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Title: Slinging at a Rainbow
Post by joe_meadmaker on Sep 7^th, 2022 at 9:03pm

There's not much else to say that the subject doesn't cover. :)

https://youtu.be/4BDfRN6x6dk

Title: Re: Slinging at a Rainbow
Post by Curious Aardvark on Sep 8^th, 2022 at 7:19am

Elmer: 'you jest ain't gonna guess what that youngun's doing now'
Zetel: that boys jest plumb crazy. What's he doin' now ?
Elmer: he's trying to kill hsself a rainbow ! Swear to god, he's out there with his stringy thing, throwin' rocks at god's own creation.

Zetel:......
Elmer:........

Both: that boys just plumb crazy !

Title: Re: Slinging at a Rainbow
Post by Curious Aardvark on Sep 8^th, 2022 at 7:25am

Fantastic rainbow.
Which begs the question.
Physicsicists say that rainbows don't exist as such, and that everyone sees their own rainbow.
Well how can you video it if that's the case.
And does everyone looking at the video see the same rainbow or do we all still see a different rainbow ?
Does the video process actually fix the rainbow to the one spot.
So could a person looking at a rainbow through a video camera, actually follow a rainbow to it's end and get a pot of gold ?

There's a doctorate in it for someone, I'm sure :-)
(not to mention a pot of gold)

Them physicists are jest plumb crazy !

Title: Re: Slinging at a Rainbow
Post by TOMBELAINE on Sep 8^th, 2022 at 8:27am

Your target is huge but your idea is of great poetry :)

Title: Re: Slinging at a Rainbow
Post by joe_meadmaker on Sep 8^th, 2022 at 9:46am

@CA - I experienced something related to where/how a rainbow exists. This happened about a year ago maybe. I was on my way home and approaching a town that I was going to drive passed. There was a rainbow (that appeared to be) coming out of the sky right into the middle of the town. I got excited because I had the thought I was going to drive right underneath it. But no dice. As I got closer to the town, and ultimately right along side it, the rainbow kept its distance from me. It went right along with me and I never got any closer to it. :(

But that brings a thought to mind. If the camera was recording the rainbow that it was "seeing", and I was slinging at the one I was seeing, its position isn't where I thought it was. So that's why I kept missing. ;D

@TOMBELAINE - Thanks! You worded that very nicely.

Title: Re: Slinging at a Rainbow
Post by Curious Aardvark on Sep 8^th, 2022 at 1:36pm

Quote:

But that brings a thought to mind. If the camera was recording the rainbow that it was "seeing", and I was slinging at the one I was seeing, its position isn't where I thought it was. So that's why I kept missing.

Lol I like that :-)

Title: Re: Slinging at a Rainbow
Post by Rat Man on Sep 11^th, 2022 at 10:25am

I never thought to sling at a rainbow. Trippy thing to do. Great vid!

Title: Re: Slinging at a Rainbow
Post by Gaius Marcellus Nerva on Sep 13^th, 2022 at 6:44pm

I hope the leprechaun wasn’t hit by any of your stones ;D