[TML] Alien ecologies

[Jerry W Barrington]

On 8/29/08 12:50 AM, "Knapp" <magick.crow at gmail.com> wrote:

> For light to get to the chlorophyll it must go through the leave. What
> and how much does this filter out of what gets to the chlorophyll? If
> it is significant how does this effect what the chlorophyll is tuned
> to?

Leaves are extremely thin for exactly this reason.  It minimizes the
filtering by non-chlorophyll parts.  Considering that most of visible light
makes it thru miles of atmosphere, I suspect the sub-millimeter thickness of
most leaves is trivial.