It's Thursday, so it's time
for my weekly random question...
I'm kinda blank. I'm trying to think up something to ask, and all I can come up with is, "What if there was no blue?" Wait...
What if we could see in the ultraviolet or infrared spectrum? Would it be a help or a hindrance?
Thursday, July 17, 2014
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Blue is my favourite colour so I can't imagine a world without blue. Well, insects and other animal species can see ultraviolet light etc... so I believe it may help...either that or we may feel we took some amazing drug and are tripping out:)
ReplyDelete(I thought I left a comment already but I don't think it went through...that's been happening to me a lot lately).
ReplyDeleteIf we were born with our eyes that way, I bet we wouldn't notice. But if it, for some weird reason, happened all at once, we'd have a lot of sensory overload.
I'm thinking it would be a help because it is what we would have known, right? Not something new to get used to?
ReplyDeletebetty
When I was a kid I always wondered if everyone always saw colours the same way. For example is my blue your green? As long as we could see pink I'd be fine :)
ReplyDeleteI used to wonder that, too.
DeleteWhat if we were ALL born seeing only black and white? Would we know the difference? I'm guessing not.
ReplyDeleteThey had no idea there was such a thing as color blindness until this one man could not be taught how to distinguish a ripe red apple from a non-ripe green one.
DeleteI love blue so I'm glad it's here! It might be interesting to have a character who could see that way (infrared), a genetic defect, perhaps. I wonder if it would give him an advantage or a disadvantage...?
ReplyDeleteI'm not a big blue fan per se, but I love green, and it's tough to get to green without blue. And I love the ocean and the ocean is sometimes blue. Then there's the sky… Okay, I would miss blue, although as others have said, one can't miss what one doesn't know. I'm not sure about ultraviolet but if I could only see in the infrared spectrum, I'd need a lot of headache medication.
ReplyDeleteVR Barkowski
I would definitely miss blue...and my son would have only these hideous bright red basketball shorts that he keeps digging out of the bottom of his drawer where I hide them.
ReplyDeleteDon't hide them. Get rid of them. That's the only way.
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