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dylan604last Saturday at 10:34 PM2 repliesview on HN

> 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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card_zerolast Sunday at 12:57 PM

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.

withinboredomlast Sunday at 8:27 AM

The walls were black for a reason in big cities. All those chimneys and coal everywhere.