cam footage posted on Fakebook from the Standing Rock reservation South of Bismark. The cops are trying to say it was a gun....
What the hell is this?
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Strange! I don't get the glow at the bottom of the streetlight just before the big flash. It is not there before or after the bang. It also looks like there is smoke or something rising up from just to the right of the streetlight.
The flash behind that building, lighting up the clouds?
Note the flash at the base of the streetlight just before the big flash.
It is dark at the base of the streetlight before the flash/bang.
The flash lights up the clouds? There seems to be some smoke rising up to the right of the streetlamp?
The flash behind that building, lighting up the clouds?
Note the flash at the base of the streetlight just before the big flash.
It is dark at the base of the streetlight before the flash/bang.
The flash lights up the clouds? There seems to be some smoke rising up to the right of the streetlamp?
bigredfish
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Wasn’t a gunshot 
I think the reflection of the blast is what you’re seeing at the base of the light. It just gets there a split second before the rest of the flash hidden behind the houses and reflects off the water puddles.The light from the flash had a more direct path between those houses
Ground burst or low on pole transformer? With the smoke you’d think something had been burning and something from the burn went boom?
I think the reflection of the blast is what you’re seeing at the base of the light. It just gets there a split second before the rest of the flash hidden behind the houses and reflects off the water puddles.The light from the flash had a more direct path between those houses
Ground burst or low on pole transformer? With the smoke you’d think something had been burning and something from the burn went boom?
Just my opinion:
Light travels over 18000 miles in 1/10 of a second so I don't think we can perceive a discernable difference with the naked eye between 2 light sources originating at different times if closely spaced time-wise, even if they are several hundred yards apart.
EDIT: corrected my coma-induced math re: speed of light
Light travels over 18000 miles in 1/10 of a second so I don't think we can perceive a discernable difference with the naked eye between 2 light sources originating at different times if closely spaced time-wise, even if they are several hundred yards apart.
EDIT: corrected my coma-induced math re: speed of light
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Oceanslider
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I think it is probably one of those big firecrackers. You know the kind we used to put down the toilet at school. I think we called them M80's.
bigredfish
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Oh, yeah...spent lots of my lawn mowin' money on them and cherry bombs, silver salutes, black cats and others too numerous to recall. Surprised I stll have all my fingers and both my eyes.
Yeah, and also more than 18000 miles in 1/10 of a secondJust my opinion:
Light travels over 5 miles in 1/10 of a second so I don't think we can perceive a discernable difference with the naked eye between 2 light sources originating at different times if closely spaced time-wise, even if they are several hundred yards apart.
Due to rolling shutters employed by most cameras, a very sudden bright flash of light will often appear in only part of the first frame where it appears. I see it often with lightning flashes if I go frame-by-frame.
bigredfish
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Ok its firewroks. See one go up to the right top of the screen right after the flash
We have a guy, long story, but he likes to set them off every once in a while to scare the old people in the neighborhood
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We have a guy, long story, but he likes to set them off every once in a while to scare the old people in the neighborhood
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Yeah, and also more than 18000 miles in 1/10 of a second
Due to rolling shutters employed by most cameras, a very sudden bright flash of light will often appear in only part of the first frame where it appears. I see it often with lightning flashes if I go frame-by-frame.
Oh, yeah...I was smokin' crack at the time...I know it's 186,000 mile per sec but after the wife interrupted me for the tenth time in 15 minutes (she has macular degeneration and was trying a new recipe) I came back and dropped the ball and did the math like it was miles per HOUR.
That's my story and I'm stickin' to it!
I love giving the 11.84 inches in 1 nano. It give one some of the
reasons why boards have shrunk so small with increased clock frequencies.
reasons why boards have shrunk so small with increased clock frequencies.
It's all about perception and perspective and by that I mean, if one cannot understand how very tiny a nanosecond is, then using something familiar like a 12 inch ruler is lost on them.
The distance from JFK airport in NY to SFO airport in CA is about 3,000 miles. A beam of light could travel that distance in a little over 15 milliseconds or 15/1000 of a second. The duration of an average human eye blink is less than 150 milliseconds.....10 times longer.
In other words, in the time that I could blink my eyes, light can travel coast to coast of the U.S. and back 10 times or 5 round trips.
Although close, that's faster than Rosie O'Donnell can eat a breadstick at a Kamala For President rally buffet.
Somebody PLEASE check my math.
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