Light spectrum Memes

Welcome to the IQ bell curve, where being spectacularly wrong happens at both extremes! The average folks (34% on each side of the mean) think the sun is white—which is technically correct if you're measuring the full spectrum of light. Meanwhile, the bottom 2% confidently declare "sun yellow!" like they're holding a kindergarten crayon. But wait for the plot twist! The top 2% have circled back to wrongness with "the sun is green"—a reference to the fact that the sun's peak emission is in the green wavelength range, despite appearing white to our eyes due to atmospheric scattering and our visual perception. Nothing quite captures human intelligence like being confidently incorrect at both extremes of the distribution. The lesson? Sometimes being too smart makes you just as wrong as being... well, let's say "intellectually adventurous."

The bell curve of astronomical knowledge is a thing of beauty! On the left, we have the blissfully simple "sun is yellow because it looks yellow" crowd—technically correct but missing the cosmic nuance. On the right, the astrophysics enthusiast correctly identifying our star as a G-class yellow dwarf (G2V to be precise). But the intellectual peak? That panicking genius having an existential crisis because they've realized the sun actually emits ALL wavelengths of visible light (which combines to appear white when viewed from space). The sun only appears yellow from Earth because our atmosphere scatters blue light! It's the perfect representation of how sometimes knowing TOO much science can ruin your day.