Damn gorgeous...

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/06/060619-rainbow-fire.html

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"June 19, 2006—It looks like a rainbow that's been set on fire, but this phenomenon is as cold as ice. Known in the weather world as a circumhorizontal arc, this rare sight was caught on film on June 3 as it hung over northern Idaho near the Washington State border (map of Idaho). The arc isn't a rainbow in the traditional sense—it is caused by light passing through wispy, high-altitude cirrus clouds. The sight occurs only when the sun is very high in the sky (more than 58° above the horizon). What's more, the hexagonal ice crystals that make up cirrus clouds must be shaped like thick plates with their faces parallel to the ground. When light enters through a vertical side face of such an ice crystal and leaves from the bottom face, it refracts, or bends, in the same way that light passes through a prism. If a cirrus's crystals are aligned just right, the whole cloud lights up in a spectrum of colors. This particular arc spanned several hundred square miles of sky and lasted for about an hour, according to the London Daily Mail. —Victoria Gilman "

6/25/2006 9:01:47 PM

niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiice.

6/25/2006 9:04:15 PM

the new desktop background of every homo's computer in America.

6/25/2006 9:05:32 PM

bwhahaha

Still, Idaho has some nice looking terrain.

6/25/2006 9:16:37 PM

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"This particular arc spanned several hundred square miles of sky and lasted for about an hour,"

wow.. that must have been fascinating.

6/25/2006 9:27:40 PM

my new desktop background.

[no homo]

6/25/2006 9:34:59 PM

haha i made it my desktop and was like, "eh thats kinda gay"

6/25/2006 9:52:55 PM

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"the new desktop background of every homo's computer in America."

ha!

6/25/2006 9:56:49 PM

That's beautiful.

6/25/2006 10:01:09 PM

That's awesome

6/25/2006 10:06:04 PM

Famous Potatoes

6/26/2006 12:20:14 AM

oh noice.

6/26/2006 12:32:56 AM

sweet

6/26/2006 1:54:19 AM

that is beautiful

6/26/2006 2:35:16 AM

damn thats the shit

6/26/2006 3:49:25 AM

that's money.

6/26/2006 4:23:36 AM

i want to see one

6/26/2006 9:51:32 AM

Gorgeous!

6/26/2006 10:32:28 AM

cool, good post

6/26/2006 5:30:21 PM

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"the new desktop background of every homo's computer in America."

lmao

6/26/2006 5:59:29 PM