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7jjjjjjjtoday at 7:42 AM1 replyview on HN

These materials are transparent to some light. They absorb a lot of infrared and ultraviolet. The human vision system can see the light that isn't absorbed and as a result is abundant in our environment.


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inigyoutoday at 12:57 PM

The good news is that most stars have a spectrum very roughly similar to ours, so we can expect that aliens can probably see these wavelengths.