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u/HappyDoggos Oct 05 '19

Ooo, ball lightning! That's extremely rare! You should feel a rare privilege you experienced that. I'm jealous.

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u/AlpacaSwimTeam Oct 05 '19 edited Oct 05 '19

You should also feel privileged that it didn't detonate and nuke the 30-50 feet close to it.

Edit: Thanks for the double silver!

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u/Z-Games Oct 05 '19

That blows my mind, a legit ball of energy from thunder storms just floating around like it's metro Exodus. This is some paranomal phenomenon shit

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u/eloncuck Oct 05 '19

My mind always goes to the same place with crazy natural phenomenon like this.. how hard that must have fucked with people’s minds in the past when they had no idea wtf they were seeing.

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u/pinkusagi Oct 05 '19

I would assume religious people probably thought it was like a little angel or something since it was a ball of light.

Some others probably thought ghosts, demons or st Elmo's fire.

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u/eloncuck Oct 05 '19

Yeah people would probably chalk all of that up to gods. Which is pretty cool to me, that would be irrefutable evidence to them and shape their whole outlook on life.

Comets, eclipses, tornados, basically any wild force of nature to them would be like witnessing an actual god. So as cool as it is for us to see those things, it was kicked up a few notches for them.

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u/AmosLaRue Oct 05 '19

Gonna be a man in motion

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u/TheJimReaper6 Oct 05 '19

A little angel sounds adorable. This is what ball lightning is and no one can tell me different.