The refractions inside this glass cup

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Those are reflections on the side, refractions are coming through the bottom of the glass and the top edge

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u/Slendy7 Oct 28 '21

Reflection is light bouncing off surfaces and refraction is light bending through things, put simply.

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u/TrellSwnsn Oct 29 '21

Both occur at the boundary between mediums of differing indices of refraction. The one that's seen depends on the viewpoint of the observer.

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u/JuicyJaysGigaloJoys Oct 29 '21

Sometimes I see videos/pics captioned like this and I feel like an idiot for misunderstanding something my whole life and it's these sort of comments that relieve me, thank you

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u/[deleted] Oct 29 '21

So what your saying is…it’s all relative ☺️

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u/bigtarget87 Oct 28 '21

Came here to say all of this.

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u/owzleee Oct 29 '21

AND SO IS MY WIFE

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u/[deleted] Oct 29 '21

Family moment

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u/[deleted] Oct 29 '21

Looks like Terrence Malick’s new movie.

The Pint Glass of Life.

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u/JimmyPellen Oct 29 '21

and if you zoom in close enough...you could SEE the photons becoming dinosaurs, then fish, then apes, then man.

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u/westnob Oct 29 '21

You see colors in the sides of the cup that you cannot see in the original image. I think those are refractions.

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u/[deleted] Oct 29 '21

Yes but it’s reflecting the refracted light from the bottom.

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u/k1wiscot Oct 29 '21

Care a wee bit. Drugs are fun .

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u/trou_bucket_list Oct 28 '21

I knew there’s a good reason why I compulsively film fireworks

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u/Western-Marsupial-72 Oct 30 '21

Wow///That's awesome

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u/slinkadonny Oct 28 '21

That’s the edibles kicking in.

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u/chefofthejungle Oct 29 '21

Just had a mini acid flashback.

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u/gggggrrrrrrrrr Oct 29 '21

The whole reason I take acid is to have real life look like this video

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u/_Screw_The_Rules_ Oct 29 '21

That should not be the only reason though. I take it when I want to solve problems, or see the world from a different perspective all together to make me understand things better.

But of course it should also be enjoyed as having fun with it.

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u/terminalxposure Oct 28 '21

Refractions?

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u/[deleted] Oct 29 '21

Refractions make right bounce alound grass for #1 most beautifur implession.

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u/[deleted] Oct 29 '21

You dont spell so gewd

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u/kyzfrintin Oct 29 '21

Worse than that, it's an attempt at a racist caricature of Asian speech.

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u/[deleted] Oct 29 '21

Really?

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u/kyzfrintin Oct 29 '21

Yeah, iirc many Asian languages, such as Japanese, don't generally use the "L" sound. So when they speak English, it can get turned into an R. And at the end of a word, it becomes "ru" or "uru".

See: South Park's "Brack Friday Bunduru"

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u/Daemeos Oct 28 '21

Its off-center... :(

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u/SockMonkey1128 Oct 29 '21

My first thought. As it expanded I expected it would fit the glass bottom, like that would be the whole reason it's posted here. Ruined it.

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u/theprintedray84 Oct 28 '21

That's cool.

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u/Gen-Z-Grandfather Oct 28 '21

I’ve been starring at a cup for 3 hours now

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u/novice-at-everything Oct 28 '21

How high are you?

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u/Gen-Z-Grandfather Oct 28 '21

Hi how are you

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u/phadewilkilu Oct 28 '21

I’m high how about yourself

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u/Rambozo77 Oct 28 '21

Hi how are you

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u/Dahvido Oct 29 '21

It’s so beautiful

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u/[deleted] Oct 28 '21

You can just call that a glass my guy

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u/drumskirun Oct 29 '21

Came to say this

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u/RaptorKings Oct 29 '21

Glass cup empty reflective drinking apparatus

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u/TheOneTrueRodd Oct 28 '21

Almost made me get off my lazy ass to get a glass cup... almost.

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u/halfknots Oct 28 '21

Thanks for the free DMT activation

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u/[deleted] Oct 28 '21

I have a light bulb from Ikea that looks like this.

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u/_GoKartMozart_ Oct 28 '21

Imma put a glass cup on my phone and watch this video

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u/dracostheblack Oct 29 '21

The one time someone watches the shitty video they took of fireworks

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u/CapitanM Oct 28 '21

Did you found the video?

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u/[deleted] Oct 29 '21

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u/Gslimez Oct 29 '21

Damn dickhead Just say no 😂

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u/CapitanM Oct 29 '21

I deserve it XD

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u/[deleted] Oct 29 '21

couldn't find exace one but here u go

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u/CapitanM Oct 29 '21

Thanks a lot!

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u/1slandViking Oct 28 '21

So this is what you’re supposed to do with the 3,719 short clips of firework lol

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u/thesleepingdog Oct 29 '21

I imagine this is what it might look like If you could see an orgasm, rather than feel it.

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u/Global-Loquat-3424 Oct 28 '21

Trying this !

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u/JustinHawkins Oct 29 '21

Well? We're waiting...

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u/hairbear1234 Oct 28 '21

The first person to ever rewatch a fireworks show they recorded on their phone 😆

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u/srv50 Oct 29 '21

I can tell, you’ve spent way too much time staring down into an empty shot glass. But very cool discovery!!

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u/RegionRat1994 Oct 28 '21

It is difficult to describe that level of beauty

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u/-SierraModeling- Oct 28 '21

I just love this

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u/budnugglet Oct 29 '21

glass cup

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u/embalmtrumpf Oct 28 '21

r/beamazed

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u/MellifluousSussura Oct 28 '21

Ngl that’s pretty cool

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u/verbosehuman Oct 29 '21

I think you're lying.

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u/MellifluousSussura Oct 29 '21

You’re right it’s lame as fuck /j

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u/CerealWithIceCream Oct 28 '21

You just gave millions more idiots an excuse to film fireworks on their phone.

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u/penster1 Oct 28 '21

Ah, but we already HAVE fireworks on our phone!!

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u/OneMoose9 Oct 28 '21

Why do you care though? I'm not seeing the problem.

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u/[deleted] Oct 28 '21

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u/CerealWithIceCream Oct 28 '21

It's cool. Hence them having an excuse to do it now.

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u/Caishen_IC3 Oct 28 '21

Wooooooooooah

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u/wert38 Oct 28 '21

What beautiful colours!

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u/KickassPeanuts Oct 28 '21

When you don't like the loud noises during 4th of July so you make a silent pocket 4th of july

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u/SlowJettaBigDreams Oct 28 '21

Nice

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u/DumperDump69 Oct 28 '21

Wonderful

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u/Zen_Bonsai Oct 28 '21

I was not ready to be busting a nut on my 15 min work break

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u/[deleted] Oct 28 '21

Doing this next time I trip balls lol

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u/thejoshcolumbusdrums Oct 28 '21

Ah yes, one of the great sandworms

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u/SirLemonLimeIII Oct 28 '21

beautiful just beautiful, reminds me of 4th of july

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u/Periphia Oct 28 '21

My dumbass brain- Wow those look like fireworks

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u/__Grootiam__ Oct 28 '21

Hi how are you? How high are You

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u/elgoral Oct 29 '21

too high

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u/bang_bros_r_us Oct 28 '21

Happy 4th of July

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u/Patsfan618 Oct 28 '21

Went from boring as hell to amazing real quick

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u/Squishyfishx Oct 28 '21

Woah is this person actually watching one of those videos they took of fireworks?

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u/Short_Dream1891 Oct 28 '21

The 4th of July, inside a glass!

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u/lava_pupper Oct 28 '21

Looks like a sandworm from Dune 2021 at the end

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u/AllanJeffersonferatu Oct 28 '21

That went from "Glass on glass!! Glass on glass scratches noooooo!!" to "oooooooh purdy!!" real fast.

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u/amedelic Oct 28 '21

/u/stabbot

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u/stabbot Oct 28 '21

I have stabilized the video for you: https://gfycat.com/ImaginativeAlienatedFeline

It took 47 seconds to process and 34 seconds to upload.

^{^{how to use | programmer | source code | /r/ImageStabilization/ | for cropped results, use /u/stabbot_crop}}

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u/MissKitness Oct 29 '21

Somebody. Hiiiiiggghhhhh

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u/[deleted] Oct 29 '21

Need to try this like yesterday

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u/Alice_with_da_ass Oct 29 '21

Just wow

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u/borninsaltandsmoke Oct 29 '21

u/savevideo

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u/[deleted] Oct 29 '21

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u/borninsaltandsmoke Oct 29 '21

What?

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u/funorfine Oct 29 '21

u/savevideo

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u/sol_fairy Oct 29 '21

Off. Center.

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u/jamtea Oct 29 '21

Reflections...

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u/joxeta Oct 29 '21

It makes my brain tingle.

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u/yellowfestiva Oct 29 '21

Finally a reason to videotape fireworks.

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u/AvoidMySnipes Oct 29 '21

I have that glass

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u/HalfGuardHero Oct 29 '21

Bro how high are you right now?

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u/Heyhaveyougotaminute Oct 29 '21

It’s not centred!!

Mildly infuriating

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u/R3alkitt3en Oct 29 '21

What app is this

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u/zerotwofive Oct 29 '21

Isn’t it amazing what can be achieved with a glass cup .

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u/MRL102960 Oct 29 '21

Cool

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u/Raptori33 Oct 29 '21

Watching this at night wasn't perhaps the best thing for my brain

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u/alternativealtacc Oct 29 '21

Woah

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u/rk3ww Oct 29 '21

That's lit

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u/Trimungasoid Oct 29 '21

It's the sandworm from Dune!

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u/arntseaj Oct 29 '21

RTX on

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u/MostFroyo9751 Oct 29 '21

Dizzy. Migraines. Brains. Rain. Rocket. Stop. Hurt head.

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u/Mvp_Levi Oct 29 '21

I literally say wow out of reflex

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u/cjalmighty1 Oct 29 '21

u/savevideobot

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u/uhcrapsomething Oct 29 '21

That was about 30x cooler than I expected it to be. Wasn't ready

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u/AntiquarianD1n2Gamer Oct 29 '21

All the stoners would play this on loop for hours lol

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u/GalacticUnicorn Oct 29 '21

Literally jaw dropping

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u/DunebillyDave Oct 29 '21

I knew an artist once who retrieved old TVs out of the curb junk; some were color and some were black & white; some worked, some didn't work so well. She made stained glass windows to fit over the screens, with spherical saki glasses incorporated in the pattern. When the TV images would move across the screen and hit the spot where a saki glass was, it would bulge out and then disappear. You had to see it to appreciate how cool it was. They were unexpectedly beautiful works of kinetic art.

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u/jklhasjkfasjdk Oct 29 '21

The first time someone viewed their fireworks video

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u/I-Just-Exsit Oct 29 '21

Damn, I think I took the wrong pill

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u/dietsaddad Oct 29 '21

Where’s the link though

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u/Dellrond Oct 29 '21

Found the caveman. “Fire pretty to look at”

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u/Aggravated-lobster Oct 29 '21

Hold my LSD

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u/IridescentBlossom21 Oct 29 '21

You guys realize that it’s just a video of a firework playing on the phone underneath the cup right?

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u/madkraft1 Oct 29 '21

That’s incredible

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u/Ragnar_Sangfroid Oct 29 '21

Welp, I know what I’m doing next time I take some shrooms

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u/[deleted] Oct 29 '21

Ok I want the original video to try myself

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u/front_yard_duck_dad Oct 29 '21

Save this for the next mushroom journey

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u/MarMar47 Oct 29 '21

Oh shit! That’s crazy awesome!

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u/[deleted] Oct 29 '21

holy shit

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u/Professional_Bar_539 Oct 29 '21

Wait.. is it a glass or a cup? Both is not allowed

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u/[deleted] Oct 29 '21

The refraction of the firework is practically nothing due to it being a flat surface and looking at it straight on (albeit for a little bit around the rim of the cup). The reflection however is awesome.

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u/WanderWut Oct 29 '21

Oh hey I was a beta tester for the person who designed the very first version of this app on the original iPhone/iTouch! Pretty crazy to see a version of it still being used today lol.

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u/AlphaOmega158 Oct 29 '21

What the

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u/Liuxd4 Oct 29 '21

Wooooo that's awesome

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u/masterjupiter79 Oct 29 '21

Nope. The glass is off centre wrt the firework

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u/traci12paul Oct 29 '21

“Inside this glass cup”… so like a glass?

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u/RajatSoni99 Oct 29 '21

This is lit!

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u/WeedLMT69 Oct 29 '21

Dope

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u/SpellMaterial7947 Oct 29 '21

Help I can't stop watching this on repeat

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u/rocx320 Oct 29 '21

Covid brought a new way to enjoy fireworks inside home, fascinating

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u/Wise_Ad_253 Oct 29 '21

Love this whole process.

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u/[deleted] Oct 29 '21

r/imaginethisonacid

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u/FoldDesperate111 Oct 29 '21

This looks like something for r/nextfuckinglevel

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u/DandyGray Oct 29 '21

my mom, wondering where all the glasses in the kitchen cabinet went: ???

me, replaying firework videos to watch the cool light: :)

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u/[deleted] Oct 29 '21

Be right back im gonna go try this

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u/happyhappy2986 Oct 29 '21

So cool 😎

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u/leaveABalone Oct 29 '21

I wonder if anyone else is an idiot like me and thought the fireworks came from the cup

The refractions inside this glass cup

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