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by davrosthedalek
332 days ago
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The sun is very close to a black body radiator, so all wavelength. The atmosphere and water filters a lot. It is actually quite strange that plants are green -- that's the wavelength the atmosphere lets through particularly well, so would be particular good to be absorbed instead of reflected, for energy production. It seems nature hasn't come up with a good, cheap way to move the absorption into that wavelength. |
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Light visible to humans is at the peakiest bit of the sun's black body spectrum, see here image here: https://i.sstatic.net/kRUju.png
Green isn't just the wavelength the atmosphere lets through the best, or the wavelength humans are most sensitive to, it's also the peak of the sun's black body spectrum.