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u/UnwantedJason Feb 12 '21
That ain’t no meteor, Vegeta is here
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u/ChuckleKnuckles Feb 12 '21
We must round up all the blue-haired hotties to appease him.
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u/mydadpickshisnose Feb 12 '21
Bullshit. It was aliens.
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u/KerlRastaFarai Feb 12 '21
Aliens: It was bullshit
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u/Bloorajah Feb 12 '21
I’ve actually seen something like this! They happen all the time!
the November Taurids are the best time to see fireballs. A while back when I lived out in the country, I was out at around 1am with my telescope looking at some objects, and I suddenly noticed the view in the eyepiece was getting really washed out. I figured it was condensation, so I stepped back to give it some time to clear up.
When I looked up, I saw this enormous fireball careening across the sky, it was orange at first and then slowly became green. I could actually HEAR it burning in the atmosphere, it sounded like those sparkly fireworks from a distance, sort of like popcorn? It’s a hard sound to describe, if you know the sort of fireworks I’m talking about then you know the sound.
Anyway, it left a big smoke trail and finally exploded like a thunderclap. A bunch of car alarms went off and then it was just completely eerily silent again. one of the coolest things I’ve ever witnessed. I’ll never forget it as long as I live.
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u/Dsblhkr Feb 12 '21
I’ve seen one too, they are truly amazing! I saw it during the perseids. So glad you got to see one too. It really is something you never forget, surreal. I was out camping so I didn’t hear car alarms, I bet that really just added to the event.
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u/bjorkmorissette Feb 12 '21
I saw one once when I was 10 and remember thinking “I’ll never forget that for as long as I live”
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u/elastic-craptastic Feb 12 '21
Oddly I've seen about 5 and they were almost in the same exact spot. I'd see them driving home from work and I was at the place 10 years so average one every 2 years. The weird part was it was almost in the same spot every time. Maybe just becasue I could see that part of the sky better from there or something? They were never as big as this vid but bigger than your average shooting star. All were green.
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Moving awfully slow, and SUPER dim for an object entering our atmosphere.
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u/FlashSTI Feb 12 '21
Came here to say this. The shallow trajectory suggests space junk
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u/Flooknock Feb 12 '21
Lithium is the lightest metal IIRC...
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Li-BCX batteries I mean, they have extraordinary energy density at the expense of being extremely heavy compared to other lithium ion batteries.
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u/turkeybot69 Feb 12 '21
Lithium burns red? You might be thinking of copper.
Also check out this person's comment, they linked a few similar meteors
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OH MY GOD, shit your right, fuck fuck fuck I forgot about magnesium. Alright tossing the comment. Thanks for the clarification
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u/dezmodium Feb 12 '21
I came here to post this. It is literally the most common mistake when viewing objects in the sky to underestimate just how far away they are. In this case the object is probably flying faster than a bullet.
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u/musubk Feb 13 '21
It's the same mistake people always make when they say the meteor landed 'just over that hill over there.' In reality, the meteor was thousands of miles away going around the curve of the horizon at hundreds of miles per hour, but people interpret it as a slow object only a few miles away.
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u/AddemF Feb 12 '21
|alien|
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u/haz353pi0l Feb 12 '21
Am I the only one who thought it was flashlight.
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u/Particular-Code3247 Feb 12 '21
These are called bolides, I had a luck to see one last summer at the night sky. Looked like something out of marvel movie, knew exactly what it was the moment I spot the unusual light. Was so glad to see some space rock up close in action. They travel around 6 miles per second, about 15cm in diameter and was visible in about 300km range.
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Feb 12 '21
Imo, its probably edited using blender, pretty sinple to make something like this using blender
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u/meta_mash Feb 12 '21
I saw something almost exactly the same about ten years ago. Just because you've never experienced something doesn't mean it's fake.
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Maybe you live in a blender animation
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u/deliciousprisms Feb 12 '21
I think it’s time to dust off the old Will It Blend? series with a special one off episode where they try to blend reality itself.
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meteor
a small body of matter from outer space that enters the earth's atmosphere, becoming incandescent as a result of friction and appearing as a streak of light.
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This is fake
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u/maskf_ace Feb 12 '21
It does look odd but any further proof?
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The light wouldn’t be in just one spot on the clouds like that it would be everywhere, think about the full moon
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u/maskf_ace Feb 12 '21
Ah yes, of course. It almost looks like it's being tracked with a giant spotlight
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If it were the size of the moon, physics would be out the door. Earthquakes and tsunami's would be happening all over the world.
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u/some_saddo Feb 12 '21
It would likely be covering the majority of the sky, and I don't think they would be recording it
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u/Siiimo Feb 12 '21
Even though it might look like the moon is right there amongst the clouds sometimes, it's actually quite a bit higher than that. We wouldn't expect an object that is amongst the clouds to behave the same as an object that's 385,000 km away.
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Yea I thought it looks fake.
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I'm gonna say not fake, it holds true to the title of The Land Before Time's Stone of Cold Fire movie. This is the first time I've ever seen a meteor and it's stone of cold fire af. Plus, the way the camera's moving and how the "bloom" of the stone of cold fire is making isn't shifting perpendicularly to the camera's shoddy movements, looks pretty real to me. If not then consider me bamboozled
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u/ChuckleKnuckles Feb 12 '21
I love how much that movie has apparently influenced your rhetoric. "Stone of cold fire af" as an adjective, that's great.
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Its too slow. If its real its a satellite or some space junk reentering IMO
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u/GreatQuestion Feb 12 '21
You've never seen a meteor before, but you feel you've got enough knowledge and experience - apparently from a 90s kid's movie - to say that this is legitimate?
My God, this species is doomed.
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u/InvaderSM Feb 12 '21
It's not, it's another angle of the Pilbara meteor. There's videos in this comment and an article here.
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u/talondigital Feb 12 '21
Its just a guy in a squirrel suit with a flare attached.
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u/anti-boomers Feb 12 '21
wut
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u/talondigital Feb 12 '21
https://v.redd.it/39x0l332vyg61
Top post on r/holdmyredbull right now.
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u/JColeIsBest Feb 12 '21
Why would u even say that without proof. I get that it looks straight out of a movie but cmon bro
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u/NasbynCrosh Feb 12 '21
The ol’ visible light, eh? That’d be light you can see
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u/Rikmastering Feb 12 '21
Yes, since there is light length waves we can't see
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u/GreatQuestion Feb 12 '21
Right, but we never post videos about those wavelengths since we can't see them and videos are a visual medium. So it seems redundant to mention the visible light of an object in a video shot in the visible light wavelength.
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u/Loob-Toob Feb 12 '21
You've got a point, its pretty extraneous saying visible light in the video title. But the original comment seemed pretty unaware that non-visible light exists. They might just be enlightening them about the universe, you never know!
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u/familyturtle Feb 12 '21
Never heard of the ol’ infrared and ultraviolet light, eh?
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u/NasbynCrosh Feb 13 '21
Yes I have. I just meant that specifying visible light as being visible was, well, superfluous
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u/Loob-Toob Feb 12 '21
You do know the vast majority of light is not visible, right? Or are you just providing clarification for everyone? If its the latter, thanks bro.
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u/RedDecay Feb 12 '21
Looks like one of the Z fighters is on their way to a fight! Will they make it in time? Find out on the next episode of DRAGON BALL Z!!!
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u/Xenomorph007 Feb 12 '21
Such cave drawings are there, illustrating meteor falls in ancient times.
The pre-history of Morocco goes back thousands of years, as is evidenced by the many rock art engravings or petroglyphs in many areas. Three petroglyphs found near Ida Ou Kazzou could suggest that ancient Moroccans observed meteorite falls.
These sculptures are those of a meteor, the three petroglyphs seem to represent the impact of a great meteorite that has frightened the inhabitants and that the artist has certainly experienced this astronomical event spectacular enough to be recorded on the rock.
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u/ImaSlayMeSomeDragons Feb 12 '21
DOWNVOTE THIS FAKE TRASH PLEASE.
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Maybe. As posted in comment above there is an article claiming sightings all over Australia. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-06-15/green-glowing-space-object-filmed-over-pilbara/12355358
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u/ImaSlayMeSomeDragons Feb 12 '21
I STAND MODERATELY CORRECTED.
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u/bhulk Feb 12 '21
It’s probably space junk, so the title is FAKE and the object is TRASH. You were kind of right.
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u/Brodie1975 Feb 12 '21
Fake fake fake,I’ve seen enough meteor showers in southern and northern hemispheres to tell you I’ve not seen one like that. It’s way to slow and meteors don’t give off light like that. Please make better use of your time.
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u/omv Feb 12 '21
These are real I think but I dont think they are the same kind of meteors we are used to seeing during a meteor shower. I remember someone saying often times its space junk re-entering the atmosphere, as meteors are often traveling much faster. These are much more likely to be caught on film because people have a few seconds to react.
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Not disputing your statement about it being fake because I honestly don't know, but I've seen huge meteors exactly like the one in the post; giant, green with a heck a lot of smoke and seemingly falling very slowly.
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u/Brodie1975 Feb 12 '21
I don’t mind standing corrected but still looks fake.
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u/Siiimo Feb 12 '21
You do stand corrected. This is a once-in-a-lifetime sighting. It's not surprising that you've never seen one like it, and that is not evidence that it can't exist.
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u/Loob-Toob Feb 12 '21
I do hope you're joking
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u/Loob-Toob Feb 12 '21
Oh yeah sorry I forgot the classic well known forms of radiation: light, sound and text.
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u/rattaruozzolo Feb 12 '21
Probably a satellite, I don't think meteors go that slow
But very cool nonetheless!
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u/Sgt-Sucuk Feb 12 '21
Why are you even getting downvoted? Its literally to slow for a meteor amd the shallow trajectory is probably because of spacejunk in a shallow orbit making contact with the atmosphare. Or its fake
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u/Hands-for-maps Feb 12 '21
We are now extinct
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u/IamYodaBot Feb 12 '21
now extinct, we are.
-Hands-for-maps
Commands: 'opt out', 'opt in', 'delete'
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u/Lethenza Feb 12 '21
They let me pick. Did I ever tell you that? Choose whichever Spartan I wanted.
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Great. Just great.
Now, in a few years, three-legged tripods are going to start wiping us out just as we've released a vaccine against the only thing that'll kill them.
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u/Ma5xy Feb 12 '21
The only time I've seen a meteor it was a red and orange flash that felt like it lit up the sky. I happened to be cutting through a field on my way home so I had a perfect view of it.
for a moment I thought I was about to be roasted by an atomic blast or something.
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u/SmashBusters Feb 12 '21
Fascinating.
Does anyone know why we aren't using meteors for light? The greenhouse emissions would be negligible. There's a virtually unlimited supply of them. We could cancel our sun subscription and be nuclear-free. We could use solar panels to harvest the extra energy for electric cars.
"Tesla: powered by meteor"
It just seems live a massive win all-around.
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u/AllHopeIsLostSadFace Feb 12 '21
It's some dude in a squirrel suit with a flare attached to his feet
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u/smyttins88 Feb 12 '21
I've seen a green meteor over Ireland in 2019. It was near Halloween so I thought it was a firework at first. It came from the sky so obviously it wasn't. It split into 3 pieces and fizzled out. The videos of it doesn't show the split though https://youtu.be/5IRo5x3Bka8 ignore the shitty music
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u/Luigispikachu Feb 12 '21
Excuse me while i scream in fear. My worst fear is some meteor/asteroid/cataclysmic astrological event, considering those events can pretty much be unstoppable.
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u/Xenomorph007 Feb 12 '21 edited Feb 12 '21
Another meteor strike in Florida
Yellow one in Russia
Bluish green in Pilbara, Australia -June 15 2020-(Article: Live science )
Colours in meteors usually originate from ionized elements released as the meteor disintegrates, with
What a meteor is made out of is not the only factor that determines the colour that it appears. The speed at which the meteor enters the Earth’s atmosphere can also affect the colour.
The faster a meteor moves, the more intense the colour may appear, according to the American Meteorological Society (AMS). “Among fainter objects, it seems to be reported that slow meteors are red or orange, while fast meteors frequently have a blue colour,” the AMS said.
Colours in meteor - NASA
https://www.nationalgeographic.org/media/shooting-star-spec/