On 1/13/07, Fred Bauder fredbaud@waterwiki.info wrote:
'I've run afoul of the rules lawyers on Wikipedia many times. It's getting to the point where you can't even say the sky is blue without one of these little Napoleans squawking, "Original research! Need citation!"'
Next time it happens, ask him to contact me: "The blue sky is so commonplace that it is taken for granted" Schaefer, Vincent J.; John A. Day (1998). A Field Guide to the Atmosphere. Houghton Mifflin Field Guides. ISBN 0395976316.
"It is now well established that the luminosity and blue colour on very clear days and at considerable altitudes above the sea-level can almost be accounted for by the scattering of light by the molecules of air, without postulating suspended particles of foreign matter." R. J. Strutt (Lord Rayleigh), Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A, 94(662), June 01, 1918, pp. 453 - 459.