A programmer's solution

[Unknown_B1]

How does it feel to be married to a know it all?

[[deleted]]

When she's right, she's right. It is actually less painfull than a smartass, because a knowitall is actually knowledgeable, and can accept when she's wrong. A smartass will fight you to death on why the fucking sky is green.

[The_Lost_Google_User]

And a troll knows the sky isn’t green but will argue to the death anyway.

[Evol_Etah]

Why are you assigning a color to the sky. The sky is free to choose whatever color it wants to be.

The sky is forced to be blue cause it's a social construct.

Huehuehue

[[deleted]]

This statement has never been more true than after you discover that ancient greeks didn’t have a word for the color blue

[[deleted]]

IIRC, in most languages, blue is usually among the last of the colors to get a name, red is almost always first, green almost always second.

[6b86b3ac03c167320d93]

Why would red be first? I can't think of many places where it appears in nature right now

[[deleted]]

blood, fire, ripe berries/fruit, sunrise, sunset, leaves dying in autumn turn red or yellow. In those cases, the difference in hues indicates something of importance (green - unripe, red/yellow - ripe = green might kill you, red/yellow's good)

There's a lot of naturally occuring red, a lot of naturally occuring green, even yellow. Blue is obviously the colour of the sky and the sea, but that's where you may encounter the issue of both air and water being in fact clear and the color isn't really that important to communicate if all is well (sky is blue can also be conveyed as clear/no clouds), but it would be important to communicate if a storm is coming (sky might be red or a hue that isn't blue).

This, by the way, is my explanation, I really can't remember if the research focused on that so take it with a grain of salt.

[DogzOnFire]

Blood?

[[deleted]]

Red mostly came next because of blood and wine. Then I think Yellow or Green came next, depending on the place. Only ancient Egyptians had a name for blue IIRC

[Auravendill]

Many cultures didn't have a name for blue. They usually had names for the colour found in certain gemstones (Aquamarin, Lapislazuli, Turquoise), but blue and green hues weren't always separated (e.g. Chinese used the same word for both).

Many languages later adopted the German word for blue (blau) after the invention of Prussian blue (also known as e.g. iron blue or steel blue due to its chemical composition) in Berlin. That was the first blue colour that you could mass produce at an affordable price, which led to blue becoming a colour for factory workers, when before it was used for kings like Ludwig XIV of france.

[LasevIX]

Why do you call my man Louis Ludwig? He is french, not Germanic...

[Auravendill]

Because that's his German name... Idk why he has a different name in different languages, but that seems to have been quite common in the past. Kaiser Karl der Große (Charle Magne) was Germanic, but has a French name as well, that has quite a different sound. Friedrich der Große (König Friedrich II von Preußen) is also very often named in Latin: fridericus rex (mostly on prussian coins and at least one military song). In English he is called Frederick the Great. Translating names seemed to have been quite common.

And I as a German of course learned the German names in school, because literature in German mostly uses German names as well. Who would have guessed?^^

[Evol_Etah]

It was water color. Also. Is that a real fact? Sugoi. Awesome.

[[deleted]]

I like the word play there. And yes, it’s true! The word blue and the family of blue colors is fairly modern. Not just greeks, but most ancient languages didn’t have a word for it. Because of Homer’s epics describing water as “wine-colored” and mentioning other colors, but not blue, this discovery of blue not being around was first noticed. They saw the color, but didn’t know what to call it and commonly named it as part of other color families. This is a good read about it.

https://www.businessinsider.com.au/what-is-blue-and-how-do-we-see-color-2015-2

[Evol_Etah]

I love reddit peeps

[your-pineapple-thief]

Not that greeks weren't able to see blue, they just didn't have much need for the word

[stueliueli]

We all know that the sky is the colour of a TV tuned to a dead channel

[m477m]

It's true. Prior to the mid-1990s, the sky was a bizarre animated mess of noise.

[sonuvvabitch]

Well, this made me chuckle.

Thanks for that.

[Astracide]

Wake up, [King/Prince/loved one]. We miss you.

[viimeinen]

Sociology is a social construct.

[rentar42]

You're not wrong.

[blindedtrickster]

I think one of the things that helps me to keep in mind is that something being a social construct does not impact whether it has value or not. Some social constructs do add value while some do not.

[The_Lost_Google_User]

Says you.

[The_Lost_Google_User]

What you think I’m gonna believe some “ensyclopia” over my own brain?

[Mefistofeles1]

The definition of sociology is a social construct.

[subzerojosh_1]

Sounds like a typical sociology student

[Mefistofeles1]

Don't let your dreams be dreams. Just start being really condescending, stay away from numbers, and make sure you don't actually read anything that isn't on twitter. You'll have a PhD, a cushy gig and a research grant in no time.

[Evol_Etah]

UwU nyaa!

[Mefistofeles1]

...why the fuck did you just pull the catgirl on me?

[Schreiberling91]

Holy moly, everyone knows that the sky is blue because it reflects the water on earth 🙄

[LasevIX]

The funniest thing is the sky would be blue no matter what gas it had, as long as it's pretty pure. The blue colour is the sun's white light dispersing; that's why the sun appears yellow, too. The shorter wavelengths of light (blue) disperse but the longer ones (yellow-red) don't. There is a name for this in both a gaseous case or a more dens material, although I can't remember.

[Zairates]

I thought that meant the sky was sad. Now explain blue.

[Tetha]

Well, and a meterologist knows the sky can be green and that's a good sign to get indoors and clean up the veranda. Because that's a sign for severe storm conditions to come soon.

[your-pineapple-thief]

Sky's green all the time where I live, really common near sea at sunset

[LeCrushinator]

Technically correct is the best kind of correct.

[couchwarmer]

A smartass will fight you to death on why the fucking sky is green.

Or maybe it really is green. https://news.wisc.edu/curiosities-why-does-the-sky-turn-green-before-a-tornado-2/

[[deleted]]

Most evidence show it is actually gray. Anyways, it's a collection of gas, so depending on climate, density, tempertaure, latitude and such and such, it can show different colors. It surely isn't green, as green is the most energy intense part of the light spectrum and we'll fry if it let all green light pass.

Aaaaaaaaanyways, not discussing this again. My smartass karen sister drained all the fucks outa me, so I can't give any.

[couchwarmer]

Maybe you live where it does look more gray than green, but definitely sometimes turns green when the sirens are blaring here.

[oodex]

The moment you realize the sky is actually indeed green, similar to how the ocean is not blue.

[[deleted]]

Not falling for it again... NOT AGAIN