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Article #1377Re: Blue Sky
From: Barry Merriman
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 01:09
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 01:09
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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. 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 -- 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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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!usc!sdd.hp.com!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ucla-cs!ucla-ma!news 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 References: <10018@vice.ICO.TEK.COM> Sender: news@math.ucla.edu Organization: UCLA, Mathematics Department Lines: 27