Re: Blue Sky

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From: pete
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 12:03

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Andrew Mullhaupt writes:
> Why is the sky blue?

How about (implicitly assuming that our experience of `blue' is
common):

Blue is a very benign colour to have dominating your field of
view, as is green. So we evolved to see the sky as blue and vegetation
as green because those of our potential forebears who saw the
sky as brown and the leaves as orange got massively depressed
and died without leaving progeny.  (^:
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