<div dir="ltr">Aren't all rainbows perfect circles, only some of which is usually visible? A rain "circle segment."</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 12:27 PM, spike <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:spike66@att.net" target="_blank">spike66@att.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] Brains grow and shrink like 'rainbows' as we age<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">>…</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">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</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">….</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">spike</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">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.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">So why don’t we call it a rain arc, or a rain parabola, or perhaps a rain y=-x^2 or something?<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><u></u><u></u></font></span></span></p><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">spike<u></u><u></u></span></p></font></span></div></div></div></div></div></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>
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