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There’s so much we don’t know about high voltages. I never understood why we don’t research it more. I guess too dangerous. Even a phenomenon like this. Could we use it for lighting a whole City for less power than streetlamps?
Once as a teenage (somewhere in the early 90s) I was watching a thunderstorm in suburban Sydney. I saw lightning strike (probably 5-10km) away, then a couple of seconds after the strike from about where the lightning hit, a blue 'bubble' (though with diffuse edges) rose (as though inflating) then fell/deflated over the course of a few seconds. I've never gotten a good explanation for what it was, though this picture…
“No injuries, no fire, no evidence of extraterrestrial activity,” made me chuckle
I hope the mention of extraterresterial wasnt tongue in cheek though. Because it might be a legitimate threat someday.
I imagine when the aliens arrive we’ll be so far behind the technology curve that there’s not much point in trying to defend ourselves.
Living in Astoria, NY and this happened a mile away from me. At first my TV blips, my spotify shuts down and outside you could see this very bright turquoise light all over the place. It was bright like it was a daytime just in the green blue color. At first I thought it must had been some fireworks nearby, New Year is coming, right? But there was no fireworks noise, no party noise, nothing, just this bright green li…
> In the end I rushed to the rooftop, scared as f I'm glad that you were ok. I would probably have over-reacted by diving under the bed. The lesson that I took from the footage of the Chelyabinsk meteor (1) is this: When people see a sudden bright light in the sky, the usual reaction is for them to go to the window to see what it is. So then the blast wave arrives in time to give them a face full of flying glass shar…
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/halifax-explosion...
Living in Astoria, NY and this happened a mile away from me. At first my TV blips, my spotify shuts down and outside you could see this very bright turquoise light all over the place. It was bright like it was a daytime just in the green blue color. At first I thought it must had been some fireworks nearby, New Year is coming, right? But there was no fireworks noise, no party noise, nothing, just this bright green li…
> In the end I rushed to the rooftop, scared as f I'm glad that you were ok. I would probably have over-reacted by diving under the bed. The lesson that I took from the footage of the Chelyabinsk meteor (1) is this: When people see a sudden bright light in the sky, the usual reaction is for them to go to the window to see what it is. So then the blast wave arrives in time to give them a face full of flying glass shar…
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halifax_Explosion#Disaster
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halifax_Explosion#Destruction_...
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I'm sure most people who've clicked the play button on that video have done so on their mobiles in portrait orientation so... sorry gramps
Sometime in the future we'll look back and wonder how our televisions and movie screens became vertical. This post will go into the evidence basket.
Here's a pretty good view from above, from reddit: https://old.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/aa632...
Living in Astoria, NY and this happened a mile away from me. At first my TV blips, my spotify shuts down and outside you could see this very bright turquoise light all over the place. It was bright like it was a daytime just in the green blue color. At first I thought it must had been some fireworks nearby, New Year is coming, right? But there was no fireworks noise, no party noise, nothing, just this bright green li…
If you detonate a nuclear weapon above a city, no matter how far above, you will call upon you a nuclear response. There’s no difference between an EMP attempt and a nuclear strike. So why would you attempt an EMP attack when that means giving up most of the destructive force to maybe burn out powerlines, and guaranteed surface nuclear response on your territory?