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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• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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• FenderStratocaster@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  LED? He should be more worried about LEAD. He’s clearly consumed more than one should.

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• yermaw@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I remember the sun being orange, but also I remember not being able to look straight at it and having it depicted on TV and pictures as orange so thats probably where that impression came from.

  Maybe also sunglasses have changed over the years? Maybe our eyes change as we grow and we actually could see it as orange back then? Streetlights used to be orange but are white now, maybe that mixes in the memory?

  Theres lots of explanations for the misunderstanding and none of them involve God changing the light bulb.

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  • 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Exactly! It’s not some Tesco bulb, this bulb will last a while. It hasn’t burnt yet. People. I swear lol

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• Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  LEDs don’t generate the necessary level of heat…

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• BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Typical. You react with a realistic response to his nonsense, so he attacks your character and your intelligence. You must be stupid for not buying into his super dumb idea.

  I’ll bet he’s a flat-earther, too, and you’re an idiot for not being able to understand how obvious it is.

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• Alvaro@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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)

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• AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  30 years ago?

  So right about the time The Truman Show came out?

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• DavidGA@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  You cannot reason someone out of a position they did not reason themselves into.

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• XeroxCool@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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  • birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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    • XeroxCool@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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• Flauschige_Lemmata@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  The sun is orange, when it’s dim enough to look at in the evening.

  That’s because the atmosphere takes all the blue away

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• Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  The friend is right.

  The sun has been an orange forever, while the moon is a lemon.

  /s

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• SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Y’all need to stay in school and take physics.

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• NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Don’t validate that kind of idiocy with an argument, just say “sure, you’re probably right.” and brush off the idea of even talking about it in general.

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• hildegarde@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  The sun is white, but the atmosphere reflects and scatters blue, allowing red and yellow to pass through. You see this effect in mornings and evenings when the sun’s light passes a much further distance in the atmosphere due to its low inclination. Your logic is sound, the clouds do appear orange at that time.

  The only time you can safely look at the sun enough to determine its color normally is a sunset when it is tinted orange. I can see how he might have come to this conclusion but… wow…

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• bstix@feddit.dk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  This is an old Mandela effect.

  The issue is that they don’t actually remember what the sun looked like, because you can’t really look at the sun.

  Their memories are of the crayon drawings that they made in school.

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• MehBlah@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

  livescience.com/2834-volcano-eruption-colors-worl…

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  • MeThisGuy@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    thx for the wiki rabbit hole, TIL… a lot

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    • MehBlah@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Now we have traveled a similar path.

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• LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I mean there’s like pictures of the sun out there… how old is this person?

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• Lasherz12@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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• Bazell@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Shadow government repainted it. /s

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• Beacon@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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• anon_8675309@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  You need better friends. This one is a lost cause.

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• Paranoidfactoid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I’m old. This is the same sun we always had. The sun did not change color. Your friend is delusional.

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• CaptPretentious@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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  • hissingmeerkat@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I’ve seen the sun orange and even red from smoke and pollution.

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• douglasg14b@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  You can’t fix stupid, it will only drag you down with it.

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• nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Image

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• sanguinepar@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Is your friend related to the person in this song?

  Purple and red and yellow and on fire…

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• givesomefucks@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Things in atmosphere can color the light, but most likely they’re thinking about incandescent lighting on TV and at night.

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