Yummy Like Glass

[Xeriar]

Glowing plants(like the GE one I've seen in my Biology book) would be quite neat. Brightly glowing grass, tree leaves, fruit, bamboo(also a grass), fungi etc. would be really cool. Months back I postulated about brightly glowing bacteria that would live in hot water, and plain water could work to I guess. Thanks for reminding me c4ts. I'll have to put them in my archive of ideas in the computer.

We already have glowing bacteria in the deeper parts of the oceans.

Glowing fruit would definitely be an interesting possibility.

 

[c4ts]

I'm just hoping the luciferase isn't too digestible, or bad for your intestines, and body heat doesn't speed up the reaction enough to lose the glow by the time it makes it through your system. If it worked, I'd put it into breakfast cereal and make a fortune off of little kids and stoned adults.

 

[Johnny Pneumatic]

What about a fruit with a mirror-like finish? I mean really shiny, just like a freshly cleaned mirror. I assume this wouldn't be edible to humans because of the metal layer(s) needed to make it work. Kind of like eating mylar. Ewww.

 

[Soapy Sam]

Hey- a forest of Christmas trees, decorated with spherical mirrors! Now imagine that at sunrise - say on a suitably distant planet of Sirius. That would be something to see.

Maybe it could be done with natural waxes, not metals. Some tropical leaves are pretty reflective. Now imagine the surfaces are not mirror smooth, but have microscopic ridges.

A diffraction grating .

Ooh- rainbows without the rain! Pretty! Brings Ray Bradbury to mind- "The Golden Apples of the Sun".