The Rainbows are not what they seem

This may sound a little hypocritical after yesterday's post about witnessing the release of what may have been a toxic gas from an industrial site, but what the hey.

This is a video that's making the rounds. I was alerted to it in an e-mail message from ...tom... of Sleeping In the Heartland, who had commented earlier on the red rainbow that I witnessed but didn't photograph. He directed me to this post on the blog of Isis the Scientist, On Becoming a Domestic and Laboratory Goddess.... , which contained this terrifying (yet true!) eyewitness account of a genuine Fortean phenomenon:



The scariest thing about the narration to this video is that the woman (who is NOT Isis the Scientist, FYI) is apparently dead serious. She must have led a very deprived childhood, deficient in rainbows and lawn sprinklers (or even garden hoses, which are what I used to create my own rainbows when I was a kid.) It's just sad: she was being treated to an absolutely beautiful, incredibly bright rainbow, and she was essentially recoiling in horror.

From the comments on the linked post:

D.B. Echo said...
WILL NO ONE THINK OF THE CHILDREN?

And has anyone noticed how at sunset, the sky takes on this eerie reddish-orange hue? There is NO WAY that was going on twenty years ago! And as the sun sets in the west, this dark band rises in the east, purple underneath and pink on top? What is this, some secret government experiment?

And what about those UFOs that go across the sky at night? They look like stars, but they move in straight lines and sometimes flare up! Are these some sort of space vehicles, beaming signals into our homes?

And in winter, if I get snow on my shoes, it turns to water when I come into the house!WITCHCRAFT!

...I'm a-scared that the person who made this video was serious.

August 13, 2008 6:32 PM


Isis the Scientist said...
D.B. Echo, that is the best freakin' part! This person is absolutely serious!!!!

If you head over to the You Tube and search "HAARPs" you will find a whole series of videos on the rainbow conspiracy (which, for the record, is very different from the rainbow connection).

August 13, 2008 6:42 PM

(This video has been making the rounds for some time now. Phil Plait did a post on it on Friday and linked to a post by P.Z. Meyers from August 5th.)

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On a somewhat less-sad note, I was doing a Google image search for "red rainbow" and I got a response that led me to this page on the Unexplained Mysteries discussion forum. What keeps this from being truly sad is the fact that the people in this forum a) are noticing cool things like red rainbows and sun dogs and sun pillars - most people have never seen these things simply because they haven't looked up at the sky! - and b) are asking questions. If I could, I would send copies of M.G.J. Minnaert's beautiful classic Light and Color in the Outdoors to every one of these people. That might be enough to shift them from the "I Want To Believe" school of thought to the "Now you know - and knowing is half the battle!" way of thinking.


TITLE REFERENCE: Line fom Twin Peaks, a revelation scene involving a giant in Dale Cooper's dreams: "The owls are not what they seem."