To scale or not to scale?

[Dundridge Dreadlow]

Purple is a much older word than orange, and my mum likes purple, so I guess that makes purple better.

[Marstol Nitely]

Pretty sure I'm safe in saying, moms everywhere like that answer Dundridge.

[Sarge Misfit]

Looking at the light spectrum, purple is indeed a colour. It covers the range of Indigo through Violet, just like Blue includes such variants as Azure and Sky. Just look at a rainbow

"It is a mixture of colors - usually red and blue." Just as green is a mixture of blue and yellow.

[Marstol Nitely]

If you say so Sarge. I was trying to be funny (fell flat... again-happens often, but I keep trying ) and sharing something I read on a webpage. Which I found incidentally when I was trying to Google "Why is purple better than orange?"

[Sarge Misfit]

That's the problem with text, even with emoticons. Without all the other cues we normally rely on, there will be misunderstandings.

In my case, I was trying to carry on the "serious" discussion. I did consider your comment as being along those lines, not truly serious, but light hearted, fun

However, in my own research, I have uncovered video evidence that purple is better than orange
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBejC-6L3RE

(btw, how do we embed a vid into a post?)

[Constance Peregrine]

http://youtu.be/cBejC-6L3RE

remove all up to the / before the c then include that in the youtube tags, up there...

hmmmm Welch's....

[Marstol Nitely]

LOL - I'm sold!

[Dundridge Dreadlow]

What the heck did I just watch ?!

[Samantha Atkins]

thinks it is a scientific fact...

Nope, just looked it up. Purple isn't an actual color. It's an artifact of the ways our eyes and brains perceive color. It is a mixture of colors - usually red and blue. We cannot see pure purple light (no such thing), but we can see pure orange light. So at least scientifically speaking, wouldn't that make orange better?

Well, there is indigo at 425 nanometers.. Pretty purple to my eye. http://www.windows2universe.org/physica ... image.html.

[Sarge Misfit]

thinks it is a scientific fact...

Nope, just looked it up. Purple isn't an actual color. It's an artifact of the ways our eyes and brains perceive color. It is a mixture of colors - usually red and blue. We cannot see pure purple light (no such thing), but we can see pure orange light. So at least scientifically speaking, wouldn't that make orange better?

Well, there is indigo at 425 nanometers.. Pretty purple to my eye. http://www.windows2universe.org/physica ... image.html.

And don't forget the light spectrum which has a range from indigo thru violet. Aren't those all shades of purple? (does that mean that ultraviolet is ultrapurple??)(OMG! 50 Shades of Purple!)