What colour is the sky?

Question

I think I finaly found a question that doesn`t break the Y!Rules. Please look up the answer on Google and paste it here. Please remember this is Y/A so leave your brain at the door.

I think I`m gonna need help with TylerDurdens answer. Can somone start at the end and work backwards whilst I start from here. We`ll meet in the middle and compare beards.

I feel your pain princess Freestar: Green Mexicans have it tough too.

Answer 1

why is everything always about color? huh? will we ever exist in a world that is color (or colour) blind? Huh? I'm am tired of people discriminating based on color!

If you must know:
daytime sky, clear day = blue
daytime sky, cloudy day = grey
daytime sky, rosy shades on = rose
nighttime sky = black

I bet you prefer the blue/grey/rose skies over the black one...huh

Figures

LOL!

Answer 2

Color is not an inherent feature in objects. only a reflection of visible wavelengths. With that said the sky's reflected color varies with the amount and composition of the atmosphere.

How this works... think of light wavelengths getting longer and having lower frequency as they go from blue to green to red...

On a clear day, the blue wavelengths are shorter and have a higher frequency so they get refracted and reflected more than the green and red so this makes the sky appear to be blue.

In the evening, the orange hue you see results from the light from the sun traveling through more atmosphere and so some of the longer wavelengths are refracted and so the light waves that make it through are more of a reddish hue.

At night, when very little or no light is passing through, it is dark to black looking because nothing is being refracted.

~Toll Booth Willy

Answer 3

Have you ever seen the sky?!? It's blue during the day and black at night. Why? Because the sun's rays hit the Earth's atmosphere, where the light is scattered by nitrogen and oxygen molecules in the air. The blue wavelength of this light is affected more than the red and green wavelengths, causing the surrounding air to appear blue. At sunset, the sun's light passes farther through the atmosphere, deflecting and decreasing the blue in the air. Scattering by dust particles and pollution in the air causes the sunset to appear red.

Answer 4

what do you mean by sky?

if you're standing on the earth looking up and what you see is "the sky" then it depends on a number of things. like time of day (night sky is different than day sky). Like pollution. Like weather. like additional lighting. Like your eyes sensitivities to particular wavelengths. Are you color blind? etc.

Of course there are other planets too. Martian sky vs earth sky. etc

For that matter, let's go beyond visible light and consider that some critters may be able to see ultraviolet or infrared light. or other forms of EM.

And of course there is the "sky" if you're in a spacesuit tethered to the international space station. totally different right?

I suppose I would define the color of the sky as this. The cumulative wavelengths of electromagnetic radiation striking the measurement device at the point in spacetime where the measurement is taking place. I suppose for the average human eye, you could limit that definition to visible light.

If your looking for a simplier answer, then how about this.

BLUE

Answer 5

Brain left at the door as requested. I love the night sky, it is black with lots of colorful, mostly blue dots. Sometimes, when camping out at high altitude under a clear night sky, lying prone and staring at el cielo grande, I involuntarily grab the ground because I can definitely feel the earth spinning underneath. But I digress, as a result of having left my grey matter drying out on the stoop. I'd better go check on it before it wanders off again.

Answer 6

The clear daytime sky from Earth sea level looking away from the Sun is blue. Here's a representative spectrum: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Spectrum_of_blue_sky.png

Answer 7

what's a brain?
is it the lump upon which I sit?
Pinky has a Brain.... did they ever try to take over the world based on the colour of the sky? and what's with COLOUR, I spell it COLOR you European-sounding .... snob!!! that's it, El Penfold is a SNOB!!

COLOUR....

that's the most ridiculous thing I've ever seen.....

tyler spelled like a BILLION words.... I bet not once in all his monkey-spanking drivel did he once mention the word COLOR, let alone spell it COLOUR....

Princess Freestar's answer gets my vote, by the way.

Answer 8

I don't think that the sky IS a colour. I think it reflects colours much like the ocean reflects the colour of the sky.
Seeing as how I've seen blue skies,grey skies and even the ghastly pink sky that comes around when you have those ghastly pink street lamps I'd like to submit this as my theory.
(no cutting and no pasting either)

Answer 9

sky has no color, nitrogen in the atmosphere scatters all colors but blue, blue is reflected towards the observer, why would I need Google to answer a silly as*s question like that, man ?

EDIT: floozie, you can cut and paste anytime with me...

Answer 10

in regular language = blue
in 1337 = b1u3
en espanol = azul
auf deutsch = blaugh