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Post by Data Cable on Nov 21, 2008 3:51:44 GMT -4
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Post by gillianren on Nov 21, 2008 3:56:58 GMT -4
Oh, Gods. Even Graham got annoyed by that one. He's kind of moaning in a corner, muttering, "Refraction!"
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Post by dragonblaster on Nov 21, 2008 7:00:05 GMT -4
I find it hard to take seriously the arguments of someone who consistently uses poor grammar, punctuation or spelling. This guy fails on all counts in all slides.
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Post by ineluki on Nov 21, 2008 8:39:05 GMT -4
I don't feel like watching another retarded YT-Video... what is it about?
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Post by frenat on Nov 21, 2008 10:36:24 GMT -4
Some nutjob lady in her backyard claiming there are chemicals in the water because she can see a rainbow in her sprinkler.
I saw this a couple months ago on GLP. It was just as disturbing then. Even more so because some on there actually believed it.
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Post by Jason on Nov 21, 2008 11:50:43 GMT -4
The conspiracy must go pretty far back then. I seem to remember rainbows being mentioned in the Bible!
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Post by jaydeehess on Nov 21, 2008 14:49:20 GMT -4
WOW, just wow. Maybe the sirens in the background were coming to take her away to a nice safe place.
On a personal note I recall as a kid when we set up a similar spinkler to run through the spray on a hot day that occssionally we would see a rainbow. It was just the kind of thing that a 10 year old and his buddies, in 1966, would just love to run through. It is quite memorable.
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Post by jaydeehess on Nov 21, 2008 14:52:32 GMT -4
The conspiracy must go pretty far back then. I seem to remember rainbows being mentioned in the Bible! ahhh, but she has no problem with 'natural' rainbows waaayyy up in the sky, just the ones at ground level which she contends are due to either something that has been seeded in the air, deployed in the city water system, is emanating from the earth, or a combination of all three.
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Post by laurel on Nov 21, 2008 15:26:54 GMT -4
ahhh, but she has no problem with 'natural' rainbows waaayyy up in the sky, just the ones at ground level ... What about the rainbow above Niagara Falls? That's not way up in the sky and it's not a recent phenomenon either.
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Post by Al Johnston on Nov 21, 2008 17:04:31 GMT -4
She probably just hasn't seen that one...
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Post by nomuse on Nov 22, 2008 7:05:47 GMT -4
Niagara's pretty artificial these days, tho. Re-lined, valved down, so on and so forth.
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Post by BertL on Nov 22, 2008 10:30:02 GMT -4
Hahaha, oh wow. This must be fake. It must be. ... But what if it isn't?...
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Post by Jason on Nov 22, 2008 14:51:54 GMT -4
My grandpa was involved with the American Falls study in 1969 that diverted 90% of the flow over the American falls to the Candian side so the rocks underneath could be studied for six months. He was a bit miffed that CBS didn't mention in their coverage that the Army Corps of Engineers had done the project, but it was during Vietnam and the Army wasn't popular at the time. My grandpa was a Colonel at the time, and met several congressmen interested in the project. His comment: "I was not impressed with Robert Kennedy who was then a Senator from New York. His office was populated by unkempt, unwashed, long hair hippies. Other congressmen were fine people." Heh.
Anyway, that must have been when they installed the rainbow, right?
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Post by dumbtechie on Nov 22, 2008 15:49:17 GMT -4
What is more disturbing- that people reach adulthood without having the tiniest clue about what makes a rainbow, or that people are so eager to make up a paranoid conspiracy theory about anything they don't understand? I'm reminded of this- someone sees some hardware they don't understand in an underground water line and convinces herself that it's a remote-controlled system to permit the government to inject poison into the water at individual homes.
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Post by grashtel on Nov 22, 2008 20:05:15 GMT -4
I'm reminded of this- someone sees some hardware they don't understand in an underground water line and convinces herself that it's a remote-controlled system to permit the government to inject poison into the water at individual homes. BTW you may want to use the standard HTTP address instead as Firefox really doesn't like something about the security certificate on the HTTPS one for some reason.
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