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[–] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Yeah fuck Canada!

What's the joke though?

That is how light works there, its subsurface scattering or thin film interference (don't remember which) isn't it?

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago*

    It's someone fundamentally misunderstanding an actual fact (that blue colors in nature almost never work the same way as normal pigments, and are a physical structure refracting light instead of a chemical that absorbs other light frequencies and reflects blue ones) as meaning something isn't "really" blue. Like the feathers aren't a blue pigment that could be dissolved in some base and used as paint (presumably) because their color is a structural rather than a chemical property, but it's just silly to decide that the ontology of something "being a color" is dependent on chemical pigments instead of what it literally looks like when exposed to light.

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