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Dyeing the liffey blue all year round

  • 17-03-2012 02:25PM
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 734 ✭✭✭


    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.
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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,848 ✭✭✭bleg


    Water isn't naturally blue...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,562 ✭✭✭✭Sunnyisland


    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.:)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,933 ✭✭✭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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,246 ✭✭✭✭Riamfada


    they should dye it clear ... idiots


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 734 ✭✭✭battries not included


    Riamfada wrote: »
    they should dye it clear ... idiots

    How would we see it then :confused:
































































































    ;)


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,848 ✭✭✭bleg


    Riamfada wrote: »
    they should dye it clear ... idiots



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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 391 ✭✭EoghanConway


    bleg wrote: »
    Water isn't naturally blue...

    Actually, it is.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,848 ✭✭✭bleg


    Actually, it is.

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


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,372 ✭✭✭im invisible


    bleg wrote: »
    Water isn't naturally blue...
    yes it is


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 391 ✭✭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.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,949 ✭✭✭Samich


    yes it is

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


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 709 ✭✭✭Robdude


    Because the country is bankrupt....

    /the end


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,306 ✭✭✭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.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,458 ✭✭✭senorwipesalot


    They could put a giant toilet block at the source.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,137 ✭✭✭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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 734 ✭✭✭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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,113 ✭✭✭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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,848 ✭✭✭bleg


    44leto wrote: »
    I thought it was, oxygen is slightly blue hence the blue skys and deep clear blue oceans.


    :confused:

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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,534 ✭✭✭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).


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,933 ✭✭✭Logical Fallacy


    bleg wrote: »
    :confused:

    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.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 237 ✭✭Old Tom


    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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,389 ✭✭✭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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 7,115 ✭✭✭Badly Drunk Boy


    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?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,113 ✭✭✭Lumbo


    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).


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,562 ✭✭✭✭Sunnyisland


    They could put a giant toilet block at the source.


    They have one, its called kildare :pac:


  • Posts: 1,452 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,086 ✭✭✭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.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,733 ✭✭✭oppenheimer1


    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.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,137 ✭✭✭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.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,059 ✭✭✭Sindri


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


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