Showing posts with label sky. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sky. Show all posts

17 Sept 2007

What is love and why is the sky blue?

When transmitted light such as sunlight enters our atmosphere it collides with the oxygen and nitrogen atoms. The color with the shorter wavelength is scattered more by this collision. Because violet and blue are the shortest wavelengths the sky appears to be violet / blue. But because our eyes are more sensitive to blue light than they are violet light, we perceive the sky as blue.

Our eyes contain thousand of rods and cones, which are the receptors for light. Whenever one of the 3 Stooges pokes you in the eye you see a giant blue spot. This is because the blue receptors have been activated. Blue is one of the primary colors and thus more easily activated and seen by our eyes.

Blue is also how I feel when my baby leaves and my hound dog dies. Also, how I feel when the cops pull me over and I see their blue lights flashing in my rear view mirror. Then, again, blue is the color of the K-mart special, so this color isn't all bad.

For more: read HERE ....and for more questions, like....what is love....where does lightning start...

26 Aug 2007

Active/Passive

The sky is so beautiful today, I couldn't resist taking these pictures, although Heathrow was a bit busy for the morning.....wasn't there a poem or a song written about....blue skies in the morning...think it is my imagination...




This was definitely a British Airways plane!! They are the noisiest of them all...haha...