The world was (probably) once PURPLE!

curtise shared some links said Sun, Oct 28th 2018 at 1:45am ET

Before chlorophyll became a thing, scientists now believe that the world was dominated by organisms called haloarchaea that had a purple membrane for a different kind of photosynthesis.
I guess @barney and I are just old souls.
ps. if for some reason you want to read the actual research paper instead of the far more understandable article I linked above, find the paper here.

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heartny said Sun, Oct 28th 2018 at 1:50am ET:

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JnKL said Sun, Oct 28th 2018 at 9:00am ET:

Yesterday, I was driving through Marion, Iowa, and I saw a beautifully restored mid ‘60s mustang that was painted a deep metallic flake purple. When I saw it, I thought, I bet Barney would like that.

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- @JnKL Sounds beautiful.
  
  Barney said Sun, Oct 28th 2018 at 9:41am ET
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Barney said Sun, Oct 28th 2018 at 9:42am ET:

The way to my heart is through my purple.

(Great find @curtise, but we knew that already, didn’t we.)

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