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Science is a lot of things. It’s a person in a lab coat experimenting with different materials as well as an astronaut bouncing around in zero gravity. It’s a geologist studying rocks and a mathematician perusing books. It’s an archeologist out on an expedition and a biologist monitoring different animal species. 

That’s the great thing about science—it’s vast. It is also useful because of discoveries that allow us to advance in this world. It is exciting because it gives us new prospects to aspire to. It is ongoing, inspiring, devastating, beautiful and, also, funny.

The list below is all about the funny side of science. The jokes, the puns, the memes, and other ridiculousness that was collected and posted on The Lighter Side of Science Facebook group. Scroll down to see our favorites.

#1

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Hennri Starr Report

Annik Perrot
Community Member
2 years ago

This should be higher

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    #2

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    Diane Ohlzen Report

    Panda Kicki
    Community Member
    2 years ago (edited)

    Our whole attict is a bat sanctuary. They fly around the house at night, catching mosquitoes and we love the little buggers. Sometime they crash in the grass and I use welding gloves to gently put them back. When I grew up a tv tower was built nearby, the poor bats got disorientated and every morning I found dozens in tve grass

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    #3

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    S Dharma Teg Report

    pinkpie
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    Aye-oo

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    #4

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    Tiffany Welsh Stevenson Report

    Jack Burton
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    Or having to make a phone call...

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    #5

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    Butcher C. Cazzoti Report

    troufaki13
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    Ah... the pure bliss of having a simple mind 😅

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    #6

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    Tiffany Welsh Stevenson Report

    KariAdoresHerKats
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    Ah just look at him 🥰

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    #7

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    Willow Annastasia Report

    Crybabyartist
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    Now if it were on a Perch.. Tastes like Chicken... Chicken of the sea.

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    #8

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    S Dharma Teg Report

    KinoEel
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    Now give it an angry cousin who wants to attack everything

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    #9

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    redemptiionss Report

    Gizzywig
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    I read this as Seal the musician breaking into a NZ home

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    #10

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    Alex Hanna Report

    JoyfulZebra
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    That entire post felt like an acid trip

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    #11

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    Steven Downs Report

    Doctor Strange
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    Remember, if it bites you and you die, its venomous. If you bite it and you die, its poisonous. If it bites itself and you die, its voodoo. If you both bite each other and neither of you die, its kinky.

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    #12

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    S Dharma Teg Report

    JoyfulZebra
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    Sounds like something my dad would say

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    #13

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    IFLScience Report

    KinoEel
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    Look humanity is kinda stupid, always has been always will be

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    #14

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    Keith Manson Report

    JoyfulZebra
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    Don't give them any ideas

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    #15

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    Makenzee Jade Report

    Crybabyartist
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    There is no point in having these. Unnecessary and messy... time to phase these out... I'm staying inside with all my doors shut tight... and a blow torch in case my chair turns into a spider.

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    #16

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    Steven Downs Report

    María Hermida
    Community Member
    2 years ago (edited)

    What were they *really* trying to do? That's scary!

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    #17

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    Aleksandra Bilewicz Report

    Andy Cran
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    being a Brit myself and it not of any real use to me I really like this

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    #18

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    Tiffany Welsh Stevenson Report

    Crybabyartist
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    Thanks teacher!

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    #19

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    Elisabeth Neda Scott Report

    HelluvaHedgehogAlien
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    ‘One more trespasser and my wind chime will be complete’

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    #20

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    S Dharma Teg Report

    geezeronthehill
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    Shaman: "We can make that wolf our friend by scritching a spot on his lower back." Hunter: "No way! He'll kill me!" Little girl: "I'll do it! Come here, mister wolf..."

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    #21

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    S Dharma Teg Report

    Multa Nocte
    Community Member
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    2 years ago

    I love it when a 4 year old is so much more intelligent than a grown person.

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    #22

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    greenisneon Report

    BrownTabby
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    Me, a Japanese speaker who has heard a love song that mentioned being “only 10cm apart”: sounds like a you problem

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    #23

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    S Dharma Teg Report

    JoyfulZebra
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    BIG FLOOFY BEEEEEAAAANNNSSS

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    #24

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    Alex Hanna Report

    Delenn
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    The brain: You are going to kill us all!! The inmune system: Look, the manual says I had to rise temperature and I am doing it ok? I don´t care about that "keil" you are talking about.

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    #25

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    Hennri Starr Report

    Zeyno
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    facial expression of the cat🤭

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    #26

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    James Tegan Report

    Andy Cran
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    Bananas!!!! they're devil's bum grapes

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    #27

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    S Dharma Teg Report

    Andy Cran
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    what bear?

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    #28

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    David Nields Report

    JoyfulZebra
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    I too would like to hear our ancestors' floppy wisdom

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    #29

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    Bookworm
    Community Member
    2 years ago (edited)

    In all seriousness, the regenerating teeth would be awesome but wouldn't be feasible, because permanent, non-replacing teeth were actually one of the great innovations in the evolution of mammals. If your teeth are always falling out and growing back, you never run out, but you also can't develop feeding strategies that rely on your teeth meeting up in a certain way, a.k.a chewing. Permanent teeth allowed the first mammals to start specializing teeth to do different jobs; if their teeth were all in different stages of development, it wouldn't work, because once you get beyond simple plant-tearing pegs or sharp points, your teeth have to make contact with each other the same way all the time to be useable. ('The Rise And Reign Of The Mammals' is a fascinating book if you have any interest in evolutionary history.) Edit: book title

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    #30

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    S Dharma Teg Report

    BTDubs
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    No wonder everyone's trying to BOIL it

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    #31

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    Christine Nicole Bagley Report

    Bec
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    Unlike most Internet trolls, most scientists are open to new ideas and possibilities

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    #32

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    S Dharma Teg Report

    KinoEel
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    Or a murder

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    #33

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    Stevie Perry Report

    KinoEel
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    It’s a bit small, must be a gerbil

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    #34

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    Jeanne Gehring Report

    FunesElMemorioso
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    badomm-tsinng!

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    #35

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    S Dharma Teg Report

    PlatinumThe8-BitCat
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    I actually like calling people humans because it sort of makes me feel like I’m not human which I wish was the case

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    #36

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    S Dharma Teg Report

    Andy Cran
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    correlation is not causation simply put

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    #37

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    Monstarr the Divisive
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    holy s**t! Epiphany!

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    #38

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    Tiffany Welsh Stevenson Report

    LooseSeal's $10 Banana
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    Dammit Moon Moon!

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    #39

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    S Dharma Teg Report

    Crybabyartist
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    Dont go sticking your hands in those pockets, there is no loose change and if you touch me afterwards I'm gonna puke on your shirt... mucus is gross!! ITS A MUCUS pocket!! worse than a sweaty pocket!!

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    #40

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    S Dharma Teg , Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation Report

    JoyfulZebra
    Community Member
    2 years ago (edited)

    How else do you think blue cheese acquires its taste?

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    #41

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    Diane Ohlzen Report

    Fat Harry
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    Entirely numeric passwords are a terrible idea because they're so easily brute-forced.

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    #42

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    S Dharma Teg Report

    Lunakadi
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    I met an adult who thought basically the same thing about narwhals.

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    #43

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    Tiffany Welsh Stevenson Report

    Warpath81
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    Halfway through the day, I take prescription strength fukital

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    #44

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    Jack Burton
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    That is actually a great answer but sadly they will tell you back how Youtube is free for people and not edited by pedo socialist satanists like the washington post

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    #45

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    HelluvaHedgehogAlien
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    BA-DUM-TISSSSSSS

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    #46

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    S Dharma Teg Report

    Trillian
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    Sometimes our butts eat those secret pants

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    #47

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    Heather Cachat Report

    Peppy
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    Kenneth?

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    #48

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    Allan Hussein Report

    Delenn
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    Am I weird because I am laughing at this like a loon?

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    #49

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    daglout Report

    Katie Lutesinger
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    The rest we turned into paint or used as train fuel.

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    #50

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    S Dharma Teg Report

    Katie Lutesinger
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    Yeah, but my weirdness doesn't cause werewolves to transform.

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    #51

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    S Dharma Teg Report

    Samiam
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    om nom nom

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    #52

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    Matthew Serowik Report

    Manic Mama
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    I respect the heck out of this.

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    #53

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    Joe Baum Report

    KinoEel
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    Well I spose the flat earthers were right after all

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    #54

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    Danielle Lawson Report

    PlatinumThe8-BitCat
    Community Member
    2 years ago (edited)

    I am 1 on this scale, also can anyone else imagine different sides of something they’ve seen before without seeing the sides? Because if I see the side of say a bottle I am able to imagine what all other views of the bottle look like, I can also do that with rooms and I can imagine a room from a bunch of different angles and all of the people and objects in that room

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    #55

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    Cate Hutchinson Report

    troufaki13
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    *checking Australia OFF my bucket list*

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    #56

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    Jennifer Hammond Report

    Andy Cran
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    pmsl that should be the UK storm warning scale 😆😆😆 along with "inside out umbrella" alerts

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    #57

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    Stevie Perry Report

    Multa Nocte
    Community Member
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    2 years ago

    It always amazes me when people complain that they "aren't going to need something later in life." Sometimes knowledge is just good to expand your brain capacity and enlarge your knowledge base. I have never regretted having learned something and I have been surprised over my life how many things I thought were "useless" at the time have turned out to helpful later.

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    #58

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    S Dharma Teg Report

    troufaki13
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    Or else you would be ded

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    #59

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    Tiffany Welsh Stevenson , daviddeweil Report

    pinkpie
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    A pound! You never know when there’s a yellow flag hiding in the beige ones lol

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    #60

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    Charlie Waite Report

    Mark
    Community Member
    2 years ago (edited)

    The world is dictated by Schrödinger’s laws. We all base our comments on the reactions of other people

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    #61

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    Margarita Suárez Report

    Trillian
    Community Member
    2 years ago (edited)

    But wouldn't that make three rows disappear?

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    #62

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    Emmy Frederickson , FredTaming Report

    I'm.Just.A.Girl
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    As someone who has and does work at a thrift store... It is common for us to receive ashes of pets and or loved ones. Not an everyday occurrence but it's happened more times than you would think.

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    #63

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    Jon Keith Report

    Lauren Bridger
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    The mitochondria is the power house of a cell.

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    #64

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    Andrea Lee Pike Report

    HTakeover
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    Still exacting punishment for Harambe.

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    #65

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    S Dharma Teg Report

    HelluvaHedgehogAlien
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    Must I?

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    #66

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    Bo-James Morey Report

    David Paterson
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    Tiny compared with my plan to build a collider that circumnavigates Australia.

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    #67

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    So I get the shadow, but I'm trying to wrap my mind around the circular rainbow

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    Gandalf the Pink
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    This is mistaken for a circular rainbow but it's not. Rainbows are much larger. This is what's called glory. It's an optical effect due to sunlight interfering with small droplets, so things like clouds, mist, fog. It appears on the antisolar point, which means the opposite end of a line going through you from the sun. So naturally, it ends up right at your shadow.

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    #68

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    William Cheney Report

    JoyfulZebra
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    I hate this I hate this I hate this unsee juice please

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    #69

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    S Dharma Teg Report

    Andy Cran
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    when they removed my eye (retinoblastoma) I did ask if I could keep it 😏,I was 13 at the time (almost 40yrs ago) but it had to go off for biopsy....I was an odd kid 😁

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    #70

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    Elisabeth Neda Scott Report

    Jack Burton
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    Yeah mens are so affraid of women we never heard about men hitting, raping or killing a woman like ever !

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