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- From: vincent@reg.triumf.ca (pete)
- Subject: Re: Blue Sky
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- Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 12:03:00 GMT
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- Andrew Mullhaupt writes:
- > Why is the sky blue?
-
- How about (implicitly assuming that our experience of `blue' is
- common):
-
- Blue is a very benign colour to have dominating your field of
- view, as is green. So we evolved to see the sky as blue and vegetation
- as green because those of our potential forebears who saw the
- sky as brown and the leaves as orange got massively depressed
- and died without leaving progeny. (^:
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