Interesting Story about the peace symbol at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_symbol.

The Peace Symbol

The Semaphore N

The Semaphore D

ND = Nuclear Disarmament

When the Hippies take over, ND becomes Peace! ;)

This post brought to you by a little gift from a little person.

I'll try to share some do's and don'ts here.

Let's start with a don't. Don't take Fish Oil capsules to the desert. They can melt into a gooey stinky mass :-(

)'(

Last week, several interesting things happened that I missed.

1. Full lunar eclipse (I slept through it)

2.  The pre-burn of the Man during the eclipse.

3.  Meteor Showers

What I didn't miss was the amazing display of colors in the sky.

Supernumerary Rainbows

If you observe the first image very carefully, you'll notice that there are some visible bands of light below violet at the bottom of the rainbow. Technically, a rainbow is bounded by VIBGYOR, but this one has more colors (or more than one, err.. two, rainbows). This phenomenon is called supernumerary rainbows.

From Wikipedia -

Infrequently another rainbow phenomenon is observed, consisting of several faint rainbows on the inner side of the primary rainbow, and very rarely also outside the secondary rainbow. They are slightly detached and have pastel colour bands that do not fit the usual pattern. They are known as supernumerary rainbows, and it is not possible to explain their existence using classical geometric optics. The alternating faint rainbows are caused by interference between rays of light following slightly different paths with slightly varying lengths within the raindrops. Some rays are in phase, reinforcing each other through constructive interference, creating a bright band; others are out of phase by up to half a wavelength, cancelling each other out through destructive interference, and creating a gap. Given the different angles of refraction for rays of different colours, the patterns of interference are slightly different for rays of different colours, so each bright band is differentiated in colour, creating a miniature rainbow. Supernumerary rainbows are clearest when raindrops are small and of similar size. The very existence of supernumerary rainbows was historically a first indication of the wave nature of light, and the first explanation was provided by Thomas Young in 1804.

The email says it all.

From: Gayleen Hays
Sent: Sunday, September 02, 2007 8:27 PM
Subject: RE: [burningman-bcwa] The REAL problem

Drip by drip,

It's difficult,

To expand your view,

Perhaps, it stretches beyond

Children

Because some of us want to keep

That expression and

Protect that energy and so we come to

Play at Burning Man

With our secret child eyes' focus.

I come to pull and get pulled up into

The joy of connecting with kindred'childish

Souls and I think on some level many

Of us come with that hope of

Finding a deep mutual

Friend.

But, then. a stranger

Hung himself early Thursday

Morning. He hung there about sixty

Minutes before we figured out he was there;

Star of his own art creation.

Why?

I began to question my own opinion.

I had arrived at Burning Man, being yelled at

By a power-hungry gate/guard befoe I even got

My ticket stamped. It was a bad start vibe.

Then, a stranger hung himself

And it changed my focus off myself and onto the

Culture I want to protect and wish we could all live

Under it's umbrella of freedom,

But, a man hung himself.

And, it's interesting.

I believe in abortion

I believe in taking mushrooms

I believe in not drinking water

I believe in drinking wine

I believe in expression

I believe in a person being free to kill himself

With he can't stand the pain.

My mother died in my arms as an animal

From pancreatic cancer.

I believe she had the right to kill herself .

But, I can't accept his freedom to

Hang himself, not here.

Why, Why do I feel he had no right.

And then, I start to understand,

This must be the start of rules

The start of constricting rules

And that sucks.