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| ▲ | the_arun 4 days ago | parent | next [-] |
| These are cool too, but sprites over himalayas - https://x.com/DarshanRajguru5/status/1940829392269463943 |
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| ▲ | notachatbot123 4 days ago | parent | next [-] | | Random Twitter post, is it generated video or anything worth looking at? | | | |
| ▲ | pcrh 4 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | Very impressive video! Such sprites must have been seen at that altitude often enough in history, and as they're quite distinct from lightening I wonder if there is an historical record of them? |
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| ▲ | benjiro 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| What amazes me more then the jet, is the amount of light pollution from the cities. |
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| ▲ | jacquesm 4 days ago | parent | next [-] | | Yes, and that influence reaches far outside of the cities themselves. I only realized this after moving to rural Canada where on a clear night you would see the sky in a way that you could never see it within 30 km of any major city. It is hard to describe in words, you'd have to go up North during a cold winter night and lay down and stare upwards. | |
| ▲ | pavel_lishin 4 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | Yeah - sitting on a porch near Newark, NJ, the sky is a bright hazy dome overhead. It reminds me of growing up in a big city, too - walking along, looking at the multi-colored clouds above me. |
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| ▲ | NKosmatos 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Looks like a scene from a sci-fi movie, where earth is being attacked ;-) |
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| ▲ | arghnoname 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Thanks, that's a much better photo. You can really see the effects of light pollution well in that one too. |
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| ▲ | jgord 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| that is spectacular .. thx for link. |
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| ▲ | zoeysmithe 4 days ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Imagine, say, Yuri Gagarin seeing this and coming down to explain this in 1961. The ISS is only 50 miles higher than Gagarin's flight. |
