10-17-2018, 07:16 AM
I've seen it, in Virginia. Probably about 35 or 40 years ago. I laid on my back in a mountain meadow watching it flash like that for two hours or more in the night time. The lightning was running cloud to cloud, not cloud to ground, and it was spectacular... and seemed to last forever. It made the same purple hue in the sky. The only explanation I could come up with was that all of the light was coming from the lightning flashes rather than sunlight, and that in combination with the blue of the sky (if it had been daylight, which it was not) was causing the purple hue.
The atmosphere acts as a prism, returning different colors depending on the light pumped into it. that night, it was purple. A few days later, the sunset was red. A few weeks ago, I saw a sunset that had ALL the colors of the rainbow in it, not just the usual red. Last week, I saw a rainbow to the east at sunset, and that on a day that not a drop of rain had fallen.
This is a wondrous world, always ready to give a surprise to those who are watching.
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The atmosphere acts as a prism, returning different colors depending on the light pumped into it. that night, it was purple. A few days later, the sunset was red. A few weeks ago, I saw a sunset that had ALL the colors of the rainbow in it, not just the usual red. Last week, I saw a rainbow to the east at sunset, and that on a day that not a drop of rain had fallen.
This is a wondrous world, always ready to give a surprise to those who are watching.
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Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering the king.
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’