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I know you think you're being clever, but the sky is blue because it reflects the water, too. It only works with sunlight, which is why everything would look blue if you stood in a small room with water, air, and the sun.
You shouldn't have started your comment with an insult to their intelligence and then immediately talked bollocks. Now I'm duty-bound to correct your arrogant nonsense.
Nope. It's blue because the atmosphere filters out bluer light.
Nope. There's nothing special about sunlight, you can reproduce the effect experimentally with a torch and a tube of water
What? How you gonna fit the sun into a small room?
Wow. You criticized me and then practically admitted at the end that you've got no proof. If you can't even conceive of how to put the sun in a small room with yourself, some air, and some water, then how can you criticize my clearly flawless logic??
The sky is blue because water is blue because the sky is blue, which you can prove by standing in a small room with the sun! It's so easy to understand that you might think a toddler came up with it!
And don't you tell me about filtering, light diffusion in clouds, refraction, and all your other science lies! The sky is born blue, and every night it catches on fire, which is why sunsets are red, and the "stars" are embers on the charred remains, and thunder storms happen when the sky screams and cries from pain. It's all very logical when you anthropomorphize everything and stop paying attention to your own words.
What? Ooohhhhh was I being autistic again?
I think it just wasn't funny so it wasn't clear that it was a joke.
Yeah, that sounds about right.
Nah, I agree with prole: it probably just wasn't as funny to anyone else as it was to me.
The sky is blue due to differential scattering. Blue light scatters more than red. That's also why sunsets are red. It's the remaining light passing through the atmosphere.
Water is often blue due to reflecting the sky. It also has a slight blue tint. This is only obvious in large, deep bodies. It's why the sea around some tropical islands looks so blue. They are volcanoes, so the water drops off rapidly. That much water has a significant blue colour. The sky then adds to it.
AH HA! So you admit that I'm right that the sky is blue, which makes the water blue, which makes the sky blue! If only we could harness this perpetual blue for energy production...
The sea doesn't make the sky blue. The sky simply is blue for most of the day.
Yeah, when the water is blue.
^For real, though, I'm starting to feel bad about this persona I started, and I'm probably gonna stop now.^
... That isn't why the sky is blue though...