The sheer audacity to call the planet we live on "blue marble" when Neptune out there looking like that.

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mxeff@feddit.org · 30 pts · 311d

Behold, Approximate True Colour Neptune

Wikipedia - Neptune - Colour

Actually not that blue, compared to Earth.

gedaliyah@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 311d

Marble? More like a yoga ball.

moody@lemmings.world · 13 pts · 311d (2 replies)

Neptune looks much less blue in real color when compared to the Voyager photos we're used to. In real color, Earth looks like a much deeper blue, while Neptune looks like a pale, foggy, light blue.

Admetus@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 311d

Shame. Pale blue marble doesn't roll off the tongue.

sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 311d

*froggy

ChicoSuave@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 311d

Fuck those Neptunian bitches, man. They want Blue back, come take it.

Shigeko_Kageyama@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 298d

It's really more like a balloon to me. Because it's a gas giant.

BananaPeal@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 305d

I feel that the bigger audacity is the real name. Earth means soil, yet maybe 25% of the surface is soil.