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# i bet its something to do with the sky
(, Fri 31 Jul 2009, 9:40, archived)
# octopus ink!
everyone knows that! DUH!
(, Fri 31 Jul 2009, 9:46, archived)
# It is
it reflects the sky

And polar bear fur is transparent, it just reflects the snow
(, Fri 31 Jul 2009, 9:48, archived)
# the polar bear in Edinburgh zoo is white,
even though there is no snow.
I call BS.
(, Fri 31 Jul 2009, 9:50, archived)
# But not for long
She'll be moving to the Highlands this year.
(, Fri 31 Jul 2009, 9:56, archived)
# where she will be hunted by eagles
(, Fri 31 Jul 2009, 10:12, archived)
# gaelic speaking eagles
with sticks o fire!
(, Fri 31 Jul 2009, 10:13, archived)
# Ah, the golden eagle
The polar bear's only natural predator.
(, Fri 31 Jul 2009, 10:14, archived)
# especially when it's pissed up on buckfast and has a shotgun
(, Fri 31 Jul 2009, 10:16, archived)
# That's the Glasweagle
(, Fri 31 Jul 2009, 10:24, archived)
# then why aren't they blue in water
or green when roaming across fields

edit/ see above
(, Fri 31 Jul 2009, 9:52, archived)
# it turns out that i'm an idiot
(, Fri 31 Jul 2009, 9:53, archived)
# Hmmm. So it's not Rayleigh scattering, but 4th harmonic vibrations, eh?
edit :cooooooool

"Colorful niches of phototrophic microorganisms shaped by vibrations of the water molecule"

www.nature.com/ismej/journal/v1/n4/full/ismej200759a.html
(, Fri 31 Jul 2009, 9:57, archived)
# Apparently, the hollow 'guard hairs' are transparent, but they have underfur which is white, so...
(, Fri 31 Jul 2009, 9:54, archived)
# @ ALL
I';m just parrotting what Lord Fry said on QI

he knows everything
(, Fri 31 Jul 2009, 10:21, archived)