Several months before blue strips started floating to the surface of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, a company involved in its last renovation more than 15 years ago was approached with an opportunity to do this remodel as well. But the company said no.
Specifically, it balked at two requirements – the Trump administration wanted it done by July 4, and the pool bottom had to be blue, according to two employees with the New Jersey-based Sika Corporation, which provided the concrete construction and sealing products for a 2010 renovation project to the Reflecting Pool.
According to the two employees, who spoke to CNN on the condition they not be identified, both demands made the job “unfeasible.”
You shouldn't have started your comment with an insult to their intelligence and then immediately talked bollocks. Now I'm duty-bound to correct your arrogant nonsense.
the sky is blue because it reflects the water
Nope. It's blue because the atmosphere filters out bluer light.
It only works with sunlight
Nope. There's nothing special about sunlight, you can reproduce the effect experimentally with a torch and a tube of water
everything would look blue if you stood in a small room with water, air, and the sun.
What? How you gonna fit the sun into a small room?