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To: SunkenCiv
A freeper posted an article about purple photosynthesis (or violet) and the hypothesis that extraterrestrial plants/protists could be purple (or violet) because violet has more energy. But the article also mentioned that the energy could be too much for the plant which is why green plants/algae are dominant now (as a Creationist, consider that idea bunk--the ratio of many green photosynthesizers and few purple photosynthesizers probably was the case since they were created).

Anyway, if purple photosynthesis was too much for plants, black (absorbing at least almost all of the visible spectrum) would be even more energy for plants.

16 posted on 06/24/2007 5:01:29 PM PDT by Jedi Master Pikachu ( What is your take on Acts 15:20 (abstaining from blood) about eating meat? Could you freepmail?)
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To: Jedi Master Pikachu

The idea behind the black chloroplasts is that the planets involved would be revolving around dim stars.


17 posted on 06/24/2007 7:48:15 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Time heals all wounds, particularly when they're not yours. Profile updated June 23, 2007.)
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