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Posted: 1/4/2020 2:11:21 PM EDT
Cool video what ever it is.
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Sure as shit looks like it. Although ball lightning is very sensitive and comes apart easily.
So I'm suspicious that it could arc to such large grounded conductors such as rail lines and those signal poles and not dissipate. So that has me thinking at least 50% odds of CGI. The arcs look suspicious and the lens flare is kind of fucky too. The sparks from the arcing seem to fall and fade a bit unrealistically too. It also cuts out just before it reached the treeline, which kinda indicates someone not knowing how to make convincing CGI there too. If I had to bet money between the best ever video documentation of ball lightning and CGI fake, I'd have to bet fake. |
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After this video, did a naked, muscular man come out and ask for boots, clothes, and motorcycle?
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Sure as shit looks like it. Although ball lightning is very sensitive and comes apart easily. So I'm suspicious that it could arc to such large grounded conductors such as rail lines and those signal poles and not dissipate. So that has me thinking 50% odds of CGI. View Quote |
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If it's legit, I wouldn't want to be anywhere near whatever the hell it is.
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There is no way in hell I would purposely stand there and video it from that close.
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Sure as shit looks like it. Although ball lightning is very sensitive and comes apart easily. So I'm suspicious that it could arc to such large grounded conductors such as rail lines and those signal poles and not dissipate. So that has me thinking at least 50% odds of CGI. The arcs look suspicious and the lens flare is kind of fucky too. The sparks from the arcing seem to fall and fade a bit unrealistically too. It also cuts out just before it reached the treeline, which kinda indicates someone not knowing how to make convincing CGI there too. If I had to bet money between the best ever video documentation of ball lightning and CGI fake, I'd have to bet fake. View Quote One of the few critical thinkers in GD—thank you |
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Looks like a 10+ watt 445nm laser pointer with some electric/sparking special effects added.
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Do you want a Terminator?
Cause that's how you get a Terminator. |
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Sure as shit looks like it. Although ball lightning is very sensitive and comes apart easily. So I'm suspicious that it could arc to such large grounded conductors such as rail lines and those signal poles and not dissipate. So that has me thinking at least 50% odds of CGI. The arcs look suspicious and the lens flare is kind of fucky too. The sparks from the arcing seem to fall and fade a bit unrealistically too. It also cuts out just before it reached the treeline, which kinda indicates someone not knowing how to make convincing CGI there too. If I had to bet money between the best ever video documentation of ball lightning and CGI fake, I'd have to bet fake. View Quote |
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Couldn’t it be a downed power line and we just can’t see the rest of the wire due to the crappy camera quality?
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Wheteher it's fake or not, who knows? The rail line is electric as those are caternary poles to carry the current. Ball lightning is most definitley a highly charged plasma and probably has a strong charge around it, even past the parts that we see. Plasma will create a great conductive path, so it's not much of a strecth to think that it caused arcing when in close proximity to the several thousand volts those lines were carrying.
Air by itself is a pretty decent dielectric (insulator) under normal conditions. However, when you have a plasma, you have ionized fields that become very conductive. I'm going to say this could be real, if so a very rare and nice capture. |
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The filming starts as soon as the ball clears the tree line.
One might ask one's self, why was this person filming a random section of track when this ball lighting showed up? |
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It's CGI.....Original maker says so.
There's a much better version on YouTube. It's filmed almost professionally in horizontal on a phone. Dead giveaway...Also, this is a higher resolution version and the lack of fuzziness makes it look even more fake: ??????? ??????? ???? ?????????? ?????? [CGI] |
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Wicked phenomenon, yes? But, you know, it’s not any more "evil" than, say… fire. It all depends on your point of view. Try to get a better understanding of things before you make your judgement.
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St Elmo's fire (or a cgi version of it)
Don't think it lasts that long though, ball lightning either. |
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It's CGI.....Original maker says so. There's a much better version on YouTube. It's filmed almost professionally in horizontal on a phone. Dead giveaway...Also, this is a higher resolution version and the lack of fuzziness makes it look even more fake: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=watch?time_continue=1 View Quote @Sevensteps |
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It's CGI.....Original maker says so. There's a much better version on YouTube. It's filmed almost professionally in horizontal on a phone. Dead giveaway...Also, this is a higher resolution version and the lack of fuzziness makes it look even more fake: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwR14D3NA8c View Quote |
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Here's some non-ball real lightning to save the thread
DSC_4337_SuperBolt-lzn by FredMan, on Flickr DSC_0161-CloudBolt by FredMan, on Flickr Lightning 20180601 by FredMan, on Flickr Lightning 20180808 by FredMan, on Flickr And my favorite... Lightning Rainbow 20180514 by FredMan, on Flickr |
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Yep, looks like it. Saw that once in Delaware down state near the beach, very sim Actually looked a little more like a yellow carpet flowing after it hit.
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Quoted: @cosmo05 It's a fake....Read my post up in the thread. It was created and uploaded to YouTube in May of last year. View Quote |
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Here's some non-ball real lightning to save the thread https://live.staticflickr.com/1673/24029417320_22273a6ea1_b.jpgDSC_4337_SuperBolt-lzn by FredMan, on Flickr https://live.staticflickr.com/7328/27358657163_86674e59bd_b.jpgDSC_0161-CloudBolt by FredMan, on Flickr https://live.staticflickr.com/1727/27634279417_252c4d54db_b.jpgLightning 20180601 by FredMan, on Flickr https://live.staticflickr.com/941/43936740451_d847f1a855_b.jpgLightning 20180808 by FredMan, on Flickr And my favorite... https://live.staticflickr.com/830/40309921460_726acec55c_b.jpgLightning Rainbow 20180514 by FredMan, on Flickr View Quote |
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The sparks falling from the light are the giveaway that it’s fake
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Here's some non-ball real lightning to save the thread https://live.staticflickr.com/1673/24029417320_22273a6ea1_b.jpgDSC_4337_SuperBolt-lzn by FredMan, on Flickr https://live.staticflickr.com/7328/27358657163_86674e59bd_b.jpgDSC_0161-CloudBolt by FredMan, on Flickr https://live.staticflickr.com/1727/27634279417_252c4d54db_b.jpgLightning 20180601 by FredMan, on Flickr https://live.staticflickr.com/941/43936740451_d847f1a855_b.jpgLightning 20180808 by FredMan, on Flickr And my favorite... https://live.staticflickr.com/830/40309921460_726acec55c_b.jpgLightning Rainbow 20180514 by FredMan, on Flickr View Quote |
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After this video, did a naked, muscular man come out and ask for boots, clothes, and motorcycle? View Quote |
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It's CGI.....Original maker says so. There's a much better version on YouTube. It's filmed almost professionally in horizontal on a phone. Dead giveaway...Also, this is a higher resolution version and the lack of fuzziness makes it look even more fake: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwR14D3NA8c View Quote |
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has arf fallen for every fake video ever posted online? View Quote I like how the Twitter poster today forwarded it to Jim Cantore from the weather channel. It would be hilarious if Cantore shared it with everyone on TWC without checking into it. |
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Sure as shit looks like it. Although ball lightning is very sensitive and comes apart easily. So I'm suspicious that it could arc to such large grounded conductors such as rail lines and those signal poles and not dissipate. So that has me thinking at least 50% odds of CGI. The arcs look suspicious and the lens flare is kind of fucky too. The sparks from the arcing seem to fall and fade a bit unrealistically too. It also cuts out just before it reached the treeline, which kinda indicates someone not knowing how to make convincing CGI there too. If I had to bet money between the best ever video documentation of ball lightning and CGI fake, I'd have to bet fake. View Quote |
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has arf fallen for every fake video ever posted online? View Quote plane wing falls off during Air Show |
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It is scary
Metro Exodus - Religious nuts Vs Electric Anomaly |
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