rainbows
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Blowing Up A Rainbow Probably Looks A Lot Like Dropping An Anvil On Spray Paint Cans
Video: When you get exclusive access to a 45m-tall tower, you’re going to want to do more than just take in the view. So when the team from How Ridiculous got just such an opportunity, they made the most of it, hauling a heavy anvil to the top and then dropping it on a stack…
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Pouring Hot Water On Skittles Is Truly Magical
Video: Skittles’ “taste the rainbow” tagline seems all the more appropriate when you arrange the colourful lollies in a ring on a plate and pour hot water over them. They immediately begin to melt and bleed colour, producing a rainbow design that’s straight up magical without the need for a wand.
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Cheap Projector Uses Prisms To Create Colour Images From B&W Source
Before LEDs and lasers came along, video projectors would shine white light through a rotating colour wheel to produce full-colour images. But researchers at Dartmouth College and Disney Research Zürich have come up with a more unusual projection approach using prisms and very precise computer-generated black and white images.
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Rainbow Lightning Is A Rare Sight
A stunning photo of a rainbow arcing over a lightning strike in Tucson, Arizona took the Internet by storm last week, garnering nearly 4000 retweets on Twitter. And there’s a good reason the image went viral: Rainbow lightning is a spectacular — and spectacularly rare — phenomenon.