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- From: barry@arnold.math.ucla.edu (Barry Merriman)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics
- Subject: Re: Blue Sky
- Message-ID: <1992Jul23.010953.6388@math.ucla.edu>
- Date: 23 Jul 92 01:09:53 GMT
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- In article <10018@vice.ICO.TEK.COM> hall@vice.ICO.TEK.COM (Hal Lillywhite)
- writes:
- > In article <9930@sun13.scri.fsu.edu> jac@ds8.scri.fsu.edu (Jim Carr) writes:
- >
- > ....
- > >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!
- >
- > 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.
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- Actually, he should be blue on the bottom and dark on top,
- so that he ends up blending in when viewed from above or below.
- Thats "why" fish are silver on the bottom and dark on top, perhaps
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- Barry Merriman
- UCLA Dept. of Math
- UCLA Inst. for Fusion and Plasma Research
- barry@math.ucla.edu (Internet; NeXTMail is welcome)
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