Re: Colors of alien plants -- Scientific American

Brian Davis wrote:

> On Mar 30, 10:59 pm, "Dan Goodman" <dsg...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> 
> > A whole lot of computing... and on what's known about photosynthesis
> > and its byproducts on Earth.
> 
> Well, that at least sound like it might be something a bit new, worth
> chewing over - thanks for the heads-up.
> 
> > Chlorophyll isn't the only one used on Earth.
> 
> No... but it's pretty darn close. There are a lot of other photoactive
> pigments used, but almost all (all?) funnel the energy into the system
> via Chlorophyll to my understanding (with the exception of the novel
> bacteriorhodopsin-based system mentioned elsethread).
> 
> > And reasons are given for ignoring green light -- reasons which I'll
> > probably take a while to understand, but you'd likely understand.
> 
> We'll see (if I understand them :) ), but at least it sounds like an
> interesting attempt.

I hope to see you commenting after you've read the article.

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