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hunter

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5. Nah, it's our crappy color vision. It's an ugly bodge.

Reply to Uncle Joe (Original post)

Sun Sep 19, 2021, 01:27 AM

Sep 2021

This is the Normalised responsivity spectra of human cone cells:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trichromacy

Our fury little ancestors, living in the dark, lost two color receptors.

Great Apes like ourselves regained a shitty version of trichromacy in our evolution. It's really bad compared to the color vision of birds.

If we had the color receptors of birds we'd see an unimaginable range of colors when we looked up at the stars, including colors we'd probably call "green."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetrachromacy

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The Star That Can't Exist [View all] Uncle Joe Sep 2021 OP

ooooooooh, Planck. First time I've understood anything associated with his work. marble falls Sep 2021 #1

Cool Worlds is a very nifty channel kedrys Sep 2021 #2

Cool stuff! Thanks for the link...nt Wounded Bear Sep 2021 #3

Interesting! Moebym Sep 2021 #4

Nah, it's our crappy color vision. It's an ugly bodge. hunter Sep 2021 #5

He didn't look at the psychology, but he said as much. Igel Sep 2021 #6

The Hubble Space Telescope has 48 color filters... hunter Sep 2021 #7