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(YouTube) Cool If you know meteorology, these are sundogs arcing over rainclouds. If you don't, then they're UFOs   (youtube.com) divider line 31
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hatelabs [TotalFark]
2011-11-09 01:05:39 PM
Sundogs fire, on the horizon.
Meteors rain stars across the night.
This moment may be breif but it can be so bright
Reflected in another source of light
When the moment dies, the spark still flies
Reflected in another pair of eyes.

(just sayin)
 
obeymatt [TotalFark]
2011-11-09 02:27:20 PM
Neil deGrasse Tyson should get this greenlight...

http://twitter.com/#!/neiltyson
 
Somacandra [TotalFark]
2011-11-09 03:16:37 PM
hatelabs: When the moment dies, the spark still flies....Reflected in another pair of eyes.

Done in one. I can see I'm not needed here.
 
xanadian [TotalFark]
2011-11-09 03:27:22 PM
Looks like that sundog is wagging its tail.
 
yogaFLAME [TotalFark]
2011-11-09 03:46:35 PM
Note: do not look directly into the youtube comment section.
 
Because People in power are Stupid [TotalFark]
2011-11-09 04:27:00 PM
farm3.static.flickr.com
It's still real to me.
 
The Onion is prophetic [TotalFark]
2011-11-09 04:39:05 PM
Streetlight.
 
GAT_00 [TotalFark]
2011-11-09 04:45:42 PM
hatelabs: (just sayin)

Wow, I guess I haven't listened to Presto in a while. I didn't recognize that right away. That album is one of my favorites too.
 
MeinKampfyFark
2011-11-09 04:54:17 PM
troll.me

/seemed appropriate
 
swgchef
2011-11-09 04:57:02 PM
upload.wikimedia.org
 
itazurakko
2011-11-09 05:01:10 PM
Some of the weird cloud images linked in the related stuff are pretty cool too.
 
The Bad Astronomer [TotalFark]
2011-11-09 05:02:18 PM
Actually, Subby, it's not sundogs, at least not technically. I saw this video a few weeks back, tracked down a meteorologist, and got a full explanation. Like sundogs, this is caused by ice crystals, but the geometry is different. And the dancing, snapping motion is due to the crystals aligning themselves with the clouds internal electric field, which is constantly discharging and building back up.

/SCIENCE
 
100 Watt Walrus
2011-11-09 05:04:22 PM
Mods & Smitty, APOD beat you to this by a day (new window).
 
mrmyxolodian
2011-11-09 05:05:06 PM
The Bad Astronomer: Actually, Subby, it's not sundogs, at least not technically. I saw this video a few weeks back, tracked down a meteorologist, and got a full explanation. Like sundogs, this is caused by ice crystals, but the geometry is different. And the dancing, snapping motion is due to the crystals aligning themselves with the clouds internal electric field, which is constantly discharging and building back up.

/SCIENCE

Thanks!
I don't know a damn thing about meteorology, I shamelessly stole it from Neil deGrasse Tyson.

/Still pretty cool no matter what it is.
 
MaxxLarge [TotalFark]
2011-11-09 05:10:54 PM
100 Watt Walrus: Mods & Smitty, APOD beat you to this by a day (new window).

Man, how disappointing. It's almost as if Fark only lets people repost things that already exist elsewhere on the internet.

I don't even know what's real anymore.
 
doglover [TotalFark]
2011-11-09 05:26:24 PM
The Bad Astronomer: Like sundogs, this is caused by ice crystals, but the geometry is different. And the dancing, snapping motion is due to the crystals aligning themselves with the clouds internal electric field, which is constantly discharging and building back up.

Yeah right! Clouds don't have electrical charges. We'd have seen evidence by now if that was the case. Go back to college and take your 10 dollar words with you.
 
RoyBatty
2011-11-09 05:38:34 PM
The Bad Astronomer: Actually, Subby, it's not sundogs, at least not technically. I saw this video a few weeks back, tracked down a meteorologist, and got a full explanation. Like sundogs, this is caused by ice crystals, but the geometry is different. And the dancing, snapping motion is due to the crystals aligning themselves with the clouds internal electric field, which is constantly discharging and building back up.

/SCIENCE

Are you thinking what I'm thinking?

Rushing out to get a patent on Giant Cloud Based Porn?
 
100 Watt Walrus
2011-11-09 05:45:52 PM
MaxxLarge: 100 Watt Walrus: Mods & Smitty, APOD beat you to this by a day (new window).

Man, how disappointing. It's almost as if Fark only lets people repost things that already exist elsewhere on the internet.

I don't even know what's real anymore.

I just meant that it's a little late to be playing the UFO angle, since this very video has been featured on a site where it's explained. Two apparently - I hadn't seen Phil's blog about it.

But I misunderstood the headline to mean someone was claiming it to be a UFO, so that was my bad.
 
DragonDeadite
2011-11-09 05:49:18 PM
That was actually pretty cool. Never seen anything like that before. Thanks Subby.

/sees the sun far too rarely...
 
dryknife
2011-11-09 05:49:35 PM
www.slumdogmillionairedownload.com

It's a slumdog!
 
Cagey B
2011-11-09 05:49:39 PM
RoyBatty: Are you thinking what I'm thinking?

Rushing out to get a patent on Giant Cloud Based Porn?

I'll be next in line with a patent for lube-resistant umbrellas.
 
Gilligann [TotalFark]
2011-11-09 05:51:48 PM
Footage was far too stable and I could actually see what was happening.

Obviously fake.
 
GAT_00 [TotalFark]
2011-11-09 06:06:17 PM
The Bad Astronomer: Actually, Subby, it's not sundogs, at least not technically. I saw this video a few weeks back, tracked down a meteorologist, and got a full explanation. Like sundogs, this is caused by ice crystals, but the geometry is different. And the dancing, snapping motion is due to the crystals aligning themselves with the clouds internal electric field, which is constantly discharging and building back up.

/SCIENCE

I'm surprised the field is that strong that far up. Last I checked, the electrical activity of clouds was thought to be from the huge amount of water molecule interactions in the cloud.
 
SomeoneDumb
2011-11-09 06:35:33 PM
I'm not sure how I feel about astronomers and astrophysicists talking about clouds.
 
some_beer_drinker
2011-11-09 06:57:32 PM
troll.me
 
Fano
2011-11-09 07:31:37 PM
SomeoneDumb: I'm not sure how I feel about astronomers and astrophysicists talking about clouds.

Now old friends are acting strange
They shake their heads
they say I've changed
 
ArcadianRefugee
2011-11-09 07:46:36 PM
You will all notice how steadily that guy is holding his camera.

Had that been an alleged Bigfoot, Nessie, or UFO sighting, you can guarantee the camera would have been bouncing around as if being held my Michael J Fox.
 
apeiron242
2011-11-09 08:21:32 PM
Flying + Object + You Don't Know What It Is = UFO

UFO != Martians
 
shiftyphil
2011-11-09 10:01:53 PM
I just see a streetlight.
 
hatelabs [TotalFark]
2011-11-10 11:34:07 PM
The Bad Astronomer: Actually, Subby, it's not sundogs, at least not technically. I saw this video a few weeks back, tracked down a meteorologist, and got a full explanation. Like sundogs, this is caused by ice crystals, but the geometry is different. And the dancing, snapping motion is due to the crystals aligning themselves with the clouds internal electric field, which is constantly discharging and building back up.

/SCIENCE

Well then *I* am going to call those "Sun Dancers" from now on, it's a pretty name, I like it, children will like it and it makes me very happy...
So there.

Also thank you for the link.
Now I know,..and knowing is half the battle!
 
NateAsbestos
2011-11-11 06:46:51 PM
MeinKampfyFark: [troll.me image 553x484]

/seemed appropriate

Who the hell is that? I don't have cable so I'm oblivious to such things but I was at my dad's once recently and saw that nutball on TV. What the hell!
 
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