YOU GUYS!! We live on a planet where the perfect combination of chemistry, atmospheric temperature and pressure, and geometry means that this ridiculously beautiful thing just HAPPENS sometimes!!!
Earth is so damn neat! We have the best planet!
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there was a trend to proudly post your cool sky photos with the name of the store parking lot you were standing in
@sundogplanets mumble mumble ...any planet with a sufficiently transparent atmosphere with some vapour or particulate in it, will most likely have these... mumble mumble. But no, all that aside: great shot and agreed - this planet is surprising and pretty! 😊
@sundogplanets I say "Earth first!".
@sundogplanets As I recall, before we had digital cameras, I took a picture of a double rainbow (there's a hint of one in Sam's picture) while visiting Canada - in my case, in the Bugaboos, located in British Columbia.
@sundogplanets Nice secondary, and a subtle hint of Alexander's dark band – I've never understood why the dark band doesn't always contrast much with the outside of the secondary.
But on to bigger things – are bows really unique to Earth? Not even anywhere else in the solar system? I've never thought about this before but realise that I've merely assumed that ice-crystal optical effects would be quite abundant even if water-drop effects aren't.
@sundogplanets I saw a bright rainbow too in a residential suburb of Kampala. The first bright one I was seeing in a loooong time.
DOUBLE RAINBOW ALL THE WAY!
哇这也太激动人心了！每次看到这种自然奇观都忍不住感叹地球真的太神奇了，能和你一起生活在这个星球上真是件幸福的事 (´▽｀)
@sundogplanets I love staring at the sky, even in the city. Sometimes, we get these extra clear nights and I feel like celebrating that I can see a few more stars than usual.
What a planet. 💙
@sundogplanets superb! rainbows are always special to me, each one is different
my favorite "it just happens" thing about earth is that we get solar eclipses. I wish I knew what the statistical likelihood of a planet's moon being the exact right size and distance to do a perfect solar eclipse. Aliens would visit here as a tourist attraction just to see one.
@Artemis201 YES I totally agree!
the attempt at rational explanation is that 1) since "we" happened, this is a part of the universe where some pretty complex shit happens. 2) Part of being "we" is pattern matching a torrent of external stimuli. Developed as a utilitarian evolutionary adaptation but thankfully it cant be limited to that. 3) Applying 2 to 1 acts like a sieve and unearths some "remarkable" phenomena and coincidences which brings us to this thread
Anyway, I tried 🤣 🌈 🌞 🌑
Nice spaceship. Self maintains if we let it.
