You never notice how rare blue is, until you do, and then you (don't) see it *everywhere*. Leave a comment and let me know what you thought of this week's video! And commence the blue-pun party
loved this video! Now we have to find dinosaur and early bird feathers to track the evolution of the structures. Same for butterflies (I doubt we will find those).
But why is blue rare in the first place? Is there something special or peculiar about the wavelength that makes it harder to produce biologically than the other colors? I feel like the answers here didn't get down to the real reason blue is rare.
Purple on the spectrum is in ver less in wavelength, whereas blue next to it is more. That’s why ww don’t even take purple color light as the startup for many chemistry problems and consider blue as shortest wavelength.
nature is miraculous. The way as I see it, for human being it is impossible to know all about nature, but nothing can deter me from being interested in nature
Maybe we didn't name the blue whale the right name. Maybe The blue whale can change his name legally... To Slate whale or Concrete Whale or 50 shades of Grey Whale.
@@Danae78 we called them blue whales because of the blue tint that the water gives everything, even though the ocean isn't blue either, rather its just a reflection of the light of the sky, thats also not blue. Rather the sky has a blue color due to the scattering of the white sun light in our atmosphere. Basically none of these things commonly believed to be blue are not blue in any way.
@@Pheatan um ok. I knew that but thanks for the well said details. Well if we called a beluga whale a beluga whale than we could've called the blue whale something else. I was joking in my comment originally btw.
This is why the sky is "blue". The Sun's rays hit our atmosphere at such an angle that it reflects the Blue Light, hence lighting up our skies in a beautiful blue. And sunsets are redish-orange, because as the angle changes, of the Sun "setting", the blue is no longer the strongest colour, it is the redish-orange end of the spectrum - thus giving us our beautiful sunsets. *EDIT* - Read the Replies and Comments to this. It'll restore your faith in collectively working together as one. Humanity above all else :)
Ummm it doesn't have to do something with the angle the sun's rays hit earth with. It's the distance and scattering of light. In the mornings and afternoons sun is closer to the earth and blue scatters the most and that's why sky is blue and in the sunsets sun is farther from earth so blue wavelengths get scattered earlier and we see our skies as red and yellowish because red and yellow scatter lesser.
blue is my favorite color, and my love for it got deeper when i watched this videom on the other hand, i've not seen butterflies in a while. they were my favorite insects since i was a child... i wonder where they go.
They’re more grey then they are leaning toward blue. Kinda like the great white shark, that’s less than 20% white. And they don’t have the pigments either. Only that butterfly is known to have blue pigmentation.
When you're high, *Make blueberry pie!* (Please remember; Winners don't do drugs, if you wanna be some sort of winner, don't do drugs, unless a certified doctor perscribes you with some that may save your life.)
What a nice video. Interesting subject, well-founded, nice narration, nice edition, nice illustrations, nice animation! 👏 People that watch have no idea of how much work is required to create such a nice product like this. Nice job, guys!
As a scientist, I must say that the "scientists' explanation of why natural blue pigment in animals is so rare" part starting at 6:16 is full of problems. First of all, when the wing is all blue, what ways did it add to communicating? Only one way really - it's not like it can really change the color pattern/shade to communicate. And it really doesn't help survival all that much except for initial hesitation for predators (after seeing the new color). It's also hard to judge how much more difficult it is to evolve a new chemistry than evolving a new microscopic structure. I mean, humans never evolved any microscopic structure differences among the hair of different races, even though they have different colored hair and slightly different chemistry in some aspects in life. So, take what scientists offer as a theory with a grain of salt, until they offer solid proofs.
Utterly adorable. There's just something about people who utterly love their subject matter, but don't turn any convesation into a 30 min lecture on it (had that now and then,, very much spoils the charm).
Creations that are amazingly designed as always. It also always amazes me the lenghts some scientists go to deny the existens of a creator. The theories they make up, "Maybe birds started to see blue colours but could not mutate to make pigment" , I mean, what in their DNA code made them start to see blue colour? Who is coding these living beings DNAas for various stuff? But I understand. Accepting there is a creator is scary for many people, especially scientists.
Some people don’t seem to understand the difference between actual blue pigment and just a structure that looks blue. The sky and ocean aren’t actual blue pigment. What he’s saying in the video is that blue pigment in nature is very rare.
Vysair Correct. Water and glaciers can look blue because red, orange and yellow (long wavelength light) are absorbed more strongly by water than blue (short wavelength light). So when white light from the sun enters water and pure ice, it is mostly the blue that gets returned. Same reason the sky is blue.
Vysair I’m not sure I understand the question, but how colors work is that whatever color something looks, it’s because that object absorbed every other color except the one that it looks. So water is absorbing all the colors,m except blue which bounces back at our eyes so we see it as blue. I hope that answered it.
And if we get technical, there is actually no pigment of any color, it is always the wavelengths that are absorbed and one reflected that give us the color we see.
The sky isn't actually blue though, it's just reflecting the blue light during day time. That's also why it turns so many colors during sunset if I'm not wrong. So if you view the blue of the sky as its true color then the sky is actually all colors of the rainbow Its been a long time since ive red up on this though so I could be wrong in some places
I couldn't take it any longer. This video has been coming up in my suggested videos for like 3 years so I finally watched it. And I'm glad I did. A most enlightening video.
@@kziila0244 not talking all the science behind it, if you look at the ocean, it's visibly blue maybe with a green tint. If you look at the sky it's visibly blue. Whether or not that's the sky or ocean causing the color is beyond me. But they're visibly blue.
When you started talking about how blue butterflies aren't actually blue, it immediatly reminded me of crystals like labradorite, who can show a lot of colours depending on where you look, and this comes from the structure of the crystal. To think butterflies are the same... THATS AWESOME
This is true for everything, your green shirt is absorbing every color except green, it simply reflects the green color so it looks green but is not actually green
I'm working on a fiction project at the moment where, as a small worldbuilding detail, I wanted the setting to feature blue-leaved trees for part of the year. Now I can construe a biologically-plausible method for how such a leaf evolved. Thanks for the info!
Could be that the “chlorophyll” works across all the wavelengths below blue and to trap as much light as possible, the structures are built to only reflect/refract blue light?
I'm blue..... no wait.... I have a unique reflective surface da ba dee da ba daa Da ba dee da ba daa, da ba dee da ba daa Da ba dee da ba daa, da ba dee da ba daa
Ok here's some hypotheses for you: 1. Only primary colors can be derived from structures 2. Using every structure we know of could be combined to construct a tubing with the highest possible light absorption that would still let a specific frequency (eg blue lasers) through. 3. The blue structure in a butterfly wing originally evolved as a way to construct a more matter-efficient functional butterfly wing and blue was just a phenotypical expression of circumstance.
It's literally the most abundant thing in the entire planet 70% of the earth is covered in ocean but _100%_ of the earth is covered by sky, _including the ocean bits_
The ocean is blue. And is 2/3rds of the planet, and with that "50%" blue sky, that's an absolute fuckload of blue. More blue on the planet than anything in fact. You bloody blueaholics being all "I'll tell you when I've had EnOuGh blue!"
Blue is my favorite color, and even though I still don't exactly understand the difference in pigment, structures, or light refraction, I surely enjoyed this video. Will have to watch again!
I googled it and found this on wikipedia: Pigment color differs from structural color in that it is the same for all viewing angles, whereas structural color is the result of selective reflection or iridescence, usually because of multilayer structures and i found this short video ua-cam.com/video/ekeDU4fv_Qo/v-deo.html&ab_channel=KateFeller%2CPhD
its not a its butterflies remove the a A means single if you add es to butterfly then it mens several. There is Not a single butterfly but there are several butterflies
Loved this! What about fish scales and tails? I’m so curious now! I have a pair of German-Blue Rams (freshwater tropical fish), and a tank of blue-gold double swordtail guppies (I didn’t invent these names lol sorry!). There are some blue fish in nature, but now I’m wondering if they’re really blue! 🤯
These come in purple very rarely. I had a pic on an old device. Maybe it's in a cloud somewhere but it may not be. 💗 awaiting another true purple specimen to capture digitally.
Blue is rare because our sun emits a light that has green as the widest band of its spectrum, and blue as its thinnest. Nature is 100 percent efficient so that is why there are so many green plants and animals on earth. It would make sense that blue animals, plants are rare.
Alex Hashaga I believe this is also why night vision is in green, because we can see more shades of it, rather than night vision being red for instance.
What if it's also because it's easier to create the color blue via structural light scattering than depositing pigments, rather than necessarily because it's harder to create blue pigments?
Nature is nowhere near efficient in the slightest. It's just good enough. Think about what you said. Plants are green because they REFLECT that green light. They wastefully reflect the light that you say is most emitted by the sun! Also, just how many green animals are there? Crocodiles and Alligators. Lizards and their cousins... Frogs and their cousins... Anything else? Not much, really. Most animals you encounter are mammalian and such are shades of red, orange, yellow, brown and grey.
As an artist/painter, I know our eyes perceive things that are farther away as bluer. It would make sense that nature reserves this color for judging distance.
Its a similar physics effect to whats going on in butterflies etc, but not necessarily related to our eyes. Its because of all the different wavelengths of light, blue light 'scatters' and fills the air the most when it bounces off air particles. Way too faint to see on anything that isn't far away. But that's the same reason why the sky is blue :)
So in one of the star talk episodes they've mentioned why any objects has a certain colour, when light falls on an object the colour it reflects the most is the colour we see on it, by that logic does anything has an actual colour or it's all just a reflection scam?
I live in a blue world. All day and all night everything I see is just blue, like me--inside and outside. My house is blue with a blue little window, and I have a blue corvette. Everything is blue for me, myself and everybody around me. I don't have anyone to listen.
Ooh, I just googled this! Blue pigment, or specifically blue pigment, doesn't exist in plants. Flowers that are 'blue' pigmented are actually pigmented with purples or reds, for example, that are blue toned
You never notice how rare blue is, until you do, and then you (don't) see it *everywhere*.
Leave a comment and let me know what you thought of this week's video! And commence the blue-pun party
But do purple is even rarer?
Great
loved this video! Now we have to find dinosaur and early bird feathers to track the evolution of the structures. Same for butterflies (I doubt we will find those).
It's Okay To Be Smart 4th!
But why is blue rare in the first place? Is there something special or peculiar about the wavelength that makes it harder to produce biologically than the other colors? I feel like the answers here didn't get down to the real reason blue is rare.
"Why Is Blue So Rare In Nature?"
The Sky: am I a joke to you?
Found you
Was actually going to comment this!
I was going to comment the same
That's what I thought before clicking on the video!
Not to mention the oceans and seas lmao
The sky isn't actually blue though. It's just the reflection of the sea
This blue my mind
The MinuteEarth squad has arrived
It took me a long time to get it
don't even have to type jokes these days, they are already written down in the comment section ;p
Paul Paulson this pun brings me great pain
Paul Paulson lol 😂
He missed the perfect chance to say "blue-tiful"
clortz I was about to comment that
Underrated comment,
Yeah, I agree, that would be really pun-ny 😂
He did already
2:47 clearly said "blue my mind"
A missed opportunity at 2:14
He could have said at 4:14 "you think they'd blues their color"
Bluetyful blueterfly
Nature: "Animals can't be blue!"
Chameleon: "Allow me to introduce myself..."
Butterflies and beetles and tropical fish and birds can be blue. Chameleons can be blue, too . . . but I wonder when they'd find it useful.
I saw blue butterfly that was sitting on my shoulder @@jpdemer5
Blue is my favorite color and it's not even real on animals.
That's why blue is unique
U can watch it everywhere
But there are only few places where u really find it
It's my favorite color too. That's why my favorite animal is Azure Jay, she has blue and black feathers.
@Dan Rivers mine is winter chill and surfside
Yes blue jays
At least replies are blue
Water- Blue but not really
Butterfly-Blue but not really
Water=Butterfly
Water=liquid
Liquid butterfly
Impeccable logic
*MINDBLOWN*
*Hence Proved.*
Logic checks out
I got to be honest: I didn’t search for this , yet is one of the best mind blowing videos out there.
Me three
Me four
Same 🤣
mind blue-ing*
@@krwrie no
even blue LED's were hard to make
Oh yeaaahhhh
Watched is from vsauce or veritasium ?
Veritasium has a vid bout it. And ofc its awesome
Coz we mimic the nature for our innovation, makes sense.
you are wrong,the hard ones were the white ones to make,blue was actually the 4th one to be made
"Butterflies are A-W-E-S-O-M-E, make no mistake!" This is a dude who loves his job
True
Not lying-
I love butterflies but I like them less now because I found out that they were just ants with wings 😅
The fact that I have a picture of a BLUE BUTTERFLY 🦋 this video is AWESOME
@@Godhelpme666 lmao 🤣
Why is blue rare in nature?
Purple: hold my beer
Purple on the spectrum is in ver less in wavelength, whereas blue next to it is more. That’s why ww don’t even take purple color light as the startup for many chemistry problems and consider blue as shortest wavelength.
I love blue!
Hold my food coloring
Nc profile bruh...
@@xavieryuki7333 me too
So, butterflies are you blue?
Butterfly: Well yes, but no. 2:25
nature is miraculous. The way as I see it, for human being it is impossible to know all about nature, but nothing can deter me from being interested in nature
this is true
"Nature doesn't do halfway with blue"
Literally 10 seconds earlier: "Even blue whales aren't that blue"
Yeah but we named them that, they are more of a dark grey
@@Yuna-ed5jc Fair enough 🤔
Maybe we didn't name the blue whale the right name. Maybe The blue whale can change his name legally... To Slate whale or Concrete Whale or 50 shades of Grey Whale.
@@Danae78 we called them blue whales because of the blue tint that the water gives everything, even though the ocean isn't blue either, rather its just a reflection of the light of the sky, thats also not blue.
Rather the sky has a blue color due to the scattering of the white sun light in our atmosphere.
Basically none of these things commonly believed to be blue are not blue in any way.
@@Pheatan um ok. I knew that but thanks for the well said details. Well if we called a beluga whale a beluga whale than we could've called the blue whale something else. I was joking in my comment originally btw.
Humans: Blue is rare in nature
Aliens: That planet is totally Blue
😂😂
🤣🤣🤣 got the point.
🤣
also the aliens: wait dafug is a blue???
🤣🤣🤣
Meanwhile in a parallel universe: A butterfly has a boxes of human corpses and says "Humans are Awesome!"
"If we stab them, red flows out! If we choke them, they turn purple! And if it's heart beats faster they turn pink!"
@@branddransnothing dont forget the barf green on their bruises
If that really happens Humans deserve it (even me)
🤣🤣🤣
Haha😂
He:blue is rare
Ocean and sky:what are you talking about?
This is why the sky is "blue". The Sun's rays hit our atmosphere at such an angle that it reflects the Blue Light, hence lighting up our skies in a beautiful blue. And sunsets are redish-orange, because as the angle changes, of the Sun "setting", the blue is no longer the strongest colour, it is the redish-orange end of the spectrum - thus giving us our beautiful sunsets.
*EDIT* - Read the Replies and Comments to this. It'll restore your faith in collectively working together as one. Humanity above all else :)
Ummm it doesn't have to do something with the angle the sun's rays hit earth with. It's the distance and scattering of light. In the mornings and afternoons sun is closer to the earth and blue scatters the most and that's why sky is blue and in the sunsets sun is farther from earth so blue wavelengths get scattered earlier and we see our skies as red and yellowish because red and yellow scatter lesser.
@@happypotato5499 Thanks for the correction bud
@@mq830 No problem! I was honestly scared I'm gonna be in an internet fight or something but that's so nice
@@happypotato5499 Lmao, life's too short for that kind of tom foolery :)
What a wholesome comment section I thought it would be a 200 reply war but it’s so civilized, something super rare online these days
Butterflies be like: “It’s not about the colors, it’s about sending a message..”
SHAGGY HAS CANCERRRRRR??!?!?? 💀💀💀 I CANTT
Hahahaha 🤣 this should be pinned!
Water and Sky: "But we are sending the message already"
Sounds like something an art teacher would say lmao
@@wannathrustshigoku-san3550 god: ill send the messages around here
"So wait, they're blue... But not really blue?"
Hmmmm, yes the floor is not made out of floor
Every 1 inch is a 1 inch
The pope is catholic
I farted
Potato is banana
Every milimeter is not a milimeter
blue is my favorite color, and my love for it got deeper when i watched this videom on the other hand, i've not seen butterflies in a while. they were my favorite insects since i was a child... i wonder where they go.
“But when I learned how this works... It kinda *blue* my mind”
Best and underrated comment
Are bhai bhai bhai
Here before it blows up
@@maazhannan9829 blues up*
@@Ortelim he said blew in the video, I think
"There are no Blue Squirrels"
Me: *hold my beer*
If you don't get it, try looking at his profile pic
Your acting like one IDOT
Dear Black plauge Bacteria, thee probably meant idiot instead of “IDOT”. I advise you not to use such offensive names.
@mr meep meep isn't the best bacteria
Did you make this account just for this or is this legit beetle juicing
So we’re just going to ignore that 75% of the planet is blue? Lol
Actually the picture of our planet from voyager is called "Blue pale dot"
Him: blue eyes are actually not blue
Me: the day i lost my identity
No-one knows what it's like to be the sad man...
@@mulgerbill u seem kinda cute got insta?
Law and Order
Court case
you just made a comment saying that you were colourblind and can't see blue?
@@xylonbanda i can see blue, but not like most of the ppl, i can still see it its not gray or sum
"Even blue whales aren't that blue"
"Nature dosen't go half and half when it comes to blue"
They’re more grey then they are leaning toward blue. Kinda like the great white shark, that’s less than 20% white.
And they don’t have the pigments either. Only that butterfly is known to have blue pigmentation.
Plot twist: Blue doesnt even exist.
@@bamf6603 it's all just you're retina playing games on you-
@@rujula6949 just like your grammar
@@atr0phaneura726 nah wait I didn't see that pls I hate when people use you're instead of your 🤡
“Why is blue soo rare in nature?”
Me thinking about purple:
lmao me too!
Yeah, purple seems so much rarer.
Violets
Galazy Comics Library
There are a lot of purple plants though while there aren’t many blue ones.
There are many purple colored fruits and plants f.e. eggplants and lavenders
"Blue is so rare in nature"
The Sky and The Ocean: ...so....uh...do we not exsist?
Appreciated the fact that this man wore a blue shirt too.
There are many blue shirts lol
My ad was blue
Technically it’s indigo color ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Blue with bugs on it
@@133a83 You just didn't get it did you?
Here's a summary of the comment section for you: "this blue my mind".
Man, you blue it for everyone...
it kinda blue my mind
nigahiga ?
mustapha supas havent seen it once besides ur comment m8
Dirk Groovy you weren't here when this video had less than 100 comments. But if you wanna go through over 1k comments than go ahead.
"Why is blue so rare in nature"
Earth being called the blue planet : ......
its green
@@adityaanandas.4378 that's like saying that a ball that is clearly multicoloured is just pink.
@@adityaanandas.4378 its orange/brown because the water is dominant than land if you dont get it its because of the pollution and etc
ok
the seas: 🙁🙁🙁🙁
We should create a genetic sequence that produces blue pigment that can used in a similar area to melanin or keratinoids.
So basically...a blue butterfly is green when it's drunk. Got it.
Not quite, just went some idiot spills their drink on them at the bar 😂
It’s green when *you’re* drunk,
but people often get confused about that distinction when they’re drunk. :)
we all like to get drunk when we are blue.
this comment is so underrated xD
When you're high,
*Make blueberry pie!*
(Please remember; Winners don't do drugs, if you wanna be some sort of winner, don't do drugs, unless a certified doctor perscribes you with some that may save your life.)
him: *tries to show blue in animals*
blue: i'm not even here baby, i'm a hallucination👨🦯
More like a mirage. (A hallucination is a trick of the mind. A mirage is a trick of the light.)
@@MarsJenkar lol i was just making a popular joke, you're very smart though :)
@@MarsJenkar ohh so that’s why they say that in deserts/desserts
@@suffolk4418 they say that in cakes? TF?
@@universenerdd was too lazy to check whether desert or dessert was correct for a sand biome
Theres bunch of them underground
It called
*Lapis Lazuli*
*DiAmonD*
GD SuperPlayz no diamonds are *G A Y*
Fnaf Lover 87 My life is a lie :o
Some from a socity
*Lapis Lazuli and Diamonds. Wait what about water it’s dark blue in minecraft*
What a nice video. Interesting subject, well-founded, nice narration, nice edition, nice illustrations, nice animation! 👏 People that watch have no idea of how much work is required to create such a nice product like this. Nice job, guys!
Blue I am the rarest color in nature
Purple: *am I a joke to you*
SuperKevin021 yeah I was gonna say
@@knitteshetticalynchette9993 boj ecin
Purple, ah Yes The (insert something purple) behind The Slaughter
How about Barney?
Marcus Gorayeb
What do you mean “purple is not blue”?
Of course it isn’t blue.
"there's no blue bats"
Me, playing pokemon and getting ambushed by Zubats: ...
They must be using repel.
@@BorksmithandTheBeef Max Repel
@@SiAttic lol
If all else fails, use an escape rope 😂
FACTS
“nature doesn’t do halfway with blue”
him five seconds earlier “blue whales aren’t even that blue”
Context
Sky : let’s pretend I did not see it
Still blue
Haha I was about to comment the exact same thing
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 hes a bloody idiot he didnt even think about what he said
As a scientist, I must say that the "scientists' explanation of why natural blue pigment in animals is so rare" part starting at 6:16 is full of problems. First of all, when the wing is all blue, what ways did it add to communicating? Only one way really - it's not like it can really change the color pattern/shade to communicate. And it really doesn't help survival all that much except for initial hesitation for predators (after seeing the new color). It's also hard to judge how much more difficult it is to evolve a new chemistry than evolving a new microscopic structure. I mean, humans never evolved any microscopic structure differences among the hair of different races, even though they have different colored hair and slightly different chemistry in some aspects in life. So, take what scientists offer as a theory with a grain of salt, until they offer solid proofs.
"There are no blue dogs"
Blues clues: *visible anger*
Lol
His anger: ua-cam.com/video/1SGN5msjpIk/v-deo.html
Breh u made me feel nostalgia in 2 second
😁 nostalgia
Blue Heeler
Blue hedgehogs are everywhere we just can't see them they have evolved to light speed
😂😂😂
Sonic speed
Thats explains why my chilli dogs are gone.
Deja Spriggs
Sanic
Sanic
I found a blueberry
"CHECKMATE"
Qsasda Dasdasd Wait
@@alexwang982 well said bro icc is the highest average
Blueberries are actually violet. The inside is green but when blended, purple. Double checkmate sis
@@somethingcreative1067 I'm gay
Jokes on you, blueberries are red
That's just so amazing! I'm speechless. 🦋
Him: so blue is actually not blue
Everyone: *gasp* kinda sad
Me (colorblind): heh u feel me now?
lol
R u actually colorblind? Thats really cool!
@Parvika Singh no, I’m just saying that it’s cool he has a sort of rare eyesight impairment. I wasn’t trying to offend Jasa or you, sorry ):
you lucky as hell. colorblind people save money on their pc setups cause they don’t need to be picky on their rgb 😕
@@dea-ki5iq oh i actually didnt know that😁ty
Can we talk about how adorable and intellectual the lepidopterist is????
Utterly adorable. There's just something about people who utterly love their subject matter, but don't turn any convesation into a 30 min lecture on it (had that now and then,, very much spoils the charm).
uh, butterflys are AweSomme
He's an entomologist
Sky
Excited nerds are the best thing
I saw a blue butterfly once. It twas beautiful.
Shubzie bluetiful
Joseph Hutton Dont you freakin dare.
Jykuejtethgw
Shubzie Bluetiful
Same! Right in front of my house
Wonderful! Subscribed after I saw my first video from this channel. Most YT content is so boring, but not if I’m learning new things!
This vid came in my recommendation feed out of the blue
Dude
YOU ARE TOO UNDERRATED
It almost blue my mind.
Hahaha.
I've been locked up too long.
This comment. 😂
Ima sub to u
"The Blue Planet"
They said.
*They Said*
So is blue the best colour?
Steve Thea no.
The best colour is titan blue
You clicked on show more
And that’s a fact
🦋
"Why is blue so rare?"
meanwhile: Ocean and Sky laughing.
Ikr
Ocean ain’t blue cuh
The sky is also blue because of light refraction - just like this video was explaining for other things.
And the ocean just reflects blue from the sky
They are also not Blue. Sky is Blue due to the same Physics effect of Rayleigh scattering, not pigment. The Ocean looks blue because of the sky
@@mops515 it's cause our eyes are unable to see the color purple in the sky, so we see it as blue
Creations that are amazingly designed as always. It also always amazes me the lenghts some scientists go to deny the existens of a creator. The theories they make up, "Maybe birds started to see blue colours but could not mutate to make pigment" , I mean, what in their DNA code made them start to see blue colour? Who is coding these living beings DNAas for various stuff?
But I understand. Accepting there is a creator is scary for many people, especially scientists.
me having a blue shirt and blue pants while eating blue berries
@Mercer blue berries
@@danio1864 blue berries are purple
@@Raylen23 more of a navy blue
We being like the ocean is blue and it covers 2/3 of the planet.
Blue berries are purple
Some people don’t seem to understand the difference between actual blue pigment and just a structure that looks blue. The sky and ocean aren’t actual blue pigment. What he’s saying in the video is that blue pigment in nature is very rare.
Nigel Thornberry So *pure* ice was also not true blue?
Vysair Correct. Water and glaciers can look blue because red, orange and yellow (long wavelength light) are absorbed more strongly by water than blue (short wavelength light). So when white light from the sun enters water and pure ice, it is mostly the blue that gets returned. Same reason the sky is blue.
Nigel Thornberry Thank you very much for that explanation.
Nigel Thornberry But don't you mean red and green that were trapped in the ice?
Vysair I’m not sure I understand the question, but how colors work is that whatever color something looks, it’s because that object absorbed every other color except the one that it looks. So water is absorbing all the colors,m except blue which bounces back at our eyes so we see it as blue. I hope that answered it.
"And when I learned how this works, it kind of...blue my mind."
THIS GUY.
😂
I laughed at that one
didnt even realize that one xD
My eyes are born blue, my hair is born pink, I’m pretty rare
i love puns
And if we get technical, there is actually no pigment of any color, it is always the wavelengths that are absorbed and one reflected that give us the color we see.
Title: Why is blue so rare in nature?
The sky: Am I a joke to you?
@@EliteRanger ocean is colorless mate. It just reflects light from the sky.
The sky isn't actually blue though, it's just reflecting the blue light during day time. That's also why it turns so many colors during sunset if I'm not wrong. So if you view the blue of the sky as its true color then the sky is actually all colors of the rainbow
Its been a long time since ive red up on this though so I could be wrong in some places
@@aribanahonarukas1641 Neeeeeeeeeeeeeeerrrrrrd.
@@fan1st 👁️👄👁️
Idiiiiiiiiiooooooooooooooot.
@@fan1st no you are just stupid
Butterflies deliver messages like "I'm toxic"
Dang, wish my ex could have done that...
@L. A. Uhhhhhhhhhh
you really only noticed they were toxic when they showed their true colors
This comment is underrated!
@L. A. oh, you don’t need to apologize, thanks for explanation
The reason animals are colorful is to warn their predators. If you were not a predator, then you would have not needed this information.
“Why is blue so rare in nature?”
- an ad of Charmin’s blue bear pops up
🥶 I though they was red once.
@@lilbug3215 google it 😉
@@lilbug3215 they are red in some where they advertise the strong version they are blue when they advertise the soft version though
Blueberries, blue potato, blue corn, forget-me-not flowers, cornflowers (blue), rare blue lobster, blue dragonfly, bluebirds, butterfly, etc 💙
Blueberries are dark purple
What about Dory ... How can anyone forget her 😢?@@perlitaerguiza8947
My teacher :- You just can't solve biology using engineering.
This man :- *Hold my blues*
i've always thought that purple was the rarest color in nature
So do I
Egg plant
purple is not a basic color bro
Same
@@pandyatetuko4315 Vertigo
"Blue is rare"
Me: looks at my blue bird.
you: YOU ARE BLUE!
the bird:🗿
My bird is rare 😩
I have 5 birds that have blue on the.
Them*
@@onigrri Is that a Naruto reference
I loved this lepidopterist, he’s a smart, fun character. I think one has to be to study butterflies, or at least, turns out that way.
Blue in nature is basically shiny Pokémon’s
4XYaboku such a good comment
Yeah, and also the albinos
Unless your underwater tons of fish are blue
How about purple are they ultra rare then
s k y
The title: *Why is blue so rare in nature?*
Purple: *ok but what about me*
Well there's actually purple pigments in nature that are pretty common, as opposed to blue pigments
Brinjal:What about me?
Flowers?
Art And Pinke he’s more talking about animals and insects
Purple is the most expensive pigment back in time tbh. Only royalties wear purple shits
I couldn't take it any longer. This video has been coming up in my suggested videos for like 3 years so I finally watched it. And I'm glad I did. A most enlightening video.
Nop sky is not blue, again its an illusion, it appears blue
True
Same??
same
Same
All I have to do is piss my chameleon off, she’ll show me blue 🤣
Butterfly: "I am toxic."
I wish humans did that too ....
With enough practice observing you can tell if the person is
They do...it's called a social media profile
X
assume all are until proven otherwise lol
Humans tend to dye there hair bright colors like toxic animals do in order to tell you they are toxic.
"Why is blue so rare in nature?"
71% of the world being ocean: Am I a joke to you?
The ocean itself isn’t actually blue though. In fact, technically, the sky itself isn’t blue either.
@@kziila0244 not talking all the science behind it, if you look at the ocean, it's visibly blue maybe with a green tint. If you look at the sky it's visibly blue. Whether or not that's the sky or ocean causing the color is beyond me. But they're visibly blue.
@@jewtsu412
Eh, true. Blue is scientifically (or rather, biologically) rare then.
@RockManLP_Radio Except at dawn and sunset ... ^^
@@baptistejungers1231 true
When you started talking about how blue butterflies aren't actually blue, it immediatly reminded me of crystals like labradorite, who can show a lot of colours depending on where you look, and this comes from the structure of the crystal. To think butterflies are the same... THATS AWESOME
YES IT IS.
This is true for everything, your green shirt is absorbing every color except green, it simply reflects the green color so it looks green but is not actually green
That moth/butterfly joke at the end was hilarious! 😂😂😂
Comments: Sky Am I A Joke To You?
Other Comments: “it Blue My Mind”
Me: *So What About That Monkey?*
Blue d**k
Let’s keep this pg
@@anusrivastava6848 *its
@@anusrivastava6848 Blue it's house
with the blue little window and a blue Corvette... ;)
@@roma540 oh yeah!!thanks,now i have it in my mind for at least two weeks
I'm working on a fiction project at the moment where, as a small worldbuilding detail, I wanted the setting to feature blue-leaved trees for part of the year. Now I can construe a biologically-plausible method for how such a leaf evolved. Thanks for the info!
Sounds awesome. Hope it turns out well!
Look forward to never reading it
Send a link when it is done!
Could be that the “chlorophyll” works across all the wavelengths below blue and to trap as much light as possible, the structures are built to only reflect/refract blue light?
Plants actually have blue pigments Anthocyanins.
I'm blue..... no wait....
I have a unique reflective surface da ba dee da ba daa
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Ok here's some hypotheses for you:
1. Only primary colors can be derived from structures
2. Using every structure we know of could be combined to construct a tubing with the highest possible light absorption that would still let a specific frequency (eg blue lasers) through.
3. The blue structure in a butterfly wing originally evolved as a way to construct a more matter-efficient functional butterfly wing and blue was just a phenotypical expression of circumstance.
What exactly is 'structure '
Most primary colours can be obtained from pigments
@@Hankpym2837 I don't know, sounds like nonsense
Everyone here is like “wELL tHe SKy bLuE” but like that’s one thing. It’s still rare
And the sky is actually not blue
@@222-p2q ikr
It's literally the most abundant thing in the entire planet
70% of the earth is covered in ocean but _100%_ of the earth is covered by sky, _including the ocean bits_
@@potaterjim only 50 percent of the sky is blue as well as another 35 percent
The ocean is blue. And is 2/3rds of the planet, and with that "50%" blue sky, that's an absolute fuckload of blue. More blue on the planet than anything in fact.
You bloody blueaholics being all "I'll tell you when I've had EnOuGh blue!"
I had a Russian Blue cat before, he was so incredible looking when light hit his fur.
Wow!! I didn't even know such a thing existed!!
The most affectionate breed of cat I have ever experienced. My russian blue was always grooming my hair.
Their amazing just lost our Russian blu to old age. R.I.P ZONA
@@00GearHead00 sorry for your loss. It hurt me so much when I lost my russian blue Freddy. I hope one day we get to see them again.
@@kimmyball4961 theyre not really blue, theyre just blue gray, more gray.
”This Blue my Mind“
HvDGaMinG26 ryan higa reference
as soon as I heard him I came looking for the reference in the comment section. xD
HvDGaMinG26 Ahahaha so witty! 😊
Get out
Sacre bleu!
This video really blue up
That's why Blue Dream Neocaridina Shrimp are my favorite. They're gorgeous little shrimps and look amazing when there is a bunch grouping together
To eat?
@@uglyskully5928 I think he means just in general
I heard blue dream?
@@warrior-me9ps Mary Jew wanna
I thought you will say something vegetarian but you ate those shrimps.
I also love shrimps though 😅
Blue is my favorite color, and even though I still don't exactly understand the difference in pigment, structures, or light refraction, I surely enjoyed this video. Will have to watch again!
At the end of your comment edit it (i will watch this video again!)
I googled it and found this on wikipedia:
Pigment color differs from structural color in that it is the same for all viewing angles, whereas structural color is the result of selective reflection or iridescence, usually because of multilayer structures
and i found this short video
ua-cam.com/video/ekeDU4fv_Qo/v-deo.html&ab_channel=KateFeller%2CPhD
Are you colorblind?
Sameeèë
no, blue is your favorite structure
Can we just appreciate him for wearing a blue long sleeve with a butterfly design on it? 😂
like he tried to hoard aaaalll the blue he can get 🤣🤣
its not a its butterflies remove the a
A means single if you add es to butterfly then it mens several. There is Not a single butterfly but there are several butterflies
@@justzarif152 he meant ‘a butterfly design’ referring to the entire design not only a single one
All of y’all are wrong. They’re dragonflies.
@@kk657able now i get it i feel dumb
Joke at the end was totally worth it
“Why is Blue so rare in nature?”
Purple: *pathetic.*
*edit deleted xd*
Edit 2: The sea and sky? Haha.
My thought exactly 😂
Don’t you have swarms of Purple People Eaters where you live?
Purple comes from blue so its automatically going to be rare
@@Bopmyglizz so does green 🤷♂️
Red
“This is Bob Ro-“
*BOB ROSS?!*
“Robbins”
Oh..ok..
its Rob Boss
Clumsypanda
ross bob
Theozet soss rob
sos
Who's Bob Ross?
This belongs on QI - “what color is a blue butterfly?” Alan Davis: Blue Stephen Fry: “actually...”
Unfortunately Stephen Fry doesnt do QI anymore :(
Exactly! I loved the repartee of those two. Now I gotta go watch some QI....
Also this sort was on QI cause they did cover the blue whales aren't really blue.
The klaxon would get to it before Stephen Fry could utter a sound lol
Mint Cream ua-cam.com/video/dQw4w9WgXcQ/v-deo.html
Loved this! What about fish scales and tails? I’m so curious now! I have a pair of German-Blue Rams (freshwater tropical fish), and a tank of blue-gold double swordtail guppies (I didn’t invent these names lol sorry!). There are some blue fish in nature, but now I’m wondering if they’re really blue! 🤯
0:17 “Animals come in sorts of colors, but blue seems to be the rarest”
Purple:
Purple be like: honey I don’t even exist
Wym?? It’s actually-
and because-
then-
These come in purple very rarely. I had a pic on an old device. Maybe it's in a cloud somewhere but it may not be. 💗 awaiting another true purple specimen to capture digitally.
Not really, varicose veins are purple and they are pretty common among people.
@@suffolk4418 👏🏼
Blue is rare because our sun emits a light that has green as the widest band of its spectrum, and blue as its thinnest. Nature is 100 percent efficient so that is why there are so many green plants and animals on earth. It would make sense that blue animals, plants are rare.
Alex Hashaga I believe this is also why night vision is in green, because we can see more shades of it, rather than night vision being red for instance.
What if it's also because it's easier to create the color blue via structural light scattering than depositing pigments, rather than necessarily because it's harder to create blue pigments?
Nature is nowhere near 100% efficient. Just look at the laryngeal nerve, or at our backwards photoreceptors.
Nature is nowhere near efficient in the slightest. It's just good enough. Think about what you said. Plants are green because they REFLECT that green light. They wastefully reflect the light that you say is most emitted by the sun!
Also, just how many green animals are there? Crocodiles and Alligators. Lizards and their cousins... Frogs and their cousins... Anything else? Not much, really. Most animals you encounter are mammalian and such are shades of red, orange, yellow, brown and grey.
@@AFunnyAsian My night vision is gray.
As an artist/painter, I know our eyes perceive things that are farther away as bluer. It would make sense that nature reserves this color for judging distance.
Great input
Very interesting indeed
Its a similar physics effect to whats going on in butterflies etc, but not necessarily related to our eyes. Its because of all the different wavelengths of light, blue light 'scatters' and fills the air the most when it bounces off air particles. Way too faint to see on anything that isn't far away. But that's the same reason why the sky is blue :)
look at silkie schicken, thehave both blue and purple n their face also the base colors black and white
well, we dont have the only eyes, nor the only spectrum, different animals see different colors with different intensity
So in one of the star talk episodes they've mentioned why any objects has a certain colour, when light falls on an object the colour it reflects the most is the colour we see on it, by that logic does anything has an actual colour or it's all just a reflection scam?
I live in a blue world. All day and all night everything I see is just blue, like me--inside and outside.
My house is blue with a blue little window, and I have a blue corvette. Everything is blue for me, myself and everybody around me.
I don't have anyone to listen.
It's ok dude. I see the world in color and everybody listen to me. Even my thoughts. Get out my head people 😧
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Kenny Blankenship wouldn't understand this reference 😄
I came here to find this and I was not disappointed
@@hoodboylem83 you must be a kid
I have noticed that even in plants - and specially in flowers - blue is more rare than other colours. This is very interesting. Thank you.
Ooh, I just googled this! Blue pigment, or specifically blue pigment, doesn't exist in plants. Flowers that are 'blue' pigmented are actually pigmented with purples or reds, for example, that are blue toned
He:Blue is Rare in nature
Sky:and I am green
Ocean left the chat
Except air isn’t blue, and neither is water! water is clear just look at a water bottle for the proof lil man come on now😂
“Butterfly are awesome “
Remove the wings: ewwww
Bigg facts
Oh yeah I never thought about that
Woah i never knew there was someone called "remove the wing"
PS: No butterflies were harmed in the making of this video. all those butterflies you see are paid actors
So you're saying that they are sleeping?
OMG they are the best actors I've ever seen
Predator XD
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Poor butterflies
wow! their acting blue my mind!
"Why is blue so rare?"
Coz, nature used too much colour to paint the SKY blue in colour... 🤣
The sky isn't actually blue either though
Lol😂😂😂😂😂
Damn that's creative!
@@frost242 none of that is true
@@daafle there might be a mistake there, feel free to correct what i messed up
I remember watching this 6 years ago, and I still remember this, awesome video.
This is more important than my exams
Yes
No hunny, exams are more important.
@@its_jeonsa yes mooom…
@@its_jeonsa no
@@Kim-en9gp :)