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[-] sukhmel@programming.dev 25 points 3 weeks ago

This flowchart is missing "Swamp gas from a weather balloon was trapped in a thermal pocket, and refracted light from Venus"

[-] Etterra@lemmy.world 17 points 3 weeks ago

They forgot "is it followed by a bright flash and mushroom clouds?" → nuke, so grab some whiskey and make your peace because you're probably too close.

[-] smeg@feddit.uk 14 points 3 weeks ago

Is "fireball" a technical term here? Because I only know the wizard kind and they do end in a dramatic explosion.

[-] Live_your_lives@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago

"Fireballs and bolides are astronomical terms for exceptionally bright meteors that are spectacular enough to to be seen over a very wide area. ... A fireball is an unusually bright meteor that reaches a visual magnitude of -3 or brighter when seen at the observer’s zenith. ... Fireballs that explode in the atmosphere are technically referred to as bolides although the terms fireballs and bolides are often used interchangeably."

https://cneos.jpl.nasa.gov/fireballs/intro.html

[-] smeg@feddit.uk 1 points 3 weeks ago
[-] MrSoup@lemmy.zip 7 points 3 weeks ago
[-] Turun@feddit.de 2 points 3 weeks ago

What about auroras? Not /s

[-] synae 1 points 3 weeks ago

Any of the non-terminal nodes

[-] TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz 4 points 3 weeks ago

most of these are aliens actually

[-] Hupf@feddit.de 3 points 3 weeks ago

What if Alexander Gerst is waving a flashlight at me from his boat in a downward u motion?

[-] Spoilt@jlai.lu 2 points 3 weeks ago

Not really big, slowly blinking and regularly burning my retinas

[-] Zerush@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 weeks ago

WOW, you learn something new every day, who thought that this thing that burns your retina or cook english turists in the Beach, is the Sun?

[-] Dark_Dragon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 weeks ago

What if it's big and moving? And burning my retina too ?

[-] anarchist@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 weeks ago
this post was submitted on 09 Jun 2024
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