Lafata
2010-01-14 18:54:13 UTC
Ould be big enough to make the vessel heave. If you were on that same
choppy sea in a small canoe, you would be tossed in every direction.
Now, if you think of the long red wave of light as a steamer and the
blue as a canoe, you can see that in a ripple of small particles of dust
the blue is going to be more affected than the red. In other words, the
blue will be scattered. It will be diffused all over the sky and the
light that comes through will be less blue." "Then I should think the
sun would look red," said Anton. "It does," the Forecaster explained,
"when there's a fog, which simply means, when there's more obstruction
in the air. Sunlight is never white, as you know, it's yellow-white and
the golden effect is due to dust. It's the same way at sunset. Then the
rays of the sun which reach you pass through a larger amount of air,
because you're looking at them from an angle, so they have to strike
more grains of dust, and more of the blue rays are scattered. Then, too,
when the sun, at sunset is, to you, shining obliquely on the atmosphere,
it is passing through several layers of air and these bend the rays
differently." "I still don't see," said the author of the sunset-color
article, "why there should be so much pink, or rose-color, and why the
clouds should generally be pink." "There's not much pink in a clear
sky," the Forecaster answered, "and as for the pink clouds, you've never
seen them in the west when the sun was still above the horizon, have
you?" "No--no," said the other,
choppy sea in a small canoe, you would be tossed in every direction.
Now, if you think of the long red wave of light as a steamer and the
blue as a canoe, you can see that in a ripple of small particles of dust
the blue is going to be more affected than the red. In other words, the
blue will be scattered. It will be diffused all over the sky and the
light that comes through will be less blue." "Then I should think the
sun would look red," said Anton. "It does," the Forecaster explained,
"when there's a fog, which simply means, when there's more obstruction
in the air. Sunlight is never white, as you know, it's yellow-white and
the golden effect is due to dust. It's the same way at sunset. Then the
rays of the sun which reach you pass through a larger amount of air,
because you're looking at them from an angle, so they have to strike
more grains of dust, and more of the blue rays are scattered. Then, too,
when the sun, at sunset is, to you, shining obliquely on the atmosphere,
it is passing through several layers of air and these bend the rays
differently." "I still don't see," said the author of the sunset-color
article, "why there should be so much pink, or rose-color, and why the
clouds should generally be pink." "There's not much pink in a clear
sky," the Forecaster answered, "and as for the pink clouds, you've never
seen them in the west when the sun was still above the horizon, have
you?" "No--no," said the other,