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Rotting meat definitely glows. I've personally seen decaying mammal carcasses glowing in the woods at night (always either green like foxfire or an odd almost m
by somebodynew 8y ago
Rotting meat definitely glows. I've personally seen decaying mammal carcasses glowing in the woods at night (always either green like foxfire or an odd almost monochromatic cyan that must really stimulate the eye's rod cells).
It's very faint and would be difficult to notice without trees to shield it from moonlight. A camera could pick it up with a long exposure.
- nkurz 8y agoThanks, I hadn't known about this effect. Apparently it's been known for a long time. In the 1600's, Robert Boyle claimed to have been able to read an issue of The Philosophical Transactions by the light of a rotting Neck of Veal: https://blogs.royalsociety.org/publishing/boyle-and-bioluminescence/ https://blogs.royalsociety.org/publishing/boyle-and-biolumin...