I miss Sean Lock on QI. Sure, he has his own shows but he filled a similar role on QI as Phill Jupitus, who just kept driving Stephen crazy... and Sandy as well.
I have no idea how Sean has a career in comedy. I always found him the most annoying guest on any show. He's like that friend that's always trying way too hard to get laughs
It's interesting that Bill Bailey (a serious musical talent) is ready to sing so badly, for the joke. Imagine how distracting it'd've been there if he'd sung it properly, as he very much can.
I love the mix of Sean Lock and Alan Davies. Alan always has a witty quirp, Sean Lock always has some absurdist or non funny comment that he delivers so perfectly that it will eventually make you laugh your ass off.
Fun Fact: Jo Brand's buzzer is taken from the Zero G Datafile One sample CD that came out in 1991. The sample was used on the classic oldskool track Le Voie Le Soleil by Subliminal Cuts.
An interesting thing about rainbows is that a rainbow that you see is a slightly different rainbow to the rainbow seen by someone stood some distance beside you looking at the "same" rainbow. In fact, the rainbow that you see at one moment is a different rainbow to the rainbow that you see at the next moment. They just happen to look very similar. This is because rainbows are an emergent phenomena produced by an enormous number of raindrops. We only see, at most, a single colour coming through an individual raindrop. The particular collection of raindrops that are responsible for creating the rainbow that you see from one vantage point at one instant is different from the collection of raindrops responsible for the rainbow seen at different vantage points and/or at different instants.
It's not bloody raindrops... When does a rainbow appear? After the rain has stopped falling right? See the obvious problem here? It's just refraction in the different density of atmosphere. Can water droplets create rainbows? Yes. So can glass. Is that what 90% of the rainbows we see are? No (unless you live by a geyser or something). Stop spreading this dumbed down lie for children.
@@astrobia94 No, a rainbow appears when the Sun is shining from behind you and it happens to be raining somewhere in front of you. Do some research either by yourself or by referring to credible books on the topic.
Another interesting thing about indigo, is that when Isaac Newton used a prism to split light into constituent colours, he could only distinguish 6 but because that is “the Devil’s number” he decided to throw indigo in there as well to make it 7
Newton’s motivation had nothing to do with “the Devil’s number”. In fact, to the medieval mind, the rainbow was only FIVE colors. Newton added two more - indigo and orange - to bring it into alignment with the number of musical notes. Trying to make music mesh more math and science was rather trendy at the time, you see.
I saw the most incredible rainbow a few years ago. I was going to bed at about dawn one summer morning and from my bedroom window I could see a rainbow really high up in the sky that wasn't just an arch but almost 270 degrees of a circle. It was fucking amazing.
In Latvia there are lots of jokes about Estonians being a bit slow... guess it started with an Estonian saying don’t point at that, your finger will fall off.
I've never heard that pointing at rainbow makes your finger fall off, but pointing at someone or something with your finger is considered very rude. Also we have jokes that Latvians have six toes. :D
Was in a plane once coming in to land and saw a perfectly round rainbow sort of hovering in the sky below. I assume it was a complete rainbow as opposed to the half versions we normally see due to the horizon blocking the other half. Was like a big colourful sky donut.
@@Lord_Skeptic Sorry, what? The roundness comes from the angles at which the different colors of light reflect. What does this has to do with indigo and red merging together because of roundness?
@@Lord_Skeptic After violet in a rainbow is ultraviolet and after red is infrared, but the human eye can't see light in those frequencies. Violet only loops back to red on a colour wheel, not on a real rainbow. The two colours are actually about as far apart as light gets.
The thing about indigo in rainbows is that we only call it indigo because Newton did when he first separated light using a prism, but the language we use to describe colors has shifted since then. The color Newton called indigo is closer to what we call blue today, and what he called blue was blue in the same sense the sky on a clear day is called blue, but it's actually closer to what we would call cyan.
Incorrect, the rainbow is created by reflected light, that means that reflected portion did not pass the water vapor. so you should be able to see it missing "from the other side".
I thought they were going to mention that Indigo in Isaac Newton's Opticks was an arbitrary nonce color to eke out his spectrum to the biblically perfect number of 7. It does let you have a middle stripe in giant rainbow flag parades (just the odd number of them). I learned my opticks in Kentucky, where I'm from, but from a 26 year old Oxfordian physics professor who one of our local Kentucky girls had scooped out of England to marry her and live with us in Kentucky forever. He was AWESOME, and I will tell you that in his introductory physics lecture, the female students all were packed into the first four rows. His demeanor was spirited, he ran to work down Eastern Parkway in jeans and trainers and taught in them, hot and sweaty. Like David Tennant's doctor. As a result of that Englishman's excellent lectures to us grateful students in Louisville, I in my life never say "ROY G BIV" for the spectrum, but always, "Richard of York, Gave Battle In Vain", though, in defence of Yorkshire "Rowntrees Of York Gave Best In Value". Eddie Redmayne was probably in short pants in that year, and so might have been Rowling, this was 1987, but our college physics professor was like Newt Scamander. I had always grown up in the United States longing for the British kind of higher scientific education, and it was a real privilege to learn my Snell's Law, my Loop and Junction theorems, Maxwell's Equations, friction, the arrow of time, thermodynamics, with such a dynamic young English professor. The QI panel's discussion of the rainbow brings it all crashing back, because I learned to work my interference calculations for front and rear surface reflections from that gentle Englishman. I'm 51 now, and I can still do my sums, and an arbitrary derivative but must content myself to simply read integral and differential expressions (for their scientific value, of course, say in GR) but I cannot solve those higher maths myself.
I'm Estonian and have NEVER heard such bullsh*t belief xD Maybe some mum told their kid that only to make Him/her stop pointing at things with a finger. My mum used to yell at me for that because it's "not polite" - you should point with your whole hand or whatever. I still point with a finger and don't give a damn. AND I still have my ten fingers so....
The legend appears to be a real one, but it doesn't come from Estonia. Around the internet, you can see it attributed variously to Thailand, Ireland, China, and other places, always on obscure websites with no sources. I have no clue where it really comes from. The British have a lot of myths about what other cultures do, say, or believe, so maybe this is just another one of those.
The practice of pointing with your whole hand actually originated in Germany during the early 20th century. Its often accompanied with a short exclamation of "heil".
Usually when someone has a factoid about a group of people "believing" something, it means it was a bit of folklore or old quackery that some of those people may have believed many years ago. It's like saying "Americans believe that making someone bleed cures various ailments!", we don't, but some of us did about 250 years ago.
This isn't actually true. In the same way as a secondary rainbow occurs because of light that has reflected twice inside a raindrop, it is possible for light to reflect three or four times within the raindrop, and these have a refractive angle that leads them to be in the direction of the light source (although usually too faint to be perceived in comparison to the light source).
@@bingola45 "A careful reading of Newton's work indicates that the color he called indigo, we would normally call blue; his blue is then what we would name blue-green or cyan."-Gary Waldman, Introduction to Light: The Physics of Light, Vision, and Color; Top of page 193. (YT won't let me post the link to the relevant Google Books page-even though they are sister companies. So, I guess you'll have to search for yourself. )
Newton's schema spread among the (Western) literati of the day which eventually trickled into public education. Professional printers later moved to the CMYK colour scheme because it was cheaper than Pantone and produced more vivid images that LAB. Thus imaging software also widely used CMYK. Once computers became more widely available to the general public, the name cyan came into common use.
I've found that in YT comments, when I provide evidence for statements, the comments become so long that most people ignore them.
@@RubelliteFae So, for 'WE', read 'Gary Waldman'. For the rest of the English-speaking world, the concept of a 'cyan' sky is as likely as a 'magenta' one. (The third subtractive primary is called 'yellow'. I wonder what 'we' illiterates used to call that?)
An interesting question, but we've never seen it. So why would a video promise to offer the information, as if there is an answer? Rather, why do we entertain the idea that some scientists somewhere have finally managed to do it? Update: Ok, so it's a light entertaining thought dare. I'll accept that.
For full episode uploads, there are TH-cam channels that do that (illegally), but this channel does not. If you're in the UK, then you should be able to find at least the latest few episodes on BBC iPlayer, and BBC has new episodes and repeats on often enough if you just watch the tv channel. (Or whichever BBC channel it is on, since there are several) TV channels in several other countries have licensed the rights to broadcast QI and most of those have some sort of official TV catchup service, but without knowing if you're from one of those countries, I can't say if you've got any legal options for watching full episodes.
@@middox239 Again, it depends on what country you're in. If a tv channel in your country has bought a licence to broadcast the show, and that channel has a catchup or streaming service, then you will be able to watch it legally. Catchup and streaming services aren't watched on a TV, they are watched in a web browser or phone app. (There may also be a cost involved, depending on country again. I know in the UK they are supposed to have a current TV licence, but I don't know if iPlayer actually verifies that the viewer has one (but it is pretty cheap if it is required). In Australia, I know there is no extra cost; the cost of ABC's iView service is fully covered by federal taxes. I don't know about other countries.)
When he brought up indigo I thought he was about to reveal that magenta technically doesn't exist. And therefore is not visible in a rainbow. Oh well...
"Color" does not mean wavelength. Magenta exists. Colors exist in the eye and brain of the beholder. Dogs and mantis-shrimps do not experience the same colors that we do.
I thought they were going to point out that indigo isn't one of the colours of the rainbow. Isaac Newton, whose interest in optics was motivated as much by alchemy as by scientific enquiry, refused to believe that a prism only had six colours rather than the 'magic' number seven, so he inserted indigo between blue and violet to make things 'right'.
"They're very stumpy though"
Brilliant quick wit of Sean Lock, RIP.
God Bless
I miss Sean Lock on QI.
Sure, he has his own shows but he filled a similar role on QI as Phill Jupitus, who just kept driving Stephen crazy... and Sandy as well.
Plus Sean is actually funny.. Phil does something funny but then keeps going over the top and just being a bit cringey after a while
@@matthewduncan8523 Well said. If his daughter wasn't an elf I don't think they'd keep wasting time inviting him to the show.
@David Miatke Being the centre of attention is the main job of a comic. Stage presence.
I have no idea how Sean has a career in comedy. I always found him the most annoying guest on any show. He's like that friend that's always trying way too hard to get laughs
Sean shines on panel shows,
His standup ain’t up to much.
As for Jupitus? Seriously....
I love Bill Bailey’s oddly philosophical comedy.
He's always funny
The rural Buddha
"Grey and grey and grey and grey and grey and grey....I can sing a wood louse!" God bless you, Bill Bailey.
It's interesting that Bill Bailey (a serious musical talent) is ready to sing so badly, for the joke. Imagine how distracting it'd've been there if he'd sung it properly, as he very much can.
"It's the colour of silence."
Ah, the return of the Rural Buddha!
Wisdom and cheap cider
@@BillGallowglass sorry it's the way I roll my rrrrrrs
@@BillGallowglass Ooo arr!
The start of the Rural Buddha, actually. I believe this episode is older than the 'space-ladder' episode.
@@petermortimer6303 You roll yours? I only wash mine.
Does anyone else judge the age of the episode by Alan Davie'ss hair length and/or hair colour?
Yes! You can tell this is a reeeeeeally old clip, as Alan had short hair. (And the fabulous Sean Locke had more hair.)
Yes! A full head of coloured hair.. must be really old!
SigmaTauri2 Bill Bailey? Is he the bald guy with the long hair?
I judge it based on the price of Stephen's suit.
Well the very old ones the inside of the Q was plain. Then they put Fibonacci rings on it.
I love the mix of Sean Lock and Alan Davies. Alan always has a witty quirp, Sean Lock always has some absurdist or non funny comment that he delivers so perfectly that it will eventually make you laugh your ass off.
RIP Sean Lock. He was among the best
Fun Fact: Jo Brand's buzzer is taken from the Zero G Datafile One sample CD that came out in 1991. The sample was used on the classic oldskool track Le Voie Le Soleil by Subliminal Cuts.
Yes man. I like when a person gets to show off their highly esoteric knowledge
I know it from Wipeout on the PS1. Messij by CoLD SToRAGE.
Good to know where the sample is from.
@@Caluma122 I was about to comment the same thing. Love that game and it's soundtrack.
HAHAHA! Bill Baily won!!!! You can only see the rainbow ... "from the side you're on" XD
The Rural Buddha Strikes Again!
@@DeadlyPants123 Wisdom and cheap cider.
The pot of gold must be easier to find when it's at the 'start of the rainbow'.
Me: There's this pot of go...
Other guy: "Shuddup! Back of Rainbow is gray! Science!"
It depends where you are looking from. It is just an illusion of light.
Thanks I am going to try that!
Anything with Sean Lock is hilarious.
Best. Comedian. Ever.
@@medievalist I've got bad news for both of you :/
@@bl4cksp1d3r I know :(
Alan, you have lovely hands. I like Sandi's ending so much, I usually miss the click just to hear her say "C'mon pick SOMETHING".🤣
Good thing he hasn't been pointing at rainbows.
"I sing a wood louse"
"Grey and grey and grey and grey....."
Lost it 🤣
In the burrow.... oh wait wrong show!
Very nice job thumbnail people! 👍
RIP Sean Lock.
You can tell this is an old clip-Sean Lock has hair! (And Bill Bailey...still doesn't.)
And Stephen Fry is present. I feel like that's a dead giveaway.
They *all* look so much younger because in this clip they are.
And Sean's still alive there 😢
*Obligatory "I am estonian and have never heard of the pointing thing"-comment*
Then its time to experiment.Caution: dont use own finger.🖕🤣
@@ShipCreek "Don't try this at home. Try it at your neighbour's home."
Same here
Stephen Fry did tend to repeat utter crap that he'd heard somewhere, from time to time.
I am an Estonian, with all my fingers, why has anyone never warned not to point my fingers at the rainbow???!!
guess they figured you already knew
The answer is: It looks like really bright rain!
Underrated video description
Bill, Alan and Sean. The British trinity.
An interesting thing about rainbows is that a rainbow that you see is a slightly different rainbow to the rainbow seen by someone stood some distance beside you looking at the "same" rainbow. In fact, the rainbow that you see at one moment is a different rainbow to the rainbow that you see at the next moment. They just happen to look very similar.
This is because rainbows are an emergent phenomena produced by an enormous number of raindrops. We only see, at most, a single colour coming through an individual raindrop. The particular collection of raindrops that are responsible for creating the rainbow that you see from one vantage point at one instant is different from the collection of raindrops responsible for the rainbow seen at different vantage points and/or at different instants.
It's not bloody raindrops... When does a rainbow appear? After the rain has stopped falling right? See the obvious problem here? It's just refraction in the different density of atmosphere. Can water droplets create rainbows? Yes. So can glass. Is that what 90% of the rainbows we see are? No (unless you live by a geyser or something). Stop spreading this dumbed down lie for children.
@@astrobia94 No, a rainbow appears when the Sun is shining from behind you and it happens to be raining somewhere in front of you. Do some research either by yourself or by referring to credible books on the topic.
Another interesting thing about indigo, is that when Isaac Newton used a prism to split light into constituent colours, he could only distinguish 6 but because that is “the Devil’s number” he decided to throw indigo in there as well to make it 7
That really is _quite interesting_ . Points points points!!!
Another fun fact is that what he would have called blue is really the color cyan.
Indigo is my favourite colour.
Newton’s motivation had nothing to do with “the Devil’s number”.
In fact, to the medieval mind, the rainbow was only FIVE colors.
Newton added two more - indigo and orange - to bring it into alignment with the number of musical notes. Trying to make music mesh more math and science was rather trendy at the time, you see.
This is the kind of popular myth that would set off the alarm in the QI studio.
I saw the most incredible rainbow a few years ago. I was going to bed at about dawn one summer morning and from my bedroom window I could see a rainbow really high up in the sky that wasn't just an arch but almost 270 degrees of a circle. It was fucking amazing.
My favorite kind is the once that encircles the full moon. The first time you see that, you go, "What the hell? That's a thing that can happen?"
@@r0bw00d That sounds like a moonbow where the reflected light from the moon reflects off of ice crystals in the sky.
You can only see it- .. from the side that you are on!
BB on fire as always
Clever description
Singing rainbows are just fine, but I prefer reading them myself
Take a look, it's in a book!
You have a point, they certainly can be read.
And orange, and yellow...
th-cam.com/video/OchyYnlHTdo/w-d-xo.html
But don't take my word for it
Rainbows can't read.
Once had the rare experience of seeing a rainbow from an airplane. It was underneath and shaped like a donut.
In Latvia there are lots of jokes about Estonians being a bit slow... guess it started with an Estonian saying don’t point at that, your finger will fall off.
I've never heard that pointing at rainbow makes your finger fall off, but pointing at someone or something with your finger is considered very rude. Also we have jokes that Latvians have six toes. :D
I love the friendly ribbing between neighbouring countries.
@Gatzby42 , I actually have six toes. I wonder if I have Latvian blood in my ancestry 😂💚
And a blackbird flew down and snipped off the offending finger thinking it was a juicy worm. Legend becomes fact🦅🤣
So its a bit like how the English view the Irish
Douglas Adams would be smiling!
indeed!
I love the end bit where Sandi says to come on and pick something. It makes me laugh every time. Can you keep those please?
Was in a plane once coming in to land and saw a perfectly round rainbow sort of hovering in the sky below. I assume it was a complete rainbow as opposed to the half versions we normally see due to the horizon blocking the other half.
Was like a big colourful sky donut.
@@Lord_Skeptic Sorry, what? The roundness comes from the angles at which the different colors of light reflect. What does this has to do with indigo and red merging together because of roundness?
@@Lord_Skeptic
After violet in a rainbow is ultraviolet and after red is infrared, but the human eye can't see light in those frequencies.
Violet only loops back to red on a colour wheel, not on a real rainbow. The two colours are actually about as far apart as light gets.
Sounds like a *glory.* en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glory_(optical_phenomenon)
@@JimC that's exactly what it was, didn't realise it had its own term
@@JimC From the description it could also have simply been a circular rainbow.
I can sing a wood louse, but it upsets them, so I don't.
Everytime I attempt to sing a wood louse they scamper off in different directions. 😉🤣
1:05 and it was at that point that anyone who's played wipEout suddenly had a flashback to the 90s
Yes! What’s the name of the song?
P Messij by CoLD SToRAGE
Wipeout is such an ionic game for us Brits. 2097 is everything.
"You can only see it from the side that you're on." I say this almost every day.
The thing about indigo in rainbows is that we only call it indigo because Newton did when he first separated light using a prism, but the language we use to describe colors has shifted since then. The color Newton called indigo is closer to what we call blue today, and what he called blue was blue in the same sense the sky on a clear day is called blue, but it's actually closer to what we would call cyan.
Sean is stumbling around searching for an example of the colour and he's wearing it.
Where do you learn the weight of baked goods?
🎶Somewhere over the rainbow
Weigh a pie🎶
🤣🤣🤣There's a mondegreen I'd not heard!
Jo Brand: "What Stephen is saying is far too interesting. I must interrupt him with a weak joke."
Incorrect, the rainbow is created by reflected light, that means that reflected portion did not pass the water vapor. so you should be able to see it missing "from the other side".
I thought they were going to mention that Indigo in Isaac Newton's Opticks was an arbitrary nonce color to eke out his spectrum to the biblically perfect number of 7. It does let you have a middle stripe in giant rainbow flag parades (just the odd number of them). I learned my opticks in Kentucky, where I'm from, but from a 26 year old Oxfordian physics professor who one of our local Kentucky girls had scooped out of England to marry her and live with us in Kentucky forever. He was AWESOME, and I will tell you that in his introductory physics lecture, the female students all were packed into the first four rows. His demeanor was spirited, he ran to work down Eastern Parkway in jeans and trainers and taught in them, hot and sweaty. Like David Tennant's doctor. As a result of that Englishman's excellent lectures to us grateful students in Louisville, I in my life never say "ROY G BIV" for the spectrum, but always, "Richard of York, Gave Battle In Vain", though, in defence of Yorkshire "Rowntrees Of York Gave Best In Value". Eddie Redmayne was probably in short pants in that year, and so might have been Rowling, this was 1987, but our college physics professor was like Newt Scamander. I had always grown up in the United States longing for the British kind of higher scientific education, and it was a real privilege to learn my Snell's Law, my Loop and Junction theorems, Maxwell's Equations, friction, the arrow of time, thermodynamics, with such a dynamic young English professor. The QI panel's discussion of the rainbow brings it all crashing back, because I learned to work my interference calculations for front and rear surface reflections from that gentle Englishman. I'm 51 now, and I can still do my sums, and an arbitrary derivative but must content myself to simply read integral and differential expressions (for their scientific value, of course, say in GR) but I cannot solve those higher maths myself.
James Joyce, is that you?
I have always wondered what shape the cross section of a lighting bolt would it be a round shape or a flat shape
Round.
Or at least "not flat".
There is never only 1 rainbow.
Whenever you see a rainbow there will also be a 'shadow' rainbow to the outside of it.
But what about a rainbow connection? Can that only be seen when you're green?
Yes, but it's not easy.
I'm Estonian and have NEVER heard such bullsh*t belief xD
Maybe some mum told their kid that only to make Him/her stop pointing at things with a finger. My mum used to yell at me for that because it's "not polite" - you should point with your whole hand or whatever. I still point with a finger and don't give a damn. AND I still have my ten fingers so....
Awwwww, you're sooooo stumpy.
The legend appears to be a real one, but it doesn't come from Estonia. Around the internet, you can see it attributed variously to Thailand, Ireland, China, and other places, always on obscure websites with no sources. I have no clue where it really comes from. The British have a lot of myths about what other cultures do, say, or believe, so maybe this is just another one of those.
Why were you pointing at rainbows ?
Were you experimenting to see if you would lose a finger? And 10 times, that is brave.😉😁🤣
The practice of pointing with your whole hand actually originated in Germany during the early 20th century.
Its often accompanied with a short exclamation of "heil".
@@alexquin4001 nah, not 'heil' kind of pointing. The way I was explainin was putting your palm upwards.
Never heard of the finger thing here... where do they get this info?
Somewhere over the rainbow, maybe?
Usually when someone has a factoid about a group of people "believing" something, it means it was a bit of folklore or old quackery that some of those people may have believed many years ago.
It's like saying "Americans believe that making someone bleed cures various ailments!", we don't, but some of us did about 250 years ago.
Perhaps some Estonian was having a laugh at the expense of a foreign anthropologist.
I guess I'll never pee towards a rainbow just to be safe.
There was no way I WASN’T going to click, with a title like that.
WHAT?
Was was was
There wasn't a was WASN'T, wasn't it?
I think you mean no way...?
tahutoa whoops, let me fix that
Surely the "ɐ" in the description should be capitalised.
1:02 So Deep Thought was right!
Alan used to get questions right
1:04 Sounds an awful lot like the same sample as used in CoLD SToRAGE - Messij (from soundtrack of Wipeout on PS1)
I swear I once walked around a rainbow that ended right next to my garden
No, you see what you've done is confused 'a rainbow' with 'my hedge'.
This isn't actually true.
In the same way as a secondary rainbow occurs because of light that has reflected twice inside a raindrop, it is possible for light to reflect three or four times within the raindrop, and these have a refractive angle that leads them to be in the direction of the light source (although usually too faint to be perceived in comparison to the light source).
What you said is right, but what exactly was in the video that would contradict that?
I don't like Sandy at the end of Stephen Fry segments. Reminds me of how good it WAS!
"from the other side"? That's not an exact place
Ah, you see. That's the joke
@@sebastianmitchell4776 It could be where the dead go
but if you are on the ISS looking at the earth with the sun to your back... would look like a giant circular rainbow?
When Sean said indigo is for fertility I wish Stephen had said, no the opposite, when he said it was for dyeing.
I suspect sean lock means the strech marks of pregnancy (purple striations, hormonal causes)
And then Fry says vert-EYE-go when he means vitiligo
I want Joe's buzzer
Damn Jo brand derailed that conversation
Did Bill Bailey ever do anything other than appear on British game shows?
Yes, "Black Books," for one:
th-cam.com/play/PLQeafetcrx5tTbWDFUjXqy80Wk7sSkijN.html
42 Estonians disliked the video. That's like 50% of the population!
This must be real old! Sean still has hair on top of his head!
it looks like a Wobniar, a series of levitating chrome rectangles only visible in moonlight
hilarious.Sean Lock...
Everybody knows it is a lot greener on the other side.
42 Degrees! Coincidence? I think not!
The range of colours we used to call indego is now called blue.
The range of colours we used to call blue is now called cyan.
Interesting.
What particular tribe is 'we', in this instance?
@@bingola45 Well, since there's a several century span between the former and latter halves of each statement, Westerners? The literate?
@@RubelliteFae That's a rather widespread generalisation.
I'd like to see how you came by it.
@@bingola45 "A careful reading of Newton's work indicates that the color he called indigo, we would normally call blue; his blue is then what we would name blue-green or cyan."-Gary Waldman, Introduction to Light: The Physics of Light, Vision, and Color; Top of page 193. (YT won't let me post the link to the relevant Google Books page-even though they are sister companies. So, I guess you'll have to search for yourself. )
Newton's schema spread among the (Western) literati of the day which eventually trickled into public education. Professional printers later moved to the CMYK colour scheme because it was cheaper than Pantone and produced more vivid images that LAB. Thus imaging software also widely used CMYK. Once computers became more widely available to the general public, the name cyan came into common use.
I've found that in YT comments, when I provide evidence for statements, the comments become so long that most people ignore them.
@@RubelliteFae So, for 'WE', read 'Gary Waldman'.
For the rest of the English-speaking world, the concept of a 'cyan' sky is as likely as a 'magenta' one.
(The third subtractive primary is called 'yellow'. I wonder what 'we' illiterates used to call that?)
An interesting question, but we've never seen it. So why would a video promise to offer the information, as if there is an answer? Rather, why do we entertain the idea that some scientists somewhere have finally managed to do it?
Update: Ok, so it's a light entertaining thought dare. I'll accept that.
After a night on the lash: Red and yellow and pink and green, purple and orange and blue, I just puked a rainbow.
From behind what - a pane of glass or a gravestone ?
How about the sound of silence tho...
🎶
I study rainbows and came here just to make sure they got the answers right :)
I fact check Unicorns also.
Wode is the source for indigo.
Impetigo? That's a different set of lips, altogether...
Indigo is not a colour. There is no RGB value associated with it. It is called "non-spectral" and is an illusion.
Just like brown...
The way Alan says "oh for god's sake" like he believes all Estonians think their finger will drop off if they point at a rainbow is a bit telling.
No, he said that about the possibility that could ever be held as 'something they believe'
israel kamakawiwo'ole would know, he's been over the rainbow
I want bright rainbows at night!
Sun is not required. You can have a moon rainbow as well
...with no reds and yellows.
It still requires the sun, though; just indirectly.
i love watching these clips but is there any actual show where they originate from or some youtube stream i keep missing?
For full episode uploads, there are TH-cam channels that do that (illegally), but this channel does not.
If you're in the UK, then you should be able to find at least the latest few episodes on BBC iPlayer, and BBC has new episodes and repeats on often enough if you just watch the tv channel. (Or whichever BBC channel it is on, since there are several)
TV channels in several other countries have licensed the rights to broadcast QI and most of those have some sort of official TV catchup service, but without knowing if you're from one of those countries, I can't say if you've got any legal options for watching full episodes.
@@OriginalPiMan i dont even own a tv so i dont think i have any legal options...
@@middox239
Again, it depends on what country you're in. If a tv channel in your country has bought a licence to broadcast the show, and that channel has a catchup or streaming service, then you will be able to watch it legally.
Catchup and streaming services aren't watched on a TV, they are watched in a web browser or phone app.
(There may also be a cost involved, depending on country again. I know in the UK they are supposed to have a current TV licence, but I don't know if iPlayer actually verifies that the viewer has one (but it is pretty cheap if it is required). In Australia, I know there is no extra cost; the cost of ABC's iView service is fully covered by federal taxes. I don't know about other countries.)
QI is on Netflix
@@AlecBrady
Not everywhere. Not in my country.
When he brought up indigo I thought he was about to reveal that magenta technically doesn't exist. And therefore is not visible in a rainbow.
Oh well...
So my favourite colour doesn't exist? How very me. Also explains a lot about printer cartridges.
"Color" does not mean wavelength. Magenta exists. Colors exist in the eye and brain of the beholder. Dogs and mantis-shrimps do not experience the same colors that we do.
I thought they were going to point out that indigo isn't one of the colours of the rainbow. Isaac Newton, whose interest in optics was motivated as much by alchemy as by scientific enquiry, refused to believe that a prism only had six colours rather than the 'magic' number seven, so he inserted indigo between blue and violet to make things 'right'.
42° nuff said.
It comes up on women's legs when they're ready??? I don't think I'll ever get my mind around that one. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
¿ʍoquıɐɹ ɐ - I had no idea you could write upside down in TH-cam
˙uoɹoɯ dn ʇnɥS
*Kermit has left the chat
Well please come on, pick somethin...
I think Sean was thinking of rope burn? :/
Today you learned that you can only see a rainbow via the right triangulation.
have to wonder. has anyone else here seen a colorless rainbow?.
That outro is starting to stink. It was getting old 6 months ago.
What? Estonians don't believe that. Never heard of such nonsense and I'm from here.
Okay but purple is a lie
Understand that there is no rainbow.
Brits think if you are intoxicated every day you will get smarter.
“Thanks for watching. Do you remember to subscribe?....”
Is THAT what Sandi says at the end??
Colour blind. Rainbows ARE grey.
1:04 Jo Brand was obviously not quite interested
I wonder who else here has ever seen a 🌈 on 🎄 Day, as I have? 😇