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This exercise in masturbatory pedantry brought to you by Neil deGrasse Tyson and the Tai Chi Association of North America.

I love that the first objection is not "no there isn't", it's "rainbows have no ends because they are circles". And it's not even really correct. You would never say that a mirage is a cone because it's light leaving the sun, being refracted through heated air in front of you, and then arriving in your eyes. "Mirage" and "rainbow" are the names we apply to our perceptions of these optical phenomena, not the entire length of the journey of the photons composing them.

"THERE'S A POT OF GOLD AT THE END OF THE MOON BECAUSE LIGHT FROM THE SUN BOUNCES OFF IT LOL"

Megan's description, even as written, is wrong. She is not describing "an inside-out double-ended cone", that would look like this*:

What Megan is describing is a cone you're standing inside, facing towards the ending, with another, smaller cone co-terminal with it beginning at your position. But hey! At least she got to make her leprechaun joke-- who cares if she had to violate every one of her interlocutor's naive assumptions that she was trying to have a conversation in good faith? Remember when Randall used to make fun of people who talked like this?

And "thinking about a pot of gold" does not in any way make your brain a pot of gold, as Randall would know if he'd paid attention in his core Philosophy 101 class instead of fantasizing about the girl three rows up with the "It's An Anime Thing" t-shirt. Has he ever read a book more than 30 years old?



*Topologically, is it even possible to turn a cone inside out?