[1018] in Humor
HUMOR: Who needs an education?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrew A. Bennett)
Thu Aug 17 17:10:18 1995
To: humor@MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 1995 17:04:01 EDT
From: "Andrew A. Bennett" <abennett@MIT.EDU>
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 1995 20:59:56 +0000 (GMT)
From: Espacionaute Spiff domine! <MATOSSIAN@aries.colorado.edu>
Subject: immaculate misperception (from paul)
From: Paul Searcy <searcy@turing.Colorado.EDU>
Subject: hiya and a submission...
Hi there,
I just got on your mailing list and have found it a fine and dandy
thing. Thanks for sending all the humor my way, it definitely brightens
the day. (and I'll try not to rhyme too often. :-) )
anyhow, here's a quote from Pat Robertson... although I'm certain of the
origin it sounds about right. It made me laugh 'cause I'm an optics
weenie....
Later,
paul
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"I think the sky is blue because it's a shift from black through purple
to blue, and it has to do with where the light is. You know, the farther
we get into darkness, and there's a shifting of color of light into the
blueness, and I think as you go farther and farther away from the reflected
light we have from the sun or the light that's bouncing off this earth,
uh, the darker it gets . . . I think if you look at the color scale, you
start at black, move it through the purple, move it on out, it's the
shifting of color. We mentioned before about the stars singing, and
that's one of the effects of the shifting of colors."
-Pat Robertson, the 700 Club
