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Re: NASA tells artist... Don’t ever use the color green

From Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address>
Newsgroups sci.physics, sci.physics.relativity, alt.astronomy, rec.arts.sf.written
Subject Re: NASA tells artist... Don’t ever use the color green
Date 2017-03-30 10:01 +1100
Message-ID <ek2slqFhebjU1@mid.individual.net> (permalink)
References <58DBF243.1042@ix.netcom.com> <ek2qn2Fh4fcU1@mid.individual.net> <58DC4A7D.62F5@ix.netcom.com>

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On 30/03/2017 10:59 AM, The Starmaker wrote:
> Sylvia Else wrote:
>>
>> On 30/03/2017 4:43 AM, The Starmaker wrote:
>>> Don’t make the ocean too azure blue, lest it seem too much like Earth. Don’t ever use the color green, which hints at vegetation.
>>> “We try to avoid anything that might imply there is life,” Mr. Pyle says.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Green may hint at chlorophyll, but the evolution of plants to use the
>> red (low energy) end of the spectrum, and reflect the green, seems to
>> have been because their ancestors lived in the sea below other
>> photosynthetic life (now extinct) that absorbed the green (high energy)
>> end of the spectrum.
>>
>> So there's nothing about "green" that really says "life" any more than
>> red does, or even black.
>>
>> Sylvia.
>
> Red, too hot
>
> Blue, too cold
>
> Green...just right.
>

Those have nothing to do with the relationship between photon energy and 
colour.

Sylvia.

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NASA tells artist... Don’t ever use the color green The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2017-03-29 09:43 -0800
  Re: NASA tells artist... Don’t ever use the color green The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2017-03-29 12:09 -0800
  Re: NASA tells artist... Don’t ever use the color green Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2017-03-30 09:27 +1100
    Re: Re: NASA tells artist... Don’t ever use the color green The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2017-03-29 15:59 -0800
      Re: NASA tells artist... Don’t ever use the color green Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2017-03-30 10:01 +1100
        Re: Re: NASA tells artist... Don’t ever use the color green The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2017-03-29 20:27 -0800
          Re: Re: NASA tells artist... Don’t ever use the color green The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2017-03-29 22:29 -0800
            Re: NASA tells artist... Don’t ever use the color green The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2017-03-30 08:38 -0800
              Re: NASA tells artist... Don't ever use the color green "Bast" <fakename@nomail.invalid> - 2017-03-30 13:11 -0400
                Re: NASA tells artist... Don't ever use the color green The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2017-03-30 11:15 -0800
                Re: NASA tells artist... Don't ever use the color green "Bast" <fakename@nomail.invalid> - 2017-03-30 15:09 -0400
                Re: NASA tells artist... Don't ever use the color green The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2017-03-30 12:52 -0800
                Re: NASA tells artist... Don't ever use the color green "Bast" <fakename@nomail.invalid> - 2017-03-31 09:11 -0400
                Re: NASA tells artist... Don't ever use the color green The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2017-03-31 10:07 -0800
                Re: NASA tells artist... Don't ever use the color green "Bast" <fakename@nomail.invalid> - 2017-03-31 16:56 -0400
                Re: NASA tells artist... Don't ever use the color green The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2017-03-31 14:36 -0800
                Re: NASA tells artist... Don't ever use the color green The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2017-04-02 23:51 -0700
                Re: NASA tells artist... Don't ever use the color green Double-A <double-a3@hush.com> - 2017-03-31 15:00 -0700
                Re: NASA tells artist... Don't ever use the color green "hanson" <hanson@quick.net> - 2017-03-31 15:19 -0700
        Re: NASA tells artist... Don’t ever use the color green Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2017-03-29 21:26 -0600
          Re: NASA tells artist... Don’t ever use the color green Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2017-03-30 06:44 +0200
        Re: NASA tells artist... Don’t ever use the color green noTthaTguY <abu.kuanysh05@gmail.com> - 2017-04-04 08:34 -0700
    Re: NASA tells artist... Don’t ever use the color green Greg Goss <gossg@gossg.org> - 2017-03-29 21:07 -0600
    Re: NASA tells artist... Don’t ever use the color green Awa Idayumi <auu@wayyaw.yi> - 2017-03-30 22:11 +0000
  Re: NASA tells artist... Don’t ever use the color green The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2017-03-30 16:22 -0800
    Re: NASA tells artist... Don’t ever use the color green The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2017-03-30 16:33 -0800
      Re: NASA tells artist... Don’t ever use the color green The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2017-03-31 13:32 -0800
        Re: NASA tells artist... Don’t ever use the color green The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2017-03-31 14:07 -0800
          Re: NASA tells artist... Don’t ever use the color green The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2017-04-01 20:47 -0800
            Re: NASA tells artist... Don’t ever use the color green The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2017-04-02 23:57 -0700

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