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That's a better explanation than I could come up with.
On a completely irrelevant note, why is "the sky is blue" the standard for "obviously true fact"? The sky is black about half the time, and it's pretty common for it to be white, too.
If you count navy as blue rather than as black, that happens more rarely than “half the time”. (I'd say “10% of the time” as I have that number cached in my mind as the duty cycle of fluorescence detectors for ultra-high-energy cosmic rays.) You know, the moon.
And when that happens, in places where electric lighting is widely used, it tends to become orange (not quite -- does that colour have a name?) during the night!
I believe CronoDAS was referring to overcast days when they said the sky is sometimes white.
Yes, I was talking about his claim that “the sky is black about half the time”; I didn't touch his claim that “it's pretty common for it to be white”.
EDIT: Okay, failed reading comprehension of my own comment.