[ExI] rain "bow" was RE: Brains grow and shrink like 'rainbows' as we age

[Dan]

On Tuesday, September 23, 2014 9:44 AM, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:
>>…What surprises me is that with all the cool stuff we have figured
>> out as a species, we still haven’t invented a way to make a rainbow
>> go up at the ends instead of down….spike
>
> Furthermore, why do we call it a rainbow?  You never saw one shaped
> like a bow, did ya?  Granted it would be way cool if you did.  You
> know what you would be saying:  That’s it, no more drugs, gotta stop
> forthwith, this is just too crazy, etc.
>
> So why don’t we call it a rain arc, or a rain parabola, or perhaps
> a rain y=-x^2 or something?

Rainbow is a decent metaphor in my view. But why call it a rain-thing and not just a light-thing?

Then again, maybe I'm the odd man out here, but I don't particularly find rainbows beautiful or even cool. They look annoying to me. :)

Regards, 

Dan 
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