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- From: Bruce.Scott@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Bruce Scott)
- Subject: Re: Blue Sky
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- Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 14:07:21 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul28.024259.1692@qedqcd.rye.ny.us> mmm@qedqcd.rye.ny.us (Mike Miskulin) writes:
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- >I can remember reading somewhere that we are in fact most sensitive to
- >yellow, at approximately the same wavelenght as light from our sun?
-
- How could it be otherwise? Quite clearly, we were evolved over 4 Gyr in
- this environment. I expect that, the evolutionary timescale being
- shorter than the *stellar* evolutionary timescale for a G2 star, "eye"
- response has been closely correlated with the sun's spectrum since the
- inception of life in earth.
-
- Gruss,
- Dr Bruce Scott The deadliest bullshit is
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