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Looking for alternative sources of lighting for my current worldbuilding project so I couldn't help but wonder if a bioluminescent plant-based lifeforms could be realistically feasible. I'm just looking for simple but primitive way to give my imaginary people/characters a source of light in the Darkness of night-time.
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In a mundane setting, you have a real problem with the calorific cost of bioluminescense (especially the sort bright enough to see by!) and the limited evolutionary upsides of such costly behaviour. On the other hand, you've got themagictag, so you can handwave any glowing things that you want, and say a wizard diddit.
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@starfishprime Yeah I figured it would be pretty much impossible in real life. Thanks
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Bioluminescence is a strategy for attracting mates or prey. But, it also attracts predators. If your bioluminescent species emitted in the infrared spectrum, and they could see in infrared, then it could give them an advantage at night to hunt, graze, and avoid predators.
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Looking for alternative sources of lighting for my current worldbuilding project so I couldn't help but wonder if a bioluminescent plant-based lifeforms could be realistically feasible. I'm just looking for simple but primitive way to give my imaginary people/characters a source of light in the Darkness of night-time.
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Looking for alternative sources of lighting for my current worldbuilding project so I couldn't help but wonder if a bioluminescent plant-based lifeforms could be realistically feasible. I'm just looking for simple but primitive way to give my imaginary people/characters a source of light in the Darkness of night-time.
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In a mundane setting, you have a real problem with the calorific cost of bioluminescense (especially the sort bright enough to see by!) and the limited evolutionary upsides of such costly behaviour. On the other hand, you've got themagictag, so you can handwave any glowing things that you want, and say a wizard diddit.
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Bioluminescence is a strategy for attracting mates or prey. But, it also attracts predators. If your bioluminescent species emitted in the infrared spectrum, and they could see in infrared, then it could give them an advantage at night to hunt, graze, and avoid predators.
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In a mundane setting, you have a real problem with the calorific cost of bioluminescense (especially the sort bright enough to see by!) and the limited evolutionary upsides of such costly behaviour. On the other hand, you've got themagictag, so you can handwave any glowing things that you want, and say a wizard diddit.
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@starfishprime Yeah I figured it would be pretty much impossible in real life. Thanks
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Bioluminescence is a strategy for attracting mates or prey. But, it also attracts predators. If your bioluminescent species emitted in the infrared spectrum, and they could see in infrared, then it could give them an advantage at night to hunt, graze, and avoid predators.
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In a mundane setting, you have a real problem with the calorific cost of bioluminescense (especially the sort bright enough to see by!) and the limited evolutionary upsides of such costly behaviour. On the other hand, you've got the
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In a mundane setting, you have a real problem with the calorific cost of bioluminescense (especially the sort bright enough to see by!) and the limited evolutionary upsides of such costly behaviour. On the other hand, you've got the
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@starfishprime Yeah I figured it would be pretty much impossible in real life. Thanks
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@starfishprime Yeah I figured it would be pretty much impossible in real life. Thanks
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Bioluminescence is a strategy for attracting mates or prey. But, it also attracts predators. If your bioluminescent species emitted in the infrared spectrum, and they could see in infrared, then it could give them an advantage at night to hunt, graze, and avoid predators.
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Bioluminescence is a strategy for attracting mates or prey. But, it also attracts predators. If your bioluminescent species emitted in the infrared spectrum, and they could see in infrared, then it could give them an advantage at night to hunt, graze, and avoid predators.
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Schistostega pennata is a luminous moss that grows in the darkness of caves and gives off light as a greenish-gold glow. It is not enough light to see by but it is strong enough to guide someone's way.
There also exist bioluminescent protists (plant-like organisms), fungi, and bacteria. Plus a few other plants.
If your world has genetic engineering (or did in its past), there can be even more plants that glow, perhaps more strongly than existing ones.
Perhaps what will work for you is to take a plant like Schistostega and tweak it a bit with magic to glow more brightly.
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Schistostega pennata is a luminous moss that grows in the darkness of caves and gives off light as a greenish-gold glow. It is not enough light to see by but it is strong enough to guide someone's way.
There also exist bioluminescent protists (plant-like organisms), fungi, and bacteria. Plus a few other plants.
If your world has genetic engineering (or did in its past), there can be even more plants that glow, perhaps more strongly than existing ones.
Perhaps what will work for you is to take a plant like Schistostega and tweak it a bit with magic to glow more brightly.
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Schistostega pennata is a luminous moss that grows in the darkness of caves and gives off light as a greenish-gold glow. It is not enough light to see by but it is strong enough to guide someone's way.
There also exist bioluminescent protists (plant-like organisms), fungi, and bacteria. Plus a few other plants.
If your world has genetic engineering (or did in its past), there can be even more plants that glow, perhaps more strongly than existing ones.
Perhaps what will work for you is to take a plant like Schistostega and tweak it a bit with magic to glow more brightly.
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Schistostega pennata is a luminous moss that grows in the darkness of caves and gives off light as a greenish-gold glow. It is not enough light to see by but it is strong enough to guide someone's way.
There also exist bioluminescent protists (plant-like organisms), fungi, and bacteria. Plus a few other plants.
If your world has genetic engineering (or did in its past), there can be even more plants that glow, perhaps more strongly than existing ones.
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Schistostega pennata is a luminous moss that grows in the darkness of caves and gives off light as a greenish-gold glow. It is not enough light to see by but it is strong enough to guide someone's way.
There also exist bioluminescent protists (plant-like organisms), fungi, and bacteria. Plus a few other plants.
If your world has genetic engineering (or did in its past), there can be even more plants that glow, perhaps more strongly than existing ones.
Perhaps what will work for you is to take a plant like Schistostega and tweak it a bit with magic to glow more brightly.
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Bioluminescence is a strategy for attracting mates or prey. But, it also attracts predators. If your bioluminescent species emitted in the infrared spectrum, and they could see in infrared, then it could give them an advantage at night to hunt, graze, and avoid predators.
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