It could be a reference to the astronomical phenomena of galaxies moving away from us at unbelievable speeds, they are said to be "red shifted". The light from the side moving away takes longer to reach us than the side moving towards us "blue shifted" The doppler effect (sound) is similar/ So i assume they needed a new color to describe just how fast spaceball one was really going

It could be a reference to the astronomical phenomena of galaxies moving away from us at unbelievable speeds, they are said to be "redshifted." The light from the side moving away takes longer to reach us than the side moving towards us "blueshifted." The Doppler effect (sound) is similar. So I assume they needed a new color to describe just how fast Spaceball One was really going