23rd August 2008

Blinded By The Light

posted in Las Vegas |

Wrapped up like a douche you know the roamer in the night …

Anyway, it’s that time of year again. The time of year when the earth is lined up with the sun perfectly to turn the Mandalay Bay into a supernova for about 4 minutes every morning.

I don’t know if they planed this or what, but for about a week out of the year, the reflection will concentrate on the middle column and form some kind of “super beam”.

People on the east side near The Strip actually keep their blinds closed during this week to prevent the flash-blindness that this event triggers.

Photos don’t it justice. You have to be here at just the right time in just the right spot, and you will see this unnatural cone shaped beam suddenly envelop the area, and then go away as quickly as it arrived.

I couldn’t even take the picture facing the Mandalay. I had to us the LCD screen tilted backward while looking in the opposite direction.

My guess is that they can also not land planes on the 19’s during this, because you literally cannot face southeast for a couple of minutes each morning. Due to the magnification and convergence, this thing is like 5 times as bright as staring into the sun directly.

It’s our version of a yearly eclipse or meteor shower.

I’m surprised some cult hasn’t started making a yearly pilgrimage to this thing, or some conspiracy theories have not sprung up around it.

Someone really needs to start a theory. It will increase tourism.

I would like to be the first to proffer that the Mandalay Bay was designed by engineers at Area 51 to guide distant spacecrafts to their assigned parking spaces 100 miles to the north.