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[optimystic]

Hey guys. Did you know? Paradisa's moon is actually blue... you think I would have noticed that, but I guess I just either forgot, or I just stopped looking at the moon seriously. It's actually really pretty, but if you think about it... why is it blue? Is the moon itself blue, or is it caused by some weird reflection coming off of the earth.

Oh, that reminds me, I can't remember... is the sky blue because it's reflecting off the blue of the ocean, or is the ocean blue because it's reflecting the blue of the sky? I know it's one of the two, but I can't remember which. I was thinking about it while I was watching the sky earlier, and it was really bugging me. So if anyone can help me with that, that would be great.

[but Maya, why have you been sitting here and staring at the sky all day? Well, all of the wishes that she's accumulated over the last three years have caught up with her, and she's been stuck on the roof for pretty much the whole day. Over the course of the day she's slowly inched her way over to her journal, so that's a step in the right direction. But, of course, Maya being Maya, it's not like she's going to admit that her energy is all sapped, so you get to listen to her inane ramblings :) Congratulations]

Another thing, where do constellations come from? People just made them up in older times by looking for shapes in the stars, right? So... doesn't that mean that anyone could make up a constellation? If that's the case, I know what's going to be my next project.

[ooc: feel free to respond either over the journal or in person... if you're hanging out on the roof]

Comments

dicatated;

[celestial_wizard]

[ Lucy is still out of it herself, though not as bad, thankfully. Still the question is relevant to her interests. ]


There are always different interpretations for the constellations, depending on what culture you're from, or what world. The constellations in Fiore are probably known by different names and histories in Edolas - but it is true, that they're based off of what pattern the stars make in the sky. Like a map to identify which stars are where.

dicatated;

[optimystic]

Woah, really? [hnnnnng, Maya tries to scootch the journal a bit closer to hear head so she can hear it]

Sounds like you know a lot about the constellations in your world.

dictated;

[celestial_wizard]

Yeah. I'm a celestial wizard, so I have a close connection to the spirits of the celestial realm- many of them are based on the constellations themselves.

[ ooc What the heck is dicatated Lol I need to pay attention XD I CAN SPELL I SWEAR]

dictated

[sawadeertoday]

[ GLaDOS would be listening to the ramble, smiling a bit to herself despite her current headache and lack of want to do much of anything. Stupid illness. It seemed to come out of nowhere too, but she couldn't do much about it.

After Maya was done, she would finally talk. ]

You're making a lot of observations today. Bored?

[ She was, too. Well, to be more specific, listless in a way she's never felt before.

Otherwise, she wasn't sure if she would have even started up this conversation. ]

dictated

[optimystic]

Never bored, I'm... observing. [ahaha, she hates admitting that she's bored]

Maybe today will be the birth of Maya Fey, Ace Sky Watcher.

dictated

[sawadeertoday]

[ She smiles a little, amused. ] If you say so.

The blue moon does sound interesting, though. I think I might come see it. [ She had never really paid attention to that when she was outside. She might hear the sound of the journal getting picked up and a slight sniffle. ] Are you on the roof?

[ontheclockpro]

[Reno is on the roof, cause why not. Anyway, your view of the sky is suddenly obscured by a redhead looking down at you, eyebrow raised]

Just how long you been here?

[optimystic]

[yipes! pretty much imagine her making this pose, but all the movement is located in her face. Then she squiiiiiiiints up at him]

That's a weird question. How long have you been up here?

[ontheclockpro]

Long enough to hear a great deal of your rant.

[doublethefun]

[roof pony here, and sounding rather uncertain. Blue moons shouldn't be literal, Para.] Atmospheric conditions, perhaps?

[optimystic]

Luna, hey. [she knows that voice :3]

Maybe... like there's blue stuff floating around in the atmosphere?

[doublethefun]

Most gases are typically colorless, I believe. [except for like, smoke]

Dictated forever

[whichwayyoulean]

But if the sky was blue because of the ocean, it wouldn't be blue if you were nowhere near an ocean, right? So it has to be blue naturally.

[optimystic]

Not necessarily. The world is like, seventy percent ocean, or something like that. Even if we're talking about an area that has no ocean around it, from the sky's perspective there has to be some ocean nearby.

dictated

[takethat]

[Snicker]



...blue moon, like the song...


[Have a delirious fever-stricken lawyer muttering back.]

dictated

[optimystic]

..... Nick, stay focused with me here.

[supes]

Why is the blue, huh? Let's see if I can explain this as easily as possible.

What light makes it all the way to the ground to light up everything around you is "regular" light, what we think of when we turn on a lamp or go out during the day. That light doesn't really have a colour itself -- it's just bright and lets us see everything properly. But really, that light is actually made up of every colour, but the colours only show up when they bounce off of objects. If you've ever seen a rainbow in a sprinkler or waterfall, or through a prism, you've seen that light can be split apart into all the different colours. All these colours have different wavelengths. That gets a little complicated, but a wavelength determine what colour we see.

The sky is sort of like that prism. There isn't anything up there, really, as there isn't a ceiling between us and space, it's just air. That air is full of molecules of different stuff -- tiny bits of water, or dust, or other chemicals. When the light hits the molecules, the light scatters all over the place up in the atmosphere... and because blue has the shortest wavelength, the light makes us see the air travelling around our sky as blue. As another example, if you ever look at mountains or buildings in the far distance, everything gets a hazy blue tinge, right? That's because you're looking at it through the "blue" air.

Here!

[Doodle:]



Does that make sense?

(And, naturally, this means that the ocean is partially blue because of the sky. The water picks up the blue wavelength too, to an extent, but it's not naturally blue, or else the water coming out of your tap into your bathtub would be blue, too, wouldn't it?)

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[optimystic]

[. . .]

[optimystic]

You just... knew that? Off the top of your head?

[billiardsplz]

You looking at the stars right now?

[optimystic]

Sure am! I should do this more often.

[forgedinbattle]

Been doing a lot of thinking, Maya? [Oh, look who is 95% okay because she hardly ever wishes for anything?]

[optimystic]

[boooooo]

Yep! I guess looking at the sky is just good for thinking... about stuff.

[vengefully]

What's with all those questions?

[optimystic]

I'm a curious person, it's what I do.