Nabucodonosor
Squire
Felec, do not misconstrue the absence of Greek from my description for lack of understanding -- as seems to be the case with you, for scotopic vision is just a Greek-Latin way of saying 'visual perception in darkness'. You DO know what 'perception' means? I actually read and write (old) Greek and Latin but I aim to not rely too much on words foreign to the language I try to communicate in; the reference to 'my professor' a few postings back was a not-so-subtle hint that I actually studied physics and astronomy. I suggest, if you have questions you expect me to answer, keep in mind that I don't just read off of Wikipedia pages without background knowledge and be a little less ...confontational, shall we say?
You are not wrong in your observation that a perfectly white, sunlit paper under clear, blue sky at daytime actually stays white, I never stated anything different. But this was kinda my point, that perception may differ from physical reality.
Our Sun's spectral classification is G2V, which makes it a yellow star, because the Sun 'produces' yellow light by wavelength definition.
The moonlight may not blind you but your visual perception apparatus, which includes both eyes and brain, is unable to bring the weak colors to your consciousness, they are being eliminated by the neural math somewhere on the way. So even if you do not feel blinded, you are nonetheless, which happens in many more regards to all of us every day, which is why this concept is an extremely important lesson to always bear in mind: I might be unable to see something although I am not aware of it, and I can not imagine how.
The Moon's surface is not homogeneous, okay, we seem to agree on that one, my goal was not to deliver an exhaustive description of the Lunar surface.
Earth, where clouded, actually looks white from space and many clouds here are darker than the brighter regions of the Moon, and, yes, the very dark, deep ocean looks bright blue from space, the dark green forests bright green from high above, do we see a pattern here? Sunlight is very, very bright and it brightens perceived colors. If you are used to discerning no more than 200 colors and naming even less then, yes, white dominates the Moon. 'Dominates' implies majority/ overweighing, not exclusiveness.
You are not wrong in your observation that a perfectly white, sunlit paper under clear, blue sky at daytime actually stays white, I never stated anything different. But this was kinda my point, that perception may differ from physical reality.
Our Sun's spectral classification is G2V, which makes it a yellow star, because the Sun 'produces' yellow light by wavelength definition.
The moonlight may not blind you but your visual perception apparatus, which includes both eyes and brain, is unable to bring the weak colors to your consciousness, they are being eliminated by the neural math somewhere on the way. So even if you do not feel blinded, you are nonetheless, which happens in many more regards to all of us every day, which is why this concept is an extremely important lesson to always bear in mind: I might be unable to see something although I am not aware of it, and I can not imagine how.
The Moon's surface is not homogeneous, okay, we seem to agree on that one, my goal was not to deliver an exhaustive description of the Lunar surface.
Earth, where clouded, actually looks white from space and many clouds here are darker than the brighter regions of the Moon, and, yes, the very dark, deep ocean looks bright blue from space, the dark green forests bright green from high above, do we see a pattern here? Sunlight is very, very bright and it brightens perceived colors. If you are used to discerning no more than 200 colors and naming even less then, yes, white dominates the Moon. 'Dominates' implies majority/ overweighing, not exclusiveness.