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(Lovers, dreamers, & me) Spiffy Great page o' scientific explanation of rainbows, along with great rainbow pics   (atoptics.co.uk) divider line 44
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towatchoverme 2006-08-13 10:11:07 PM  
This is America. Take your "science" elsewhere.

 
flackbish 2006-08-13 10:14:33 PM  
<bevets>
Everyone knows that god makes rainbows to show how much he hates homosexuals. Anything else is heresy.
</bevets>

 
SlowTimedRapid 2006-08-13 10:15:52 PM  
o' trifecta in play?

 
theeternalbill 2006-08-13 10:16:12 PM  
Someone please post Pat Robertson's qoute on why the sky is blue. I loved that, but can't remember it verbatim.

 
sunbelly 2006-08-13 10:16:24 PM  
"Rainbow Connection" (sung by Kermit, of course) is the song I'll dance to with my father at my wedding.
Thanks for the smile, submitter!

--on topic:
Cool page, too.

 
SlowTimedRapid 2006-08-13 10:16:43 PM  
I hate those friggin' things. You know, when you're just minding your own business and they start marching up your pants leg and start biting your a**...

Oh, rainBOWS.

 
titwrench 2006-08-13 10:18:07 PM  
I was going to say something about rainbows+ghey but flackbish beat me. And I am the one that lives in a gay neighborhood.

\I am not gay
\\not that there is anything wrong with it

RAINBOWS ARE GAY!!!!1!1!111111

 
snowman44 2006-08-13 10:18:11 PM  
das cool

 
xristoph 2006-08-13 10:18:16 PM  
Oh the supernumeraries!!!

/I should feel dirty
//I feel _gooooood_

 
Dread Pirate Slasher 2006-08-13 10:18:53 PM  
"I think the sky is blue because it's a shift from black through purple to blue, and it has to do with where the light is. You know, the farther we get into darkness, and there's a shifting of color of light into the blueness, and I think as you go farther and farther away from the reflected light we have from the sun or the light that's bouncing off this earth, uh, the darker it gets. I think if you look at the color scale, you start at black, move it through purple, move it on out, it's the shifting of color. We mentioned before about the stars singing, and that's one of the effects of the shifting of colors."

~Pat Robertson

 
Crown Of Negativity 2006-08-13 10:19:00 PM  
Ritchie Blackmore unavailable for comment.

 
albuquerquehalsey 2006-08-13 10:20:40 PM  
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thEiXbovv98

 
xristoph 2006-08-13 10:21:26 PM  
Of course, my comment would have made more sense if I had included the associated URL as planned:

http://www.sundog.clara.co.uk/rainbows/supers.htm

/Doh!
//dumbass

 
Bicycle safety tip 2006-08-13 10:21:52 PM  
thor.mirtna.org

 
lenfromak 2006-08-13 10:22:04 PM  
I can understand that quote better than Ted's "series of tubes" for the internets.

 
skinink 2006-08-13 10:23:13 PM  
She blinded me ... with BRILLIANCE !!!!

 
hl80 2006-08-13 10:25:01 PM  
nice shirt, gaywad

 
Stanfan114 [TotalFark] 2006-08-13 10:28:04 PM  
more spiked rainbows
if you could time it, so you stood in FRONT of the center of the spiked rainbow, you could pretend you were jesus and everyone would follow you.

 
bullock. 2006-08-13 10:31:33 PM  
Oh, sure. An exhaustive page about how rainbows exist, and not a single entry for Heimdall??

/farking elitist liberal left.

 
scratchee 2006-08-13 10:32:59 PM  
Interesting trivia that few people know and even fewer people understand (or believe) when you tell them: what's at the center of every rainbow you see? Your own shadow! Of course, you frequently can't see the center of the rainbow--talking the actual geometric center here, not just the "middle" of the arc that you see--but when you can your shadow is there.

 
Tagliente 2006-08-13 10:33:08 PM  
damn hippies

/I kid you!

 
tacos4jesus 2006-08-13 10:36:29 PM  
why are there so many songs about rainbows?

 
reillan 2006-08-13 10:36:38 PM  
Why are there so many songs about rainbows
And what's on the other side?
Rainbows are visions, but only illusions,
And rainbows have nothing to hide.
So we've been told and some choose to believe it
I know they're wrong, wait and see.
Someday we'll find it, the rainbow connection,
The lovers, the dreamers and me.

Who said that every wish would be heard and answered
when wished on the morning star?
Somebody thought of that
and someone believed it,
and look what it's done so far.
What's so amazing that keeps us stargazing?
And what do we think we might see?
Someday we'll find it, the rainbow connection,
the lovers, the dreamers and me.

All of us under its spell,
we know that it's probably magic....

Have you been half asleep
and have you heard voices?
I've heard them calling my name.
Is this the sweet sound that calls the young sailors?
The voice might be one and the same.
I've heard it too many times to ignore it.
It's something that I'm supposed to be.
Someday we'll find it, the rainbow connection,
the lovers, the dreamers and me.
La, la la, La, la la la, La Laa, la la, La, La la laaaaaaa
-"The Rainbow Connection", Paul Williams

 
jimmyego [TotalFark] 2006-08-13 10:36:58 PM  
How has this thread gone without the gold at the end of a rainbow image:

img135.imageshack.us

:)

 
reillan 2006-08-13 10:37:25 PM  
Just in case someone didn't get that reference..

/although I can't imagine *not* getting that reference...

 
p00pd00d 2006-08-13 10:42:40 PM  
Do you really need a scientific explanation of rainbows? A grade school kid gets the basic idea.

 
Shinreineko 2006-08-13 10:42:47 PM  
Everyone knows a rainbow is born when someone unlocks the summoner job.

 
Metaluna Mutant 2006-08-13 10:49:40 PM  
Well, if scientists think they are are so smart, why can't they explain why there were no rainbows before The Great Flood!

Aha! OnlyThe Bible© can do that!

 
vicejay [TotalFark] 2006-08-13 10:58:47 PM  
Brother Iz

image.listen.com

One night, overcome with grief, this gentleman from Hawaii recorded an acoustic medly of "Over the Rainbow" and "What a Wonderful World.." Just him & his ukelele. (You've probably heard it in various TV shows & movies.) You can find it on the CD titled "Facing Future."

He died a few years ago, but his music is more popular than ever.

/submitter

 
MetalSlime 2006-08-13 11:06:38 PM  
Interesting trivia that few people know and even fewer people understand (or believe) when you tell them: what's at the center of every rainbow you see? Your own shadow! Of course, you frequently can't see the center of the rainbow--talking the actual geometric center here, not just the "middle" of the arc that you see--but when you can your shadow is there.

I saw that recently, while on an airplane. I looked down out the window and saw the plane's shadow surrounded by a small, full-circle rainbow. It was pretty cool.

 
Zylon 2006-08-13 11:09:05 PM  
Oh come on... nobody has claimed that rainbows are proof of God's existence yet?

 
Agent C2H6O 2006-08-13 11:27:38 PM  
Rainbows are not in and of themselves proof of God's existence. I'm sure many of y'all think that the index of refraction of water is a product of evolution, like Darwin said.

And rainbows are not proof that God hates homosexuals. Rainbows are symbolic promises that God won't smite the planet, no matter how sick and perverted the residents become.

 
beefstu01 2006-08-13 11:36:23 PM  
Another golf clap to the submitter. Gotta love the Muppets.

 
Oznog 2006-08-13 11:53:41 PM  
MetalSlime: I saw that recently, while on an airplane. I looked down out the window and saw the plane's shadow surrounded by a small, full-circle rainbow. It was pretty cool.

RTFA. That's a "Glory", not a rainbow.

 
Oznog 2006-08-13 11:56:08 PM  
www.elyonline.co.uk

Eeh, you know, you'll just be sitting there, minding your own business, and they'll come marching in and crawling up your leg and start biting the inside of your ass, and you'll be all like "Ay! Get out of my ass, you stupid rainbows!"

 
mreuther 2006-08-14 12:39:02 AM  
Why do rainbows hate America?

 
darwinoid 2006-08-14 01:11:29 AM  
Of course, creationists and intelligent design people seem to think that rainbows are "special".

 
All Apologies 2006-08-14 01:15:59 AM  
I'm colorblind, rainbows come in four colors for me. Enjoy them, I do. Even if I only see the top four levels.

 
Sylmatil 2006-08-14 01:56:08 AM  
Everyone knows that we should fight to prevent rainbows because they subliminally encouragee children to turn gay whenever they see them.

Homo sympathizers.

/apparently some people are this batshiat
//rainbows are good by me

 
j0ebear 2006-08-14 02:05:33 AM  
WE'RE ALL A PART OF...... THE RAINBOW CONNECTION!! THE LOVERS THE DREAMERS AND ME!!!!!
Earliest memory of rainbows was from Mr Henson and company...

/not gay
//not that there is anything wrong with being gay ;)

 
pestossimo 2006-08-14 11:14:30 AM  
flackbish

The Rainbow is actually a covenant between God and Man saying He will not bring a disaster like the Great Flood to Earth again. Come on, learn your history.

 
cfletch13 2006-08-14 11:27:19 AM  
Took this 2 days ago..
img109.imageshack.us

 
keffordd 2006-08-14 11:58:56 AM  
Thanks subby for the updated link; I had this bookmarked at a now obsolete URL.

This is one of the best printed resources on this subject matter.

 
simpsonfan 2006-08-14 05:28:09 PM  
1)WHich end of the rainbow has the pot of gold? The other end. 2)Alexander's dark band...He started that up after his ragtime band folded.

 
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