For Those Who Love to Argue - Page 8

BrotherEastman · #71 06-02-2007, 05:22 PM

Why can't we all just get along?

rgcraig · #72 06-02-2007, 05:24 PM

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Originally Posted by BrotherEastman

Why can't we all just get along?

Because some have to always be right!

Nahum · #73 06-02-2007, 05:26 PM

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Originally Posted by rgcraig

Because some have to always be right!

I know, I just hate that!

rgcraig · #74 06-02-2007, 05:31 PM

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Originally Posted by Pastor Poster

I know, I just hate that!

LOL!!!!!

CC1 · #75 06-02-2007, 06:22 PM

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Originally Posted by Pastor Poster

The sky is blue.

I beg to differ with you. I am typing tis sitting at my dining room table looking out the window and the sky is definitely grey. There is not one hint of blue anywhere in the sky. You are wrong (at least for Murfreesboro, TN right now)

#76 06-02-2007, 06:49 PM

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Originally Posted by Pastor Poster

The sky is blue.

In the box of 120 Crayola crayons, there are 19 shades of blue.

Crayola crayons currently come in 120 colors including 23 reds, 20 greens, 19 blues, 16 purples, 14 oranges, 11 browns, 8 yellows, 2 grays, 2 coppers, 2 blacks, 1 white, 1 gold and 1 silver. Although Crayola crayons come in 120 different colors, the labels are only made in 18, which cover the full color spectrum.

#77 06-02-2007, 07:09 PM

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Originally Posted by Pastor Poster

The sky is blue.

I haven't read this whole thread and maybe someone has addressed this but...

Light from the Sun (white light) is made up of many colours - red, green, blue, and so on. Each of these colours has a different wavelength and frequency. When light reaches the atmosphere it hits gas molecules which scatter the light in all directions. This scattering is called Rayleigh scattering after Lord Rayleigh who worked out the mathematical equations to describe it.

So how does Rayleigh scattering work? Rayleigh scattering only happens when the molecules of gas encountered by the light waves are small compared to the wavelength of the light. What’s strange about Rayleigh scattering is that not all of the light is scattered evenly. Some wavelengths are scattered more. With white light, mostly the light of shorter wavelengths (the blue end of the visible range) is scattered while the longer wavelengths (the red end) are mostly uneffected. This means the blue light is scattered more than the red.

But violet light has the shortest wavelength so why isn’t the sky violet? Well it’s true that the violet light is scattered more than the blue light, but our eyes aren’t so good at picking up violet light. This means we see the sky as being blue even though there is some violet light there too.

OR you may go to this site and explore more for WHY IS THE SKY BLUE?

http://www.sciencemadesimple.com/sky_blue.html