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bloodyrosemccoy) wrote2009-01-22 01:04 pm
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You know you’re a serious science fiction writer when you find yourself wondering how to look up just what trace impurities in a gemstone would give it an ultraviolet color—so it’d appear colorless to us but be brilliantly shaded to some other species with a different visible spectrum.
Yes, dudes, I take this stuff seriously.
Granted, this may stem from when I was a kid and I would try my damndest to imagine completely new colors. I don’t think it ever quite worked, but I sure did work at it. But it turns out it’s not for lack of wiring, so there’s still hope!
Yes, dudes, I take this stuff seriously.
Granted, this may stem from when I was a kid and I would try my damndest to imagine completely new colors. I don’t think it ever quite worked, but I sure did work at it. But it turns out it’s not for lack of wiring, so there’s still hope!
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All it's done for me is make Hawii'an shirts really obnoxious.
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You must learn a TON by researching these little details.
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As I said, I'll do some more digging on the subject and see what I can turn up. What gemstones were you thinking of, particularly, because whether or not you can get an element in a mineral depends on its molecular structure and whether or not said structure will bend enough to let the element of interest in ...
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