If you live in a swamp, the 'sky' is brown water.

ribbit

froggy12

Trish,

In answer to your question on "why is the sky blue?" here is the answer.

The blue color of the sky is due to Rayleigh scattering. As light moves through the atmosphere, most of the longer wavelengths pass straight through. Little of the red, orange and yellow light is affected by the air.

However, much of the shorter wavelength light is absorbed by the gas molecules. The absorbed blue light is then radiated in different directions. It gets scattered all around the sky. Whichever direction you look, some of this scattered blue light reaches you. Since you see the blue light from everywhere overhead, the sky looks blue.


duncan

Jeez, that's not what my mom told me!

oh!! :-)) what did your mum tell you? btw how do you get the little icons on the message?

'cause God thought it was pretty I was just a little kid and the explanation sounded perfectly reasonable to me

If you're answering a post, you have to hit the reply button, rather than just typing. When you hit reply, you'll see the emotions icon.

Trish

thanks trish . sorry for spoiling the explanation.

Dunc, no spoiling at all - I still like Mom's explanation Glad you found the emotions.

ROCK ON....Trish

Trish

I think your mom's explanation is a very nice one.It makes us look at the world in a not so clinical way.

Duncan

Trish, that is an excellent test. Now I'm happy!

DuncanUk
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