- blue hawk would have? His prey would have a very difficult time seeing
- him until it was too late. I wonder why such an obvious advantage
- seems not to have developed.
-