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| Creola:
--- Quote from: Retz on September 21, 2009, 06:56:00 PM ---Sun reflects of the ocean? --- End quote --- the "Color" of the sky is what makes the ocean look blue. it's a reflection. The sky looks blue because of the sun's rays mixing with the gasses in the atmosphere, giving it a blue hue. No, i did not look this up. |
| Ladios:
It's not mixing, its the light bending. Jeeze. |
| OneWithFire:
--- Quote from: oromis on September 21, 2009, 05:39:06 PM ----snipcracklepop- --- End quote --- Thats my new synergy background. |
| General Nick:
--- Quote from: Cheemo on September 21, 2009, 05:27:22 PM ---Sunlight reaches Earth's atmosphere and is scattered in all directions by all the gases and particles in the air. Blue light is scattered in all directions by the tiny molecules of air in Earth's atmosphere. Blue is scattered more than other colors because it travels as shorter, smaller waves. This is why we see a blue sky most of the time. Closer to the horizon, the sky fades to a lighter blue or white. The sunlight reaching us from low in the sky has passed through even more air than the sunlight reaching us from overhead. As the sunlight has passed through all this air, the air molecules have scattered and rescattered the blue light many times in many directions. Also, the surface of Earth has reflected and scattered the light. All this scattering mixes the colors together again so we see more white and less blue. Fine :/ --- End quote --- This, and red is the light you see at sunset/sunrise because it travels the farthest. |
| Zephyrs:
The sky is blue!? Damn, what have I been missing? |
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