beware the rainbow

[pentomino]

Finally, someone with a crazier theory than chemtrails: rainbow sprinkler is proof that we're all DOOMED!I wonder what force could have stopped someone from noticing rainbows in sprinkler spray 20 years ago. In Phoenix, playing in the sprinklers is how we survive our childhood; maybe this isn't so in NoCal. And maybe it's harder to bring out in

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[kirkjerk]

If you controlled for variables like time of day and location and sprinkler type, and it still looked like more rainbows than in decades prior, could that indicate more gunk in the water? Different refraction index or something? Like the way oil on water shimmers?

Just a thought. I admit it's more likely she's just a loon; it reminds me of that time when I was 8 and noticed how the moon seemed to "follow" the car, relative to all the landscape going past...

[pentomino]

I wonder what landscape you were comparing it to.

In Phoenix, we have mountain ranges that are usually visible from miles away, so maybe it's easier here to pick up an instinct about the distance of objects, too.

[kirkjerk]

Well, there's this one small anecdote, I think I was riding in the back of a station wagon with some other, slightly younger kids... it may have been one of those cases where the road is in kind of a cut out through some slightly higher surroundings, go under bridges etc, so very little landscape at a medium distance. I was legitimately a little weirded out at how the moon seemed to be keeping exactly even with us... the other kids thought I was just trying to scare them when I pointed it out.

[motis]

I saw that video a couple of weeks ago and laughed my ass off.

Q: WHAT THE HELL IS SEEPING UP OUT OF OUR LAND?!??

A: Unicorn pee.

[templeemc]

Oh. My. God.
The only reason people like that aren't scary is because they don't have the brain power to do much of anything about the 'observations' they make about the world.
Though I still wish the video to be a joke.