Anonymous-0
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This is not a trick question.
Does anyone know what color George Washington's white horse was?
Does anyone know what color George Washington's white horse was?
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gtractorfan
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Guess it would depend on what color light was shining on it? You know, like the tinfoil Christmas trees with a color light wheel shining on it.
Didn't they eat that horse at Valley Forge? Someone must have kept the hide so they could keep warm.
We had a horse hide cover for our bed in an unheated bedroom when I was a kid; it kept us warm when it was bitter cold - it was from a red horse, but I don't think that it ever belonged to George. I'm pretty sure that George never made it to ND either.
We had a horse hide cover for our bed in an unheated bedroom when I was a kid; it kept us warm when it was bitter cold - it was from a red horse, but I don't think that it ever belonged to George. I'm pretty sure that George never made it to ND either.
Rich'sToys
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One person thought it was black, but the next person said it was white!
Kind of like that dress on the internet a few weeks back.
Kind of like that dress on the internet a few weeks back.
Stephen Newell
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The artists of the era seem to think it was a white horse. Most of the paintings depict him on a white horse.
Anonymous-0
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By all accounts it vasn't white, but sorta, kinda dapple gray.
SweetFeet I agree with you but I pose another conundrum...
When light hits a white surface, all the light spectrum (R.O.Y.G.B.I.V.) is reflected from the white surface and received to our eyes.
Therefore, if the 'white' surface is reflecting the full spectrum of light into our eyes which is All colors, and we know R.O.Y.G.B.I.V. mixed together equals black, why do we see it as white?
If all those colors hit my receptors at once, shouldn't I see 'black'?
I asked my college professor this and he could not answer.
So do you think white is actually black and black is really white?
When light hits a white surface, all the light spectrum (R.O.Y.G.B.I.V.) is reflected from the white surface and received to our eyes.
Therefore, if the 'white' surface is reflecting the full spectrum of light into our eyes which is All colors, and we know R.O.Y.G.B.I.V. mixed together equals black, why do we see it as white?
If all those colors hit my receptors at once, shouldn't I see 'black'?
I asked my college professor this and he could not answer.
So do you think white is actually black and black is really white?
gtractorfan
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This is why I like reading the thoughts on this site-- lotsa cool thinking!
old
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Unless one could really look it it up close hard to say. If it has pink skin it is truly a white horse but if it has black or other such color skin it is not a true white horse but a gray instead
Anonymous-0
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Thanks to all that had a comment.
I didn't know it was so technical of a subject, you all know your horses.
As its bean said, a horse is a horse by any other name.
I didn't know it was so technical of a subject, you all know your horses.
As its bean said, a horse is a horse by any other name.
As they reflect(mix), they become a new signal that we see as a different color. 'All' colors appears as white ? ?
I was a TV tech in the 60's & 70's. It was interesting to learn that the 'color pictures' came from only, Red, Green & Blue phosphor dots. There are no 'white' dots.
I was a TV tech in the 60's & 70's. It was interesting to learn that the 'color pictures' came from only, Red, Green & Blue phosphor dots. There are no 'white' dots.
"I was a TV tech" - Me too.
Mixing colored lights like in a TV or stage lighting is the additive
color mixing process though, exactly the opposite of mixing paints.
All colors mixed equals white, no colors equals black.
Even the primary and secondary colors are reversed from art class.
Mixing colored lights like in a TV or stage lighting is the additive
color mixing process though, exactly the opposite of mixing paints.
All colors mixed equals white, no colors equals black.
Even the primary and secondary colors are reversed from art class.
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