Why do so many people ask, "Why is the sky blue?"?

Question

A search on "why sky blue" at Google turns up 35 MILLION hits!!!

Answer 1

You should add quotes around the query terms. Without the quotes the search engine will return all documents that contain 'why' 'sky' 'blue' anywhere in the text.



Y!Search: why sky blue -> 22,300,000

Y!Search: "why sky blue" -> 215,000



Yes, still an impressive number of hits.

Answer 2

well i guess when they first stumble across a site and say to themselves "oooh, look at this, a site where i can ask a question--any question, and get an answer!!! ...what should i ask?" and of course the biggest cliche question is "why is the sky blue?" It's the biggest question that everyone seems to have at some point, and they figure they can finally find out. i mean, the sky is right there, we always see it, so any time anyone hears the question, they can't answer it and it sits there in their minds, and they see the sky all the time and their subconscious mind always knows that they don't know the answer... I guess it probably all started with one person asking several others and then those people all asked several others, among non-physics people of course, and you never really get the answer unless you ask someone who likes physics, so it stays in the back of your mind forever. this is why everyone should take physics so they can know these things and satisfy their innate curiosities about the universe, i mean, everyone wants to know these things.

Answer 3

They just want to get some easy points.