[Chaos-l] Wikipedia oddity: "Moonbow in Durham, NC"

[Bill Cook]

I don't have any idea why durham should be on that list, but my wife and I
saw one while we were living in Hawaii.

 

I got out of the USAF in early Aug, 1985.  On the last day of July were
spending our last days in Hawaii in the Royal Hawaiian Hotel on Waikiki and
went for a walk on the beach after dinner.  There was a second full moon
that July and above us (and in Hawaii at 21 degrees N Lat the moon is very
high in the sky) there was, not only a moonbow but a double moonbow lit by
the second full moon of the month.  How rare is that.  Needless to say, an
uber cool sight and one I will never forget.

 

Bill Cook

 

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Sent: Sunday, November 21, 2010 11:36 PM
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Subject: Re: [Chaos-l] Wikipedia oddity: "Moonbow in Durham, NC"

 

Hi all.  In response to my inquiry about:





http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moonbow [...] Also Durham, North Carolina 

 

Tony Rice did some digging, and found it was a fraudulent update.  Which
just goes to show why Wikipedia isn't a "true" reference source.

 

The entry has also already been corrected, which shows one of the reasons
Wikipedia is better than traditional published encyclopedias.  Once
something gets in one of those, it's in 'till the next edition.

 

J.

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