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# I just took these in my back yard


you can't see it in the top one, but there were more bands of color under the rainbow. Can anyone tell me what they were? I brought them out as much as I could in this one, but there were more of them, and they appeared to be in a more light-dark-light-dark pattern. edit: oooh cool. I think it was more than one reflected rainbow.

(I helped save b3ta! gracielou, Sun 9 Nov 2003, 23:54, archived)
# my guess is its the rainbow going into the invisible band of the color spectrum
(I helped save b3ta! Azra3l Lubrication Persuasion and Brute Force ™, Sun 9 Nov 2003, 23:55, archived)
# that explains why I couldn't photograph them
but why could I see them?
(I helped save b3ta! gracielou, Sun 9 Nov 2003, 23:56, archived)
# crap
camera?
(I helped save b3ta! Dr. Kitteny Berk almost certainly drunk, Sun 9 Nov 2003, 23:58, archived)
# it was great
three years ago
(I helped save b3ta! gracielou, Mon 10 Nov 2003, 0:06, archived)
# I think it's just two spectrums, isn't it?
A fainter one under the more visible one. Or so I believe, I forget who told me.

A lot nicer than two speculums though.
(I helped save b3ta! Dr Phil Kitten, Sun 9 Nov 2003, 23:56, archived)
# Speculum?
Now here's a word you don't hear enough at the dinner table.
(Fellmeister, Mon 10 Nov 2003, 0:00, archived)
# hello beautiful
I haven't seen you about in ages!
(I helped save b3ta! Dr Phil Kitten, Mon 10 Nov 2003, 0:02, archived)
# hello beautiful yourself!
i've gone and got a job and a girlie and loads of my old friends are making excessive demands on my time and liver.

Life is good.

How's life in the lands of Womble-Kitten?
(Fellmeister, Mon 10 Nov 2003, 0:04, archived)
# oh jolly good
that sounds nice.

All is well here. Are you doing the Manc bash?
(I helped save b3ta! Dr Phil Kitten, Mon 10 Nov 2003, 0:10, archived)
# Huh?
*scampers off to 4rthur...*

EDIT: It's very tempting indeedy... I actually have a free weekend although spondies are running low. I'll see what happens about shifts next weekend and then decide around tuesday. You going?
(Fellmeister, Mon 10 Nov 2003, 0:12, archived)
# Well, I thought
I'd see how the spondies were running about Tuesday and then decide. :)
(I helped save b3ta! Dr Phil Kitten, Mon 10 Nov 2003, 0:16, archived)
# Well in that case
I shall make sure i'm on in the week, say tuesday?

Same b3ta-time, same b3ta-channel.

Peace. Love.
(Fellmeister, Mon 10 Nov 2003, 0:19, archived)
# actually 4rthur would probably be sensibler.
But yes, we must synchonise watches and shite like that.
(I helped save b3ta! Dr Phil Kitten, Mon 10 Nov 2003, 0:25, archived)
# i hear speculums
can be fun
(I helped save b3ta! Dr. Kitteny Berk almost certainly drunk, Mon 10 Nov 2003, 0:02, archived)
# the light beyond ultra-violet?
sometimes you get a double rainbow, wher eit start to repeat, but much paler. i think it's that.
(I helped save b3ta! _null_, Sun 9 Nov 2003, 23:56, archived)
# it didn't really look like another rainbow
I don't know if I can explain it.

Alternating bands of light and dark greater in width than the width of the colored part of the rainbow and decreasing in intensity.
(I helped save b3ta! gracielou, Mon 10 Nov 2003, 0:00, archived)
# it's......
a reverse rainbow, i saw a thing about them on open university at 3am one morning, under each rainbow is another one, with the colours reversed, for some reason........
(John Doe, Sun 9 Nov 2003, 23:57, archived)
# Dontcha love Google?
Rainbows are produced when sunlight is reflected and refracted by raindrops in a manner similar to the refraction occurring when light passes through a prism. The light rays making up the main, or primary, rainbow experience single internal reflection from the back surfaces of the drops. The light composing the secondary bow undergoes two reflections from the raindrops. As you know from looking in a mirror, the action of reflection is to cause an inversion of an image. Your right hand appears to be your left hand. The second reflection in a raindrop reverses the order of the colors in the rainbow. In rare cases, you can see a very weak third bow. It is explained by three reflections and exhibits the same order of colors as does the primary bow. At each reflection, only part of the incident light is actually reflected, therefore, the more the reflections, the less bright the bow.
(I helped save b3ta! Generationgav, Sun 9 Nov 2003, 23:58, archived)
# No.
No I don't.

I used to but it looks like Micro$oft are going to buy it at some point. Can't complain, I did apply for a job with them after all...

(Fellmeister, Mon 10 Nov 2003, 0:08, archived)
# that's been denied lots now.
No idea if that changes the amount of truth in the story though.
(I helped save b3ta! barnesy, Mon 10 Nov 2003, 0:14, archived)
# sometimes
you get a reversed rainbow underneath and a band of darkness between them or beneath them or something.

It's to do with the raindrops refracting the light twice or some other scientific explaination.
(||lll||ll||lll|| ||lll||ll||lll||, Sun 9 Nov 2003, 23:59, archived)
# See
here
(byebye, Sun 9 Nov 2003, 23:59, archived)
# ask my dad, he's a retired meteorologist
.
(lib319, Mon 10 Nov 2003, 0:03, archived)