Monday, March 29, 2010

Where's the Pot of Gold?


I haven't written much over the last week, well nothing at all actually... I found this on How Stuff Works and thought it was a light read.

You can't reach the end of the rainbow because a rainbow is kind of like an optical illusion. A rainbow is formed because raindrops act like little prisms. The raindrops split light up into bands of color. The colors you see in a rainbow come from millions of raindrops that are sitting at different angles in the sky. These raindrops split the sunlight into colors for your eyes to see.

When you move toward the rainbow, the angles change. So millions of different raindrops create the new rainbow with the new angles. In order for the angles to work out, the raindrops have to be a certain distance from your eyes. So no matter how you move, the rainbow will always be the same distance away from you. That's why you can never reach the end of the rainbow.

2 comments:

  1. Of course, the moment you take a break, but what should happen? The Republican National Committee files forms with the FEC -- let me repeat that -- files forms with the FEC that show that they paid almost $2000 to hang out at a West Hollywood Bondage Club called "Voyeur" that features semi-nude simulated lesbian sex shows.

    It's like they knew your back was turned...

    You try to get out, but they keep pulling you back in!

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