Talk:1684: Rainbow

How do I find the official transcript?Transuranium (talk) 11:00, 23 May 2016 (UTC)Transuranium

Most recent comics do not have official transcripts. Forrest (talk)11:13, 23 May 2016 (UTC)

But now there is one here ;-) Kynde (talk) 11:38, 23 May 2016 (UTC)

Religion... geez. It's some weird stuff, huh. 108.162.219.10 17:05, 23 May 2016 (UTC)

Now that XKCD adopts the voice of God, it's time to write him off and move elsewhere. 141.101.70.109 11:56, 23 May 2016 (UTC)

Nice of you to decide for everyone. Just like god would do, right? 141.101.80.27 13:38, 23 May 2016 (UTC)

Word of God has appered before, as in Comic 224 or 258. 162.158.86.161 17:09, 23 May 2016 (UTC)

For the sake of doctrinal accuracy, God (assuming the comic is in fact referring to the Jewish God who set his war bow in the cloud after the Flood) never promised not to destroy the earth by fire. Christian theology (2 Peter 3:10) implies God fully intends to destroy the earth by fire - or at least by unprecedented universal nuclear fission. 108.162.221.87 11:59, 23 May 2016 (UTC)

Good point, but for universal respect you should capitalise His pronouns. 141.101.70.109 12:16, 23 May 2016 (UTC)

Ok, really? So the bible says "I will destroy the earth by **universal nuclear fission**" ? I must have missed something on the first reading -- could you tell me the page number? 162.158.255.219 19:20, 23 May 2016 (UTC)

When the conditions are right, various types of multiple rainbow may be visible. Rhubbarb (talk) 12:03, 23 May 2016 (UTC)

Atmospheric optics enthusiast signing in. That's right. Although the "third faint bow near the sun" Cueball mentions might indeed refer to the 22° halo, another possibility is that he means the (very rare) tertiary or third-order rainbow. See wikipedia:Rainbow#Higher-order_rainbows. Here's a picture of one. 141.101.104.78 13:03, 23 May 2016 (UTC)