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To: B-Cause

Firefall was not water+Sun.

The hotel up there would dump burning embers down at that spot.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yosemite_Firefall


9 posted on 07/12/2010 10:37:03 PM PDT by Southack (Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
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To: Southack; B-Cause

Looks to be a mix of photos of the burning ember “Fire Falls” and some nice photos of sunlight on water falls.

The wiki description of the Fire Falls was very interesting with the history, etc.

A hotel did the fire falls when they were forced to stop it by the park. Later that same winter heavy snows damaged the hotel. That summer, during repairs, the hotel burned to the ground. In part fed by a pile of wood used for the fire falls!


16 posted on 07/12/2010 10:48:52 PM PDT by 21twelve ( UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES MY ARSE: "..now begin the work of remaking America."-Obama, 1/20/09)
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To: Southack

So is what was written in the post a partial hoax with the whole sun part of the effect description. That all those pics were taken before they stopped them from doing this every year via artificial means?
I’m not saying the poster perp’d the hoax themselves, I’m just trying to be clear if whoever authored the description in this email floating around the internet was saying something deliberately false.


21 posted on 07/12/2010 11:03:33 PM PDT by Proud_USA_Republican ("The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.")
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To: Southack

Thanks much for that link Southack. I am such a sucker for stuff like that that comes through my emails. At least the photos are great.

Thanks again Southack.


24 posted on 07/12/2010 11:12:22 PM PDT by B-Cause (Don't pick a fight with an old man. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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