My quick guess is that it is so dim, that our eyes are seeing it mostly with the rods (instead of the cones), which only see black and white. „In the night all cats are gray“
this post was submitted on 11 May 2024
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Wait... Did you really just use the Benjamin Franklin grandma pussy quote for this?
Excuse me the what now
Oh. I didn’t know this was a thing. In my mother tongue (German) it is like a normal expression.