Comment by JKCalhoun
2 days ago
Came up on my feed a few days ago. Looks like convincing ball lightning to me: https://youtu.be/mmOfwFHBu_o
2 days ago
Came up on my feed a few days ago. Looks like convincing ball lightning to me: https://youtu.be/mmOfwFHBu_o
It's likely an arcing powerline (see the reddit comments): https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/1lrk1rz/incredible_...
Reading through the comments and reviewing the video does indeed point to arcing power lines. Ive seen videos of fast moving arcs across medium voltage lines that looked like a horizontal jacobs ladder. The lines over current protection equipment might not instantly trip as the current might be limited by enough impedance in the equipment. Disappointing reveal.
That sounds plausible.
Just a few days ago, when those sprite pictures and videos first made their rounds, I thought about ball lightnings. Back in the 90ies I had a physics teacher that was obsessed with them because he saw one as a child.
I figured, with the advent of cameras everywhere we would have much more evidence of them by now, but I found almost nothing.
>I figured, with the advent of cameras everywhere we would have much more evidence of them by now
The prevalence of phone cameras in the modern world has shown that:
-Bigfoot doesn't exist.
-Police brutality does.
There must be a relevant xkcd....
What’s odd about that video for me is, why didn’t the person zoom in (on the lightning ball)?
Seems like human nature would be to zoom in on something of interest.
Cell phone with no zoom?
The convincing bit to me is the few frames you see when the ball "collapses".
They do at 0:25
The Doom plasma rifle and BFG no longer appear completely fictional.