I asked him “what color were the clouds back then?” and he said they were white. I asked him what happens if I take an orange light and light up something that’s white with it. He ignored me. He went on about how everyone in his age group remembers the Sun being orange, and by me questioning him, I’m calling him and all his peers liars and I’m stupid because I’m younger than him and vaccinated.
The friend is right.
The sun has been an orange forever, while the moon is a lemon.
/s
That’s … uh … that’s one hell of a LED. Who installed it? From where was this colossal diode purchased? Just, y’know, given the sun has 99.99% of the mass in the solar system, it would’ve taken quite the team. Ask him if it was illegal immigrants, ‘terking the jerb’ of galactic stupidity away from him and his peer group!
White LEDs are categorically not 30 year old tech, even if the rest of this theory wasn’t gunpowder caliber guano.
That’s why it used to be not orange, obviously.
“Gunpowder caliber guano” is an absolutely amazing way to call something batshit insane and I will be taking every available opportunity to use it in conversation from now on.
Time for a new friend.
sun… LED…
Yeah your friend is an absolute idiot and should ask for his money back from his elementary school
The sun has been around for billions of years and pretty much hasn’t changed color since. Thinking you can “replace” the sun’s “LED” makes me wonder if he is experiencing mental illness, honestly
Do not let your friend near any literature written by L Ron Hubbard.
Off his rocker.
Ask him why it is orange?
We know why most flames are orange, we know why steel glows red, and for the same reason (and many others) we know that the sun is white, so what his is reasoning for it’s orange color claims?
Also ask him why sunsets and sun rises are more orange, and if he doesn’t know asj him what the color of the sky is and what color would you get if you combined all colors (white) and then removed the blue (you get yellow)
I was 10 years old 30 years ago and the sun was exactly the same then as it is now.
Your friend is an idiot.
You can’t fix stupid, it will only drag you down with it.
Yes. If the sun was orange, the light would be orange, and everything white would be orange.
The fact that your friend believes the sun was replaced by a giant LED is a sign they should not be your friend anymore
Your friend is either trolling you or a complete idiot.
No. I know people like this irl.
Not the exact belief, but insane nonetheless. Usually they get all their news from fb and xitter. And theyre always smarter than scientists despite not finishing hs or college (not that one needs to do those things to be smart, but just saying as a rule…)
I stand by my previous statement. They are either trolling you or complete idiots.
I’d assume trolling
No, there’s actual people like that. The guy I mentioned in my comment came into work one day, claiming that the moon makes its own light. I once asked him if he had heard of the Stargate series. He paused, looked me dead in the eye, and said, super seriously, “yes and Stargates are real.”
There are people that honestly believe this shit. The only thing is now they have the internet to convince each other that it’s all real.
The nature of reality is such that you can believe a very silly thing and have it impact your life in no meaningful way. People have been wrong about the nature of the universe for millennia and continued to get by. The oddball who believes in native moonlight and stargates isn’t going to benefit tangibly for being correct or suffer tangibly for his misbelief. In many cases - thanks to the proliferation of internet subcommunity echo-chambers - they may actually suffer (socially) for reconciling their beliefs with reality if they can’t bring their friends along for the ride.
But, again, when they have extremely limited influence over their surroundings (this guy is not, presumably, running an astronomy lab or charged with funding improvements to municipal mass transit) their zany beliefs don’t really matter. Correctness doesn’t benefit them and incorrectness is more fun.
Stargates are real.
It’s the Fargate! “F”! It’s different from that movie, which I have never seen, so how would I copy it?
Found him!
Ok but hear me out. I get laughed at for this, but I do think the moon is pretty hollow. The Apollo astronauts are on record saying it rang like a bell when they landed on it.
I dont think its that crazy that the moon is very cavernous and hollow compared to earth. Now, aliens dont live inside it I dont think, but thats another theory haha!
It’s likely this isn’t the only conspiracy theory he believes in. Time for you to find better friends,.
They didn’t replace the sun that would be impossible
They replaced the sky which obviously uses LED imagine trying to run a panel of halogens that big
imagine trying to run a panel of halogens that big
Is that what caused global warming? /s
🤣🤣🤣🤣
You need to upgrade to a better friend.
He is clearly stupid if he believes that. Impressively so.
Your friend is a moron.
A simple google will tell anyone the following
The Sun is white. It appears yellow from Earth because of scattering from the atmosphere. Its peak visible light is in the green part of the spectrum.
He could be a liar, I dunno, but he is definitely a doodoo head
https://sciencenotes.org/what-color-is-the-sun-hint-not-yellow/
Edit: your friend is almost certainly unconsciously mistaking the shift to LED bulbs as the “deyellowing” of society
We perceive the sun as white. That’s a fairly important distinction.
The reason we perceive the sun as white is surely because the sun has output basically the same spectrum as long as humanity (and a great deal of humanity’s precursors) has existed. We evolved with our eyes considering the spectrum the sun kicks out as fully white light, comprised of the sum total of electromagnetic frequencies we’re able to receive with our eyeballs.
There is no such thing as objective color of any light. Our understanding of color is completely based on our perception of it. If the sun’s peak output were in the 590–625nm range (what we currently perceive as orange) for all that time rather than in the green part of the spectrum it is in reality (500–565nm), we undoubtedly would have evolved to see that particular spectrum combination as white light instead.
All of the above notwithstanding, if the spectrum output of the sun changed overnight like OP’s idiot friend is suggesting, it would be immediately apparent to everyone who isn’t literally blind.
the sun has output basically the same spectrum as long as humanity
Last time I checked, human output was brown.
Ok. Devils advocate here. If it did change, and did it gradually, would we notice? And if it changed suddenly wouldn’t we adjust and soon see things as we always have?
The question is how gradually. Over the span of 10,000 years, probably not. Over the span of a month, absolutely. Remember that the hue of sunlight already changes significantly throughout the day based mostly on the sun’s proximity to the horizon (and thus how much thickness of crap in the atmosphere it has to plow through to get to your location) and we can definitely detect that easily.
Where is the ambient horizon lighting coming from in the right-side of the picture?
I’m pretty sure it’s cgi upon inspection lol
