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- From: tvaughan@buphyk.bu.edu (Timothy Vaughan)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics
- Subject: Re: Blue Sky
- Message-ID: <91713@bu.edu>
- Date: 23 Jul 92 13:53:23 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:
- >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!
-
- I'm not a biologist. (I don't even play one on TV.) I cannot comment
- on the fact that there are blue birds. However, I know that part of the
- reason that flowers evolved to be so brightly colored (including blue)
- is that the colors attract bees, which pollenate them. In fact, some
- flowers have patterns at infrared (or is it UV?) frequencies that bees
- can see but we can't.
-
- Tim
-