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- AkatsukiNoTobi, on 10/12/2007, -3/+84I haven't heard of a Fire Rainbow, but I've heard about a Reading Rainbow.
- empeethree, on 10/12/2007, -3/+68your friend needs to post one large enough to make a desktop out of. that is really cool.
- JohnMilan, on 10/12/2007, -1/+44Actually, I have a feeling a poster of it is already available somewhere. I've been duped! A nice little lesson on how mistruths can spread like fire!
- empeethree, on 10/12/2007, -0/+30yes it seems you have
http://www.snopes.com/photos/natural/firerainbow.asp - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+27Blog was posted friday, saying their "friend" took the picture "last week"
Well, here's the same picture on a scienceblog from last august:
http://www.scienceblogs.com/strangerfruit/2006/08/fire_in_the_sky.php
It's freaking everywhere...
http://images.google.com/images?&q=fire%20rainbow - LatvianHedgehog, on 10/12/2007, -0/+23Now all we need is smoke on the water
- thecoolestcow, on 10/12/2007, -0/+16From the snopes link, here's a gallery of more fire rainbows:
http://www.atoptics.co.uk/halo/chaim0.htm - Xinareiaz, on 10/12/2007, -3/+18I saw one of these when I was backpacking last summer, I even got some pics!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v721/Xg-manX/DSCN5024.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v721/Xg-manX/DSCN5023.jpg
and then a Sundog in the sky at the time time!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v721/Xg-manX/DSCN5026.jpg
Sweet day to be backpacking :D - sctechguy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13You're an ass. Did you just run in here to throw up your opinion without reading any of the other comments?
I bet you did. - citsym, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13Its on wiki now
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_Rainbow - naffets, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12Very cool :) Sorry you got duped dude, hope you get your revenge.
- JohnMilan, on 10/12/2007, -3/+15Not Photoshop. Snopes believes it is a real photo.
http://www.snopes.com/photos/natural/firerainbow.asp - Gatesophile, on 10/12/2007, -5/+15okay, might I speak on behalf of everyone else and say...
SHUT UP!!!!! - Aliasing, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9I thought it was going to be a fuel air bomb or something.
- PathDaemon, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11I'm sorry, but Snopes wins 73H 1N73RN337 award. It's got everything.
- compgeek, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7nice photo. hope to see that sometime in my life
- BarHopTheWorld, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Didn't anyone else notice the picture is copyrighted by the AP (associated press)? You'd think he'd notice that before he claimed his dad took it.
- whoatemytuna, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Check out the moonbow. http://www.southernskyphoto.com/planet_earth/lunar_rainbow.htm
- poogtastik, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9What the ***** do you think would be at the end of THAT rainbow? Guarantee you it wouldn't be a lame pot of gold.
- cpcouvillion, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Props for owning up to it.
- HellifIno, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9The interneet award? Meh, whatever. : P
- Koray, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6You weren't tipped off by the AP copyright in the corner?
- HellifIno, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6He has a mystical ability to look at a single pixel in a photo (displayed at ANY screen resolution on his computer) and instantly tell whether a digital image has EVER been saved by photoshop. Adobeshopis Determinalis is the official name for the ability/disorder.
It's a hard life, to grow up with such a disorder. Sadly, he has never come to grips with his "difference". : / - RoyHobbs, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6This could end up as Microsoft's desktop background for their next OS...
- HellifIno, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Kudos to you. I, for one, totally missed the AP overlords mark on the photo.
You get +2 pts to observation directly, bypassing XP usually needed to advance said skill. : ) - HellifIno, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Oh, crap ... I thought a bit more about it.
There's no reason that this guys dad ISN'T an AP photographer, or an indie photog. who sells to AP. Good spotting, still, but not proof. - Derrelicte, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Smoke on the water, fire rainbow in the sky.
- brewer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4It's absolutely real. It's a form of sundog (quite common) or sun pillar (less common).
See this site for some amazing atmospheric optical phenomenon:
http://www.atoptics.co.uk/ - themastersb, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5yea I've heard of a fire rainbow. It was n Digg a couple months ago.
- TheGuruStud, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4come to the U.S. or if you're already here, the midwest. We have dozens of these during the summer. Not rare at all here. I'll see them sometimes 3 days in a row. Regular rainbows are far more rare for us, maybe a couple times a year.
- mpphan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I'm never going to be able to see one. Sigh, I need to get out more.
- iamnos, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Not quite... try reading some of the linked articles,
http://www.snopes.com/photos/natural/firerainbow.asp
Or Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_rainbow
They're not quite as common as a rainbow. - Xinareiaz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Ive seen this when I was backpacking! I wondered what it was! there was also a Sun dog at the time...how cool is that? Great day to be outside :D
- Xinareiaz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I'm in Idaho and I see them reasonably often as well.
- HellifIno, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3... you DO realize you'd probably not see it from a plane? I'll assume you meant "eat some mushrooms" instead of "roast some marshmallows", as that makes more sense. : P
- selrahc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Well, I suppose if you had known the man all of your life and knew him to be a trustworthy person, you may trust what he says. Of course he can be wrong, but nobody is a reliable source on everything
- theundone, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Similar photo that I took a couple of years ago:
http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w262/diggtheundone/sunset001.jpg - koick, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@applemacmad:
I'm a meteorologist, I've seen anticrepuscular rays dozens of times, but to see true noctilucent clouds is rare, since they are mesospheric clouds which is rare for clouds to be that high, especially with the light hitting them just right. I've never seen them unfortunately. - mmmmmmmCHIPOTLE, on 10/12/2007, -9/+11Heres a BIGGER pic of the fire rainbow
http://snopes.com/photos/natural/firerainbow.asp - markp93, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Reminiscent of the SF Chronicle photo published a few weeks ago.. Check out the upside-down rainbow:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/02/23/MNGD7O9UNL1.DTL&hw=rainbow&sn=004&sc=586 - Agret, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I heard of a fire rainbow the last time one was on digg, they're definately cool.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2no pot of gold there
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2From June 19, 2006: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/06/060619-rainbow-fire.html
- JohnMilan, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5It is still an *awesome* photo though!
- Jugalator, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Gallery of more: http://www.atoptics.co.uk/halo/chaim0.htm
edit: oops, already posted below me.. sorry - synaesthesia, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Im in Idaho and thats the only cool thing you will ever see in this state.
- sctechguy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Man, the "Photoshops" (and I use that term very, very loosely) on that site are horrible. In fact, I probably shouldn't besmirch the good name of Photoshop, when they are clearly MS paint'd. There's no humor at all. At least the Photoshop contests on Fark are inventive and funny.
- jlawson1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1old news
- MrIcee, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Aloha... here on the volcanically active Big Island of Hawai'i we have what we call PeleBows. Pele being the goddess of the volcano (anything lava, including the cold hard rock, is termed 'Pele').
If it is misting or raining over the lava field, and there is a highly active surface flow or an extremely bright skylight (hole in the ground that lets you look into an active lava tube) - the light from the lava itself can cause a 'rainbow' above the flow. Since the lava is primarily reds, the ''rainbow' also tends to be reds, yellows, and oranges.
Besides rainbows, and pelebows, we also occassionally see moonbows. -
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