@@alexanderjoseph5380 Indeed. I grew up during the CGA/EGA days of computers, and became very acutely aware of the existence of cyan and magenta as distinct colors. It's weird to me how few people are even familiar with these colors. To me they are as distinct as green, blue, violet, or red.
@@Havron Dont forget light green (closer to yellow) and dark green (closer to blue) like not necessarily just in terms of light and dark, but if you look at the types of colours in something like a word doc or something light green also seems like a separate colour
My god, how much research you put into your videos in order to bring us what we think just a good informational 15 min video. But you do your homework on every one.. Nicely done once again Kevin! Nicely done.
☤ṧαʟαღℯ☤ The best part is, it feels even longer than 15 minutes. Most 15 minutes videos I see go by quickly in retrospect, but Vsauce has almost a magic to it, makes time go by slower so you can enjoy it
I read everything you see in the description of the video and much more for research. I also personally spoke with a few scholars to verify the information. I'm glad you love the video - thank you so much for watching!
Also, in Kazakh we don't usually use the word "green". For example, we don't say "a green apple", we say "a blue apple", we don't say "a green grass", we say "a blue grass". Sorry for my English P.s. it's amazing video, Kevin, thanks!
madina no English speekers do see the difference between "light blue" & "dark blue". I myself (as a finnish speaker) dont see the point of giving a lighter shade of a color its own name, In finland we just call "pink", "light red" (vaalean punainen).
Same goes for many languages, like Japanese, where blue was the original word, and green was invented later. Makes me wonder if maybe Kevin got it backwards, and this video should be called "The invention of GREEN"
Danielle Spargo One of tbe other comments on this video says that thr japanese word "aoi" was the word for green/blue, which became the word for blue when blue became popular, and they made a new word for green
I believe they both were. They were both rare pigments that remained unnamed for a while. Purple may be more associated with royalty now, but they both shared that connotation for a large portion of history
Russian name for light blue, mentioned in the video, "goluboi" means pigeon(feathers)-colour. There's even a vibrant light blue shade called "sky-pigeon" or "nebesno-goluboi".
@@Itoyokofan actually Polish has it's own word for light blue too, which is called "błękitny" or "błękit", while normal blue is called "niebieski" (from the word "niebo" which means "sky")
@@Itoyokofan oh there's also a word "siny" from "siniak" which means "bruise" in english ("siniak" means "bruise", "siny" means "the colour of bruise")
Scattering. Actually the sky can be purple at a time when the size of the particle match for the requirement of mie scattering resulting red mixed with blue and usually happens on slightly cloudy sunset.
Density of air makes it appear blue, since only blue light's wavelength can escape from it, if it was little lighter sky would appear purple or sth like that
it is purple and black and red actually every know color except blue - so no you dont know why the sky is blue neither does vsauce - but good story thought
That's awesome. I lived in China for 10 years but I never understood why 青色, the historically more common word for describing the sky or water in their most pristine forms, was neither blue or green but rather both. This makes sense. Languages which have remained unchanged since before the major discoveries of blue dye wouldn't have specific words for the blue we have. But European cultures which were more influenced by the discovery of lapis lazuli and Prussian Blue dye and have been more prone to changes in linguistic structure, would naturally have accommodated the word more readily. Mind blown
In South African languages Zulu or Swati which are closely related we don't have a word for blue but rather call it "umbala oluhlaza/oluhlata okwesibhakabhaka" which directly translates to the colour that's as green as the sky. So learning that many cultures have something similar really does blow my mind too bro.
Interesting side note: homer’s “wine-dark sea’ has been puzzled over for ages because, even if it isn’t “blue” , the sea is not the color of wine either. I recently read a classicist who says it means a “drunken” or rough sea. A scientist didn’t teach his child a name for blue. When he later pointed at the blue sky and asked what color it was, she said there was no color. In the animal world, there is (so far) only one creature found with a blue pigment and it is a very rare butterfly. All other blues in land dwellers is due to Raleigh scattering like the sky with reflectors and absorbers built in to reflect only blue. I wonder if our brain responds differently to pigment vs Raleigh scattering. It seems an odd coincidence.
even that butterfly isn't blue, it's wings' surface reflecting the light certain way due to the structure so it looks blue. Lexus used the same method to paint one of their concept cars. So even there's no blue pigment
This is a magnificent, scientific and artistic video, put together. You've outdone yourself Kevin. From the presentation to the visuals, it's simply, as marvelous as the blue marble.
I see it too... I think it might've been the ink bleeding a bit into the paper, or it mixing with the green dye.. but even if the mapmaker saw it, I doubt he would've assumed it was anything other than a light black..
The year is 2035. I'm in my kitchen, making a broth from food scraps. My kid is playing with the dog when he makes a quiet confusion sound. "You said anything?" I ask, as I put away the things that we will take later to the compost bin. They look up at me, with a roaring curiosity in their eyes. Oh, it's that age, wanting to know everything, to understand what makes things tick. I hope that hunger for answers never leaves them. "Momma... why is the sky blue?" I shiver in my own skin. Why do I feel so on edge, suddenly? I feel their eyes on me, like they could make holes into my skull. Is this a test? It does feel like an important moment. I can imagine the situation, red pill or blue pill? Right or left? Adventure or domesticity? Cats or dogs? Elope or wait? It's like the whole universe stopped spinning and turned to look at us, like we are the only beings that matter. I can't hear the TV saying how now the list of endangered species dropped by 46%. I can't see our beautifull garden with ripe tomatoes a few meters away. It's just us. "Because we found blue" I reply softly. They nod, like they understand, and the world goes back to it's normal state. I know they don't actually understand, but I'm certain that I said the right thing. They'll eventually learn about wave lengths and the atmosphere, but this was not the moment for it. They needed to know the other half. We did it, after all. We found blue.
Back then, the planets or luminaries, were the 7 brightest objects in the sky, i.e. the sun and moon, and 5 stars which turned out to be actual planets. It's just words.
cwjakesteel actually they were called planets (meaning wanderers or vagabonds) because they were the only objects in the sky which did not follow the same path as all the others stars due to the sheer distance of them.
as a russian speaker there is only right color on 4:06 close to "siniy" (синий), but if you will place near "true" siniy, that right color will be defined as "goluboy" (голубой). "Siniy" is more like "indigo" or "ultramarin"
Blue eyes having a common ancestor isnt a fact since European neanderthals had light colored eyes we dont know if genes for blue eyes was thanks to only one individual
Fun fact, in the late 80s and early 90s, LED lights were popping up everywhere, you know the red led light on your stereo, or even the slightly cooler looking green led lights that started showing up... but if you recall that era, there were nearly zero blue led lights. A company I was friends with came out with a new hardware product, and they wanted to really astound people, so they used blue led lights on the front of their case, this was in the early 90s. And it worked, but those led lights were something like 15 times more expensive than red or green. I guess making blue led lights was a major PITA, and it showed, by how rare and expensive they were. Of course today, we don't even think about it, in fact, I believe my daughters have about 200 of them ringing the ceilings of their rooms, with led lights that can show any color. That 'blue' me away. Ok, ill stop.
In Greece there's a way wider range of names for these colors. Just like the russian голубои, we too have a different word for the "light blue", which is slightly closer to green, "γαλάζιο" (galazio). And if speaking scientifically, in our books, there are seven distinct colors in the visible spectrum: Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, CYAN, BLUE and violet. The galazio is between cyan and blue (which I think now they're starting to be considered as the same color in most sources, jeez!). We don't say that the sky is blue, but we say the sky is galazio. I'm most surprised by the lack of distinct words our ancestors used to have about the colors. But, either way, like Michael says, "Color, is an ILLUSION."
In another pice I read about blue missing, they talked about some ancient greeks describing the sky as copper. where the sin was shiny copper and the rest just copper, it was speculated the sun was seen as the metal and the rest of the sky described at the same color copper oxide. So I wonder how you would discribe the color of copper oxide. Would it be a good fit for your collor galazio, as it has been discribed as both blue and green in other cultures.
there is seven colors in spectrum in russia as well. Красный (red) Оранжевый (orange) Жёлтый (yellow) Зелёный (green) Голубой (light blue) Синий (blue) Фиолетовый (violet)
It's funny how our definitions can change our entire worldview. I wonder what we're doing today that people 1000 years from now will think we were very closed-minded about?
I would think the majority of arguments on the internet would definitely be viewed as close-minded in 1000 years, but hopefully in the next hundred years we abandon our absolute lack of logic during those moments and learn to get along :D I know that someone pessimistic is going to be telling me how that'll never happen, and you would be right as long as there are argumentative people in the first place : /
“Green and blue were one word” I know a little bit of Chinese and I go to classes, can confirm that there is indeed a word that means both blue and green, and even black. One word. Sure, there are other more specific ones. This is just an example that’s relevant.
3:30 I get what you're trying to say here but using old maps to 'prove' that they didn't think of water as something blue back then, isn't great. They didn't have many blue paints (those that they did have were very expensive and since maps were in high-demand they wanted them to be relatively cheap to make) and, as you said, blue was pretty rare back then
Blue pigments also faded quite easily until the invention of Prussian Blue. Most of the maps shown would originally have appeared blue/turqoise. There's a lot of sketchy history and fact bending to prove a pre-determined (and incorrect) point in this video.
I'd also add that artists who made these rainbows from ancient paintings weren't looking at a real rainbow, as the red should be on top unless it was a double rainbow, where the extra one has flipped colors. They made up a lot of stuff when they didn't know. Intestines, for example, are not a spiral (as in one medieval text.)
As i age through my 50's i'm losing my ability to differentiate between shades of light blues and greys. I also have noticed i'm liking darker shades of green for the first time in my life. Weird.
I'm late by a couple of months already, but blueprints could be easily copied using chemicals and photoreaction while hand copies needed to be redrawn.
Russians have defenition for every light color. Not only blue, but green, red, etc so they're not different, goluboy is just the light version if siniy
So in Italian. Azzurro. That is "light blue" It's a pity that in English there is no distinction between the two colors, light blue and blue. In Italian, there are Azzurro and Blu.
Screw 4! It's the first composite, perfect power, and the last degree for a polynomial that has a formula. Now 5,009,981 is a different story. A true rebel that one
colours distinguish by hue value: 0 = red 30 = orange 60 = yellow 90 = lime 120 = green 150 = teal 180 = cyan 210 = sky blue 240 = blue 270 = purple 310 = magenta 340 = pink prefixes like "pure" "light" and "dark" which depend on lightness: 0-25 = dark 26-49 & 51-74 = close to pure 50 = pure 75-100 = light so for example the hue and lightness for a light cyan would be H = 180 & L = 75-100 and a pure red would be H = 0 & L = 50 if you're looking for dark green that would be H = 120 & L = 0-25 thanks have a nice day with classifying your colours
3:42 I don’t want to be rude, but that statement is very, very wrong. In the light spectrum, green and blue are both primary colours. You’re using cyan to represent blue, which is a terrible mistake if you want to understand colours.
So blue was extremely rare and expensive. 0:50 painting got blue sky and blue water that mean they got enough blue color available. But why didn't they use blue in rainbow when the have enough blue? YOU DID NOT GIVE A ANSWER........ :(
maybe they just assumed the blue in rainbow was just the blue of the sky (like a transparency), you know, before newton they didn't project rainbows on white boards or something, so they just saw/distinguished the colors that were uncommon to see at daylight on the sky
Because to them the blue used for the sky and ocean was just another shade of green. They didn't include it in the rainbow because to them that would be putting green twice.
Crazy point of note. Go to Japan and the stop lights are ❤️💛💚 But then you spend enough time teaching in schools, you notice that they draw stop lights as ❤️💛💙 They see it as blue instead of green to go. After hearing this long enough, your brain will make a switch and you'll start seeing the green light as a blue light.
Actually already knew about Japanese traffic lights depicting the green light as blue; must be a leftover from when the word for blue wasn't invented or widespread yet.
"You three knew I was in there, and you didn't do anything. Did you even wonder who I used to be?! I'm Lapis Lazuli, and you can't keep me trapped here anymore!" - Lapis Lazuli
I started listening to tool for a few years now, just when I started to watch Vsauce 1,2,3. Until this comment, I've never thought that Vsauce and TooL can be related (sort of)
I like this style of video, ALOT. Its like Vsauce 1 videos but, less footage of Michael talking and more pictures and details while we hear Kevin's voice. Also less complex and more straight forward.
8:48 This painting is called "Lady Standing at a Virginal" and was made by the Dutch Johannes Vermeer. Something characteristic of his style is that the blue color is present in almost all his works, in a very powerful and striking way.
You guys made a 15 minute video about the history of blue pigments in human culture and didn't even mention Maya blue? The hugely important blue pigment to the Maya and Aztecs and continued to be used in early colonial art? Cmon!
I'm curious as to why you didn't include indigo, as this is a plant based dye which has been in use for thousands of years, or is it not considered a true blue?
6:00 Ancient Hebrew certainly had a specific word for blue; actually, there were two words for it. As you mentioned, in Numbers 15:38, the word "techelet" is used to describe the blue with which the were to dye their fringes -- it never meant violet. And the prophets used the word "kachol" to describe dark blue.
Thanks! I’m in the sciences and we can apply the broader concept to much of our perception of reality. And at a cultural level the same applies to the elements of sound in music. Not all societies distinguish the differences between distinct sound frequencies… nor blue as a distinct frequency of light radiation.
Welcome. You found Blue.
Vsauce2 Do a collab with V Sauce 1 and 3.
Dave They are all friends idiot
thanks for inviting us
BlUe'S cLuEs
Some of y'all legit turn on notifications to come here asap and dislike smh
I'm colorblind and I got to say that this video really fcked me up
oof
feelsbadman
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lmao
OH NO
Me too.. I have protanopia.. So, I can only see blue, correctly.. The other color was false according to other's eye
Y'all ever just like, invent a color
Just Some Bigfoot With Internet Access hey I know you. You're related to yeti right?
I invented the color Rahn but you won't hear about it for another 500 years.
@@DadBodDrumming im going to hold you to that
Yeah, gilit is my favorite colour
Umm... magenta
3000 years later:
VSauce 73957, Glibpok here. Thousands of years ago, the color teek didn’t exist. This is how
4000 years later:
ΞSauce, A86 here. Thousands of years ago, the color Ultraviolet wasn’t visible to humans
@@andya.6630 One month later:
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Cubi Cardi
ΞSauce, A86 here. Thousands of years ago, there existed an article known as Article 13.
Year *Million One*: for the most part of history, humans could only understand things they could separate and name it.
@Hailey Tecca I imagine it's the colour of grey tarpaulin
Everyone asks where is blue and yet none bothers to ask
"How is Blue?"
#SocietyWeLiveIn
I'll do you one better. Why is blue?
@@indigoflamingo4366 damn I'm 4 hours late
@@indigoflamingo4366 When is blue?
@@indigoflamingo4366 what is blue?
I ‘ L L D O Y O U O N E B E T T E R
This makes me wonder what else we may be missing in our perception today.
i literally thought about it as i read this comment...i can't wait to see what we missed for all those millenias
Well most people today just see cyan as a shade of blue and magenta as a shade of red, when they're actually distinct colors.
@@alexanderjoseph5380 Indeed. I grew up during the CGA/EGA days of computers, and became very acutely aware of the existence of cyan and magenta as distinct colors. It's weird to me how few people are even familiar with these colors. To me they are as distinct as green, blue, violet, or red.
@@Havron Dont forget light green (closer to yellow) and dark green (closer to blue) like not necessarily just in terms of light and dark, but if you look at the types of colours in something like a word doc or something light green also seems like a separate colour
@@dubbleyou248 you mean lime?
My god, how much research you put into your videos in order to bring us what we think just a good informational 15 min video. But you do your homework on every one.. Nicely done once again Kevin! Nicely done.
☤ṧαʟαღℯ☤ The best part is, it feels even longer than 15 minutes. Most 15 minutes videos I see go by quickly in retrospect, but Vsauce has almost a magic to it, makes time go by slower so you can enjoy it
☤ṧαʟαღℯ☤ the thing so like about him is that it's not busy work to him. He loves it. Go Vsauce!!!
what language did he get wrong? He got my native language correct (obviously mispronounced but that's because he doesn't speak it).
This is the content we live for
I read everything you see in the description of the video and much more for research. I also personally spoke with a few scholars to verify the information. I'm glad you love the video - thank you so much for watching!
Yeah red white and black. Would be a good flag probably
Porçay reverse black and red you get the german empire
*Middle East joins the chat*
Yemen has that flag 🇾🇪
But Syria 🇸🇾 and Iraq 🇮🇶 are close
Antifa flag is eerily similar to the N@zi flag
This really *BLUE* my mind.
Ba dum sh
blew*
Not original.
@@JuniorMaffews no, it is original.
modle r/wooooosh
Also, in Kazakh we don't usually use the word "green". For example, we don't say "a green apple", we say "a blue apple", we don't say "a green grass", we say "a blue grass".
Sorry for my English
P.s. it's amazing video, Kevin, thanks!
madina no
English speekers do see the difference between "light blue" & "dark blue". I myself (as a finnish speaker) dont see the point of giving a lighter shade of a color its own name, In finland we just call "pink", "light red" (vaalean punainen).
Same goes for many languages, like Japanese, where blue was the original word, and green was invented later. Makes me wonder if maybe Kevin got it backwards, and this video should be called "The invention of GREEN"
Gunja Fury
I didn't mean it, i wanted to say that it's just cool how different languages could be and at the same time have very much in common
Danielle Spargo One of tbe other comments on this video says that thr japanese word "aoi" was the word for green/blue, which became the word for blue when blue became popular, and they made a new word for green
As a russian i always thought it's quite strange to give two different names to these colors. I just call them "blue" and "light blue".
Orange didn't exist until it was named after the fruit.
Wrong .common myth .
@@stevee5 its right
Actually, orange was originally the name of the tree, then it became the name of the fruit and then the fruit gave name to the color.
This would make my entire night
I think you will find orange always existed, just that we never named it till a time.
I thought PURPLE was the color of royalty/wealth from that time period.
Im pretty sure it actually was
I believe they both were. They were both rare pigments that remained unnamed for a while. Purple may be more associated with royalty now, but they both shared that connotation for a large portion of history
I believe it was indigo because the indigo plant would create dye that never faded from clothing.
Google it is is
Royal blue
The Polish word for blue (niebieski) means literally "skyish"
Russian name for light blue, mentioned in the video, "goluboi" means pigeon(feathers)-colour. There's even a vibrant light blue shade called "sky-pigeon" or "nebesno-goluboi".
@@Itoyokofan actually Polish has it's own word for light blue too, which is called "błękitny" or "błękit", while normal blue is called "niebieski" (from the word "niebo" which means "sky")
@@Itoyokofan oh there's also a word "siny" from "siniak" which means "bruise" in english ("siniak" means "bruise", "siny" means "the colour of bruise")
ayyy Poland
IN SERBIAN the word for
SKY is Nebo
Heaven is Nebes
BLUE is Plavo
but if we had to say skyish, YES we would say NEBESKI
My question isn't "why is the sky blue", I know that answer.
My question is, "Why isn't the sky purple?"
Scattering. Actually the sky can be purple at a time when the size of the particle match for the requirement of mie scattering resulting red mixed with blue and usually happens on slightly cloudy sunset.
Density of air makes it appear blue, since only blue light's wavelength can escape from it, if it was little lighter sky would appear purple or sth like that
it isn't purple BECAUSE IT'S BLUE
does that help ?
What are you talking about, haven't you played Plazma burst 2?
it is purple and black and red actually every know color except blue - so no you dont know why the sky is blue neither does vsauce - but good story thought
"..... and that's how crabs walks sideways"
Bon would be proud
*Person dies
Vsauce2 : or did he
*Jeffrey Epstein kills himself
Vsauce2 : or did he?
The person died right? *WRONG!!*
Roses are red,
The invention of blue.
All I want to watch is Vsauce2.
see you in 6 months
Roses are red,
Man eats poo,
where is my super suit?
Fillipuster :D awesome
That profile picture is amazing
Amazing amount of research and information just in one video. I'm impressed, good job.
They do that in every video. :)
exactly
A looot of it seems straight up ripped from an old Radiolab episode
love that episode
That's awesome. I lived in China for 10 years but I never understood why 青色, the historically more common word for describing the sky or water in their most pristine forms, was neither blue or green but rather both. This makes sense. Languages which have remained unchanged since before the major discoveries of blue dye wouldn't have specific words for the blue we have. But European cultures which were more influenced by the discovery of lapis lazuli and Prussian Blue dye and have been more prone to changes in linguistic structure, would naturally have accommodated the word more readily.
Mind blown
Yeah. At least now they have a word for blue even though they don't really use it for the sky
At least there is a word called 藍 (Blue in Chinese)
yo its 青 not 情, 情色 means lewd
In South African languages Zulu or Swati which are closely related we don't have a word for blue but rather call it "umbala oluhlaza/oluhlata okwesibhakabhaka" which directly translates to the colour that's as green as the sky. So learning that many cultures have something similar really does blow my mind too bro.
thanks for the explanation but err it’s 青色, no 忄(for easy memorising, words with the shuxinpang radical have matters to do with the heart)
I always thought the sky was blue because it wasn't green. Turns out, the sky *was* green.
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one of the 3 primary colours wasnt even a colour?
Which one?
There are only 2 genders
Octa Deca No one asked you. Go away please.
Maybe the RGB (red, green, blue) color code.
Black
This is one of the best VSauce videos ever made
I think the best Video on VSAUCE2
Where are your fingers
Minisablab lmao
Minisablab Want some spit facts!?
totally agree
Goluboy = Lightblue
Siniy = Blue
Ultramarine = Warhammer 40k
tonko, ochen tonko
You mean Ultra Smurfs.
HOW DO THEY KEEP ON SUCCEEDING
@@felixfox4784 ты голубой
I do like how Citadel have like 20 blues too
Interesting side note: homer’s “wine-dark sea’ has been puzzled over for ages because, even if it isn’t “blue” , the sea is not the color of wine either. I recently read a classicist who says it means a “drunken” or rough sea.
A scientist didn’t teach his child a name for blue. When he later pointed at the blue sky and asked what color it was, she said there was no color. In the animal world, there is (so far) only one creature found with a blue pigment and it is a very rare butterfly. All other blues in land dwellers is due to Raleigh scattering like the sky with reflectors and absorbers built in to reflect only blue. I wonder if our brain responds differently to pigment vs Raleigh scattering. It seems an odd coincidence.
even that butterfly isn't blue, it's wings' surface reflecting the light certain way due to the structure so it looks blue. Lexus used the same method to paint one of their concept cars. So even there's no blue pigment
@@nikitasafronov9700That butterfly is blue. All the others have Raleigh scattering. Nessaea obrinus
Bob Ross used Prussian blue. I guess you could say that the painter who made it made a.... happy little accident.....
not before beating the devil out of his brush first. Only God knows what color he would've made if satan was in his brush
Wow just wow
He used pthalo blue much more often
I bet you were a happy little accident
This video blue me away!
Frosty14748 your profile picture is blue dabba dee dabba dye
Frosty14748 clapclap
Frosty14748 I see what you did there.
Blue Job
Oh Sh
I just RED your comment :)
This is a magnificent, scientific and artistic video, put together. You've outdone yourself Kevin. From the presentation to the visuals, it's simply, as marvelous as the blue marble.
Those bowls of colors with the corresponding brushes are so satisfying to look at
0:49 when you ask for a raise
When your parents tell you to go to bed early
Jason and a Camera xd
When you see a vegan
When a Democrat asks for your vote.
When a Conservative tells you to vote for trump.
The amount of research for this one video is so impressive! Awesome video as always. We appreciate everyone's hard work for all these videos.
Usually I don’t fully understand vsause videos, but this one I especially don’t understand being colourblind :)
Which type of colorblindness do you have?
infinity colorblind
I will explain blue sky to you goat. Blue is the color of the sky and the ocean. Blue represents cold temperatures and the emotion of sadness.
:(
If I remember correctly Blue looks similar to Brown.
"Blue, the most human color."
- Regina Spektor - Blue Lips
This video was a colorful experience.
your pronounciation of techelet was absolutely stellar
I'm moist
Too stellar... ;P
Its תכלת and it means light blue nothing more nothing less. I'm from Israel btw
It was?
3:33 am i crazy or a lake inside the kingdowm IS infact blue in color?
I see it too... I think it might've been the ink bleeding a bit into the paper, or it mixing with the green dye.. but even if the mapmaker saw it, I doubt he would've assumed it was anything other than a light black..
Those things aren't mutually exclusive.
he knows... seize him!!!
The year is 2035. I'm in my kitchen, making a broth from food scraps. My kid is playing with the dog when he makes a quiet confusion sound.
"You said anything?" I ask, as I put away the things that we will take later to the compost bin. They look up at me, with a roaring curiosity in their eyes. Oh, it's that age, wanting to know everything, to understand what makes things tick. I hope that hunger for answers never leaves them.
"Momma... why is the sky blue?"
I shiver in my own skin. Why do I feel so on edge, suddenly? I feel their eyes on me, like they could make holes into my skull. Is this a test? It does feel like an important moment. I can imagine the situation, red pill or blue pill? Right or left? Adventure or domesticity? Cats or dogs? Elope or wait? It's like the whole universe stopped spinning and turned to look at us, like we are the only beings that matter. I can't hear the TV saying how now the list of endangered species dropped by 46%. I can't see our beautifull garden with ripe tomatoes a few meters away. It's just us.
"Because we found blue" I reply softly. They nod, like they understand, and the world goes back to it's normal state.
I know they don't actually understand, but I'm certain that I said the right thing. They'll eventually learn about wave lengths and the atmosphere, but this was not the moment for it. They needed to know the other half.
We did it, after all. We found blue.
Ok...
ok... boomer
That's beautiful.
Yeah, we found blue... OR DID WE?
Ok..
What is more rare in nature, blue or purple?
was it a snail from some kind of island? was it crete? lol i watched a video about that...
Dude we all saw the same video and we all dont remember it
hahaha
your intelligence
Lol I saw the video too and don't remember either.
How can blue be real if our eyes aren't real?
Vapor Wave - sama the third one
/music plays
Cue X Files theme song
Because our eyes are real
But how can anything be real if we are just a computer simulation run by aliens?
11:02 The Sun is my favorite planet, closely followed by the Moon
"ancient greek belief"
the sun is my city
Back then, the planets or luminaries, were the 7 brightest objects in the sky, i.e. the sun and moon, and 5 stars which turned out to be actual planets. It's just words.
N Squared I like Trappist-1F
cwjakesteel actually they were called planets (meaning wanderers or vagabonds) because they were the only objects in the sky which did not follow the same path as all the others stars due to the sheer distance of them.
as a russian speaker there is only right color on 4:06 close to "siniy" (синий), but if you will place near "true" siniy, that right color will be defined as "goluboy" (голубой). "Siniy" is more like "indigo" or "ultramarin"
I was thrown off by that too but wasn't sure if my automated nightime blue light filter had kicked in yet.
When you realize you and Kevin share a common ancestor
Anyone else out there who shares the blue eyes common ancestor?
Blue eyes having a common ancestor isnt a fact since European neanderthals had light colored eyes we dont know if genes for blue eyes was thanks to only one individual
Me
The mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell.
Funny Quackers we all share a common ancestor.
All living creatures on earth have a common ancestor....
We dont even look after our close relatives : S
(Relatively....speaking)
Every time a Vsauce video ends, I get blue balls
[Yoshikage_Kira] you are EVERYWHERE
I JUST SAW YOU IN A BOKU NO HERO ACADEMIA VIDEO YESTERDAY!!! o.o
Also,Killer Queen has already touched that blue color...
i just do what i always do when i see you
Killer Queens Sheer heart attack has no weaknesses!
Which one?
Kevin: I'm shining
Me: yes you are Kevin, yes you are
Fun fact, in the late 80s and early 90s, LED lights were popping up everywhere, you know the red led light on your stereo, or even the slightly cooler looking green led lights that started showing up... but if you recall that era, there were nearly zero blue led lights. A company I was friends with came out with a new hardware product, and they wanted to really astound people, so they used blue led lights on the front of their case, this was in the early 90s. And it worked, but those led lights were something like 15 times more expensive than red or green. I guess making blue led lights was a major PITA, and it showed, by how rare and expensive they were. Of course today, we don't even think about it, in fact, I believe my daughters have about 200 of them ringing the ceilings of their rooms, with led lights that can show any color. That 'blue' me away. Ok, ill stop.
Look up who invented blue LEDs, it's a pretty crazy story. It wasn't until many years later that he was rewarded for the breakthrough.
In Greece there's a way wider range of names for these colors. Just like the russian голубои, we too have a different word for the "light blue", which is slightly closer to green, "γαλάζιο" (galazio). And if speaking scientifically, in our books, there are seven distinct colors in the visible spectrum: Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, CYAN, BLUE and violet. The galazio is between cyan and blue (which I think now they're starting to be considered as the same color in most sources, jeez!). We don't say that the sky is blue, but we say the sky is galazio. I'm most surprised by the lack of distinct words our ancestors used to have about the colors. But, either way, like Michael says, "Color, is an ILLUSION."
rather ironically to the video, your name actually contains a word that homer uses to describe blue.
In another pice I read about blue missing, they talked about some ancient greeks describing the sky as copper.
where the sin was shiny copper and the rest just copper, it was speculated the sun was seen as the metal and the rest of the sky described at the same color copper oxide.
So I wonder how you would discribe the color of copper oxide.
Would it be a good fit for your collor galazio, as it has been discribed as both blue and green in other cultures.
there is seven colors in spectrum in russia as well. Красный (red) Оранжевый (orange) Жёлтый (yellow) Зелёный (green) Голубой (light blue) Синий (blue) Фиолетовый (violet)
In spanish, we have different word to say blue and light blue too, "celeste" is light blue.
Is 'celeste' is commonly used word as Russian голубой? Or more like poetic azure in English?
YO LISTEN UP HERE'S THE STORY ABOUT A LITTLE COLOR THAT WAS INVENTED.
PowahSlap Entertainmint Why are you everywhere.
YOU. ARE. EVERYWHERE.
oh hi mark
PowahSlap Ent
da ba dee da ba daa
It's funny how our definitions can change our entire worldview. I wonder what we're doing today that people 1000 years from now will think we were very closed-minded about?
This guy tells it like it is huh.
Emperor TGP made me giggle
They'll think "why would those cavemen use anything other than HEX-codes?"
Nations states, probably. And hopefully wars.
I would think the majority of arguments on the internet would definitely be viewed as close-minded in 1000 years, but hopefully in the next hundred years we abandon our absolute lack of logic during those moments and learn to get along :D
I know that someone pessimistic is going to be telling me how that'll never happen, and you would be right as long as there are argumentative people in the first place : /
“Green and blue were one word”
I know a little bit of Chinese and I go to classes, can confirm that there is indeed a word that means both blue and green, and even black. One word. Sure, there are other more specific ones. This is just an example that’s relevant.
Before 10 likes
These videos are getting better and better made. Very well done!
I am so thankful for this video, good to stumble in good stuff like that on youtube, just subscribed
3:30 I get what you're trying to say here but using old maps to 'prove' that they didn't think of water as something blue back then, isn't great. They didn't have many blue paints (those that they did have were very expensive and since maps were in high-demand they wanted them to be relatively cheap to make) and, as you said, blue was pretty rare back then
Blue pigments also faded quite easily until the invention of Prussian Blue. Most of the maps shown would originally have appeared blue/turqoise. There's a lot of sketchy history and fact bending to prove a pre-determined (and incorrect) point in this video.
yeah I agree with you, although water is not blue or green, but just the reflection of whatever is above it
@@jiminsblessedpants530 Water is actually a natural blue color.
I'd also add that artists who made these rainbows from ancient paintings weren't looking at a real rainbow, as the red should be on top unless it was a double rainbow, where the extra one has flipped colors. They made up a lot of stuff when they didn't know. Intestines, for example, are not a spiral (as in one medieval text.)
@@DANGJOS Water may appear blue because it reflects the color of the sky...
But it is transparent by its nature
As i age through my 50's i'm losing my ability to differentiate between shades of light blues and greys. I also have noticed i'm liking darker shades of green for the first time in my life. Weird.
This video just blue my mind!
Word Unheard blue is my city
Bleu*
dude same here buddy
mini dwarfdude What?
Word Unheard LMAO you killed me dude that was so bad
DID RAINBOWS THEMSELVES CHANGE!?!?!?!?!?!
no.
How does making blueprints blue eliminate the need to hand copy?
I'm late by a couple of months already, but blueprints could be easily copied using chemicals and photoreaction while hand copies needed to be redrawn.
“Why is blue rare?”
While ignoring the ocean and the atmosphere, which are already larger than every different colored object combined
I'm blue dabadedabadi
Cainyoyo lmao ayyeee
it's actually dabadeedabadaa
Cainyoyo , how high are you
Russians have defenition for every light color.
Not only blue, but green, red, etc so they're not different, goluboy is just the light version if siniy
Like light blue or ljusblå.
*The Spanish word for blue "azul" literally comes from lapis lazuli.*
Nope, the portuguese & spanish word "azul" came after azure
@@ElementalAer which came, as Kevin just said, after lapis lazuli
Lapis Lazuli
Lazuli
Azuli
Azul
Bzul
Bul
Brul
Bruh
So in Italian. Azzurro.
That is "light blue"
It's a pity that in English there is no distinction between the two colors, light blue and blue.
In Italian, there are Azzurro and Blu.
Fun fact: in Russian, the colors of the rainbow are red, orange, yellow, green, goluboy, siniy, and violet.
Yep, goluboy is usually referred to “light blue” and siniy to “darker blue”
Ok. Next video about number 4 please?
joneslaakso yes please
Number 4?
joneslaakso the Indians know ALL about it.
I desire an explanation on why if thou may give it
Screw 4! It's the first composite, perfect power, and the last degree for a polynomial that has a formula. Now 5,009,981 is a different story. A true rebel that one
9:46 and that’s how anime was born
Blue was a mistake
You know what, on second thought, blue isn't really that good of a color anyway
colours distinguish by hue value:
0 = red
30 = orange
60 = yellow
90 = lime
120 = green
150 = teal
180 = cyan
210 = sky blue
240 = blue
270 = purple
310 = magenta
340 = pink
prefixes like "pure" "light" and "dark" which depend on lightness:
0-25 = dark
26-49 & 51-74 = close to pure
50 = pure
75-100 = light
so for example the hue and lightness for a light cyan would be H = 180 & L = 75-100
and a pure red would be H = 0 & L = 50
if you're looking for dark green that would be H = 120 & L = 0-25
thanks have a nice day with classifying your colours
RadonNebula shut up nerd
I would like to see you explain colours like that
RadonNebula you are wrong, magenta is 300 and pink is 330, those are the definitions, you may confuse the numbers
Im a programmer, so hex values are way better than that :3 :P XD
Thanx! You are awesome!
3:42 I don’t want to be rude, but that statement is very, very wrong. In the light spectrum, green and blue are both primary colours. You’re using cyan to represent blue, which is a terrible mistake if you want to understand colours.
Blue man group!!!!
Carl Potato Saw them live at universal studios and they blue my mind 😉
Ryan McCall i see what you did there
Does that include Tobias Fuenke or not? It's tough to tell since he blue himself.
PGTMR2 I'll go back and look through the photos I got with them, I even got a big old slap of blue paint across my face courtesy of one of them :D
11:31 chills. absolutely and beautifully put.
So blue was extremely rare and expensive. 0:50 painting got blue sky and blue water that mean they got enough blue color available. But why didn't they use blue in rainbow when the have enough blue? YOU DID NOT GIVE A ANSWER........ :(
Yes, I feel very annoyed that that was ommited as well.
maybe they just assumed the blue in rainbow was just the blue of the sky (like a transparency), you know, before newton they didn't project rainbows on white boards or something, so they just saw/distinguished the colors that were uncommon to see at daylight on the sky
WHITE AND BLACK PAGE He was talking about REAL DEEP BLUE.
Because to them the blue used for the sky and ocean was just another shade of green. They didn't include it in the rainbow because to them that would be putting green twice.
He was talking about the ultramarine blue
0:00-0:46 your chair went from blue to a light blue or teal...
The container with the blue paint in it did, too
They.. Took out the blue light, making everything blue actually grey
You only mentioned orange once!
Blue you glad?
Spoookus
is it anyway coincidence that orange is the opposite of blue? i t h i n k n o t.
I like to eat oranges!
Also, Why do we like certain colors? Why do we have a "favorite color"?
Rodrigo Coockie Monster why do we have a favorite food?
Why do we ask why?
Why do we have a favorite number?
yeah that too
Why do we have a favorite child?
Crazy point of note.
Go to Japan and the stop lights are ❤️💛💚
But then you spend enough time teaching in schools, you notice that they draw stop lights as ❤️💛💙
They see it as blue instead of green to go. After hearing this long enough, your brain will make a switch and you'll start seeing the green light as a blue light.
NinjaBearFilms What the hell
Angelo True story. Happened to both me and my wife and most people we met while living in Asia.
Korean also has the same predicament in the language as Japanese has due to the Chinese roots.
Actually already knew about Japanese traffic lights depicting the green light as blue; must be a leftover from when the word for blue wasn't invented or widespread yet.
NinjaBearFilms wow! That's trippy
“There’s not much blue in nature”
Have you forget the entire ocean?
So what's the use of feeling blue?
"Said that girl made me feel blue
'Cuz she told me I should stay in school
Said that girl made me feel blue
Don't go to school" - Bill Wurtz
"You three knew I was in there, and you didn't do anything. Did you even wonder who I used to be?!
I'm Lapis Lazuli, and you can't keep me trapped here anymore!" - Lapis Lazuli
Feeling blue is a relatively recent expression.
babadi babada
I'm blue da ba dee da ba doo da ba dee daba doo
Kevin’s my new art teacher
Blu
Celeste
Azzurro
------------------
Blue
heavenly
Light Blue
These are the colors of "blue" that we Italians have as base.
Isaac Clarke ciano
Isaac Clarke oltremare
Turchino e cobalto
Oh detto base, cosolo.
Isaac Clarke ,
Goluboi
Siniy
Nebesnyi
Lazur'
Sirenevyi
There are russian colors which only using on Art lesson
Missed a great opportunity to mention how brown is just dark orange. It's our version of the Russian light and dark blue.
Love your topics and quality of content!
4:32 "Black then white are all I see
In my infancy.
Red and yellow then came to be,
Reaching out to me,
Lets me see."
I started listening to tool for a few years now, just when I started to watch Vsauce 1,2,3.
Until this comment, I've never thought that Vsauce and TooL can be related (sort of)
Why could your parents only afford a used color tv?
damn dude, now we know why ron was trying so hard to give becky some blue. memes are deep man
Oh that one hurt
4:46 ok, so are we gonna ignore the fact they ignored the green grass, trees, and plants? Really? Green is more abundant than red.
I like this style of video, ALOT. Its like Vsauce 1 videos but, less footage of Michael talking and more pictures and details while we hear Kevin's voice. Also less complex and more straight forward.
This is honestly my favourite Vsauce video. You did an amazing job.
*"The Blue-Footed Booby"*
Chicken Permission hehehe... Booby... :3 boobs are great 😏
There is also the Blue Tit, the Red-knobbed Coot and the Dickcissel.
*blue footed boobie* is the correct spelling btw
Grow up!
Ew I don't like boobs.
Thanks!
Any one else noticed the book on the left called blue
I noticed that the jar of blue painting was grey during most of the video, you can see how it changes at 0:23 and 13:18
8:48 This painting is called "Lady Standing at a Virginal" and was made by the Dutch Johannes Vermeer. Something characteristic of his style is that the blue color is present in almost all his works, in a very powerful and striking way.
Wait like 4 minutes
yeah girl with the pearl is from johannes verneer too
The was probably no point in coloring blue in a rainbow if there is already blue in the sky lol just wasting more blue paint! Lol
Tuna ikr? I need an explanation.
Sky blue is different from rainbow blue.
20000 iq here
When Kevin says "Potassium" i fully imagine Queen from Deltarune chapter 2 breaking in and also saying "Potassium" but while holding a banana
...dont ask
You guys made a 15 minute video about the history of blue pigments in human culture and didn't even mention Maya blue? The hugely important blue pigment to the Maya and Aztecs and continued to be used in early colonial art? Cmon!
Jabberwockxeno they're dead so not relevant i guess
There are a ton of Maya still in Mexico and Guatamala, though, and every other person listed in this video is long dead as well.
Grev McGrevington uhhhh i'm K'iche' Maya, pretty sure myself and the 6 million other Maya today are not dead
Taquito Xiq nah bruh, you heard the man, you are clearly a ghost
ur mom
I am blue da bu de da bu dai
Da bu de da bu dai
Da bu de da bu dai
Wut
I'm sort of green ba di bu da di dai
ba di bu da di
Blue corvette
I am green ea gu ee ea gu eai
ea gu ee ea gu eai
ea gu ee ea gu eai
As a devout lover of the color blue, I sincerely thank you for this video.
Same!
The invention of Series is one of my favorite pieces of human culture full stop.
Best Vsauce I've seen in a while! Very well done, Kevin! Keep up the great work great 👍🏻
I'm curious as to why you didn't include indigo, as this is a plant based dye which has been in use for thousands of years, or is it not considered a true blue?
Janette Wood | you... didn't watch till the end... huh?
......
For the first time in my life i felt proud that blue is my favorite color..
Elaf Zaid lmao what?
mini dwarfdude check again :P
Ufff what an overlwhelmingly amazing video! Finding this video was like finding the existence of blue!
All I can say is this was a great Vsauce video. Well made, explained wonderfully, and actually on an interesting subject.
6:00
Ancient Hebrew certainly had a specific word for blue; actually, there were two words for it.
As you mentioned, in Numbers 15:38, the word "techelet" is used to describe the blue with which the were to dye their fringes -- it never meant violet. And the prophets used the word "kachol" to describe dark blue.
I love when he just sits there like “you really blue it”😂
Thanks!
I’m in the sciences and we can apply the broader concept to much of our perception of reality. And at a cultural level the same applies to the elements of sound in music. Not all societies distinguish the differences between distinct sound frequencies… nor blue as a distinct frequency of light radiation.