Sundogs, mock suns or parhelia
A pair of brightly colored spots, one on either side of the sun.
Sundogs form as sunlight is refracted by hexagonal plate-like ice crystals with diameters larger than 30 micrometers and their flat faces horizontally oriented.
Sundogs are visible when the sun is near the horizon and on the same horizontal plane as the observer and the ice crystals. As sunlight passes through the ice crystals, it is bent by 22 degrees before reaching our eyes, much like what happens with 22 degree halos. This bending of light results in the formation of a sundog.
The difference between sundogs and halos is the preferential orientation of the ice crystals through which the light passes before reaching our eyes. If the hexagonal crystals are oriented with their flat faces horizontal, a sundog is observed. If the hexagonal crystals are randomly oriented, a halo is observed.
A pair of brightly colored spots, one on either side of the sun.
Sundogs form as sunlight is refracted by hexagonal plate-like ice crystals with diameters larger than 30 micrometers and their flat faces horizontally oriented.
Sundogs are visible when the sun is near the horizon and on the same horizontal plane as the observer and the ice crystals. As sunlight passes through the ice crystals, it is bent by 22 degrees before reaching our eyes, much like what happens with 22 degree halos. This bending of light results in the formation of a sundog.
The difference between sundogs and halos is the preferential orientation of the ice crystals through which the light passes before reaching our eyes. If the hexagonal crystals are oriented with their flat faces horizontal, a sundog is observed. If the hexagonal crystals are randomly oriented, a halo is observed.
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Related to the term "Sealioning," which is bad-faith trolling in the form of asking a series of insincere question that anyone ACTUALLY interested in the topic already know for a fact, or can search for online themselves.
In this case, "Prelioning" is when a person posts something highly subjective as if it is fact, and when people ask what the subjective opinion is based on (because some people do have different criteria for forming subjective opinions), the original person will just keep replying "look it up yourself."
Someone posting in good faith is happy to give examples -- which in fact they usually do in the Original Post. Anyone suggesting that "facts" not in evidence are nevertheless true on their face is gaslighting.
Related to the term "Sealioning," which is bad-faith trolling in the form of asking a series of insincere question that anyone ACTUALLY interested in the topic already know for a fact, or can search for online themselves.
In this case, "Prelioning" is when a person posts something highly subjective as if it is fact, and when people ask what the subjective opinion is based on (because some people do have different criteria for forming subjective opinions), the original person will just keep replying "look it up yourself."
Someone posting in good faith is happy to give examples -- which in fact they usually do in the Original Post. Anyone suggesting that "facts" not in evidence are nevertheless true on their face is gaslighting.
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Reply 2: "Don't bother. He's doing this Prelioning as part of a grand clout-chasing scheme."
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