Just to expand the explanation, blue and green were both just “ao” in Japanese until relatively recently (relatively still being a fairly long time), when “midori” started becoming more popular to refer to green.
As for why the traffic light is still called “blue” despite being green, one need only ask why there is a very popular rhyme scheme in English that goes “roses are red, violets are blue…” when violets are violet.
s@piefed.world 1 month ago
You’re going too fast at that point
eatCasserole@lemmy.world 1 month ago
So, how fast would you have to go to get green?
Ok never mind I looked it up. 197,640,000 km/hr
According to: sciencenotes.org/fast-go-make-red-light-look-gree…
Zwiebel@feddit.org 1 month ago
You would probably be out of frame by the time the speeding camera takes the picture, if it triggered at all xD
anomnom@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
The preceding shockwave would annihilate it first anyway.
hakase@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Yeah, you’ve overshot and ended up in Japan.
zikzak025@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Just to expand the explanation, blue and green were both just “ao” in Japanese until relatively recently (relatively still being a fairly long time), when “midori” started becoming more popular to refer to green.
As for why the traffic light is still called “blue” despite being green, one need only ask why there is a very popular rhyme scheme in English that goes “roses are red, violets are blue…” when violets are violet.