I asked him “what color were the clouds back then?” and he said they were white.
He is clearly stupid if he believes that. Impressively so.
If the color of the Sun was orange, wouldn't the clouds and everything white also be orange? My friend is adamant that 30 years ago the "real" Sun was orange but got replaced with a white LED.
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Diddlydee@feddit.uk 1 day ago
fullsquare@awful.systems 1 day ago
if sun was orange, it wouldn’t be orange, it would be just precieved as regular white light, and new-orange would be even more oranger than what we know today
MehBlah@lemmy.world 1 day ago
How does the atmosphere and particles in it affect the color of the sun and other mysteries that are easily solved by Wikipedia. Warning contains a lot of science.
Here is another link to help your friend through their delusion.
MeThisGuy@feddit.nl 12 hours ago
thx for the wiki rabbit hole, TIL… a lot
MehBlah@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Now we have traveled a similar path.
morphballganon@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Is your friend RFK?
AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Other comments are correctly stating that the sun is white, but appears yellow/orange due to the blue light being scattered—but that doesn’t fully address the issue, because objects seen under a white light with an orange filter in front would still have an orange cast.
The difference with the sun is that the scattered blue light is still reaching objects via the light from the rest of the sky—it’s the orange light from the sun combining with the blue light from the sky that makes things appear white.
Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org 1 day ago
The friend is right.
The sun has been an orange forever, while the moon is a lemon.
/s
Alvaro@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
Ask him why it is orange?
We know why most flames are orange, we know why steel glows red, and for the same reason (and many others) we know that the sun is white, so what his is reasoning for it’s orange color claims?
Also ask him why sunsets and sun rises are more orange, and if he doesn’t know asj him what the color of the sky is and what color would you get if you combined all colors (white) and then removed the blue (you get yellow)
FenderStratocaster@lemmy.world 1 day ago
LED? He should be more worried about LEAD. He’s clearly consumed more than one should.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 day ago
My friend is adamant that 30 years ago the “real” Sun was orange but got replaced with a white LED.
I would be curious to know where he thinks the LED is plugged in. Also, why this particular LED is so fucking hot.
AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 1 day ago
30 years ago?
So right about the time The Truman Show came out?
XeroxCool@lemmy.world 1 day ago
The sun is yellow. Being orange wouldn’t drastically change the color of everything we see. Pure sunlight is like 4300K in color temeprature, pure white is about 5000K, but clear sky daylight, the actual summation of light, is more like 6500K. This is because rayleigh scattering in the atmosphere shines blue light towards us across the whole sky. You’re seeing bright blue sky, the bright blue sky is shining on your daily life. This is why cloudy days are gray. The clouds are blocking enough of the blue to create a more neutral pure white.
The sun is tinted as hell in smog, though. I got a taste of classic Los Angeles in recent Indian winter.
birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
No, the sun’s real colour image is white, but due to our nitrogen-oxygen and ozone layer atmosphere filtering certain light, it comes out blue, iirc.
XeroxCool@lemmy.world 1 day ago
The sun is a G-class star. It’s yellow or yellow-white by classification. The order from blue to red is OBAFGKM, with white being an A leaning towards an F. The perceived earthbound color of Sol skews further yellow because of the aforentioned blue-scattering.
Bazell@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Shadow government repainted it. /s
anon_8675309@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
You need better friends. This one is a lost cause.
DavidGA@lemmy.world 1 day ago
You cannot reason someone out of a position they did not reason themselves into.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Y’all need to stay in school and take physics.
Paranoidfactoid@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I’m old. This is the same sun we always had. The sun did not change color. Your friend is delusional.
LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 1 day ago
I mean there’s like pictures of the sun out there… how old is this person?
Lasherz12@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I don’t think your friend has ever been within 2500 miles of the equator if he thinks the sun is orange. Go south enough and the idea of a yellow sun even seems dumb.
CaptPretentious@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I’ve been on this rock for more than 30 years. I can assure you we’ve never had orange clouds. I will say sunrise and sunset do some wild things and you see some really cool colors.
hissingmeerkat@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
I’ve seen the sun orange and even red from smoke and pollution.
Beacon@fedia.io 1 day ago
He must be fucking with you if he says the sun got replaced by an LED. Forget about the color stuff, ask him how the sun got replaced.
douglasg14b@lemmy.world 1 day ago
You can’t fix stupid, it will only drag you down with it.
nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
sanguinepar@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Is your friend related to the person in this song?
givesomefucks@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Things in atmosphere can color the light, but most likely they’re thinking about incandescent lighting on TV and at night.
Red_October@piefed.world 1 day ago
Your friend is an idiot and if these are his sincerely held beliefs you should just assume everything he ever says is probably wrong.