I was going to just leave this in the tags but no, I've seen too many people misunderstand this and it's very simple and easy to explain so I don't know why anyone who shares this fun fact doesn't use this analogy.

so if you took a few leaves and threw them into a blender and pulverize them to as fine a paste that you could they would still be green. this is because chlorophyll has a green PIGMENT in it. now I can't speak to the base color of blue jay feathers so we're just going to talk about blue macaws for this example. If you went and put a Blue macaw feather in a blender and pulverized it to the finest powder that you could you would get black powder. this is because blue macaw feathers have black pigment in them, but they reflect blue light because of a microscopic bubble texture on the surface.

to explain it further, have you ever seen one of those little rainbow hologram things? like how they'll put a holographic Crystal or sparkle pattern on like a Pokemon card?

yeah that motherfucker, if you tried to scrape the top layer of this card off to get the hologram "pigment", you wouldn't get bubkis. in fact if you scrape the top of this card very lightly, the yellow part would still stay yellow because it's yellow because it is PIGMENTED, but the hologram where you scratch it will stop being holographic. now it will still have the pigment underneath it because that is pigmented but the rainbow effect comes from a TEXTURE on the top.

you could even put these kind of holograms on chocolate, are you following? it's a texture!

it's the same reason that bubbles are rainbow colored despite being too thin to see pigment in them.

IT'S A TEXTUREEEEEEE!!!

blue pigment will always be blue, you can crush up a Rose and use the Rose goop to color something else the color of that Rose! leaves, bones, clay, rocks!! that's pigment! disturbing its structure will not change the color because its a PIGMENT!!!

but a blue macaw? a pigeon's neck? a raven's feathers? and a blue jay apparently? that's a texture.

"yeah that's how color works" NO!! bubbles are clear!!! they just happen to have a broad spectrum iridescent TEXTURE, and some bird feathers have a short spectrum of iridescence.

bird texture

Fungi are truly the nearst thing to immortality we have on this planet

I love that he apparently got the job because he looked so pathetic that children truly believed he would be unable to solve puzzles created by a cartoon dog without their assistance.

kids really said “i can fix him”

first up, red squirrels and grey squirrels (classic):

chipmunks (nightcore ass animal):

african pygmy squirrel (the smallest Squirrels):

thirteen-lined ground squirrel (fancier than you):

prairie dog (insanely intelligent and social):

marmots/groundhogs (the Biggest squirrels):

flying squirrels (how does she do it):

Indian Giant Squirrel (And why he ourple😂):

there are 200+ species of squirrel out there their family is one of, if not the most diverse of the rodents

@redportrait

do you see

well yes and no

#no thats amy lee lead singer of evanescence#the main character of my immortal is ebony darkness dementia raven way who looks a lot like amy lee#(AN if you dont kno who dat is get da hell out!)

a couple of clarifying notes from a PADI advanced open water diver:

• nitrogen narcosis happens to absolutely everyone, the only difference between individuals is the depth at which it can start affecting them. just like with intoxicants, your natural susceptibility matters, but also things like stress level, fatigue etc. (but unlike with intoxicants, you can't develop a resistance to the effect.)
• it will always happen to you if you go below certain depth while breathing either unaltered air or nitrox. (18m/60ft is the safe limit for the first level of PADI diving certification, 30m/100ft is the limit for advanced diving, and generally around that second depth is where you could start experiencing noticeable narcosis.)
• the severity of nitrogen narcosis progresses with depth, you're not going to go from fully cognizant to psychotic. BUT, it's very hard to notice that you're being affected by it, because unlike with alcohol you're not getting any physical hints at your condition, your mind is just getting quietly impaired. a frequent symptom is no longer being able to understand where up and down is, and swimming deeper instead of toward the surface.
• nitrogen narcosis is one of the reasons you never dive alone, you always dive with a buddy, and why it's vitally important to periodically sync with your partner. it's on you to notice that your diving buddy is behaving strangely and to get them safely to a shallower depth. even if you're diving with a group, you must have a buddy, and you are responsible for each other.
• and it absolutely cannot be overstated how dangerous nitrogen narcosis can be, and why discipline is the most important attribute of a scuba diver. sure, in most cases you'll realize what is happening, you will go up a few meters and regain your bearings, and laugh it off after the dive -- but you can easily find at least one recording on youtube of a group losing a diver, literally losing them, watching them swim into the depths never to come back, because nobody realized they were affected by the narcosis before they were at a depth where the person filming could not go after them safely.

ALL of the replies are people going "Mental is hocus, health not pocus" until OP turned off replies, and that is the stuff that keeps my mental hocus healthy and pocused