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VIDEO: Very Very Close Encounter With a Rainbow
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| November 12, 2022
| DUmmie FUnnies
Posted on 11/13/2022 5:58:03 AM PST by PJ-Comix
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Oh, and that very very close rainbow did bring us very very good luck in the form of my wife winning a jackpot at the slots in the ships casino later in the cruise... which is why we are going on ANOTHER cruise to the Caribbean this January.
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posted on
11/13/2022 5:58:03 AM PST
by
PJ-Comix
To: Xenalyte; RMDupree; AlexW; CzarNicky; Mike Fieschko; motzman; codercpc; thingumbob; tje; ml1954; ...
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posted on
11/13/2022 5:59:09 AM PST
by
PJ-Comix
(YouTube is Trying to "Fortify" Another Election)
To: PJ-Comix
Does anyone else remember when a rainbow was a sign of God, not the alphabet mafia?
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posted on
11/13/2022 6:07:20 AM PST
by
No name given
(Anonymous is who you’ll know me as. )
To: PJ-Comix
I drove through one once. Lucky none of us wrecked but everyone did swerve a bit because our vision was wacky for a few seconds.
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posted on
11/13/2022 6:07:56 AM PST
by
Pollard
(Worm & GMO Free - some call us purebloods)
To: No name given
Does anyone else remember when a rainbow was a sign of God, not the alphabet mafia? No Ah don't.
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posted on
11/13/2022 6:08:21 AM PST
by
PJ-Comix
(YouTube is Trying to "Fortify" Another Election)
To: PJ-Comix
A rainbow is defined by a set of angles, not a location in space. It is a set of nested cones, each with its vertex located at the viewers eye, each corresponding to one color in the continuum of colors that result from the wavelength-dependent scattering of sunlight from far-away raindrops.
Two different observers — looking at the same rainbow from different locations at the same time — will see the rainbow in exactly the same location in the sky. If they then cooperate to find how "far away" it is by triangulation, they will discover that it is located at infinity.
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posted on
11/13/2022 6:17:31 AM PST
by
Steely Tom
([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
To: Steely Tom
Whoa Mr. Smartypants!
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posted on
11/13/2022 6:22:31 AM PST
by
Delta 21
(MAGA Republican is my pronoun.)
To: Steely Tom
Interesting post, thanks.
But if a rainbow is at infinity, does this mean there is no Somewhere Over The Rainbow?
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posted on
11/13/2022 6:31:54 AM PST
by
jigsaw
(God Bless Our Wonderful Troops.)
To: jigsaw
But if a rainbow is at infinity, does this mean there is no Somewhere Over The Rainbow? Like a rainbow, the "land that I've heard of, once in a lullaby" is infinitely far away — and infinitely close — at the same time.
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posted on
11/13/2022 6:41:33 AM PST
by
Steely Tom
([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
To: jigsaw
There is also Gravity’s Rainbow.
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posted on
11/13/2022 6:44:26 AM PST
by
PJ-Comix
(YouTube is Trying to "Fortify" Another Election)
To: Steely Tom
Maybe, but I once had one that ended right in a bush in my backyard. So I ran out to find the pot of gold there, but all I found was a bird’s nest. No eggs either. Darn!
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posted on
11/13/2022 6:47:00 AM PST
by
FamiliarFace
(I got my own way of livin' But everything gets done With a southern accent Where I come from. TP)
To: Steely Tom
I think the location of the rainbow would be more in correlation with the location of the water vapor mist that the light is passing through
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posted on
11/13/2022 7:31:29 AM PST
by
gdc61
(LOL not.)
To: gdc61
In this instance the water vapor or the mist caused by the turbulence of the boat motor
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posted on
11/13/2022 7:32:36 AM PST
by
gdc61
(LOL not.)
To: Steely Tom
What kid hasn’t seen a rainbow in mist from a garden hose, the mist volume being no more than five or ten feet from the eye?
Oh, right....kids don’t play with garden hoses anymore, they might get their iPhones wet.
To: gdc61
I think the location of the rainbow would be more in correlation with the location of the water vapor mist that the light is passing through That's true, but the apparent size of the rainbow from the cloud of mist is exactly the same, whether the cloud is fifty feet away, or fifty miles away.
The degree of the (again, apparent) saturation of the colors is greater if the cloud of droplets is closer, but that's a second-order effect arising from haze (its presence, or absence) on the path from the observer's eye to the cloud, however far away it is.
My earlier point was that the rainbow is not "in a place." Think about it by asking yourself this question: I see a rainbow I think is 50 feet away. If you are 100 feet to my left, can you see a "side view" of "my" rainbow by looking to your right?
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posted on
11/13/2022 8:06:32 AM PST
by
Steely Tom
([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
To: PJ-Comix
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posted on
11/13/2022 8:15:39 AM PST
by
DannyTN
To: Steely Tom
That’s not true, I got a couple of leprechauns off of the end of one once.
I gave them each a cup of beer and they got into a fight.
Or maybe I was drinking the beer. I don’t remember, it was a long time ago.
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posted on
11/13/2022 8:45:00 AM PST
by
Sarcazmo
("Sarcasm is the highest form of wit" ~ O. Wilde)
To: PJ-Comix
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posted on
11/13/2022 9:57:36 AM PST
by
unlearner
( Si vis pacem, para bellum. Let him who desires peace prepare for war.)
To: Steely Tom
Exactly this. Thanks for posting. Rainbows aren’t physical objects.
To: PJ-Comix; little jeremiah
PJ; There is a fainter double rainbow to the right. There is a flock of cattle on the horizon to the left of the hill. When its all big and flat and expansive perspectives seem different.
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posted on
11/13/2022 6:24:59 PM PST
by
Pete from Shawnee Mission
( NOAA A Colorado rainbow and rainshaft College of Dupage's Storm Chasing Trip 3. )
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