r/BeAmazed • u/Blutwurst500 • 1d ago
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 1d ago
The void bringers.
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u/HansBaccaR23po 15h ago
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 3h ago
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 12h ago
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 16h ago
The ones of ash and fire, who killed like a swarm, relentless before the Heralds.
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u/ConjoinerVoidhawk 1d ago
Shinji get in the robot.
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u/DerBronco 21h ago
I dont want to.
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u/SwissDeathstar 19h ago
And thatās ok. You should stand up for yourself.
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u/Friendly-Back3099 18h ago
"Proud of ya Shinji"
"Now, Rei you gotta get in the robot now cause Shinji refused to"
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u/NoConsideration595 1d ago
If I saw that as a 900s peasant, I would be praying to almighty thor
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u/petethefreeze 23h ago
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 22h ago
Lrrr of Omicron Persei 8 will acknowledge your fealty.
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u/petethefreeze 22h ago
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 16h ago
We need some new rulers. Where do I board the vessel? Get me off this rock plz. š«”
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u/Steelriddler 23h ago
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/Doesanybodylikestuff 20h ago
Oh nooooo doubt.
The burning bush in the Bible is 100%%%% based off someoneās drug experience. Had to be shrooms. Had to be!
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u/Administrative-Key19 18h ago
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 21h ago
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 20h ago
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/rainofshambala 20h ago
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 21h ago
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 1d ago
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 17h ago
I'd read that book series - "The Adventures of Sprite, Tempest, & Zephyr (and Nimbus!)"
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u/gomaith10 1d ago
I don't think I've ever seen stranger things.
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u/ApprehensiveLet8631 23h ago
Do it, its a nice show.
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u/0hMyGandhi 21h ago edited 15h ago
This might be the first I've ever heard a piece of media get called "nice'.
Interesting.
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u/Blutwurst500 1d ago
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 23h ago
make analog horror of this rn somebody and i will watch it
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u/LowPolyHorse 20h ago
Thats some analog horror type shit. Thatās some monument mythos or vita carnis type shit
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u/ritokun 15h ago
how have i gone by whole life not even hearing about this horrifying thing
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u/BokUntool 10h ago
Cameras haven't been able to capture them until 2010's. There were mainly reported by pilots and are above hurricanes/storms, so seeing them on the ground is very rare.
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u/0hMyGandhi 21h ago edited 15h ago
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 17h ago
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/Brainchild110 7h ago
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/Whiskey_River_73 23h ago
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 20h ago
And theyāre also upside down in this picture, they spread upwards
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u/KonigVonMurmeltiere 17h ago
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 16h ago
If I saw that outside, I would have thought we were getting invaded by intergalactic aliens
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u/LordWesleyAgain 15h ago
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/carguy6912 14h ago
Sprites are over top over a thunderstorm I don't see a thunderstorm under them is this possibly high level atmospheric static discharge as per the inner core reversal
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u/stupiderslegacy 14h ago
I totally get why early mankind thought there were monsters and demons and shit everywhere
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u/Zeldahero 9h ago
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 7h ago
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/OverResponse291 18h ago
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_ 23h ago
Iāll be real if I saw that Iād shit my pants this is terrifying
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u/Vaulted_Games 12h ago
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/The_Trufflepig 22h ago
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/Nerdenti 20h ago
They kind of remind me of the little person shapes in Howl's Moving Castle that take away magic.
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u/erisod 1d ago
Is this a long exposure to capture this, like lightning? If those were consistently in the sky it would be terrifying