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Rare Photo Of End Of A Rainbow

Unread postby Carlhole » Fri 13 Feb 2009, 12:16:04

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Fat pot of gold, too. It landed on a toll road in Southern California right near where I used to live.

Eva Cassidy sings it too, baby
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Re: Rare Photo Of End Of A Rainbow

Unread postby TWilliam » Fri 13 Feb 2009, 12:22:10

Fat pot of gold? Looks more like a fat, ugly SUV at the end of the rainbow to me. How disappointing... :cry:
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Re: Rare Photo Of End Of A Rainbow

Unread postby eXpat » Fri 13 Feb 2009, 12:24:29

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('TWilliam', 'F')at pot of gold? Looks more like a fat, ugly SUV at the end of the rainbow to me. How disappointing... :cry:

Times change :-D
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Re: Rare Photo Of End Of A Rainbow

Unread postby Carlhole » Fri 13 Feb 2009, 12:40:38

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('TWilliam', 'F')at pot of gold? Looks more like a fat, ugly SUV at the end of the rainbow to me. How disappointing... :cry:


It landed on the toll road. Not the SUV. Jesus.
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Re: Rare Photo Of End Of A Rainbow

Unread postby eastbay » Fri 13 Feb 2009, 13:16:02

A toll road in California! HA! What's this world coming to anyhow?

Beautiful picture Carlhole. For most people an SUV does represent the pot of gold. How apropos.
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Re: Rare Photo Of End Of A Rainbow

Unread postby HeckuvaJob » Fri 13 Feb 2009, 13:20:27

The scene 30min later: orange cones and jackhammers.
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Re: Rare Photo Of End Of A Rainbow

Unread postby TWilliam » Fri 13 Feb 2009, 13:32:17

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Carlhole', 'I')t landed on the toll road. Not the SUV. Jesus.

Good grief Carl. You've been hanging around this site for too long methinks. Your sense of humor has gone straight down the toilet... :P
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Re: Rare Photo Of End Of A Rainbow

Unread postby Carlhole » Fri 13 Feb 2009, 13:57:12

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('TWilliam', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Carlhole', 'I')t landed on the toll road. Not the SUV. Jesus.

Good grief Carl. You've been hanging around this site for too long methinks. Your sense of humor has gone straight down the toilet... :P


I've been on that toll road many times. It's a lot faster than the 405, which bogs down completely quite often. But toll traffic still gets really heavy at rush hour. And it costs MONEY to ride that thing. It's definitely a Pot-O'-Gold for whoever owns it. I thought I was the one being funny by making the observation at the thread's start. An SUV isn't a pot of gold at all - you need said gold pot to afford such things!

Besides, hasn't anyone listened to Eva Cassidy sing "Somewhere"in the link I posted? Wow! There's real gold. Her recording has all the more pathos because she died in 1996 of malignant melanoma. She did a fresh rendition of a beautiful song so familiar to all of us that it's hard to hear it as if for the first time. She pulled it off.
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Re: Rare Photo Of End Of A Rainbow

Unread postby TWilliam » Fri 13 Feb 2009, 14:20:27

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Carlhole', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('TWilliam', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Carlhole', 'I') thought I was the one being funny by making the observation at the thread's start. An SUV isn't a pot of gold at all - you need said gold pot to afford such things!

Oh I caught the part about the toll road. I just thought it doubly ironic that the picture was snapped with the SUV right there...
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Re: Rare Photo Of End Of A Rainbow

Unread postby PenultimateManStanding » Fri 13 Feb 2009, 14:39:38

Well I've never seen a photo of the end of a rainbow before. That's pretty cool.
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Re: Rare Photo Of End Of A Rainbow

Unread postby Dreamtwister » Fri 13 Feb 2009, 15:22:31

That's amazing! I was starting to think this is where rainbows came from...
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Re: Rare Photo Of End Of A Rainbow

Unread postby Carlhole » Fri 13 Feb 2009, 15:22:59

I always thought it was impossible to see a rainbow's end because of the optics involved. I always thought that an observer would always perceive the rainbow to be way off in the distance -- and hence, the fable about a pot of gold sitting at the end of one. The observer could never arrive at the rainbow!

It's not as if the driver-photographer could have driven "past the rainbow" on the toll road, because optics of it depend on angles of refraction of sunlight through water droplets. It should have been moving along ahead of him for a short distance and then disappeared.

Also, I never thought that a rainbow could be perceived at such an angle of refraction. I would have been one to call the photo a simple hoax. But the 'Science Dude' at the Orange County Register insists he did his due diligence by contacting 7 authoritative people on the matter. Hmm.
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Re: Rare Photo Of End Of A Rainbow

Unread postby Pops » Fri 13 Feb 2009, 15:34:47

The low sun angle, reflection on the road/windshield and hood of the following vehicle and it doesn't look fiddled with at 3000x makes me think its kosher.

Good candidate for a PO photo contest....
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Re: Rare Photo Of End Of A Rainbow

Unread postby Daniel_Plainview » Fri 13 Feb 2009, 15:56:33

I always thought that it was physically impossible (as a matter of optical physics) to see the end of a rainbow. Guess not:

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Re: Rare Photo Of End Of A Rainbow

Unread postby POAlex » Fri 13 Feb 2009, 18:18:39

Did you know why we see the rainbow today? The covenant still stands to this day.

"And God spake unto Noah, and to his sons with him, saying, And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you; And with every living creature that is with you, of the fowl, of the cattle, and of every beast of the earth with you; from all that go out of the ark, to every beast of the earth. And I will establish my covenant with you, neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth. And God said, This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations: I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.
And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud:" (Genesis 9:8-14)

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Re: Rare Photo Of End Of A Rainbow

Unread postby vision-master » Fri 13 Feb 2009, 18:30:27

Dark Side of the Rainbow :twisted:
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Re: Rare Photo Of End Of A Rainbow

Unread postby PenultimateManStanding » Fri 13 Feb 2009, 19:29:02

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('vision-master', '[')url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmCfvcfHwKA]Dark Side of the Rainbow[/url] :twisted:
I had the pleasure of watching that movie in a restored 30's movie theater in the original sepia toned celluloid. A beautiful theater in the way they used to make them. The seats were atrocious, though. The molded craftsmanship was marvelous back then. Maybe the folks who renovated that theater put in the new bad seats, I don't know. But The Wizard Of Oz is a treasure. Are you a good witch or a bad witch?

We're off to see the wizard
the wonderful wizard of oz
because because because beCAUSE
because of the wonderful things he does
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Re: Rare Photo Of End Of A Rainbow

Unread postby vision-master » Fri 13 Feb 2009, 21:13:58

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PenultimateManStanding', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('vision-master', '[')url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmCfvcfHwKA]Dark Side of the Rainbow[/url] :twisted:
I had the pleasure of watching that movie in a restored 30's movie theater in the original sepia toned celluloid. A beautiful theater in the way they used to make them. The seats were atrocious, though. The molded craftsmanship was marvelous back then. Maybe the folks who renovated that theater put in the new bad seats, I don't know. But The Wizard Of Oz is a treasure. Are you a good witch or a bad witch?

We're off to see the wizard
the wonderful wizard of oz
because because because beCAUSE
because of the wonderful things he does


Good. :wink: :badgrin:
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Re: Rare Photo Of End Of A Rainbow

Unread postby PenultimateManStanding » Fri 13 Feb 2009, 21:26:02

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('vision-master', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PenultimateManStanding', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('vision-master', '[')url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmCfvcfHwKA]Dark Side of the Rainbow[/url] :twisted:
I had the pleasure of watching that movie in a restored 30's movie theater in the original sepia toned celluloid. A beautiful theater in the way they used to make them. The seats were atrocious, though. The molded craftsmanship was marvelous back then. Maybe the folks who renovated that theater put in the new bad seats, I don't know. But The Wizard Of Oz is a treasure. Are you a good witch or a bad witch?

We're off to see the wizard
the wonderful wizard of oz
because because because beCAUSE
because of the wonderful things he does


Good. :wink: :badgrin:
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