# Rainbows are proof we're destroying the planet **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 6, 2008, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rainbows-are-proof-were-destroying-the-planet/459079 "2008-08-06T20:53:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![TazMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f04885/32.png) [@TazMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TazMan)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2008, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rainbows-are-proof-were-destroying-the-planet/459079/1 "2008-08-06T20:53:02Z")
Good stuff! šŸ˜‰ > **[ItemFix - Social Video Factory](https://www.itemfix.com/?r=ll)** > > Social Video Factory ---
**Author:** ![ivan\_astikov](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/58f4c7/32.png) [@ivan\_astikov](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivan_astikov)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2008, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rainbows-are-proof-were-destroying-the-planet/459079/2 "2008-08-06T21:00:30Z")
Do you think she doesnā€™t get out of the house much? Itā€™s a shame really. šŸ˜ƒ ---
**Author:** ![kittenblue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ba8739/32.png) [@kittenblue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kittenblue)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2008, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rainbows-are-proof-were-destroying-the-planet/459079/3 "2008-08-07T01:59:36Z")
Oh, that is so sad. What I would give, though, to see her interviewed on one of the mainstream morning news showsā€¦along with her science teacher from middle schoolā€¦ ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2008, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rainbows-are-proof-were-destroying-the-planet/459079/4 "2008-08-07T02:11:58Z")
She says ā€œthis didnā€™t happen 20 years ago.ā€ According to my Rabbi, sheā€™s only off by a few thousand years; other than that slight time difference, heā€™d agree with her. Before Noah, Rabbi Dr. Scharfman said, and he is backed up by the Torah, no less, there were no rainbows. ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2008, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rainbows-are-proof-were-destroying-the-planet/459079/5 "2008-08-07T02:17:53Z")
Ouch. That actively pissed me off. It made me want to go find out who she is so I can teach her ignorant ass about rainbows. Grr. ---
**Author:** ![Hockey\_Monkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a183cd/32.png) [@Hockey\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hockey_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2008, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rainbows-are-proof-were-destroying-the-planet/459079/6 "2008-08-07T02:45:22Z")
Oh. My. God. That was painful. Not natural? WTF? I want to slap every single one of her educators. Or maybe she never went to school. Who hasnā€™t played with a prism??? Who has never seen a rainbow in the sky??? ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2008, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rainbows-are-proof-were-destroying-the-planet/459079/7 "2008-08-07T02:53:44Z")
[QUOTE=Hockey Monkey] Who has never seen a rainbow in the sky??? [/QUOTE] I feel guilty trying to cut her some slack, but I interpreted her video to say that the problem is rainbows are now too close to the ground or being created by pollution (metals?) in the water supply. Or something. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2008, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rainbows-are-proof-were-destroying-the-planet/459079/8 "2008-08-07T02:57:52Z")
[It gets better](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaAX4adkMBk), or worse, depending. [I guess this is the symbol of the New World Order.](http://img168.imageshack.us/img168/6669/darkside1oq2.jpg) [More crazy](http://educate-yourself.org/cn/sylphandchemtrailindex.shtml): Chemtrails, sylphs, and orgone energy. ---
**Author:** ![kittenblue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ba8739/32.png) [@kittenblue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kittenblue)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2008, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rainbows-are-proof-were-destroying-the-planet/459079/9 "2008-08-07T03:12:56Z")
I think she specifically said something about rainbows never appearing in SPRINKLERS 20 years ago, but only in the sky where they belong. Iā€™d go back and check, but it was too painful. ---
**Author:** ![Hockey\_Monkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a183cd/32.png) [@Hockey\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hockey_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2008, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rainbows-are-proof-were-destroying-the-planet/459079/10 "2008-08-07T03:25:30Z")
How does she think rainbows get in the sky thenā€¦oh never mind. I just watched Delerthā€™s first link there. The stupid. It BURNS! ---
**Author:** ![WarmNPrickly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d78d45/32.png) [@WarmNPrickly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WarmNPrickly)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2008, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rainbows-are-proof-were-destroying-the-planet/459079/11 "2008-08-07T03:34:42Z")
Thank god for the marijuana that freed her mind from the controlling effects of the metal oxides in order for her to post this public service announcement. I think I hate stupid hippies most of all because they usually vote the same way I do (when they can be bothered and the donā€™t vote for Nader.) Iā€™m assuming stupid hippie because the location iis northern California and she sounded stoned. Wow look at that rainbow! Wait a minute, there didnā€™t used to be rainbows did there? ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2008, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rainbows-are-proof-were-destroying-the-planet/459079/12 "2008-08-07T03:56:52Z")
I donā€™t think sheā€™s saying there didnā€™t used to be rainbows, just that they werenā€™t seen in things like sprinklersā€“only in the sky. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2008, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rainbows-are-proof-were-destroying-the-planet/459079/13 "2008-08-07T04:17:24Z")
[This one is called ā€œChemtrails Novel SolGels n Mite caught in Flockā€.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86aE-pR9EpA) That means she plays ā€œDream Weaverā€ (the song, not the software) while showing you video of a mite moving around and quotes from a patent. The mite video looks like it was taken through a microscope. The patent verbiage relates to chemistry somehow. Iā€™ve been laughing too hard to keep up. (Itā€™s a ā€œchemtrails a silent genocide filmā€. Gary Wright doesnā€™t like being called a silent genocide.) [Here, she thinks TV static is her analog TV mysteriously getting a digital signal.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WwpLG1bizc) I donā€™t know what to say, really: Iā€™m sure tuning an analog set to a digital over-the-air station (broadcast DTV) would get you odd static, but Iā€™m also sure Iā€™ve seen static like that before in areas with no broadcast DTV. Iā€™m really sure sheā€™s just nuts, now. ---
**Author:** ![jhinman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/779978/32.png) [@jhinman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jhinman)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2008, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rainbows-are-proof-were-destroying-the-planet/459079/14 "2008-08-07T04:54:46Z")
[QUOTE=Musicat] She says ā€œthis didnā€™t happen 20 years ago.ā€ According to my Rabbi, sheā€™s only off by a few thousand years; other than that slight time difference, heā€™d agree with her. Before Noah, Rabbi Dr. Scharfman said, and he is backed up by the Torah, no less, there were no rainbows. [/QUOTE] [slight hijack] I just reread the store of Noahā€™s ark in Genesis and can see nothing that sayes that was the first rainbow ever. Now I am not Jewish (Mormon actually) and I am assumeing by Torah you refer to Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy and be wrong about that but I donbā€™t think it has a scriptual base. [/slight hijack] ---
**Author:** ![Stealth\_Potato](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Stealth\_Potato](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stealth_Potato)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2008, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rainbows-are-proof-were-destroying-the-planet/459079/15 "2008-08-07T05:06:21Z")
Guys, cut her some slack. Sheā€™s just trying to bring to our attention the governmentā€™s top secret plans to put _metal oxide salts_ in our water supply in their _never-ending **thrist** for energy sources._ Weā€™re just guinea pigs, guinea pigs, I tell you! šŸ˜ƒ ---
**Author:** ![Manduck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manduck/32/256_2.png) [@Manduck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manduck)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2008, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rainbows-are-proof-were-destroying-the-planet/459079/16 "2008-08-07T05:27:18Z")
[QUOTE=Derleth] [It gets better](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaAX4adkMBk), or worse, depending. [/QUOTE] ā€œIsnā€™t the moon awfully low for this time of year?ā€ gave me the best laugh Iā€™ve had in a long time. And yet, CAMERA IS ON A TRIPOD! ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Plastic\_Ninja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f07891/32.png) [@Little\_Plastic\_Ninja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Plastic_Ninja)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2008, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rainbows-are-proof-were-destroying-the-planet/459079/17 "2008-08-07T05:37:34Z")
I vividly recall making rainbows in sprinklers twenty years ago. Ergo, the lady is full of crud. I mean, thereā€™s a lot of other reasons to verify the general crudness of this, butā€¦ Maybe sheā€™s actually [protesting the level designs for Diablo 3?](http://multiplayerblog.mtv.com/2008/08/04/diablo-iii-designer-turns-tables/) ---
**Author:** ![Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/half_man_half_wit/32/21766_2.png) [@Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Half_Man_Half_Wit)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2008, 11:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rainbows-are-proof-were-destroying-the-planet/459079/18 "2008-08-07T11:06:44Z")
[QUOTE=Derleth] [It gets better](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaAX4adkMBk), or worse, depending. [/QUOTE] Gah. A holigram? I thought that was when Jesus delivered a message to your doorā€¦ I wonder how that woman even manages to operate video equipment. Granted, she doesnā€™t do it very wellā€¦ But at least THE CAMERA IS ON A TRIPOD (and yet, still shaky and unfocused). Iā€™m not sure I want to see more. ā˜¹ ---
**Author:** ![Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/half_man_half_wit/32/21766_2.png) [@Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Half_Man_Half_Wit)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2008, 11:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rainbows-are-proof-were-destroying-the-planet/459079/19 "2008-08-07T11:18:30Z")
On the other hand, [this one](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNmu05Yu5Y4) is priceless ā€“ ā€˜If I take a step forward, I fall. Against things.ā€™ - ā€˜And as it gets darker, the rocking will start to get worse.ā€™ Would I be considered a cynic if I pointed out a possible correlation with BAC? (Sorry for the double post, edit timed out) ---
**Author:** ![ASAKMOTSD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/919ad9/32.png) [@ASAKMOTSD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASAKMOTSD)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2008, 11:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rainbows-are-proof-were-destroying-the-planet/459079/20 "2008-08-07T11:27:09Z")
Hasnā€™t this woman ever seen **The Wizard of Oz**? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rainbows-are-proof-were-destroying-the-planet/459079.md?page=2)