by tholden » Mon Jan 06, 2020 5:33 pm
Xuxalina Rihhia wrote: ↑Wed Jan 01, 2020 2:41 am
I wonder what other creatures besides Man and dolphins made it from Ganymede? Also, I wonder what plants made it from Ganymede to Earth. Not all of Earth plantlife was/is inedible; the same had to go for Martian and Ganymede plant life. Also, as far as I can guess, Mars, Ganymede and Earth had fruiting plants that were/are edible.
The kinds of plants found on Earth changed after the arrival of the "golden" age and daylight and Earth's flora became substantially more like that of Ganymede. Troy McLachlan notes ""Purple Dawn" that:
As already illustrated, the closest thing that the Gunymedeans would have experienced on their own world when compared to these Earth pictures would have been when the Jupiter-facing side of Ganymede was fully blocked from the Sun’s rays while in the shadow of Jupiter as it orbited behind its host sub-brown dwarf star. Jupiter’s residual reddish glow would have shed a less dense purple»hued light compared to that of proto—Saturn, and this would have produced a mild purplish luminance many times that of a full moon today. There would have been a similar glow on the same
side of Ganymede when it orbited into a position between the Sun and Jupiteri However, with no reflective opaque plasma bubble to multiply the amount of Jupiter’s light reaching Ganymede, what the Ganymedeuns were seeing on Earth was far more intense and dark than anything happening on their own planet. Thanks to the Sun’s own powerful and dominant contribution of light emanating in the predominantly green spectrum of light, Ganymede’s flora would have enjoyed roughly the same ratios of green and red vegetation we see on Earth today, so a world with almost exclusively red vegetation [Earth in the Purple Dawn] would have been unusual to the Gunymedeans to say the least.
Troy mentions giant and predominantly reddish flora on Earth during the Purple Dawn age, noting that photosynthesis actually works best in that sort of an environment.
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I wonder what other creatures besides Man and dolphins made it from Ganymede? Also, I wonder what plants made it from Ganymede to Earth. Not all of Earth plantlife was/is inedible; the same had to go for Martian and Ganymede plant life. Also, as far as I can guess, Mars, Ganymede and Earth had fruiting plants that were/are edible.
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The kinds of plants found on Earth changed after the arrival of the "golden" age and daylight and Earth's flora became substantially more like that of Ganymede. Troy McLachlan notes ""Purple Dawn" that:
[quote]As already illustrated, the closest thing that the Gunymedeans would have experienced on their own world when compared to these Earth pictures would have been when the Jupiter-facing side of Ganymede was fully blocked from the Sun’s rays while in the shadow of Jupiter as it orbited behind its host sub-brown dwarf star. Jupiter’s residual reddish glow would have shed a less dense purple»hued light compared to that of proto—Saturn, and this would have produced a mild purplish luminance many times that of a full moon today. There would have been a similar glow on the same
side of Ganymede when it orbited into a position between the Sun and Jupiteri However, with no reflective opaque plasma bubble to multiply the amount of Jupiter’s light reaching Ganymede, what the Ganymedeuns were seeing on Earth was far more intense and dark than anything happening on their own planet. Thanks to the Sun’s own powerful and dominant contribution of light emanating in the predominantly green spectrum of light, Ganymede’s flora would have enjoyed roughly the same ratios of green and red vegetation we see on Earth today, so a world with almost exclusively red vegetation [Earth in the Purple Dawn] would have been unusual to the Gunymedeans to say the least.[/quote]
Troy mentions giant and predominantly reddish flora on Earth during the Purple Dawn age, noting that photosynthesis actually works best in that sort of an environment.