Neil deGrasse Tyson Honored the Victims of the Orlando Attack in the Most Fitting Way
On Wednesday, celebrity astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson honored the victims of Sunday's mass shooting at a gay nightclub in Orlando, which left at least 50 dead, including the gunman and 53 more wounded.
Tyson added his voice to the outpouring of LGBTQ-support on social media by tweeting out a scientific explanation of rainbows and how we've come to understand them throughout history.
The exact Rainbow any of us sees in the sky is entirely our own -- a personal, yet communal gift from the laws of optics.
A Rainbow forms only broadside to your line of sight. That's why the pot of Gold at its base remains eternally out of reach.
If we had vision like @StarTrek's Giordi, Rainbows would look twice as thick, and include parts of ultraviolet & infrared.
Most people can take or leave Indigo as a Rainbow color, but Newton was mystically fascinated with 7, so we're stuck with it.
He ended the science lesson with a powerful tweet showing the rainbow-colored LGBTQ pride flag next to the Orlando city seal.
And sometimes you will find colors of the Rainbow on flags.pic.twitter.com/fl9AJuJANK
