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we're all a little gay inside

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Submitted ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨fossilesque@mander.xyz⁩ to ⁨science_memes@mander.xyz⁩

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  • chickenf622@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Is the cross section of a cone not a circle, or semi circle in this case since we only see part of the “cone”?

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    • mushroommunk@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      This. We don’t as people define a rainbow as the path of light or anything like that. We define a rainbow as a circle of colors in the sky. That’s how language works.

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    • irish_link@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Right, your point is taken but the point is more to explain the full portion of the rainbow. Not just the section you see.

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      • FishFace@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Every person sees a rainbow in a different location because rainbows are an optical phenomenon not a real object - in that sense rainbows are occupying the entire space, not just a cone even. The expansion is dumb.

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    • athatet@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I watched Donald Duck in Mathmagic Land and you are right.

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    • Neptr@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      There are gaps in between the rain drops which means we see other parts of the cone.

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  • baggachipz@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The pot of gold was inside us the whole time

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    • TheAsianDonKnots@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      All I’m hearn’ is something something something I oughta gut you like a pig. 🐷 🤟

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    • NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Image

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  • Smoogs@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I like how in the first image that guy is in an ‘absolutely pissed about it’ stance

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    • _stranger_@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Walks forever to find the end of the rainbow

      End of rainbow was inside him the whole time

      Image

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  • PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Then why are we not calling it a raincone? 🤔

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    • Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      If it freezes on the way down does it become a snowcone?

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    • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Even if it was a semi-circle, why would we call it a bow? It doesn’t look like a bow for archery, a bow for music, or a bow for fashion. 🤷‍♂️

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      • Thorry@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I think the use of the word bow for curve or bend was used before all of the uses you mention. It comes from the word used to describe something turning back or a person taking a bow or bowing down. Bow specifically meaning bend comes from the word bugan. Where the bow used in archery comes from the word boga.

        All of these do have the same origin meaning bend or curve. Specifically a bend in a river or the action of bowing. I can’t find definitively if these were once separate things or always the same word.

        Note the use of “arch” in archery also meaning a curve.

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      • TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        An archery bow is a semicircle

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      • FishFace@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        A violin bow is made from a curved piece of wood, the same as the weapon.

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  • Monument@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    My old apartment used to be set up in just such a way that after a midday shower, you would see a small Brocken Spectre’s centered around each of your eyes when you looked in the mirror. It was honestly kind of terrifying. The first time I noticed it, I wondered if I’d finally lost it.
    Glowing circles around your black eyes in a fogged mirror.

    I think that means I have the opposite of a pot of gold in me.

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  • DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    If everyone is special, then no one is.

    A rainbow is a participation award.

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  • callyral@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    But why is it at that distance specifically? Can I get closer to a rainbow and see it become bigger? Why is there a 42° angle in the picture?

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    • Deme@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      That’s the angle at which light is reflected by water droplets. The drawing is incorrect in that the cone is horizontal while the light appears to come from a higher angle. The cone is always directly opposite to the direction of the light soPicture (source: https://www.atoptics.org.uk/rainbows/primcone.htm)

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      • Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        So then the bottom middle picture in this post is also probably shopped?

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  • Etterra@discuss.online ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    My treasure is lifelong depression. Yay.

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    • PunnyName@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Samesies!

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  • HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Awww

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  • emeralddawn45@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That sounds like something a leprechaun would say…

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    • PunnyName@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Leprechaun propaganda to keep us poor.

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  • TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I like being gay on the inside.

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  • Krauerking@lemy.lol ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Shit, that’s neat.

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  • quediuspayu@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Look look! 42

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  • CForsyth@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Now I need this for sun dogs.

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  • Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Awww, this just made all of the horrible things in the world disappear!

    Nah, it didn’t.

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  • xorollo@leminal.space ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Why does it appear at the distance that it does?

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    • Royy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Because that is where the water droplets are. If you mist a hose in front of you on a sunny day, you’ll see the rainbow close.

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  • unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Once i was driving a rig through ohio eastbound and seen a rainbow ahead, and they’re hard to predict with the untrained eye, but i said to myself, fuckin hilarious if i hit the end of the rainbow a couple miles west of Columbus.

    And that is where i personally saw the end of a rainbow, like that spectral vision dropped into the middle of I-70, where traffic was fucked from collisions because people were you know

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  • SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Some of us more than others.

    _>

    <_<

    _>

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    • Chakravanti@monero.town ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      You like looking at that, I see.

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  • diabetic_porcupine@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Wait… is a rainbow now actually there? It’s just something that happens in our eyes when the light hits it at the right angle or something

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  • Deme@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Interesting choice, including the 3rd order rainbow in the middle picture there…

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