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[โ€“] [email protected] 151 points 6 months ago (12 children)

Fun fact: There's a pretty compelling case to be made that early photosynthesizing organisms were purple instead of green, so that for about half a billion years the earth was purple and blue like a cyberpunk street scene.

[โ€“] CosmicSploogeDrizzle 25 points 6 months ago

This is awesome! I've never heard of this before!

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