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Old 12-09-2003, 02:08 PM  
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Originally posted by DirtyWhiteBoy


There is a physical phenomenon called "Rayleigh scattering" that causes light to scatter when it passes through particles that have a diameter one-tenth that of the wavelength (color) of the light. Sunlight is made up of all different colors of light, but because of the elements in the atmosphere the color blue is scattered much more efficiently than the other colors.
You take this interweb thing entirely too seriously.
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