Lots of different aliens probably see rainbows.

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• early_riser@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Are you ready for some stupid lore? Cuz here’s a stupid lore dump!

  I’m working on a worldbuilding project (which I post about on !worldbuilding@lemmy.world that involves aliens with a visual system that works very differently from humans.

  They can see a much wider range of wavelengths than humans, from 12 micrometers up to UV-A. That’s a lot! The catch is they can’t see it all at once. Their eyes work more like radio receivers than cameras, and they have to “tune around” to different spectra in order to see the whole thing.

  While they have subjective experiences similar to what humans call “color”, the color of objects is not fixed, and changes as their visual passband changes. If they tune away from an objects strongest reflected wavelength, it will appear black or gray. They’re neurologically incapable of conceiving of color as an independent quale separate from objects so colored, and their languages rely on analogies to familiar objects to describe colors rather than using words that describe the independent experience of color.

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  • queerlilhayseed@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Why would you prepare me for stupid lore and then hit me with fabulous lore? I love this ❤️

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    • early_riser@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Thanks 😀

      There’s a wiki if you’re curious, though it’s not as organized as it probably should be.

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• luthis@lemmy.nz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  And there’s another one making posts to showerthoughts instead of doing their homework.

  Do your bloody homework!

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• snooggums@piefed.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  There is probably one doing to cool S, but in his language it is just a syalized vertical infinity symbol.

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• Agrivar@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  That’s presupposing a LOT of information about aliens. What’s to say they even evolved eyes?

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  • luthis@lemmy.nz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    The universe is pretty big, so I don’t think it’s unreasonable to assume other intelligent species have evolved eyes or equivalent structures. Heck, on earth eyes have evolved separately multiple times. It would be weird if aliens didn’t have eyes!

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  • Logh@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Or homework

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