Back in my day, we spent our time on social media debating whether a dress was blue and black or white and gold!

@LilahTovMoon Ah, the golden age.

Independent of the psycho-physiology of human vision, the colors we see depend on the absorption spectra of the materials, the spectrum of the source of illumination, atmospheric distortion, and the degree to which the image we see has captured this information without any human monkeying of the data.

In other words, we’ll never know. That’s what makes it ripe material for internet pundits.