Is it immoral to point out a silver lining

Call it "hardship conkers ": you string up your recessionary hardships and I'll string up mine, we can dip them in linseed oil to make them tougher still, then swing them at each other and see whose explodes first. Or call it the modern version of Monty Python's Four Yorkshiremen sketch : I've lost more than you have because I had more to lose in the first place. No, I've lost more than you ...

Watching the skies: the 22 degree halo, tangent arcs, and supralateral arc

I've been attempting to photograph halos around the sun for some years now, a task now made much easier with the advent of digital cameras and programs for stitching smaller photos into larger panoramas, e.g. OmniStitcher (which I use), necessary if I'm trying to photograph enormous regions of sky with one small camera. Atmospheric halos are caused by the refraction and reflection of ...

радужные облака

ничего себе! вот бы увидеть это волшебное явление! всякое видел на небе, но такого пока не встречал http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap071125.html и вот ещё: http://www.atoptics.co.uk/droplets/iridim0.htm

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