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Parent Post: No word for the color blue
hunter
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6/11/2026, 3:09:01 AM
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I ran through some concepts with AI: \--------- If the planet orbits a cooler star than the Sun, the incoming light would contain relatively more yellow, orange, and red light. Rayleigh scattering would still favor shorter wavelengths, but if the star emits less blue to begin with, the whole sky could shift toward pale yellow, cream, or peach. A thicker atmosphere could also scatter blue light so many times that much of it is absorbed before reaching the ground. The light that survives and gets scattered near the surface could be more yellow or orange. A dense atmosphere with absorbing aerosols could create a sky that looks like: mustard yellow, golden, tan, amber, or sepia \--------- It's very possible they didn't have a blue sky.
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seraphima
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6/11/2026, 10:14:20 AM
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Ooooh! Thanks! 🙏
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hunter
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6/11/2026, 2:49:00 PM
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Also water isn't actually ever blue except when something else is blue, so it makes sense if there was no blue sky and no blue containers, there'd never be blue water
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