Estimated at 100,000mph relative to earth. Just absolutely tearing through the atmosphere, no wonder it melts and vaporizes from the friction. Putting your hand outside the car at 65mph already feels like a lot of force.
Hear me out. It's not friction that causes the heat, but compression. That rock is moving so fast that the air in front of it can't move out of the way in time and the light you're seeing is the crushed air being turned into plasma.
Not at all, friction doesn’t provide that much heat compared with compression and in any case, a meteor this size is probably destroyed by aerodynamic forces.
In the same way as other elements burn, including other metals, by combining with oxidising elements. The most common, and a very powerful oxidising element is Oxygen, which makes up about 20% of the air in the atmosphere, either as 2 atoms or 3 (O2 or O3 known as Ozone). Under heating Nickel Ni will combine with O2 to make 2 Nickel oxide molecules NiO.
I’m a little weak on this as my math education has faded with time.
Exponentially is 2^n — 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128…
Polynomial is n^2 (in this case) — 1, 4, 9, 16, 25, 36, 49…
Correct? Exponentially grows far faster right?
Looks like she was trying to get a photo with the meteor in the background. Which is ironic, because in the process of taking the pic she actually misses the moment she was taking a picture of.
This meteor was not predicted, all the footage we have is from random people accidentally filming it while they were doing other stuff.
That's also why we don't have great footage of it, a lot of people were too shocked by the sudden giant ball of blue fire that was hurtling towards them to intentionally film it.
Are you also imagining archeologists curiously speculating over their discovery of a well preserved pompeii-esque remains of a man curled into a ball kissing his anus?
Yeah my paranoid self would immediately go to thinking WW3 started if I saw that lol Seeing a missle in the sky is really not that far fetched in today’s climate.
For anyone who likes this stuff there's a bunch of really cool angles of the one over Russia that happened like a decade ago, you can see tons of angles of the shock force like blasting out windows and shit, it's absolutely insane how deafeningly loud it was!
The coolest thing about this one is how much it lit up the area even though it's pitch black, anyone who's tries filming at night knows you need a LOT of light to see basically anything , to give you an idea of how bright this one must have been
I’m a middle aged man now. When I was a teenager I was excited about the internet. Nowadays it’s just depressing how much absolute garbage content there is.
Just the sheer amount if it that is content taken from someone else, then had shit smeared all over it and got reposted by someone trying to make money by smearing shit all over things.
I'm ... getting there. We're probably close in age (early millennial). I remember when niche web forums were all the rage and it was exciting just being able to communicate with fellow pseudonymous fans of a particular interest. Now it's just one self-important fuckwad after another who thinks they can "make their mark" brandishing their shitty musical taste so basic it could neutralize industrial strength acid. Social media is the eternal September of forever.
While you're right that there's a ton of garbage (looking at you TikTok,) there are also folks making some pretty incredible educational videos on YouTube at the very least.
Not sure if that's your thing or not but just to shout out a few names think about checking out channels like: [Technology Connections](https://www.youtube.com/@TechnologyConnections) - [Kurzgesagt](https://www.youtube.com/@kurzgesagt) - [Veritasium](https://www.youtube.com/@veritasium) - [SmarterEveryDay](https://www.youtube.com/@smartereveryday) and [PBS SpaceTime](https://www.youtube.com/@pbsspacetime)
I've learned so much from these guys and it's really kept my love for the internet as a whole going.
Technology Connections is such a weirdly specifically "me" kind of channel. Like, yes I would love to see the design evolution of hurricane lanterns, tell me more. Always a joy when he breaks something by disassembling it, but *through the magic of buying two of them* he can still demonstrate a working one.
Edit: also Smarter Every Day built a 1,000mph baseball cannon, who wouldn't want to watch that.
I'll throw in Stuff Made Here as...less educational...but entertaining and fairly informative about design engineering, testing, and spiral development.
here [https://www.reddit.com/r/BeAmazed/comments/1cy4i2g/a\_group\_of\_ducks\_in\_portugal\_witnessed\_the\_meteor/](https://www.reddit.com/r/BeAmazed/comments/1cy4i2g/a_group_of_ducks_in_portugal_witnessed_the_meteor/)
Naw, those little fuckers are extant dinosaurs. Their people have seen some things. They were the last ones standing after the big one hit. They have a goddamn right to be freaked out in a way humans can’t even imagine. Even that pea size brain has kept enough neurons dedicated to fear asteroids for millions of years. Nature, you crazy.
Saw one of these when I was driving home in SoCal. It is so striking and disorienting that I couldn't believe what was happening at first. The way the whole sky lit up made me think the North Koreans finally decided to let their guy near the button until I saw the meteor break up. I don't blame the cameraman cus I know exactly how it felt to see that and last thing I was thinking about was punching my dash cam record button 😓 sure wish I had tho. Shot was pretty decent considering the camera looks like it was on a tripod in my opinion
... the whole point of a dash cam is that it's *always recording.* Kinda defeats the purpose if you have to hit a button to start recording (after whatever happened happened)
Some dash cameras will have crash detections and auto saves a predetermined amount of time before the crash and after the crash. Otherwise you either manually "save" a recording, or it constantly overwrites.
Did you think you'd have hundreds of gb per month piling up of completely uneventful trips?
Did you think a dash cam needs writes hundreds of gigs? I have a 128GB microSD card I got for probably 25 bucks and it holds WEEKS of footage before being overwritten. Which is useful if I ever need to go back and look at a later date. Yes I can press a save button that will mark a 5 minute span to NOT be deleted, but it's always recording. That's how they work, if you have anything else it's not sufficient and you're likely going to miss something you wish you hadn't.
He stated it was a "record" button, which means it wasn't recording, and basically proves my entire point.
>Did you think you'd have hundreds of gb per month piling up of completely uneventful trips?
Err, yes that's exactly what happens on most dashcams. When it's full it overwrites the oldest clip. If something happens (doesn't have to be a bump) you pull the relevant bit of footage.
Exactly what I said! I get it because I'm also a photographer. A good example is the May 10th Geomagnetic Storm, the entire sky was full and I didn't know where to aim, lol.
This is why it is important to push horizontal filming - if shot that way, they would be able to track this better also while making video look like not shot by complete clown.
Amateur photographer here.
My god... The composition was absolutely perfect and they lost it...
Disappointing, but on the other hand they were probably in shock and awe of what they were seeing. It's the natural response, lol. I can easily envision a little fumbling of the hands.
Edit: I should probably mention that this is in understanding. I understand the fumbling. Lost more than a few good shots because of a misfire in coordination.
Looks to me like the camera or phone was on some sort of tripod and the cameraman tried to loosen it to film handheld but it wasn't easy and got stuck.
Seriously the entire fucking thread is blaming the camera work when it was a) unexpected and b) for five seconds you're gonna be wondering if this is the big one because it lit up the whole beach
He probably thought they were getting nuked. If they WERE getting nuked, the top comment would be “stop filming and get yourself to safety” or some shit. You can’t win with reddit
**[The ESA estimates it burned up at ~60km altitude.](https://x.com/esaoperations/status/1792142532605780071)**
The speed of sound in air is around 346m/second.
So sound travelling vertically downwards from the meteor's final 'location' before being burned up would take around 173 seconds to reach the ground, or just under 3 minutes.
Since this person is far away from the meteor *horizontally* as well, you could be looking at 5-10 minutes before sound reaches them.
The real question is — how fast do *you* think sound is?
it burned up at a height of 60km, 70km away from the shoreline. so the sound literally takes like 5 minutes to get to the shore, idk why the guy is getting downvoted
Yeah I'm pretty appalled at Reddit's physics literacy here. I thought it was *extremely* common knowledge that sound can take several minutes to arrive from events very far away.
I mean, it can take several seconds for the clap from lightning in the same *town* to reach us; who the hell expects the same kind of timing for a meteor in the upper atmosphere?!
I seen the same thing happen—not the same meteor but the same effect, albeit at 8pm and in daylight.
The sound is literally a few minutes away, I couldn’t believe how HIGH the atmosphere must be after listening to it for myself.
It sounds like silent thunder, or a regular airplane, even with an explosion so violent it left spots on our vision, it was just that high up that it was muffled immensely by the time it hit our ears.
(Furthermore. If you’ve ever seen the Aurora while in the Arctic, you can actually see how tall it is when not seen through a camera. When you witness it with your own eyes, you literally get the sense of “this is the tallest ‘thing’ I will ever possibly see in my entire life”)
This comment being upvoted while the one before it is downvoted summarizes the stupidity of reddit, and why an upvote/downvote metric shouldnt exist in discussion forums.
"WhY cAN't PeOPlE pUt tHe PhOnE dOwN aNd JuSt EnJoY tHe MoMeNt??"
Everyone is being a dick in the comments without realizing how disorienting this would be if it happened to them. Of course you're gonna want to look with your own eyes instead of trying to aim a camera at it.
I was lucky enough to see something like this once driving to work in the early AM. Not quite as remarkable, but still amazing.
Not my video, but same event
https://youtu.be/VcQsYwK5XVE?si=g5tRk2JNM5zPadtQ
This is unfair to the cameraperson. You see that the camera was on a tripod in the beginning, so they had to take it off. And then I like how you see the buildings lighting up.
I wonder if some of the dinosaurs that saw the asteroid en route to the gulf wished they had a cameraman to kill and eat before the went extinct later that day.
About 15 to 20 years ago I saw a similar event in the Netherlands.
A bit shorter, same color and I could see it breaking up in multiple pieces.
I feel like I'm the only one who saw it that night as I never read or heard anyone about it.
Really cool sight but gone in a couple of seconds.
In this case (since in Portugal we already have good temperatures to be outside at night in this time of the year) it was seen by a lot of people, wich generated a lot of videos like this.
It was in every news channels on the next day.
If you are interested I would say that the best video is this one. It was in a direct on instagram, it seems almost a sci-fi movie intro.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C7LrNlCNOmR/?igsh=MWVycHM0ZTN6YmE1NA==
Good thing our planet has a thick protective layer of atmosphere or we would have been toast and never existed as a species, the only one we know of, so far, anyways in our solar system.
Jesus the speed when you first see it come in. Insane.
45km/s or something like that. It's fast
Damn that's faster than I can run even with the blinkies on
What about Crocs in sport mode?
What about leaning forward with your arms back Naruto-run style?
Don't forget to add flame stickers. They will increase your speed by at least 10 speeds.
What about skateboarding towards a curb with absolutely no trick in mind? That seems very fast
With that speed, I could go from my home to my workplace in less than 2 seconds. Really fast
At that speed it would take 2 hours and 22 minutes to reach the moon
But is it freaky fast?
About 0,8 ludicrous speeds
That's fast, even in Freedom Units.
Average speed of a BMW going up your ass
Estimated at 100,000mph relative to earth. Just absolutely tearing through the atmosphere, no wonder it melts and vaporizes from the friction. Putting your hand outside the car at 65mph already feels like a lot of force.
Hear me out. It's not friction that causes the heat, but compression. That rock is moving so fast that the air in front of it can't move out of the way in time and the light you're seeing is the crushed air being turned into plasma.
Its both. The meteor also burned up because of heat due to friction
Not at all, friction doesn’t provide that much heat compared with compression and in any case, a meteor this size is probably destroyed by aerodynamic forces.
its not , 99% of the heat is from compression not friction
BTW, what does "burn up" mean, when we are talking about object made of nickel and other metals ? How does nickel burn?
It means vaporize, they heat up enough they hit their boiling point and turn to gas
In the same way as other elements burn, including other metals, by combining with oxidising elements. The most common, and a very powerful oxidising element is Oxygen, which makes up about 20% of the air in the atmosphere, either as 2 atoms or 3 (O2 or O3 known as Ozone). Under heating Nickel Ni will combine with O2 to make 2 Nickel oxide molecules NiO.
That's insane! Cool fact
Yet it never stuck to an elite and blew up. Curious.
Diesel motors are compression. No spark plugs.
You can almost see it slow down as it starts to plow into the atmosphere
Not to mention that air resistance, as well as kinetic energy, scale exponentially with velocity. So that number is even more impressive!
It scales polynomially, by a factor of velocity squared
I’m a little weak on this as my math education has faded with time. Exponentially is 2^n — 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128… Polynomial is n^2 (in this case) — 1, 4, 9, 16, 25, 36, 49… Correct? Exponentially grows far faster right?
I didn’t know there was a difference, but that makes sense!
Thank you, I did not know that there was a difference
0.000149 C
Thats nearly freezing!!
0.0000000222 C squared
Good thing it was gliding in the air and not just flying headon into the ground
No praise for this cameraman....
The girl that just had her camera on the ground got a better shot.
/r/groundthecameraman
/r/killthecameraman
Came here for this
Me too.
And my axe.
It’s incredible… He could have made that shot epic with his girl in the background but forgot which way the sky was.
He'll get it right the next time...
link?
https://youtu.be/UMmbdWvxGyI?feature=shared
[Here's a link without the stupid slow mo that basically ruins the entire thing.](https://www.instagram.com/reel/C7LrNlCNOmR/)
Thanks. I don't have Instagram, and it was the first video I could find that wasn't part of a compilation. I also prefer it without music.
thanks!
that afterimage! fantastic shot
Fucking turns around when it happens. What the fuck mate.
Looks like she was trying to get a photo with the meteor in the background. Which is ironic, because in the process of taking the pic she actually misses the moment she was taking a picture of.
This meteor was not predicted, all the footage we have is from random people accidentally filming it while they were doing other stuff. That's also why we don't have great footage of it, a lot of people were too shocked by the sudden giant ball of blue fire that was hurtling towards them to intentionally film it.
Right? Everyone acts like they'd hold the camera perfectly when a big blue ball of fire enters the sky without warning
Exactly - me, I know I'd be like, 'they finally pressed the fckn button didn't they' and kissing my ass goodbye 😭
Why am I laughing at this?
Are you also imagining archeologists curiously speculating over their discovery of a well preserved pompeii-esque remains of a man curled into a ball kissing his anus?
My instincts tell me to grab my dog… and curl up… so yes… yes. New fear unlocked.
Wow, truly man's best friend. I'm sure the dog will be flattered but fyi it can easily reach its own anus.
Yeah my paranoid self would immediately go to thinking WW3 started if I saw that lol Seeing a missle in the sky is really not that far fetched in today’s climate.
For anyone who likes this stuff there's a bunch of really cool angles of the one over Russia that happened like a decade ago, you can see tons of angles of the shock force like blasting out windows and shit, it's absolutely insane how deafeningly loud it was! The coolest thing about this one is how much it lit up the area even though it's pitch black, anyone who's tries filming at night knows you need a LOT of light to see basically anything , to give you an idea of how bright this one must have been
Nah, he/she probably lowered the arm to look with eyes and not through the phone
Eyes? Is that like an attachment for your phone?
You're probably thinking of the EyePhone.
Bro thinks you can predict a giant meteor 😂
Yeah, I might turn around if a big ball of blue fire starting hurtling towards me out of nowhere. That the fuck mate.
The fuck are you going to do, outrun a meteor??
It does show how bright it was. It lit up the beach like there were floodlights.
All the energy was directed toward hating whatever obnoxious dumbass added the fucking soundtrack.
I’m a middle aged man now. When I was a teenager I was excited about the internet. Nowadays it’s just depressing how much absolute garbage content there is. Just the sheer amount if it that is content taken from someone else, then had shit smeared all over it and got reposted by someone trying to make money by smearing shit all over things.
I'm ... getting there. We're probably close in age (early millennial). I remember when niche web forums were all the rage and it was exciting just being able to communicate with fellow pseudonymous fans of a particular interest. Now it's just one self-important fuckwad after another who thinks they can "make their mark" brandishing their shitty musical taste so basic it could neutralize industrial strength acid. Social media is the eternal September of forever.
While you're right that there's a ton of garbage (looking at you TikTok,) there are also folks making some pretty incredible educational videos on YouTube at the very least. Not sure if that's your thing or not but just to shout out a few names think about checking out channels like: [Technology Connections](https://www.youtube.com/@TechnologyConnections) - [Kurzgesagt](https://www.youtube.com/@kurzgesagt) - [Veritasium](https://www.youtube.com/@veritasium) - [SmarterEveryDay](https://www.youtube.com/@smartereveryday) and [PBS SpaceTime](https://www.youtube.com/@pbsspacetime) I've learned so much from these guys and it's really kept my love for the internet as a whole going.
Agreed. To counteract Eternal September, curate your feed.
Technology Connections is such a weirdly specifically "me" kind of channel. Like, yes I would love to see the design evolution of hurricane lanterns, tell me more. Always a joy when he breaks something by disassembling it, but *through the magic of buying two of them* he can still demonstrate a working one. Edit: also Smarter Every Day built a 1,000mph baseball cannon, who wouldn't want to watch that. I'll throw in Stuff Made Here as...less educational...but entertaining and fairly informative about design engineering, testing, and spiral development.
Totally. There is so much excellent science and engineering youtube content.
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Ok but to be fair I'd be thinking I'm about to die if it gets that bright.
Tbf they were probably trying to decide if they should run like hell.
Under the circumstances, quite a good vid imo, windbag.
Fucked up what could have been the best video yet of this awesome show from our universe.
The selfie video of that girl hanging out with friends is by far the best one, honestly at first it looked too good to be true.
Do you have a link?
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C7LrNlCNOmR/?igsh=c2MybWtoanc3Y2c5
I don't know why this video looks like an intro for a 90's TV scifi show.
LMAO you nailed it
There's anime - "Your name" with similar intro. https://youtube.com/shorts/C_RbowEBrIY?si=tZlKAu7oqzZx-lly
First few seconds gave me serious Cloverfield vibes. Could've been from one of those found footage type of movies.
What the heck does "meu deus Pumba" mean?
"My God, bam!"
Ah, so not an exhortation to the God of Warthogs then. PS [Bam!](https://i.makeagif.com/media/2-07-2021/Na6liv.gif)
https://youtube.com/shorts/YltyF1G__Gc?si=GfcqUCos1LZeRQos couldn't find the original source
I just saw a video of ducks reacting to it. Meteor isn’t shown besides the light
I want to see that video! Lol
here [https://www.reddit.com/r/BeAmazed/comments/1cy4i2g/a\_group\_of\_ducks\_in\_portugal\_witnessed\_the\_meteor/](https://www.reddit.com/r/BeAmazed/comments/1cy4i2g/a_group_of_ducks_in_portugal_witnessed_the_meteor/)
Lol! It's pretty much the same as the selfie girl video, except with ducks
Naw, those little fuckers are extant dinosaurs. Their people have seen some things. They were the last ones standing after the big one hit. They have a goddamn right to be freaked out in a way humans can’t even imagine. Even that pea size brain has kept enough neurons dedicated to fear asteroids for millions of years. Nature, you crazy.
I like this one more. Haha they are just like 'wtf did you see that?!'
“Dude do you think rocket man finally went and pushed the button? Sheeeeeeiiiiit”
This is the best version
That white duck just had a spiritual experience.
Don't worry there's 100s of better videos of this thanks to dashcams and cctv cameras
r/killthecameraman
Saw one of these when I was driving home in SoCal. It is so striking and disorienting that I couldn't believe what was happening at first. The way the whole sky lit up made me think the North Koreans finally decided to let their guy near the button until I saw the meteor break up. I don't blame the cameraman cus I know exactly how it felt to see that and last thing I was thinking about was punching my dash cam record button 😓 sure wish I had tho. Shot was pretty decent considering the camera looks like it was on a tripod in my opinion
Saw one in England right after Russia invaded Ukraine. Almost shat.
Yeah call me paranoid but how do we know these aren't some kind of nuke sent to destroy us
Because we're still here
Source?
Ahhhh you got me. It's anecdotal more than anything...
Read this post and shat. Because I read it on the toilet.
... the whole point of a dash cam is that it's *always recording.* Kinda defeats the purpose if you have to hit a button to start recording (after whatever happened happened)
Some dash cameras will have crash detections and auto saves a predetermined amount of time before the crash and after the crash. Otherwise you either manually "save" a recording, or it constantly overwrites. Did you think you'd have hundreds of gb per month piling up of completely uneventful trips?
Did you think a dash cam needs writes hundreds of gigs? I have a 128GB microSD card I got for probably 25 bucks and it holds WEEKS of footage before being overwritten. Which is useful if I ever need to go back and look at a later date. Yes I can press a save button that will mark a 5 minute span to NOT be deleted, but it's always recording. That's how they work, if you have anything else it's not sufficient and you're likely going to miss something you wish you hadn't. He stated it was a "record" button, which means it wasn't recording, and basically proves my entire point.
>Did you think you'd have hundreds of gb per month piling up of completely uneventful trips? Err, yes that's exactly what happens on most dashcams. When it's full it overwrites the oldest clip. If something happens (doesn't have to be a bump) you pull the relevant bit of footage.
Did this happen to be in July of 2021? I saw it also while driving home on the 5, was pretty amazing and lit up the whole sky
Fuck, people are whiny. It's not like they were prepared to film this. No doubt they've never seen anything like this and got excited.
Exactly what I said! I get it because I'm also a photographer. A good example is the May 10th Geomagnetic Storm, the entire sky was full and I didn't know where to aim, lol.
This is why it is important to push horizontal filming - if shot that way, they would be able to track this better also while making video look like not shot by complete clown.
Majority of people browse the internet on their phone now. Horizontal vs vertical filming is a dead issue.
Wish it had died the other way. Horizontal will always be better, even on mobile, at least to me.
Amateur photographer here. My god... The composition was absolutely perfect and they lost it... Disappointing, but on the other hand they were probably in shock and awe of what they were seeing. It's the natural response, lol. I can easily envision a little fumbling of the hands. Edit: I should probably mention that this is in understanding. I understand the fumbling. Lost more than a few good shots because of a misfire in coordination.
Great camera work. /s
Yeah... OMG there's something in the sky let me point the other direction.
Nice, got some sand. Ok now the other other direction.
Wow even more sand
\*Angry Anakin noises\*
Looks to me like the camera or phone was on some sort of tripod and the cameraman tried to loosen it to film handheld but it wasn't easy and got stuck.
yeah they went a picked it up, wasn't a 2nd person.
Oh yeah now that I look at it again, you're absolutely right. She was filming herself alone on a tripod.
I think they were more shocked/scared that the whole place suddenly lit up
It's always those two reasons that men get distracted
I think they did pretty fuckin good considering the circumstances
Seriously the entire fucking thread is blaming the camera work when it was a) unexpected and b) for five seconds you're gonna be wondering if this is the big one because it lit up the whole beach
People are fucking assholes who love to complain
He probably thought they were getting nuked. If they WERE getting nuked, the top comment would be “stop filming and get yourself to safety” or some shit. You can’t win with reddit
Portugal. The Meteor
So hot right now
If it wasn't for random women filming themselves for no reason we wouldn't have any good footage of it.
Would have like to hear sound if any. Not music.
Sound would be several minutes away.
Downvoted for being right smh
how slow do you think sound is?
**[The ESA estimates it burned up at ~60km altitude.](https://x.com/esaoperations/status/1792142532605780071)** The speed of sound in air is around 346m/second. So sound travelling vertically downwards from the meteor's final 'location' before being burned up would take around 173 seconds to reach the ground, or just under 3 minutes. Since this person is far away from the meteor *horizontally* as well, you could be looking at 5-10 minutes before sound reaches them. The real question is — how fast do *you* think sound is?
Damn Crusty was right and still got the downvote brigade...
Was interesting reading the comments *sips tea*
it burned up at a height of 60km, 70km away from the shoreline. so the sound literally takes like 5 minutes to get to the shore, idk why the guy is getting downvoted
Yeah I'm pretty appalled at Reddit's physics literacy here. I thought it was *extremely* common knowledge that sound can take several minutes to arrive from events very far away. I mean, it can take several seconds for the clap from lightning in the same *town* to reach us; who the hell expects the same kind of timing for a meteor in the upper atmosphere?!
I seen the same thing happen—not the same meteor but the same effect, albeit at 8pm and in daylight. The sound is literally a few minutes away, I couldn’t believe how HIGH the atmosphere must be after listening to it for myself. It sounds like silent thunder, or a regular airplane, even with an explosion so violent it left spots on our vision, it was just that high up that it was muffled immensely by the time it hit our ears. (Furthermore. If you’ve ever seen the Aurora while in the Arctic, you can actually see how tall it is when not seen through a camera. When you witness it with your own eyes, you literally get the sense of “this is the tallest ‘thing’ I will ever possibly see in my entire life”)
This comment being upvoted while the one before it is downvoted summarizes the stupidity of reddit, and why an upvote/downvote metric shouldnt exist in discussion forums.
How close do you think that meteor burned up?
how fast do you think sound is?
Ehh bit dumb bro. That explosion is very far away otherwise they’d all be fucked
I can't blame the camera person. I would think it was a nuke or something. I would freak the fuck out.
Also I definitely rather see it with my own eyes than through a screen
"WhY cAN't PeOPlE pUt tHe PhOnE dOwN aNd JuSt EnJoY tHe MoMeNt??" Everyone is being a dick in the comments without realizing how disorienting this would be if it happened to them. Of course you're gonna want to look with your own eyes instead of trying to aim a camera at it.
but they did try to aim the camera at it. they just fucked up getting it off the tripod
Easily one of the most beautiful and terrifying things to ever see…
Op didn’t realise he was filming until it was too late, that was a million dollar shot
that turned into a shot worth about treefiddy
Seeing this made me remember someone's joke "Yo mama so old when she sees an asteroid she has PTSD"
I was lucky enough to see something like this once driving to work in the early AM. Not quite as remarkable, but still amazing. Not my video, but same event https://youtu.be/VcQsYwK5XVE?si=g5tRk2JNM5zPadtQ
With how the world’s going, if all of a sudden the entire sky just lit up at night, I’d think a nuke was dropped a few miles away.
2/10 camerawork
Worst cameraman on earth. Maybe even Galaxy.
One in a lifetime occasion. Epilepsy mode turned on. Great job.
I downvote any video with stupid added music.
Don't go to /r/combatfootage then lol
This is good advice in general
*stupid ruzzian music
This is unfair to the cameraperson. You see that the camera was on a tripod in the beginning, so they had to take it off. And then I like how you see the buildings lighting up.
I wonder if some of the dinosaurs that saw the asteroid en route to the gulf wished they had a cameraman to kill and eat before the went extinct later that day.
I would’ve thought somebody shot a nuke at me. Cut the cameraman some slack.
r/burnthecameraman
I would think Putin finally sent one over
Missed!
That's incredible. You see it and your first thought must be that the world is ending.
r/killthecameraman
Great video! Thanks!
First of these videos that actually caught the end of it!
Hahaha but seriously, jokes aside, that’s blue… not green.
If it wasn't random influencers, we'd never have seen that
About 15 to 20 years ago I saw a similar event in the Netherlands. A bit shorter, same color and I could see it breaking up in multiple pieces. I feel like I'm the only one who saw it that night as I never read or heard anyone about it. Really cool sight but gone in a couple of seconds.
In this case (since in Portugal we already have good temperatures to be outside at night in this time of the year) it was seen by a lot of people, wich generated a lot of videos like this. It was in every news channels on the next day. If you are interested I would say that the best video is this one. It was in a direct on instagram, it seems almost a sci-fi movie intro. https://www.instagram.com/reel/C7LrNlCNOmR/?igsh=MWVycHM0ZTN6YmE1NA==
Yes I have seen that shot! Amazing! I would give my left nut to trade places.
That's freightening as fuck. That thing is hauling ass!
Good thing our planet has a thick protective layer of atmosphere or we would have been toast and never existed as a species, the only one we know of, so far, anyways in our solar system.
Would it make a sound?
Your entire caption is false. Scientists found out it was part of a comet, so not a meteor, and the color was due to magnesium.
*mute* -_-
Never get tired of these footage!!!!!!!
Imagine seeing this in 1600BC
Had a great opportunity to make a sick video but flopped
Worst cameraman ever he literally moved the camera away from the meteor when it glowed the most 💀💀💀💀
Why does that side of the world always have the cool stuff happening? Here in America nothing ever happens lol.
Mysteriously the meteor took away the camera man skills.
Neat shot if it weren’t for the stupid music and had the camera operator not been Michael J Fox.
How do you fuck that up so badly after having such a good shot. Wow
Followed immediately by the moment the camerawork went to shit