Timeline for Shouldn't Superman Be (Literally) Black?
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| Dec 6, 2013 at 18:54 | comment | added | Rob | Also, plants are doing it all wrong. Green is a higher energy wave length, and they're just tossing it right out (reflecting it) instead of collecting it up! | |
| Dec 6, 2013 at 7:16 | comment | added | jwenting | @JamesJenkins there are more ways than chlorofyl to perform photosynthesis. | |
| Dec 5, 2013 at 17:48 | comment | added | Beofett | @JamesJenkins Not necessarily. Plants convert sunlight to food through photosynthesis, which requires chlorophyll. Chlorophyll is green because it is adapted to maximize the absorption of the visible light spectrum here on earth. For the same reason Kryptonians wouldn't be red even if kryptonian plants were red, they wouldn't need to be green (i.e. they don't convert the sunlight to food, but instead do something completely different with it). | |
| Dec 5, 2013 at 17:48 | comment | added | user8719 | @JamesJenkins - we also take energy from the sun but we're not green. | |
| Dec 5, 2013 at 17:36 | comment | added | James Jenkins | So maybe he should be green, because that is the dominant color of plants that extract power/energy from our yellow sun? | |
| Dec 5, 2013 at 17:17 | history | answered | Beofett | CC BY-SA 3.0 |