Why the sky is blue????????

Originally posted by Phlabibit
This is just one of those things that can never be logically explained...

I said Never... 😠

*shakes fist

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Originally posted by shavixmir
You mean God is obnoxious, racist and drunk?

Man...who'd have guessed?

Originally posted by Mangy Mooose
When transmitted light such as sunlight enters our atmosphere it collides with the oxygen and nitrogen atoms. The color with the shorter wavelength is scattered more by this collision. Because violet and blue are the shortest wavelengt ...[text shortened]... light than they are violet light, we perceive the sky as blue.

Originally posted by Talem16
I really would like to know why ??

Oh yes,

To add, because of the Compton effect, as the sun sets, the light has to pass through more atmosphere. This causes more of the shorter wavelengths to get scattered causing the longer wavelengths to dominate. Hence the sun getting redder during sunset.

Originally posted by Mangy Mooose
Transmitted light (from the sun, light bulbs, fire, etc) is made up of a spectrum of colors. The longest wavelengths of light are on the red end of the spectrum and the shortest wavelengths are on the blue/violet end of the spectrum.

When transmitted light such as sunlight enters our atmosphere it collides with the oxygen and nitrogen atoms. The colo ...[text shortened]... ew mirror. Then, again, blue is the color of the K-mart special, so this color isn't all bad.

Originally posted by geckos
OK, good answer... maybe the question should be rephrased - why is the shorter wavelength blue?

Originally posted by Officer Dibble
it's not blue. it's orange. with big black stripes.

Originally posted by lausey
Also called Compton Scattering. 😉

http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/quantum/comptint.html

Originally posted by Talem16
I really would like to know why ??

Originally posted by Nyxie
Why? To match the color of your pretty little eyes darling.

Originally posted by shavixmir
Doesn't it depend on your sunglasses?
I used to have these really cool orang ones and everything looked yellow and happy through them.

Why, nothing was as much fun as listening to mellow hippie music, stoned out of my face and driving around the place with the windows open.
The coolest thing being that the weather didn't make a difference! The ora ...[text shortened]... heerful and glee anyways.

My best mate lost them at a U2 concert. He didn't pay me back.

Originally posted by Mangy Mooose
http://eosweb.larc.nasa.gov/EDDOCS/Wavelengths_for_Colors.html

Originally posted by geckos
or maybe what is the smell of a rose?

Originally posted by Nordlys
Blue? 😲