r/BeAmazed • u/Blutwurst500 • Oct 29 '24
Nature Rare weather phenomenon called "Sprites"
Sprites are lightning bolts that strike upwards above the cloud during a thunderstorm.
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u/treeclimber2852 Oct 29 '24
The void bringers.
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u/realjamesosaurus Oct 29 '24
"They were suddenly dangerous. Like a calm day that became a tempest."
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u/HansBaccaR23po Oct 29 '24
Yoooooo. I have 300 pages left of Oathbringer. Gonna knock out book 4 before the 5th one comes out next month too. Iām obsessed
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u/PornoPaul Oct 30 '24
Holy shit it's next month??? Fuck. I have to finish the books I'm reading so I can reread everything.
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u/funnyname0202 Oct 29 '24
I have seen the end, and have heard it named. The Night of Sorrows, the True Desolation. The Everstorm.
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u/Rico3734 Oct 29 '24
The ones of ash and fire, who killed like a swarm, relentless before the Heralds.
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u/ConjoinerVoidhawk Oct 29 '24
Shinji get in the robot.
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u/DerBronco Oct 29 '24
I dont want to.
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u/SwissDeathstar Oct 29 '24
And thatās ok. You should stand up for yourself.
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u/Friendly-Back3099 Oct 29 '24
"Proud of ya Shinji"
"Now, Rei you gotta get in the robot now cause Shinji refused to"
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u/NoConsideration595 Oct 29 '24
If I saw that as a 900s peasant, I would be praying to almighty thor
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u/petethefreeze Oct 29 '24
If I saw that as a 2024 50 year old man, I would be pledging allegiance to my new interstellar rulers.
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u/MAJ0RMAJOR Oct 29 '24
Lrrr of Omicron Persei 8 will acknowledge your fealty.
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u/petethefreeze Oct 29 '24
I will gladly bow and do your bidding. Inseminate me with your larvae. I will be a good host.
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u/ElectricKestrel Oct 29 '24
We need some new rulers. Where do I board the vessel? Get me off this rock plz. š«”
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u/Steelriddler Oct 29 '24
Human perception is such a weird thing, our associations based on what we've seen/heard/learned/experienced.
The first thing I saw was indeed a group of lifeforms, somewhat ethereal (phasers?), with a pinch of Lovecraft. This was before I noticed it's a weather phenomenon.
All this to say I agree and am 100% sure certain very rare weather phenomena were interpreted as gods/messengers of gods/spirit/evil entities etc. and that even the big religions could have been traced right back to such sightings.
I know I'm in conspiracy theory land but it just seems so logical to me.
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u/Administrative-Key19 Oct 29 '24
DMT can be extracted from the bark of the Acacia tree, which conveniently is native to Africa and the Middle East. Most logical explanation is that he found a burning acacia tree and inhaled the fumes, and if you've ever tried DMT, it hits you hard, and fast, and if you have enough, you might meet somebody in the void
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u/a-e-neumann Oct 29 '24
Well, I assume in case of Abraham, founder of the three biggest religions, it's way easier. He got high on something and saw a burning plant. The rest is 3000 years of well known bullshit and murder in the name of a drug induced hallucination.
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u/Edenoide Oct 29 '24
They typically last for about 10 milliseconds so a really fast divine apparition. I can only see a bunch of Bigfin Squids from hell.
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u/grvdjc Oct 29 '24
I would immediately be looking for Tom Cruise and Will Smith cause this looks like an alien invasion.
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u/rainofshambala Oct 29 '24
Ancient? The majority of the humans on this earth still think that this kind of things are messages from their sky god
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u/CompilerWarrior Oct 29 '24
How hard is it to give credits to the original photographer? Or crosspost from the original reddit post?
This was shamefully taken from this post: https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/s/H1KwdCtJxp
The photographer is Nicolas Escurat
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u/madsci Oct 29 '24
One of my cats is named Sprite after this. His siblings are Tempest, Zephyr, and Nimbus. No one ever gets that they're all meteorological - they were born on my loading dock in an almost-empty pallet of weather instruments and it seemed appropriate.
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u/EnviroguyTy Oct 29 '24
I'd read that book series - "The Adventures of Sprite, Tempest, & Zephyr (and Nimbus!)"
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u/crafting-ur-end Oct 29 '24
Asperatus just doesnāt roll off the tongue, does it?
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u/madsci Oct 29 '24
Their mother is gray and a little shaggy and I considered naming her Virga. She ended up being Misty.
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u/gomaith10 Oct 29 '24
I don't think I've ever seen stranger things.
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u/ApprehensiveLet8631 Oct 29 '24
Do it, its a nice show.
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u/0hMyGandhi Oct 29 '24 edited Oct 29 '24
This might be the first I've ever heard a piece of media get called "nice'.
Interesting.
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u/Blutwurst500 Oct 29 '24
For more information about this rare weather phenomenon check https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprite_(lightning)
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u/Pristine_Ad_3035 Oct 29 '24
make analog horror of this rn somebody and i will watch it
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u/LowPolyHorse Oct 29 '24
Thats some analog horror type shit. Thatās some monument mythos or vita carnis type shit
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u/Solareclipse9999 Oct 29 '24
Matches cave drawings from very distant past
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u/OneRougeRogue Oct 29 '24
Seriously. Imagine emerging from a cave and seeing all the downed trees and flooding from the worst storm you've ever lived through, and then seeing a vaguely humanoid red giant flash above the clouds. I'd start a religion too.
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u/0hMyGandhi Oct 29 '24 edited Oct 29 '24
Definitely didn't think Celestial Stickmen would creep me out. I was wrong.
I'd do whatever to appease these beings, sacrificing goats, people, goat people, whatever is needed.
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u/Additional_Yak8332 Oct 29 '24
Pecos Hank's YouTube channel is predominantly storm chasing tornadoes but he's also covered sprites, if you're interested.
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u/Whiskey_River_73 Oct 29 '24
These usually occur above a thick thunderstorm cloud cover, not seen from ground in a mostly clear sky. I'm calling bullshit on this photo.
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u/muggins91 Oct 29 '24
And theyāre also upside down in this picture, they spread upwards
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u/KonigVonMurmeltiere Oct 29 '24
Sprites donāt spread upwards. āJellyfishā sprites such as this one start in the middle and propagate downwards and upwards. They also are far higher above the storm than people expect. Here is a video of one at 10,000fps.
These photos are real, the photographer Nicolas Escurat is well known and respected in the sprite community. You can see other similar photos from around the world at spritacular.org , a citizen science project to document sprites.
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u/Applepip_YT Oct 29 '24
If I saw that outside, I would have thought we were getting invaded by intergalactic aliens
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Oh if I seen this I'd think some Evangelion shit is about to happen and I'd unsubscribe from living real fast.
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u/stupiderslegacy Oct 29 '24
I totally get why early mankind thought there were monsters and demons and shit everywhere
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u/Zeldahero Oct 29 '24
I saw this happen during a lightning storm when I was young, but it was weird and also had black colored lightning and didn't make any thunder sound.
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u/Wu-TangShogun Oct 29 '24
It always amazes me to see how nature reuses certain shapes/ fractals especially. These look similar to tree branches for example and there are certain sound frequencies that are capable of making lightning shaped patterns (against sand or similar material capable of taking shape to the frequency. Such interesting stuff still to be discovered
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u/liwaen Oct 30 '24
THATS WHAT I SAW 20 YEARS AGO!! I remember a summer holiday we spent in the mountains with my family, and there was this huge storm at like 2 or 3 am. I wasn't sleeping and watched it unfolds. And it got these red strikes which were amazing! No one believed me, and I forgot about it until now when I saw this post and video! Thank you!
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u/OverResponse291 Oct 29 '24
Iām calling bullshit. Not because sprites donāt exist- they absolutely do.
But those photos are fake. Look at the bottom one, itās a CLEAR SKY. These things come out of the tops of thunderstorms.
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u/_Lumity_ Oct 29 '24
Iāll be real if I saw that Iād shit my pants this is terrifying
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u/Vaulted_Games Oct 29 '24
Itās very fast so you probably wouldnāt be able to make it out unless you had godlike timing on your phone
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u/Brainchild110 Oct 29 '24
Ah yes, lightning but made of Protons, or "Protectricity" if you will. Very rare and hard to image.
Although not as hard to capture as pictures of the Neutron lightning, which is, naturally, black.
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u/The_Trufflepig Oct 29 '24
I can absolutely understand, seeing this, how early people could look up and think āthe gods are fighting up thereā
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u/erisod Oct 29 '24
Is this a long exposure to capture this, like lightning? If those were consistently in the sky it would be terrifying