I don't know what the feck was happening with my head yesterday but it isn't that uncommon that the cells do things beyond my control.
For some reason, when the NASA database went offline, I managed to grab hold of a completely different set of data and I just went loopy.
Here to make it up to you us a video about scattering light:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?x-yt-c...-ts=1421914688
The lecture starts about half way through about 28 minutes in.
Have fun.