The guy-Made Rainbow Machine [Rainbows]

Typically Mother Nature decides after we get to work out a rainbow. College professor and artist Michael Jones McKean isn’t exactly the patient type, so he made a machine that generates two-story rainbows with the flip of a switch.

McKean, a professor at Virginia Commonwealth University, has been conducting experiments on rainbows since 2002. He’s finally seeing the fruits of that labor within the variety of some serious man-made rainbows. Like ones that span entire buildings. You’d think that once 8 years of rainbow research you’d be bouncing rainbows off the moon or something, but hey, I’m not scientist.

His rainbow machine is comprised of business jet pumps and custom-designed nozzles that spray a dense wall of water into the sky-it’s kind of like the best way to get a rainbow from the sprinkler to your backyard, just on a miles more impressive scale.

McKean’s current machine is a prototype for one he’s going to install on the roof of the Bemis Center for up to date Arts in Omaha, Nebraska this summer. It’ll shoot two rainbows a day for 15 minutes, visible up to 1000 feet away. And that machine may have the glory of mimicking nature solely with the stuff nature provides: it’ll only spray collected rainwater and run exclusively on solar power. [ Michael Jones McKean via Inhabitat ]

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