(urth) Inhumi eyes and names

[David Stockhoff]

On 9/28/2012 5:29 PM, Jerry Friedman wrote:
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> Infrared vision for the inhumi makes perfect sense to me.  The sky is blue because short wavelengths are scattered more than long; we get lots of blue light from the sky, but little red.  Therefore infrared should be scattered even less.  A being that could see only in the infrared, and maybe not the near infrared, would be able to see the sun, but the sky would look black to him or her.  I can't think of why such a creature wouldn't be able to see the stars.
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> Aren't the stars visible during the day on Urth, because the sun is faint and reddish?  Perhaps gthis implies a symbolic, or for some, a coded link?

That too. But I had not thought (not being a physicist) of scattering, 
which helps to obscure the stars for us. But wouldn't stars themselves 
tend not to emit infrared visible over interstellar distances?