"It's OK, really, it's just a little bug, here... just lick it a little... yeah, bite it's head a bit... yeah, like that... now rub it under your arms... no, seriously, rub it around... you might have to bite it's head again... there ya go..."
OK, got word back from the kind folks at northern-antlers.com. Here's what they wrote:
"Its called that because It looks like an Armadillo, It was actually used to catch muskrats alive. It was only made between 1925-1930 by the Gibbs Trap Co., they are bulky and It was not realistic to try and carry a dozen of them Into the marsh. Today they are a must have for collectors and are highly prized In any collection. The term "armadillo" Is slang and caught on In the later years by collectors, It was manufactured and sold as the 'Gibbs live muskrat trap.'"
The projected shadow can be pretty startling especially when the fog bank is stratified and moving. For me though, the "glory" seen around the head of the observer's shadow is the most fascinating.
Related phenomena (without the projected shadow) include sylvanshine, heiligenschein ('holy light'), and to a lesser degree, aureoles, coronae, and irisation (the iridescent hues sometimes seen around the edges of clouds).
When ice crystals are involved, atmospheric halos of many kinds are possible. These include "parhelia" (aka, 'sundogs')and parahelic arcs, paranthelia and parenthelic arcs, circumzenithal and circumhorizontal arcs, the "anthelion" and anthelic arcs, Parry arcs, heliac arcs, and pillars (to name a few- there are 30+ different types!). BTW, all of these fall under the category of "meteorological optics", if you want to do some research.
Röntgen also experimented on himself with the (then) very mysterious "X-rays" (X for unknown). From the wikipedia article about him, "...Röntgen thus saw the first radiographic image, his own flickering ghostly skeleton on the barium platinocyanide screen."
Nikola Tesla was also known to experiment on himself with high-frequency, high-voltage discharges.
That's why I don't eat hotdogs.;)
"It's OK, really, it's just a little bug, here... just lick it a little... yeah, bite it's head a bit... yeah, like that... now rub it under your arms... no, seriously, rub it around... you might have to bite it's head again... there ya go..."
"Its called that because It looks like an Armadillo, It was actually used to catch muskrats alive. It was only made between 1925-1930 by the Gibbs Trap Co., they are bulky and It was not realistic to try and carry a dozen of them Into the marsh. Today they are a must have for collectors and are highly prized In any collection. The term "armadillo" Is slang and caught on In the later years by collectors, It was manufactured and sold as the 'Gibbs live muskrat trap.'"
But the question remains, is it used to trap armadillos, or is it called that because it looks like an armadillo?
Related phenomena (without the projected shadow) include sylvanshine, heiligenschein ('holy light'), and to a lesser degree, aureoles, coronae, and irisation (the iridescent hues sometimes seen around the edges of clouds).
When ice crystals are involved, atmospheric halos of many kinds are possible. These include "parhelia" (aka, 'sundogs')and parahelic arcs, paranthelia and parenthelic arcs, circumzenithal and circumhorizontal arcs, the "anthelion" and anthelic arcs, Parry arcs, heliac arcs, and pillars (to name a few- there are 30+ different types!). BTW, all of these fall under the category of "meteorological optics", if you want to do some research.
Nikola Tesla was also known to experiment on himself with high-frequency, high-voltage discharges.