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| Thobewill | Date: Saturday, 14.07.2012, 23:05 | Message # 1 |
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| I've been playing this for a short while, since .95, and I love this sim. However, i have a minor annoyance.
Nearly every terra with life i find has a green or red ocean. I have found nearly none with blue oceans. This does not make much sense, as water is blue. Am I just extremely unlucky, or are these oceans much more common than the blue ones. If they are, why?
Edited by Thobewill - Saturday, 14.07.2012, 23:05 |
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| HarbingerDawn | Date: Saturday, 14.07.2012, 23:10 | Message # 2 |
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| I have noticed this too. It is possible that life could be altering the color of the oceans (algae mats/blooms), but I observe this on worlds even without life, so I'm not sure what the rationale is. But I agree with you, I prefer the blue water.
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| Thobewill | Date: Saturday, 14.07.2012, 23:15 | Message # 3 |
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| I'm currently performing a survey of 100 randomly-selected lifebearing worlds, and tallying the colors in order to see if there is a noticeable slant toward the "fantastic" red and green-colored oceans
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| Thobewill | Date: Saturday, 14.07.2012, 23:28 | Message # 5 |
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| Thanks. I'm thinking it may be a statistical anomaly, but I will return with the results of my survey in a few.
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| DoctorOfSpace | Date: Saturday, 14.07.2012, 23:32 | Message # 6 |
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| Quote (Thobewill) Thanks. I'm thinking it may be a statistical anomaly, but I will return with the results of my survey in a few.
Yeah it probably is I mean the universe is pretty big so the chances of finding anything too specific may be greatly against you. Also in the last image I posted that is in a system with 2 life worlds, one of them has a purple ocean that is red, in fact its the only red I've found.
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| Thobewill | Date: Sunday, 15.07.2012, 00:06 | Message # 7 |
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| Okay, I found 33 red-oceaned planets, 35 green-oceaned planets, and 32 blue-oceaned planets. So, roughly 1/3 of each.
However, I suggest that blue-ocean planets make up at least 1/2-2/3 of habitable worlds, as, after all, water is blue. Why exactly the other worlds have red and green oceans remains to be seen.
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| Donatelo200 | Date: Sunday, 15.07.2012, 05:42 | Message # 8 |
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| The red hue is probably from high iron deposits in them like in early Earth which had red oceans when it was young. The green could just be due to large amounts of biomass such as algae.
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| anonymousgamer | Date: Sunday, 15.07.2012, 08:30 | Message # 9 |
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| Quote (Thobewill) This does not make much sense, as water is blue.
Incorrect, water is clear, only with a very small blue tinge, if any. The color of water is the color of the atmosphere, because water reflects the atmosphere. Which is why here, on Earth, it is blue. On cloudy days, water is grey.
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| HarbingerDawn | Date: Sunday, 15.07.2012, 09:32 | Message # 10 |
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| Pure water appears clear in small quantities. In large quantities it is slightly but noticeably blue. But this can be drastically affected by any particles or other substances in the water, depending on what they are.
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| Talyn | Date: Sunday, 15.07.2012, 10:33 | Message # 11 |
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| Correct me if I'm wrong, but I always heard that water is tasteless, odorless and colorless.
The refraction index of the water is what makes it reflect the environment colour, hence gray on cloudy days and blue on clear sky days on earth 
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| HarbingerDawn | Date: Sunday, 15.07.2012, 14:37 | Message # 12 |
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| Quote (Talyn) Correct me if I'm wrong, but I always heard that water is tasteless, odorless and colorless.
Tasteless and odorless, yes; colorless, also yes, but only in the same sense that air is colorless. It preferentially scatters shorter wavelengths of light, giving it a slightly blue appearance when seen in large quantities. But it is rare that we ever encounter large volumes of pure water in our daily lives, so we usually don't observe this effect.
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| Thobewill | Date: Monday, 16.07.2012, 00:05 | Message # 13 |
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| The blue color of the water is NOT primarily due to the reflection of the sky, though that has some effect
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_of_water
Quote It is a common misconception that in large bodies, such as the oceans, the water's color is blue due to the reflections from the sky on its surface. |
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| Thobewill | Date: Monday, 16.07.2012, 00:07 | Message # 14 |
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| Quote (Donatelo200) The red hue is probably from high iron deposits in them like in early Earth which had red oceans when it was young. The green could just be due to large amounts of biomass such as algae.
If that were true, there would A) be areas where the colour would not be green, and  not be green-oceaned planets without life.
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| dontpanic | Date: Monday, 16.07.2012, 00:23 | Message # 15 |
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| You guys haven't considered that it might be not water at all (H2O I mean)! Depending on the temperature of the planet, different gasses may be liquid. Although by human standards the kind of temperatures in oceans of such gasses would be extremely low, I think that it is probable that life would evolve even in these kind of extreme conditions.
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