The pot of gold was inside us the whole time
we're all a little gay inside
Submitted 2 months ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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baggachipz@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
TheAsianDonKnots@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
All I’m hearn’ is something something something I oughta gut you like a pig. 🐷 🤟
NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Smoogs@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I like how in the first image that guy is in an ‘absolutely pissed about it’ stance
_stranger_@lemmy.world 2 months ago
PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months ago
Then why are we not calling it a raincone? 🤔
Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
If it freezes on the way down does it become a snowcone?
Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago
An archery bow is a semicircle
Monument@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months 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.
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 2 months ago
If everyone is special, then no one is.
A rainbow is a participation award.
callyral@pawb.social 2 months 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 2 months 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 months ago
So then the bottom middle picture in this post is also probably shopped?
Etterra@discuss.online 2 months ago
My treasure is lifelong depression. Yay.
PunnyName@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Samesies!
HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Awww
emeralddawn45@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
That sounds like something a leprechaun would say…
PunnyName@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Leprechaun propaganda to keep us poor.
TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I like being gay on the inside.
Krauerking@lemy.lol 2 months ago
Shit, that’s neat.
quediuspayu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Look look! 42
CForsyth@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Now I need this for sun dogs.
Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Awww, this just made all of the horrible things in the world disappear!
Nah, it didn’t.
xorollo@leminal.space 2 months ago
Why does it appear at the distance that it does?
Royy@lemmy.world 2 months 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.
unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz 2 months 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
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Some of us more than others.
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Chakravanti@monero.town 2 months ago
You like looking at that, I see.
diabetic_porcupine@lemmy.world 2 months 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
Deme@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
Interesting choice, including the 3rd order rainbow in the middle picture there…
chickenf622@sh.itjust.works 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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.
athatet@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
I watched Donald Duck in Mathmagic Land and you are right.
Neptr@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
There are gaps in between the rain drops which means we see other parts of the cone.