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Re:Show HN: The current sky at your approximate location, as... by dylan604 on Saturday August 09, 2025 @06:34PM (#44850971)
> Yep, if you have to draw the Sun, you better draw it yellow.

This one always gets me in how dirty the sky must have been "back in the day" in order for people to see a yellow sun. I've never looked into what gas would be needed to make the sun look yellow, but it must have been hell to breathe.

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Re:Show HN: The current sky at your approximate location, as... by withinboredom on Sunday August 10, 2025 @04:27AM (#44853705)
The walls were black for a reason in big cities. All those chimneys and coal everywhere.
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Re:Show HN: The current sky at your approximate location, as... by card_zero on Sunday August 10, 2025 @08:57AM (#44854876)
Nah, the ancient Egyptians, and other cultures, depicted the sun a lot, and never made it white. Red, quite often, gold, very frequently - warm colors. If you paint a white sun people say it's the moon.
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