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[-] zedgeist@lemmy.world 30 points 1 week ago
[-] Syndication@lemmy.today 25 points 1 week ago

"It seems aware of its blueness and unable to process it."

No, it's struggling to get oxygen you twits. Put it back in the water!

[-] Janx@piefed.social 3 points 1 week ago

Mike: Put that thing back where it came from or so help me..."

Sulley: "Bom, bom, bom, bom..."

Mike: "So help me! So help me! And cut."

[-] sudo@lemmy.today 19 points 1 week ago

Da ba dee, da ba di

[-] FUCKING_CUNO@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 1 week ago

It gets that way because of all the blue water it drinks

[-] TheGiantKorean@lemmy.today 10 points 1 week ago
[-] peteypete420@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago

How much do close cost in the matrix?

[-] Jackcooper@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago
[-] anon6789@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago
[-] ByteJunk@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

"a member of the parrotfish genus Scarus"

Most apt name ever, they always look so afraid.

[-] trainsrkool@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 week ago

awwww so cute!😍

its really fucking blue tho

[-] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 week ago

Anyone know what fish this is?

[-] noodNinja@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago
[-] AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago

Like "One fish, two fish, red fish...?"

[-] tacosanonymous@mander.xyz 3 points 1 week ago

Blue Parrotfish

[-] MrsDoyle@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

Might be a Napoleon wrasse - though they are bigger than this. Maybe a young one?

https://www.scuba.com/blog/napoleon-wrasse/

[-] prole 6 points 1 week ago

Now all we need is one fish, two fish, and red fish

[-] MeatPilot@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago

Wonder what flavor of fruit it is.

[-] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 4 points 1 week ago

So I remember hearing that animals can't really produce blue pigment and all the blue animals are blue due to physical tricks causing light of different wavelengths to get dispersed leaving only blue. Is this the same here?

[-] schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

In animals such as on the feathers of birds and the scales of butterflies, interference is created by a range of photonic mechanisms, including diffraction gratings, selective mirrors, photonic crystals, crystal fibres, matrices of nanochannels and proteins that can vary their configuration. Some cuts of meat also show structural coloration due to the exposure of the periodic arrangement of the muscular fibres. Many of these photonic mechanisms correspond to elaborate structures visible by electron microscopy. In the few plants that exploit structural coloration, brilliant colours are produced by structures within cells. The most brilliant blue coloration known in any living tissue is found in the marble berries of Pollia condensata, where a spiral structure of cellulose fibrils produces Bragg's law scattering of light. The bright gloss of buttercups is produced by thin-film reflection by the epidermis supplemented by yellow pigmentation, and strong diffuse scattering by a layer of starch cells immediately beneath.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structural_coloration

Straight-up blue pigment is rare, but it does exist. Here's a list of those critters [cancer warning]: https://www.colorwithleo.com/what-animal-has-a-true-blue-pigment/

[-] Johanno@feddit.org 5 points 1 week ago

Ok I don't know anything about that, but what is blue pigment other than a particle that asorbs all colors except blue?

[-] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 3 points 1 week ago

Basically this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3g246c6Bv58

The guy says he only knows one butterfly that evolved blue pigment so I'm guessing this fish is also blue because of some weird trick.

[-] Johanno@feddit.org 4 points 1 week ago

Oh ok. So the pigment is not a mirror like blue?

I remember sth. About a white flower that works similar where it self is on the atomic level shaped so that it seems white, but actually isn't...

For me blue is blue, because it's blue.

[-] peteypete420@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago

Looks like the blue fish from go fish

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