Dyeing the liffey blue all year round

battries not included

Just wondering why can't they council (or whoever is in charge) put a blue dye into the river liffey as opposed to looking at the horrible green.

bleg

Water isn't naturally blue...

Sunnyisland

batteries not included wrote: »

Just wondering why can't they council (or whoever is in charge) put a blue dye into the river liffey as opposed to looking at the horrible green.

And they could throw in a ton of radox to gives us some suds,sure it be great craic.:)

Logical Fallacy

bleg wrote: »

Water isn't naturally blue...

Unless you are in a Bounty ad.

And that's only because using a yellow liquid would look like you were cleaning up piss.

Riamfada

they should dye it clear ... idiots

battries not included

Riamfada wrote: »

they should dye it clear ... idiots

How would we see it then

bleg

Riamfada wrote: »

they should dye it clear ... idiots

Something can be clear and still have a colour.:pac::pac::pac:

EoghanConway

bleg wrote: »

Water isn't naturally blue...

Actually, it is.

bleg

EoghanConway wrote: »

Actually, it is.

Ah yea but only with very large bodies of water in the open environment.

im invisible

bleg wrote: »

Water isn't naturally blue...

yes it is

EoghanConway

bleg wrote: »

Ah yea but only with very large bodies of water in the open environment.

Not as big as you might think, you'd notice it in an olympic standard swimming pool. And that's not the chlorine.

Samich

im invisible wrote: »

yes it is

No it's not, it's the skies reflection

Robdude

Because the country is bankrupt....

/the end

Mycroft H

Samich wrote: »

No it's not, it's the skies reflection

No its not. Its the selective absorption and reflection of different wavelengths of light.

senorwipesalot

They could put a giant toilet block at the source.

44leto

bleg wrote: »

Water isn't naturally blue...

I thought it was, oxygen is slightly blue hence the blue skys and deep clear blue oceans.

battries not included

bleg wrote: »

Water isn't naturally blue...

I never mentioned natural blue colour, merely I would think a blue colour would be better over the green mulch colour it is today.

Lumbo

They could start by cleaning the River at Hueston bridge.

Considering it's potentially the first place people traveling to Dublin see, it's a disgrace that it's not looked after.

bleg

44leto wrote: »

I thought it was, oxygen is slightly blue hence the blue skys and deep clear blue oceans.

The depths of the oceans are in pretty much complete darkness. Blue skies are due to refraction of light.

FruitLover

Samich wrote: »

No it's not, it's the skies reflection

The sky contributes significantly to the blue look of large bodies of water (as do minerals dissolved in sea water), but water is also slightly blue itself (as is oxygen, believe it or not).

Logical Fallacy

bleg wrote: »

The depths of the oceans are in pretty much complete darkness. Blue skies are due to refraction of light.

So is the blue in water.

Old Tom

battries not included wrote: »

Just wondering why can't they council (or whoever is in charge) put a blue dye into the river liffey as opposed to looking at the horrible green.

They did, but as the blue mixed with yellow piss it simply turned green.

FTGFOP

To think of how blue water is naturally, think of a swimming pool. Clean water is a very pale blue but in large amounts it's blue hue is obvious.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colour_of_water

Badly Drunk Boy

battries not included wrote: »

Just wondering why can't they council (or whoever is in charge) put a blue dye into the river liffey as opposed to looking at the horrible green.

The last time I saw the Liffey it was beautifully clear, not murky green. Could that be because I saw it in Kildare, before the Dubs pollute it?

Lumbo

Badly Drunk Boy wrote: »

The last time I saw the Liffey it was beautifully clear, not murky green. Could that be because I saw it in Kildare, before the Dubs pollute it?

Kildare put all their **** in the Liffey at Leixlip (Crafty bastards).

Sunnyisland

senorwipesalot wrote: »

They could put a giant toilet block at the source.

They have one, its called kildare :pac:

The colour we see when looking at the surface of a body of water is the combination of the reflection of the sky and the intrinsic colour of the water. That is why the sea looks blue on fine days and looks grey-blue on overcast days. (Example) The colour we see when we look through a body of water is indeed blue, because water molecules absorb the red end of the spectrum more than the blue.

Duiske

Lumbo wrote: »

They could start by cleaning the River at Hueston bridge.

Considering it's potentially the first place people traveling to Dublin see, it's a disgrace that it's not looked after.

And slaughter those feck'in seagulls. with their precision guided bird turds.

oppenheimer1

Badly Drunk Boy wrote: »

The last time I saw the Liffey it was beautifully clear, not murky green. Could that be because I saw it in Kildare, before the Dubs pollute it?

The Liffey is brown not because it is polluted but because it has picked up natural tannins from flowing through bog.

44leto

The liffey is clean, it is one of the few rivers going through a million+ city that still has Salmon spawning in it. The Thames has as well but only after massive investment and restocking.

I THINK it is this time of year you will see them going up the river from any of the city bridges.

Sindri

Water is wet............

Adolf Hipster

Roses are red
Water is blue
dubs are dirty bastards
and so are you.

Riddle101

Just clean the f*cking thing. I'd rather it be green and clean, then blue and still have all that other sh!te that you tend to see in it. It's filthy and looks like sewege. People would think we just dump all our crap into it and are happy about it.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

im invisible wrote: »

yes it is

Turn on your tap. Tell me if the stuff that comes out is blue.

JupiterKid

Water IS blue, but the colour is so faint that you need substantial volumes of the stuff to see the blue, like in a swimming pool or a large tank in an aquarium.

The Liffey may not have an alluring colour but it is pretty clean these days compared to the 1970s and 80s when, as that Bagatelle song goes, "it stank like hell.":pac:

City council should do much more to clear the river bed of shopping trollies, road cones, bikes and other assorted junk. It doesn't look good at low tide.

MungBean

bleg wrote: »

Something can be clear and still have a colour.:pac::pac::pac:

It can be transparent and have colour, to be truly clear it wouldn't reflect light so wouldn't have a colour.

What colour is the wind...........daddy ?

My name is URL

I think the government should just drug the OP so that he sees everything as being blue

paddy147

Sindri wrote: »

Water is wet............

So what would dry ice be then??

previous user

disgusting

MungBean

paddy147 wrote: »

So what would dry ice be then??

Dry ice. Wet water. Moist moisture.

DarkJager

JupiterKid wrote: »

Water IS blue, but the colour is so faint that you need substantial volumes of the stuff to see the blue, like in a swimming pool or a large tank in an aquarium.

The Liffey may not have an alluring colour but it is pretty clean these days compared to the 1970s and 80s when, as that Bagatelle song goes, "it stank like hell.":pac:

City council should do much more to clear the river bed of shopping trollies, road cones, bikes and other assorted junk. It doesn't look good at low tide.

No it's not. Pour yourself a glass of water and tell me what colour it is.

SeaFields

Re Salmon

44leto wrote: »

I THINK it is this time of year you will see them going up the river from any of the city bridges.

Summer salmon (or Grilse as they are known) are probably easier to spot in the city rivers. I regularly see them in the Lee in Cork downstream of the bridges. Although they have a lovely silver colour when out of the water, in the water they have a brown back. Very common if you know what you're looking for.

John_Rambo

Riddle101 wrote: »

Just clean the f*cking thing. I'd rather it be green and clean, then blue and still have all that other sh!te that you tend to see in it.

It is clean. What do you tend to see in it? Last year I saw an otter a few minutes from the city centre. They need fish, fish need clean water.. work it out.

Paulie Gualtieri

I think we should paint all the junkies faces blue , it would be nice and they wouldnt even notice.

Adolf Hipster

DarkJager wrote: »

JupiterKid wrote: »

Water IS blue, but the colour is so faint that you need substantial volumes of the stuff to see the blue, like in a swimming pool or a large tank in an aquarium.

The Liffey may not have an alluring colour but it is pretty clean these days compared to the 1970s and 80s when, as that Bagatelle song goes, "it stank like hell.":pac:

City council should do much more to clear the river bed of shopping trollies, road cones, bikes and other assorted junk. It doesn't look good at low tide.

No it's not. Pour yourself a glass of water and tell me what colour it is.

He said substantial amounts.

cocoshovel

I often wonder how many layers of shopping trolleys and bicycles are in the silt banks and river bed of the Liffey. I mean, there must be bloody bicycles burried down there from 100 years ago!

MungBean

cocoshovel wrote: »

I often wonder how many layers of shopping trolleys and bicycles are in the silt banks and river bed of the Liffey. I mean, there must be bloody bicycles burried down there from 100 years ago!

Probably a fortune in scrap metal

Scruffles

Duiske wrote: »

And slaughter those feck'in seagulls. with their precision guided bird turds.

being shat on by a bird if am not mistaken of peoples superstitions is supposed to be lucky ,if are being shat on by them on a regular basis perhaps they are trying to spread extra luck or are under a 'hit' contract within the seagull underworld.

more likely we need a organised cull of humans-they knowingly spread more crap & disease than anyone else and will quite often call lesser developed more vulnerable species such as rats and pigeons the vermin for unknowingly doing the same thing when they do not have the understanding nor facilities to help themselves.


as for the liffey dyeing,we have our own dyeing system in place in the manchester ship canal,its called pollution dumping, shopping trolleys ,burnt out cars and all sorts of other manky water reactive crap that currently sleeps with the non existant fishes.
its a bit like one of those hypercolor tshirts,it changes colour depending on the heat and sunlight direction.:pac:

fasttalkerchat

Samich wrote: »

No it's not, it's the skies reflection

Urban myth. It is actually blue.

bb1234567

A dyed blue river running through the city would look strange, the rivers fine as is and seems fairly clean already.Leave it be.:)

CrabRevolution

paddy147 wrote: »

So what would dry ice be then??

I just have to mention here that dry ice is frozen Carbon Dioxide, so not water....