Posted on 11/13/2022 5:58:03 AM PST by PJ-Comix
Last September while cruising in the southern Caribbean aboard the Celebrity Equinox, I had a close encounter with a rainbow. So close that I estimate I was less than 50 yards from it for awhile. BTW, just about 10 seconds before I got this shot of the rainbow a big lightning strike hit at about the same distance away. Since the good luck from the rainbow was apparently not retroactive, I didn't have my cell phone camera turned on although I was already in the process of doing so.
PING!
Does anyone else remember when a rainbow was a sign of God, not the alphabet mafia?
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.
No Ah don't.
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.
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.
There is also Gravity’s Rainbow.
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!
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
In this instance the water vapor or the mist caused by the turbulence of the boat motor
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.
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?
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.
Exactly this. Thanks for posting. Rainbows aren’t physical objects.
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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