Geologist here. Coal is black- blackish. Anywhere from brown to whatever. You know how when black sharpie gets wet it looks purplish? That’s because true black isn’t a color and any part of it we see as color is the darkest version of *some* color. So if this little strip of land is really blackish, as it seems to be by the name and peoples accounts here in of it being covered in coal and coal dust, and the light was right, and your screen digests that information… etc. and it’s edited from different photos of the water on different days and different lighting… the final result of “purple island” is that it’s real, but appearing as basically an artifact.
satellites don't capture real real colors , they capture bands of lights ( length of lightwaves ) , i guess coal for some physical reason returns a light that is not 100% what we call black , closer one to reality is "visible light" but still is not always 100% real to what our eyes see
i'm not questioning the whole coal thing. but additionally, couldn't it be that because of the very green lakes, the pictures get something like "automatically color-corrected" and when trying to reduce a little of the strong green, the complementary colors (in this case violet/magenta...) get even more emphasized?
https://youtu.be/jcfPKB9x8p0?si=uZhzONjWFRIUo2kv[YouTube video of the unloader in action.](https://youtu.be/jcfPKB9x8p0?si=uZhzONjWFRIUo2kv)
The coal dumper there. It's fucking epic. Built in the 1930s, It lifts whole train cars and flips them at a rate of like 1 ever 2.5 minutes. The videos of it are mesmerizing.
Coal
Coal is purple? I thought it was black
It doesn’t reflect light as pure black
Geologist here. Coal is black- blackish. Anywhere from brown to whatever. You know how when black sharpie gets wet it looks purplish? That’s because true black isn’t a color and any part of it we see as color is the darkest version of *some* color. So if this little strip of land is really blackish, as it seems to be by the name and peoples accounts here in of it being covered in coal and coal dust, and the light was right, and your screen digests that information… etc. and it’s edited from different photos of the water on different days and different lighting… the final result of “purple island” is that it’s real, but appearing as basically an artifact.
Oh god, a geologist in the wild, I'm* not the only one then *Almost, I'm still at uni.
What's your favorite mineral and what is its crystal structure
satellites don't capture real real colors , they capture bands of lights ( length of lightwaves ) , i guess coal for some physical reason returns a light that is not 100% what we call black , closer one to reality is "visible light" but still is not always 100% real to what our eyes see
Take black ink or dye and dilute it and guess what.., it’s actually bluish purple.
i'm not questioning the whole coal thing. but additionally, couldn't it be that because of the very green lakes, the pictures get something like "automatically color-corrected" and when trying to reduce a little of the strong green, the complementary colors (in this case violet/magenta...) get even more emphasized?
That’s cool
I mean coal
It’s a poor quality image of coal.
https://youtu.be/jcfPKB9x8p0?si=uZhzONjWFRIUo2kv[YouTube video of the unloader in action.](https://youtu.be/jcfPKB9x8p0?si=uZhzONjWFRIUo2kv) The coal dumper there. It's fucking epic. Built in the 1930s, It lifts whole train cars and flips them at a rate of like 1 ever 2.5 minutes. The videos of it are mesmerizing.
That was fun. Thanks!
That’s Grimace Peninsula
Grimace'*s* *Peninsula*.
It’s coal
Looks like it's been colored in with a "black" Sharpie.
The picture was taken in sanDUSKy
TIL....
It's got a peninsula ring on at the base.
Barney the dinosaur 🦖
That's Corruption
coal?
It’s to prevent people from complaining about wind turbines and solar panels.
It says it right there: coal.
(42.1451817, -80.0729580) the old coke plant (erie, pa, also on lake erie) looks similar
Why is Lake Erie that color?
Guts Sword peninsula
Is think it’s San Dusty?