[ExI] silly question

Adrian Tymes atymes at gmail.com
Fri Sep 6 00:13:06 UTC 2019


You're in luck: we actually have pictures of that, at least for our own
star & Titan's atmosphere.
https://lightsinthedark.com/2011/12/18/the-colors-of-titans-sky/ for
instance - still blue at the outer layer, then becoming much like smog/haze
on Earth.

On Thu, Sep 5, 2019 at 5:00 PM William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> What if the atmosphere were something like methane?  Would that matter?
> bill w
>
> On Thu, Sep 5, 2019 at 4:14 PM Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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>> On Thu, Sep 5, 2019 at 1:52 PM William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <
>> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Suppose you are on another planet which has an atmosphere.  Will the
>>> skies be blue?
>>>
>>
>> Depends on the atmosphere and local star.  Obviously there are conditions
>> under which it is possible.  There are also conditions where blue will not
>> be the primary visible wavelength that scatters to the ground during local
>> mid-day.
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