And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Three times I've seen the green flash. Once from land, twice at sea. To be sure, a blessing. It is so incredible that there is no thinking you might have seen it. In that case, no, you didn't.
According to my high-school physics teacher, it is a refractive effect of the sun going below the horizon, splitting the sunlight a la rainbow, and momentarily showing some of the green spectrum. It must require special atmospheric conditions or something, because I have looked for it on multiple occasions, and only managed to scorch my retinas. YMMV.
"Mister Gibbs, have you ever set your eyes upon the Green Flash?"
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Three times I've seen the green flash. Once from land, twice at sea. To be sure, a blessing.
ReplyDeleteIt is so incredible that there is no thinking you might have seen it. In that case, no, you didn't.
Once, for me. A beautiful green cirrus-cloud looking flare, with a brighter green dot in the middle.
ReplyDeleteOnce for me at the Point Reyes lighthouse.
ReplyDeletenever even heard of this. WTF ?
ReplyDeleteAccording to my high-school physics teacher, it is a refractive effect of the sun going below the horizon, splitting the sunlight a la rainbow, and momentarily showing some of the green spectrum. It must require special atmospheric conditions or something, because I have looked for it on multiple occasions, and only managed to scorch my retinas. YMMV.
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