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Lightning rainbow

Rob Beschizza at 8:11 am Thu, May 31, 2012

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A rainbow during storms in Haikou, the capital of China's Hainan province. Photo: China Daily/Reuters

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  • awjt

    That’s the venerable FSM for ya:  I love ya, AND I’m gonna kill ya!  Get ready and enjoy the show!

  • http://mightybob.com thatbob

    This is what happens when Ronnie James Dio goes to heaven and takes control of the weather for a while.

  • http://twitter.com/digitalArtform Joseph Francis

    The gods must be flamboyant.

    • Antinous / Moderator

      Jazz hands.

      • http://twitter.com/digitalArtform Joseph Francis

         :D

  • http://www.facebook.com/jonathancardozo Jonathan Cardozo

    It’s so intense!  What does it mean?

    • Rev. Benjamin

      Damn it!!!  Beat me to it!!!

  • ZikZak

    man, some crazy stuff happens in the sky.  what’s up with that place?

  • http://www.xradiograph.com/ OtherMichael

    Is that real lightning, or computer graphics added to make the rainbow look more impressive?

    http://abcnews.go.com/International/China/story?id=5565191&page=1#.T8eSP8XkZ3A

    It looks more like a giant plasma ball. Has China started hiring mad scientists in addition to insane architects?

  • Shinkuhadoken

    Double Lightning Rainbow! O_Q

    • TheMadLibrarian

       You just nuked half of the Sailor Moon team, there.

  • Rich Keller

    That really needs a chrome robot unicorn pasted into it.

  • http://beautifulsynthesis.com Andrea

    Rainbow Dash’s latest trick.

  • http://twitter.com/ChristoVaughan Christopher Vaughan

    Rainbows happen opposite the light source (if the sun is in one direction, look the other way for the rainbow). So this is just a regular rainbow with lightening behind it, not a rainbow that is caused by the lightening (or it’s just photoshopped).

  • Cowicide

    http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6201/6081352015_0ca103de4c_b.jpg