So... Does staring into the sun hurt them or feed them? 🤔

Funny stuff. Realize these chloroplasts themselves are organelles that derived from some bacteria some plant ancestor took on much like mitochondria are. So we're not just taking stuff from plants here, we're creating a retina in the most ass backwards way we could.

Always a great day when science confirms that supervillain origin stories are now on the cutting edge of possibility.

So how it looks is now literally part of the meal.