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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We should take better care of it…
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Nine out of ten Kepler-22-ians disagree.
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HELL YEAH EARTH #1
SUCK IT, MARS
@sundogplanets we all need to say this much more often. 👏
This is a frame from dashcam video recorded four years ago.
It's kinda sad that the pot of gold is a box of Chicken McNuggets.
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! 😊
@misjavanlaatum You need liquid or crystals to make rainbows of any kind. This is fun: https://www.atoptics.org.uk/halo/oworld.htm
@sundogplanets cool link! And it's really fun to imagine methane rainbows on Titan.
@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.
@libroraptor @sundogplanets I'd assume many places have at least something similar to a rainbow, different circumstances for light refraction and possibly different wavelengths even but it'll be out there.
@nini @libroraptor Also, other planets (in our solar system) have either fog-like tiny droplets or just ices. No raindrops! This might be of interest: https://www.atoptics.org.uk/halo/oworld.htm
@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!
