Crepuscular rays are parallel! | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine<\/a>
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPretty pictures | crepuscular rays | When you go outside at sunset, many times you'll be greeted with spectacular rays of light and shadow stretching across the sky. These are called crepuscular ra\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
It makes me feel like vaguely steampunky. "Unleash the atomics! Time to give these vile Martian invaders a taste of our Crepuscular Rays!" (Actually, come to think of it, in the premiere "movie" of the animated Justice League, the White Martian invaders were defeated, in part, by crepuscular rays. Wow. 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