Re: Mental Floss, another bad physics source

[Chuck Britton <britton@NCSSM.EDU>]

Our nit-picky astro guru insists that our's IS a blue star. Next time
it comes up - I'll let him know that this must 'explain' the Blue sky.

His current kick is that ALL (almost) color comes from Raleigh scattering.


OK, ya'll, at 10:39 AM -0600 9/4/03, Larry Smith wrote:
> I don't think it wasn't as egregious as a statement on a Discovery Science
> Channel show about the sun which (I don't think they were quoting Newton's
> view, but it was hard to tell) said, "The sun emits mostly blue light;
> hence our blue sky."
>
> Larry


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