My treasure is lifelong depression. Yay.
we're all a little gay inside
Submitted 15 hours ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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Etterra@discuss.online 2 hours ago
chickenf622@sh.itjust.works 15 hours 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”?
mushroommunk@lemmy.today 14 hours 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.
irish_link@lemmy.world 14 hours 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.
FishFace@piefed.social 8 hours 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.
athatet@lemmy.zip 7 hours ago
I watched Donald Duck in Mathmagic Land and you are right.
Neptr@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 hours ago
There are gaps in between the rain drops which means we see other parts of the cone.
xorollo@leminal.space 3 hours ago
Why does it appear at the distance that it does?
Royy@lemmy.world 2 hours 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.
callyral@pawb.social 5 hours 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?
Deme@sopuli.xyz 5 hours 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)
Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 2 hours ago
So then the bottom middle picture in this post is also probably shopped?
Krauerking@lemy.lol 3 hours ago
Shit, that’s neat.
Monument@lemmy.sdf.org 9 hours 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.
baggachipz@sh.itjust.works 15 hours ago
The pot of gold was inside us the whole time
TheAsianDonKnots@lemmy.zip 15 hours ago
All I’m hearn’ is something something something I oughta gut you like a pig. 🐷 🤟
NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@lemmy.sdf.org 14 hours ago
Then why are we not calling it a raincone? 🤔
Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 14 hours ago
If it freezes on the way down does it become a snowcone?
Kolanaki@pawb.social 13 hours 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. 🤷♂️
Thorry@feddit.org 11 hours 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.
TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works 10 hours ago
An archery bow is a semicircle
FishFace@piefed.social 8 hours ago
A violin bow is made from a curved piece of wood, the same as the weapon.
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
If everyone is special, then no one is.
A rainbow is a participation award.
quediuspayu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 hours ago
Look look! 42
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 hours ago
Some of us more than others.
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Chakravanti@monero.town 7 hours ago
You like looking at that, I see.
HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 hours ago
Awww
Deme@sopuli.xyz 5 hours ago
Interesting choice, including the 3rd order rainbow in the middle picture there…
CForsyth@lemmy.ca 11 hours ago
Now I need this for sun dogs.
unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz 13 hours 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
Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Awww, this just made all of the horrible things in the world disappear!
Nah, it didn’t.
Smoogs@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
I like how in the first image that guy is in an ‘absolutely pissed about it’ stance
_stranger_@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
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