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Mister W,

	Why did they pick "green" to mean go and not, say, blue, doppler-style?
 I mean, red is not alliterative to "stop," so it shouldn't matter,
should it?

-The NYC Traffic Department
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Dear Lux Exterior,

	Technically, a light source that Doppler-shifts to the blue end of the
spectrum isn't going, it's coming.  Which is why they call them Blue Movies.

	Wokka-wokka.


	Traffic lights were based on the already established color system used
in electrical wiring and engineering, on the grounds that everyone who
could afford an automobile was most likely a college graduate and
engineer of some kind.  Hoo!  Ha!  In that color code, of course, green
meant "safe" and red meant "bacon fingers."  

	American driving habits eventually called for the addition of "amber,"
which indicates "Screw you, coppers! You'll never take me alive!"


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