Chlorophyll
Jun. 20th, 2019 04:36 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethI love the internet.
I started wondering about alien leaf colors, as you do, and photosynthesis, and I emded up finding https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/186732/new-type-photosynthesis-discovered last year new and exciting things happened in photosynthetic chemistry that they mention right there change the parameters on where we could look for alien life.
And the internet just tells me this? At some daft hour of the morning?
So I can go from hmmm I wonder what color orcs would be if orcs were leaf colors
as happens sometimes
to finding multiple websites willing to teach me what I don't remember from school plus what humans didn't even know when I was in school.
Also leaf color deoends on more chemicals than I have memorised and I can go learn them right now.
I was thinking about using magic in a food chain, like having magic where light would be, and if things are going to turn into solid biological entities then they're probably using the energy to make familiar chemical compounds. Because otherwise they could just be, like, made of magic. Energy beings. So instead, whoosh, magic energy make many sugars etc.
But if magic is light in photosynthesis you get one system, but if it's somewhere else energy needs to go in, like for moving humans around, you'd get quite another.
... so, magic plants vs undead...
I am probably not enriching the universe by speculating on thaumobiology and going back to gcse revision pages, but, it is just neat...
PS Lichen! Lichen are so cool!
PPS If magic was really just grafted on a photosynthesizing system
magic would be used for energy
by making light.
... logical reason for magic to glow...
PPPS Luciferins! Bioluminescence! Evolved at least 40 times!
... wiki says miners used to use dried fish and fireflies instead of lamps...
*blinks*
I started wondering about alien leaf colors, as you do, and photosynthesis, and I emded up finding https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/186732/new-type-photosynthesis-discovered last year new and exciting things happened in photosynthetic chemistry that they mention right there change the parameters on where we could look for alien life.
And the internet just tells me this? At some daft hour of the morning?
So I can go from hmmm I wonder what color orcs would be if orcs were leaf colors
as happens sometimes
to finding multiple websites willing to teach me what I don't remember from school plus what humans didn't even know when I was in school.
Also leaf color deoends on more chemicals than I have memorised and I can go learn them right now.
I was thinking about using magic in a food chain, like having magic where light would be, and if things are going to turn into solid biological entities then they're probably using the energy to make familiar chemical compounds. Because otherwise they could just be, like, made of magic. Energy beings. So instead, whoosh, magic energy make many sugars etc.
But if magic is light in photosynthesis you get one system, but if it's somewhere else energy needs to go in, like for moving humans around, you'd get quite another.
... so, magic plants vs undead...
I am probably not enriching the universe by speculating on thaumobiology and going back to gcse revision pages, but, it is just neat...
PS Lichen! Lichen are so cool!
PPS If magic was really just grafted on a photosynthesizing system
magic would be used for energy
by making light.
... logical reason for magic to glow...
PPPS Luciferins! Bioluminescence! Evolved at least 40 times!
... wiki says miners used to use dried fish and fireflies instead of lamps...
*blinks*