"If I were to take your iris apart with a pair of tweezers, I would find only a series of completely colorless, transparent membranes" "Uh" "And if I were to put them in a blender and grind it up, there would not be a single particle of usable blue pigment" "Wait"
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"That means the color in your eyes can't ever be extracted It's only a result of your eyes being assembled just as they are now" "Okay that's better" "And it's the reason the color can change so dramatically in different lighting, from green to blue to gray" "That's nice"
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"It's because blue eyes are a specific mutation that fails to produce melanin in the outer mebranes of the iris but not the inner If your iris were completely transparent, like in true albinism, it would reveal the blood vessels in the inner eye and be red or pink" "Wait no"
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"This is why blue eyes are very rare in other mammals and associated with specific genetic diseases, like how blue-eyed cats are usually also deaf It's why white people are more prone to age-related macular degeneration and the need for reading glasses" "Oh come on now"
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"Producing blue color through true pigmentation at the molecular level would be a superior solution, it's just that there aren't any convenient bright blue compounds living things can synthesize that wouldn't be toxic in even small amounts" "I'm going home"
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It’s almost impossible to go wrong with sciencey explanations of someone’s beauty. The comparisons to natural phenomena is also nice. YMMV
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Put it in a fancy card, with some swirly handwriting and you're golden.
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Good god this thread is a roller coaster
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Is green just nothing and a few tidgy bits of brown blurred together?pic.twitter.com/5dAHSyxuHt
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