"Actually roses aren't red. It is merely the pigments called anthocyanins which are chemicals that cause such flowers to appear to look that colour. That, combined with the light illuminating from the sun millions of kilometres away from our insignificant blue dot creates the illusions that these plant based life forms have colour when they in fact do not." - Neil Degrasse Tyson
Nazi_Marxist on February 8th, 2018 at 05:24 UTC »
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Torock_ on February 8th, 2018 at 08:24 UTC »
Violets can be different colours like violet, blue, white etc. So his pedantry isn't even correct
Wackky42 on February 8th, 2018 at 11:30 UTC »
"Actually roses aren't red. It is merely the pigments called anthocyanins which are chemicals that cause such flowers to appear to look that colour. That, combined with the light illuminating from the sun millions of kilometres away from our insignificant blue dot creates the illusions that these plant based life forms have colour when they in fact do not." - Neil Degrasse Tyson