It's not aliens because it's NEVER aliens

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Blaster_M@lemmy.world · 98 pts · 195d (7 replies)

kali_fornication@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 195d (3 replies)

Shut up Jean-Luc, you're just a TV character

Lydia_K@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 195d

That's what they want you to think!

-Five lights forever

edgemaster72@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 194d (1 reply)

Scientists hesitant to say Jean-Luc isn't real

HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 194d

Oh yeah, well yo mama's sooooo, um, I haven't met yo mama what's she like

NullPointerException@lemmy.ca · 10 pts · 195d

I was going to say that these 5 suns are beautiful!

InnerScientist@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 194d (1 reply)

Damit, beat me to it

jack_of_sandwich@lemmy.sdf.org · 59 pts · 195d (9 replies)

5 years ago, it could be photoshop. Today it could be AI.

Could be multiple exposures.

FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world · 44 pts · 195d (2 replies)

Could be a mirror moose, with the light hitting its antlers and doing a peerfect total internal refraction towards the observers camera at four distinct points

gustofwind@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 195d (1 reply)

Those are a myth

khannie@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 195d

Eh.... Tell me you're not a mirror moose denier.

panda_abyss@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 195d (3 replies)

Modern phones take multiple exposures. 

the clouds in from of the sun  may it’s not a reflection or refraction. 

so in guess: iPhone photo taken from a moving vehicles, does depth stacking or whatever they call it, creating 5 suns. 

guy@piefed.social · 6 pts · 195d

Shouldn't there be some blur if that was the case? I think the safest bet is mirror moose

Zoot@reddthat.com · 3 pts · 193d (1 reply)

There are only 4 lights

panda_abyss@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 193d

I’m quite sure there are 5. Look again

eatCasserole@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 195d

Multiple exposures was my first thought.

RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 194d

It seems to be a real, but extreme example of a [sun dog](Sun dog - Wikipedia https://share.google/P7Z6H8tzW7X3pTJ3D)

gedaliyah@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 195d (18 replies)

Is there anyone here who doesn't think this is obviously a timelapse (of the very cool phenomenon of the sun moving horizontally)?

SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world · 7 pts · 195d

Nah, it was trying to evade capture - fortunately, we have much higher speed camera phones nowadays.

HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 194d

I don't think it's a time lapse. I think it's neat and that's about it.

RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 194d (3 replies)

Yes. Because I googled it.

gedaliyah@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 194d (2 replies)

I couldn't find the exact source, but it looks much more like multiple exposures than anything else. For example, it is entirely the wrong shape, distance, and number to be sun dogs.

What did you find in your search?

RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 194d (1 reply)

I found a few sources saying it's an extreme example of a sun dog, and a video, which I suppose could be AI. Another, mentioning two whole suns in Russia.

gedaliyah@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 194d

Sun dogs happen at a specific angle and result in up to three bright spots. There are 4 lights. They are spaced unevenly and far too close together. There is no distortion and there is a cloud in front of the rightmost image. This is a timelapse of four pictures. The "video" is just the still image with motion effects added.

guy@piefed.social · 2 pts · 195d (11 replies)

Where in the world would you get that phenomenon

silasmariner@programming.dev · 7 pts · 195d (8 replies)

Alaska, it says in the post

guy@piefed.social · 0 pts · 195d (7 replies)

Well yes but imagine if this was real, where could you possible get a picture like this

silasmariner@programming.dev · 11 pts · 195d (5 replies)

Well the sun will move horizontal to the horizon near the Arctic circle during summer. So... I mean, still Alaska

guy@piefed.social · 2 pts · 194d (4 replies)

I'm from just about the arctic circle and it doesn't really look like that. I think.

Maybe if you go above the polar circle

gedaliyah@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 194d

Yes, you'd have to be above the Arctic circle. Search "midnight sun timelapse" images, and you'll find lots of examples. It is not actually a straight line, but moving on a curve. At this level of zoom, the curve is not apparent

silasmariner@programming.dev · 1 pts · 194d (2 replies)

Yeah idk, I think it'd happen near the solstice at 'night' when sun doesn't really set but yeah I guess it'd never be perfectly horizontal and I don't live in the Arctic circle myself so have never seen it. Maybe it's all a big hoax, who can say

Anne@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 194d

Guess the only remaining explanation is aliens 🤔

jack_of_sandwich@lemmy.sdf.org · 1 pts · 194d
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gedaliyah@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 194d

I assume you're joking since the caption says Alaska, but... Alaska (for one).

toynbee@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 194d

John Travolta's house?

Dave@lemmy.nz · 18 pts · 195d

Four body problem?

deacon@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 195d (1 reply)

hahaha eat shit Tatooine. How ya like me now?

SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world · 6 pts · 195d

That some... *ahem* ...very dry humor.

lechekaflan@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 194d

Lack of caption and context combined with willful disinformation and ignorance in general.

Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 194d

4 suns, the earth would be on fire right now.

DempstersBox@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 194d

Four exposures!

puffs pipe Three brain cells

still runs after her

olenkoVD@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 194d

Scientists are hesitant to say anything because this didn't happen.

HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 194d

Was is time to change the bulb and they got too many out again

Pacattack57@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 193d

Black Hole Sun…

thatradomguy@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 194d

photo of House MD with caption saying It's not lupus. It's never lupus

altphoto@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 194d

This could only be Mayans Aztecs and Egyptians all working together with "one other things"....remember how there's one other thing besides tortillas in the new American food pyramid? Now you know why.

InnerScientist@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 194d
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