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chuckleslord

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Is this sarcasm?

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Sorry for the confusion. Yellow is a single wavelength of light. We perceive it with the green and red receptors in our eyes, but it is a single wavelength. Purple isn’t a single wavelength, but two that are being interpreted as a color.

That was the distinction I was calling out.

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“Regulatory capture, got it” -Auto industry

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Definition I’m using is any color that can be expressed as a single wavelength of light. Purple cannot be, since it’s actually two wavelengths simultaneously.

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My fiancée got an upper GI infection cause our cat was doing this while she slept.

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Purple, the color directly between red and blue, is a creation of your mind interpreting a band of light that triggers your red and blue sensing nerves, but no green is sensed. The actual band of light we can see goes from red to green to blue. Purple doesn’t fall between those colors, meaning it wouldn’t be included in a rainbow, and isn’t any “pure” light you could see, since it doesn’t fall on the spectrum.

Essentially, any time you see purple, you’re seeing two different frequencies of light that your mind interprets as a single frequency.

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Is it a skittles reference or is it a reference to purple not being an actual color and thus not a part of the rainbow?

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They… didn’t? Those are some impressive mutton chops, though.

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AI doesn’t know what lanterns are. Stop poking fun at their art process /s

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