I will give 5,000 points to the first person to accurately answer this simple question.

Why is the sky blue?

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I am the sole judge and will determine what constitutes a correct answer. So don't try to bull**** a bull**** artist. :D

because the color blue has fewer something and something something, am I close?

no but really

The blue color of the sky is due to Rayleigh scattering. As light moves through the atmosphere, most of the longer wavelengths pass straight through. Little of the red, orange and yellow light is affected by the air.

However, much of the shorter wavelength light is absorbed by the gas molecules. The absorbed blue light is then radiated in different directions. It gets scattered all around the sky. Whichever direction you look, some of this scattered blue light reaches you. Since you see the blue light from everywhere overhead, the sky looks blue.

The blue color of the sky is due to Rayleigh scattering. As light moves through the atmosphere, most of the longer wavelengths pass straight through. Little of the red, orange and yellow light is affected by the air.

However, much of the shorter wavelength light is absorbed by the gas molecules. The absorbed blue light is then radiated in different directions. It gets scattered all around the sky. Whichever direction you look, some of this scattered blue light reaches you. Since you see the blue light from everywhere overhead, the sky looks blue.

When transmitted light enters our atmosphere it collides with the oxygen and nitrogen atoms. The color with the shorter wavelength is scattered more by this collision. Because violet and blue are the shortest wavelengths the sky appears to be violet / blue. But because our eyes are more sensitive to blue light than they are violet light, we perceive the sky as blue... this would explain why the three stooges see blue spots when they get poked in the eye....

or, it would look weird if it's green or we won't be able to see the damn sun if it's yellow. :D

Nice edit, De La Hoya..

The blue color of the sky is due to Rayleigh scattering. As light moves through the atmosphere, most of the longer wavelengths pass straight through. Little of the red, orange and yellow light is affected by the air.

However, much of the shorter wavelength light is absorbed by the gas molecules. The absorbed blue light is then radiated in different directions. It gets scattered all around the sky. Whichever direction you look, some of this scattered blue light reaches you. Since you see the blue light from everywhere overhead, the sky looks blue.

The sky is blue because that's my little girl, Melody's, favorite color ansd I hooked it up for her.

Sky is blue the same reason why grass is green and why water is transparent.

its blue Sonny to match your pretty blue eyes,do you have blue eyes?

Thanks Jack, like that? lol

Ok, well I'm not entirely satisfied with any answer yet but I liked Kepsy's a bit more than Jacks.

I will send 2,000 points to Jack and 3,000 points to Kepsy.

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I will give 5,000 points to the first person to accurately answer this simple question.

Why is the sky blue?




because I'm stoned?

because I'm stoned?


BINGO, we've got a winner! :p

It's meerly the reflection of the ocean waters in our earths' atmosphere - why make it so complicated folks... :confused:

Ok, here is what I was looking for:

British scientist, Lord John Rayleigh discovered that the air itself turns the sky blue. When sunlight runs into gas molecules such as oxygen, it is absorbed, then scattered every which way.

The atoms in the gas molecule get excited by the absorbed light, and re-emit photons of light in ALL WAVELENGTHS, from red to violet. The brightness of the emerging light depends on the color. Eight photons of blue light emerge for every one of red. So blue light shooting out of the molecule is eight times brighter than red light.

The result is that intense blue light floods at us from all directions in the sky, from zillions of gas molecules. The sky isn't pure blue, because the other colors reach our eyes too. But they are very faint, drowned out by the bright, bright blue.

The sky is blue b/c Microsoft designed it so.

The sky has always been blue in my Windows.









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Yeah, that's what Lord John was saying - that and "it's merely the ocean waters reflecting in our earths' atmosphere"! :p

Ok, Next 5000 point question:

How do magnets attract, and what mineral is a naturally occurring magnet?

Ok, Next 5000 point question:

How do magnets attract, and what mineral is a naturally occurring magnet?
The fact that an invisible magnetic force is able to attract or repel certain metals is enough interesting for a science project.


The electrons in the atoms of all materials create magnetic fields because of their orbits. In most materials, the orbits and their magnetic fields are randomly oriented and thus create no permanent magnetic field. But in certain materials, called ferromagnetic, the electron orbits and their magnetic fields line up in a row and thus create a permanent magnet.

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How do magnets attract, and what mineral is a naturally occurring magnet?

1)A magnet has 2 poles. North pole and South pole. Magnetism causes unlike magnetic poles to attract each other but like poles to repel each other. The region around a magnet where the force of magnetism can be felt is said to conatain a magnetic field. A magnetic field is invisisble. A magnetic field can also be thought of as a set of imaginary lines calles field lines, flux lines, or lines of force,. We think of these lines going out from the north poles of a magnet, looping around, and retruning to the magnet at its south pole. The lines lie closest to each other near the poles where the magnetic filed is strongest.A magnetic filed exerts a force on nearby magnets to make them align along its field lines.

Magnetization occurs because the magnet cause spinning particles called electrons in the atoms of the nail to align along the magnet's field lines. The atoms with aligned electrons then act like tiny bar magnets.


2)The mineral your talking about is magnetite or lodestone.

1)A magnet has 2 poles. North pole and South pole. Magnetism causes unlike magnetic poles to attract each other but like poles to repel each other. The region around a magnet where the force of magnetism can be felt is said to conatain a magnetic field. A magnetic field is invisisble. A magnetic field can also be thought of as a set of imaginary lines calles field lines, flux lines, or lines of force,. We think of these lines going out from the north poles of a magnet, looping around, and retruning to the magnet at its south pole. The lines lie closest to each other near the poles where the magnetic filed is strongest.A magnetic filed exerts a force on nearby magnets to make them align along its field lines.

Magnetization occurs because the magnet cause spinning particles called electrons in the atoms of the nail to align along the magnet's field lines. The atoms with aligned electrons then act like tiny bar magnets.


2)The mineral your talking about is magnetite or lodestone.

lol, did you ask Jeeves?

Ok, Next 5000 point question:

How do magnets attract, and what mineral is a naturally occurring magnet?

It is iron. Loadstones contain magnetite, which is a compound of iron and oxygen....

lol, did you ask Jeeves?

i'm in pure and applied science, go to ask jeeves and it aimt he same, check i dare ya

i'm in pure and applied science, go to ask jeeves and it aimt he same, check i dare ya

It's ok, I trust you. sending 5,000 now.

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The sky is blue because that's my little girl, Melody's, favorite color ansd I hooked it up for her.

That is by far the best answer yet! I love that ;)

Here is my science question (worth 5000):

Consider the set M(L, K) of all functions that map a compact subset of R^K to R and that are Lipschitz with a constant L.

Is M(L,K) Donsker? For all K?




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(Humor answers may be accepted)

Here is my science question (worth 5000):

Consider the set M(L, K) of all functions that map a compact subset of R^K to R and that are Lipschitz with a constant L.

Is M(L,K) Donsker? For all K?




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(Humor answers may be accepted)

I'll get back to you after I find Jimmy Hoffa.... :cool:
P.S. the answer is no.

Only if the derivative of the slope M(L,K) is between the interval of the RK subset. Otherwise, you will have to find C for all functions to be able to equate that in the Mean Value Theorem

I'll get back to you after I find Jimmy Hoffa.... :cool:
P.S. the answer is no.


OK 500 points for humor.

Only if the derivative of the slope M(L,K) is between the interval of the RK subset. Otherwise, you will have to find C for all functions to be able to equate that in the Mean Value Theorem


The compact set is fixed in the question.

Is M(L,K) Donsker? - Yes

For all K? - No


ha-ha


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OK 500 points for humor.

Thank you, thank you, you've been a wonderful audience....

Here is fun question (worth whatever points I have + about 1000 that my Karma gives ):


What is Nash equilibrium and what are its practical implications?

You may recall the Beautiful Mind where John Nash played by Russell Crowe tried to explain his concept of equilibrium using dating as an example.

:)


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Ah then yes for all K. Lip****z' mom dropped him in the toilet.

nautilus did you give me points? cuz sonny's mysteriously disappeared.

nautilus did you give me points? cuz sonny's mysteriously disappeared.


For trying to answer the question, I gave you good karma which gives about 1000 points.

aha thank you. But sonny's didnt register in my history yet I remeber banking his. Buugg

What is Nash equilibrium and what are its practical implications?

You may recall the Beautiful Mind where John Nash played by Russell Crowe tried to explain his concept of equilibrium using dating as an example.


IF George Bush, Tony Blair & John Howard decide that their strategies for winning the middle east upper hand are working, and then it does, that's Nash equilibrium, no? But if they decide that it isn't working and ditch Iraq for Iran, we're working with something else. At least, that's the way I understand it.

Ok, well I'm not entirely satisfied with any answer yet but I liked Kepsy's a bit more than Jacks.

I will send 2,000 points to Jack and 3,000 points to Kepsy.

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cool.... I didn't know the three stooges would come in handy someday. thanks!!

aha thank you. But sonny's didnt register in my history yet I remeber banking his. Buugg

When people donate to you it doesn't show up on your history. I wish it did.