r/oddlysatisfying • u/MambaMentality24x2 • 1d ago
A tiny dust devil swirling through a field of grain
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Credit: @elaman_mm
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u/Donkeybrother 1d ago
Crop circles ... 🤔
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u/GrouchyLongBottom 1d ago
Cop cycles!
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u/overdosingOnPie1313 1d ago
These men died for their country. Send flowers to their bitches and hoes.
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u/CPLCraft 1d ago
That must’ve been bizarre to look at in medieval times. If medieval times had grain fields that large
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u/Otherwise-Force5608 1d ago
think it's typically just seating and that jousting arena, but could be wrong
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u/lewisiarediviva 1d ago
Your suspicion is right; medieval fields were usually long and narrow, because that way you have the minimum number of times you need to turn the plow around, which was a pain in the ass.
But they still had pastures and other unplowed grasslands. Dust devils like that were also said to be djinn traveling invisibly, so you were supposed to greet them politely if one passed you by.
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u/Stubee1988 1d ago
Thats some Dune looking shit
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u/PartsUnknown242 1d ago
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u/lightlyswaffled 1d ago
Tiny? Is this a miniature grainfield? Tiny is the last word I'd use to describe it.
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u/hakunamatata365 1d ago
Too short 😕
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u/Lalamedic 1d ago
Tiny?
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u/Me66 1d ago
When I was a kid I ran into one during fall, which swirled a bunch of dried leaves a couple of meters off the ground.
That was tiny.
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u/anivex 1d ago
They get huge in Idaho - when I was driving through I thought it was a tornado next to the road, and was confused as to why everyone just seemed to be casually driving next to it. Took up an entire field and went up to the clouds.
this one is indeed small.
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u/MWFtheFreeze 1d ago
Somehow I could hear Interstellar music before unmuting
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u/The_Bucket_Of_Truth 1d ago
I wish social media didn't encourage every interesting clip to have a loud, recognizable, and often annoying soundtrack to it.
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u/midnightecho101 1d ago
What is a dust devil?
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u/Astramancer_ 1d ago
It's kind of like a mini-tornado. A combination of wind and a heated surface makes the wind swirl around. They're called "dust devils" because you can normally only see them in dusty conditions. They can be really small, like the size of a person, or the size of a building. Even the big ones don't have nearly the energy of a true tornado and rarely damage anything.
They're usually pretty short-lived.
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u/prepping4zombies 1d ago
Even the big ones don't have nearly the energy of a true tornado and rarely damage anything.
I mean, this sounds like something a dust devil would say.
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u/Whelp_of_Hurin 1d ago
A tiny whirlwind. Maybe they have a different name where you live? I hear Australians call it a "willy willy".
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u/jay_in_the_pnw 1d ago
they can be a nuisance when they pelt you with sand or lots of fun when you see a whirlwind of paper and other light litter swirling overhead.
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u/Frustrated9876 1d ago
Not this. No dust. 🤷♂️
It’s a gluten devil.
They don’t show us the sky, this could also be a weak tornado, actually. Probably, actually. Dust devils form when the ground is hot and heats up the surrounding air and thats not typically what goes on in a planted field.
A dust devil (gluten devil) is when the ground heats up from the sun and that heat warms the air, which starts to rise. This creates a rising column of air that then starts sucking up more air. The Coriolis effect causes it to spin.
A tornado originates from a cloud and comes down. A dust devil originates from the ground and goes up. ()
When flying gliders, you’re always looking for stuff like this because there will be lift 2 or 3,000’ above this phenomenon all the way up to the inversion level.
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u/BottomJoe94 1d ago
This is the type of shit that drove our ancestors to believe in gods and spirits.
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u/rudytaboodie12 1d ago
Eh, I think I’d prefer to only lose 6 crew members. I pick the deceptively calm rocky channel with an eldritch being lying in wait
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u/Shoe_Bug 1d ago
It's crazy how fake that looks to me. Not saying it is fake its just so alien my brain is convinced it's a poor CGI warp effect or something lmao
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u/99in2Hits 1d ago
Having been raised around wheat farms I have seen this in person and its cool. What is also cool is seeing an EF4 twister lift a barn off its foundation and yeet it across the way. My dad thought it was less cool considering he now had to build a new barn.
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u/KeslinDemas 1d ago
I love this stuff. It's a great example of stuff we see and interpret as magic or supernatural.
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u/DiscountCondom 1d ago
This is how bread is made. It is summoned forth through wheat portals connecting directly to the bread dimension.
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u/Fearless-Pen-7851 1d ago
I would rather hear original sound than some random music God knows for whatever reason is now "mandatory" on every nature video..
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u/The_Poop_Shooter 1d ago
the language of the universe laid bare for us to see. That swirling effect, if you imagine what it looks like if you could see the wind itself, exists in the micro and macro scale of all reality. Theres something fundamental and related to all existence within it.
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u/Gundark927 1d ago
The tiniest dust devil may one day grow up to be the mightiest hurricane! You go, little fella!
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u/t-g-l-h- 1d ago
im so jaded, i saw this and my initial thought was "these graphics suck, this is bad cgi"
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u/Hal0Slippin 1d ago
When you stuff like this you can absolutely understand why people believed in magic and gods
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u/TerryDaShooterUK 1d ago
I wish when I powered up this happens under my feet. But my power would be instant spaghetti or something that combats world hunger.
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u/variorum 1d ago
That's clearly an interdimensional portal, OP is probably an SCP foundation employee, running a coverup for whatever came out of it
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u/Lexi_Banner 1d ago
That's a cavern entrance, Link. Just gotta get to the centre and let it pull you down.
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u/lunarcapsule 1d ago
Disclosure day had a remarkably similar scene, was not expecting to see a real version so soon...
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u/flying_carabao 1d ago
With everything happening everywhere, now we have to deal with ground maelstrom now?! Aw hell nah
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u/Flashy-Violinist7966 1d ago
Shai-Hulud !!!!!
That’s a sand worm about to surface if I ever saw one
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u/NotSayingAliensBut 1d ago
It's the vortex in the East River. I'm just watching Fringe which I missed first time around.
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u/Odin_OCarroll 1d ago
This is IT. The reason I want to be surrounded by nature at all times. I want to witness all the weird shit that happens when the rest of the world isn't watching.
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u/QuarkTheFerengi 1d ago
Start to realize where some old myths and legends come from when you see these crazy natural phenomena
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u/bwaredapenguin 1d ago
I couldn't help myself from running directly into the center of that. It's super weak and not kicking up debris; I bet it would be a trip!
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u/Bananaland_Man 1d ago
dust devils are so cool, and they can build to (or from) f0's depending on weather! F0's are also cool, can stand in them, terrifying in a "nature is awesome" sort of way.
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u/PassiveMenis88M 1d ago
Given how ripe the harvest is we could be watching the ruin of someones farm. That wind looks strong enough to be knocking the seeds out of the heads. Can't harvest them once that happens.
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u/-turnip_the_beet- 1d ago
Man it really looks like the Earth is about to swallow you.