I, For One . . .

[CZroe]

haha It's the Foo Fighters!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foo_fighter

Yep. Ball lightning.

Pilots in World War II described an unusual phenomenon for which ball lightning has been suggested as an explanation. The pilots saw small balls of light moving in strange trajectories, which came to be referred to as foo fighters.

 

[disappoint]

If folks wore 100% cotton underwear then ball lightning wouldn't even be an issue.

If your gonads look like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-U6WND5DYWg

You've been watching too much tentacle porn.

 

[MongGrel]

If folks wore 100% cotton underwear then ball lightning wouldn't even be an issue.

:biggrin:

 

[disappoint]

Ball lightning.

Alright, alright, you've almost convinced me.

But one question remains: What is ball lightning made out of?

 

[MongGrel]

The Locnars are coming for us.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7-ILz0YOVE

 

[CZroe]

You guys are so full of it.

If that was really ball lightning as you say, it would have been accompanied by eerie music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lavcOYUGnfQ

Not sure why Butch1 thinks that multiple balls are not consistent with reports.

3:17
5:00
8:00
9:00
9:30
17:30

All show multiple balls. Sure, it's hardly scientific, but neither is the ones we are arguing about nor the one I witnessed.

Edit: OK, I see that I convinced him. Sorry.

 

[CZroe]

Alright, alright, you've almost convinced me.

But one question remains: What is ball lightning made out of?

Wish I knew. I never would have described what I saw as "ball lightning" if I weren't told about the phenomenon that closely fits it. It didn't remind me of electricity or lightning or heat at all. Just a bright light that moved as if it were alive, avoiding, orbiting, and inspecting things.

 

[Ichinisan]

Alright, alright, you've almost convinced me.

But one question remains: What is ball lightning made out of?

Not a clue. Energy and some kind of plasma from atmospheric gas?

Thankfully, the one we saw didn't seem to be the type that explodes or scorches things. It didn't seem to damage the tree that it circled tightly (touching the trunk). It didn't leave scorch marks on the lawns. We saw it decend, followed it, watched it for some time, lost track of it, then saw it shoot back up into the sky until we couldn't see it anymore.

 

[disappoint]

Not a clue.

I believed everything except that part. You're full of clues! You just have to piece them together or something.

 

[BUTCH1]

Not sure why Butch1 thinks that multiple balls are not consistent with reports.

3:17
5:00
8:00
9:00
9:30
17:30

All show multiple balls. Sure, it's hardly scientific, but neither is the ones we are arguing about nor the one I witnessed.

Edit: OK, I see that I convinced him. Sorry.

I could go with ball lightning if they were flying through a storm but these were nowhere near any storm so I guess we'll never know what they really were.

 

[disappoint]

I could go with ball lightning if they were flying through a storm but these were nowhere near any storm so I guess we'll never know what they really were.

Hmmm...well that's a good point there. I mean it would be a good point if you worded it like this:

"What created this ball lightning if there is no storm around?"

And if I had to answer. And I guess I might as well answer my own...uh your what should have been in my opinion a question instead of a statement...

My answer would be friction...or...

Some human playing with electricity and trolling people by releasing it into the wild and watching the ensuing lulz.

For lulz sake of course.

Although....you have to wonder if someone gets hurt by one of those things if they would be found guilty of some crime like negligent homicide or worse. From what I've heard people have been killed by ball lightning.

Interesting topic nonetheless. Sure beats any of the silly threads some people post and you know what I'm talkin about.

 

[disappoint]

Ball lightning created in the lab:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/01/070122-ball-lightning.html

Ball Lightning Mystery Solved? Electrical Phenomenon Created in Lab
Brian Handwerk
for National Geographic News

January 22, 2007


Brazilian scientists may have solved a shocking scientific mystery by creating ball lightning in the lab.
Physicist Antonio Pavão and doctoral student Gerson Paiva of the Federal University of Pernambuco have created orbs of electricity about the size of golf balls that mimic natural ball lightning.

The fluffy-looking spheres spin, throw off sparks, and vibrate.
They also move erratically about the lab, rolling around on the floor, bouncing off objects, and burning whatever they touch (see enlarged photo for stills from laboratory video).
People have reported seeing ball lightning in nature for hundreds of years, but there is no scientific consensus as to what causes the phenomenon.

 

[disappoint]

And remember kids: If a researcher yells out HADOUKEN! you'd do well to get out of the way before one of those things hits you.