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Fireball Spotted over Northeastern USA
- nateb2022 4y agoLooks like the site received the HN hug of death :( For reference, here is a recent web archive capture: https://archive.is/acPT5 https://archive.is/acPT5
- mh- 4y agoIn case the link won't load for anyone else, there's a YouTube video on the page: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfNdaYqVxR0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfNdaYqVxR0
- notyourwork 4y agoDamn YouTube is pushing the ads these days. I don't remember last time I opened YouTube and didn't see an ad on open. I'm logged into Chrome, no VPN or funny business. What a racket.
- kneebonian 4y agoTry uBlock oirign my friend.
- zamnos 4y agoI know the idea of paying for things isn't cool or whatever, but there's also the option of paying for premium, which also gets rid of ads on mobile without using having to sideload some sketchy app.
- 1vuio0pswjnm7 4y agoOne of many possible solutions. This one no Javascript, no browser extensions, no Python, no libcurl, no "subscriptions", no BS. #!/bin/sh x(){ bssl client -connect www.youtube.com:443;}; x(){ openssl s_client -connect www.youtube.com:443 -ign_eof;}; read x; printf "%s\r\n%s\r\n%s\r\n%s\r\n%s\r\n%s\r\n%s\n" \ "POST /youtubei/v1/player?key=AIzaSyA8eiZmM1FaDVjRy-df2KTyQ_vz_yYM39w HTTP/1.1" \ "Host: www.youtube.com" \ "Content-Type: x-www-form-urlencoded" \ "Content-Length: 121" \ "Connection: close" \ "" \ '{"videoId":"'$x'","context":{"client":{"clientName":"ANDROID","clientVersion":"17.10.35","androidSdkVersion":30}}}' \ |x|sed -n "/itag=22&/{s/.*: ./<a href=/;s/\",/>$x<\/a>/p;}" Usage: echo RfNdaYqVxR0|1.sh > 1.htm chrome ./1.htm
- chaxor 4y agoI don't know anything about web tbh - what is that "key=AIzaSy[...]" bit? Is that a user id for duckduckgo private watching type of thing?
- 1vuio0pswjnm7 4y agoNo, nothing personally identifiable about the so-called key. Every person who visits www.youtube.com uses the same one; it's public. Anyone can see it in the HTML page source for www.youtube.com. No need to be "logged in" or whatever the latest scheme is to track people for advertising purposes.
- TechBro8615 4y agoThat was a pretty wild five seconds. I wish I could have seen it. Does anyone know the source of the video, or the reason this particular camera is pointed at the sky?
- andrewinardeer 4y agoI wish I had the resources to have a HD camera pointed at the sky 24/7 and recording capacity for moments like these.
- ddalex 4y agoI mean an HD webcam is not that expensive, and you don't need to record everything, just the interesting actions, any video surveillance software would do....
- capableweb 4y agoTypically, video footage is not archived 24/7. Instead, it is common to retain footage for a set number of hours or days before deleting it. If you want to preserve specific segments of the footage, you can "lock" them to prevent deletion. This process works similarly to a recording buffer, and it is similar to how dash cams operate if you are familiar with those.
- kerpotgh 4y ago[dead]
- pjsg 4y agoDoing this is not actually that complicated -- check out https://globalmeteornetwork.org/ https://globalmeteornetwork.org/ for more information. I have a camera pointing due south in Massachusetts and I didn't record it -- I think it was too far west from my position. This was my meteor stack for that night: http://server.istrastream.com/rms/US001N/stack/1678618383.jpg http://server.istrastream.com/rms/US001N/stack/1678618383.jp... Yes, some of these tracks are planes, and there are a bunch of planes (see http://server.istrastream.com/rms/US001N/captured_stack/1678618383.jpg http://server.istrastream.com/rms/US001N/captured_stack/1678... for the unfiltered set!) Total cost is certainly under $150 for the camera, housing etc. The bigger challenge is finding a good place to install the camera that has a good view of the sky.
- andrepd 4y agoWhy is the top suggestion on a science video like that an anti-vax rant?
- scotty79 4y agoBecause it causes most engagement? Even you engaged with it in some form. You commented about it here.
- stephen_g 4y agoSuggestions are personalised for what it thinks you’ll engage with (depending on how much it has profiled you - if you’re logged in, have watch history). The top suggestion for that video when I’m logged in is a video about architecture…
- andrepd 4y agoI am not logged it on YouTube (ever). So this is the "default" suggestion.
- nonethewiser 4y agoI don’t think a video of a meteor is a science video. It’s simply a phenomenon. The scientific method or institutions are helpful for understanding it but it’s not inherently scientific.
- mrguyorama 4y agoYoutube has a general problem that angry and hateful and infuriating content is naturally more engaging to the human brain even if you don't believe it. That's why Youtube will still recommend right wing hate content even if you actively watch straight up socialist propaganda. It's just a more effective strategy that any ML or AI recommendation system will inevitability fall to. It's similar to how casino slots aren't actually any fun because you don't need any fun to trigger a gambling addict, so they are optimized for that outcome rather than optimized for fun. Except it's even worse because nearly everyone is susceptible to the effects of anger inducing content, it's just how our brain works.
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- miles 4y agoThe website appears unresponsive, but it looks like the page describes a meteor from March 12: https://web.archive.org/web/20230312184401/https://ams.imo.net/members/imo_view/event/2023/1529 https://web.archive.org/web/20230312184401/https://ams.imo.n... "We received 103 reports about a fireball seen over CT, DE, MA, MD, NH, NY, PA, RI and VT on Sunday, March 12th 2023 around 01:01 UT." Here is a thumbnail of the linked photo: https://web.archive.org/web/20230315225532im_/https://www.amsmeteors.org/members/upload/photos/2023/999999999_14384_th.jpg https://web.archive.org/web/20230315225532im_/https://www.am...
- TheSpiceIsLife 4y agoFireball / bolide https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolide https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolide
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- kneebonian 4y agoMaybe those UFOs we shot down weren't just weather balloons from amateur clubs...... Good thing I've been playing a lot of XCOM recently. On a more serious note is it possible this is another "Oh my god" particle event (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oh-My-God_particle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oh-My-God_particle)
- MiguelHudnandez 4y agoI'm not sure if there's any reason to think it's anything more exotic than a meteor. Beautiful, for sure, but plenty of totally typical phenomena are beautiful.
- RajT88 4y agoI suspect that even at that energy level we'd not be able to see a single particle way high up in the atmosphere. But I'm no physicist so who knows.
- kadoban 4y agoYou're right. Even if we could see it, it'd be more of an impossibly-brief flash of light that dumps all of its energy in one place. It wouldn't be a weird fireball that moves across the sky.
- hammock 4y agoWhat is it?
- Waterluvian 4y agoLooks like a meteor.
- ChickenNugger 4y agoOr space trash, but I'm leaning meteor.
- Waterluvian 4y agoA meteor is just lonely cosmic space trash, looking for another body to make it feel accrete.
- grugagag 4y agoDoes space trash look particularly distinctive when it makes back to earth? Human made space trash to be specific.
- wkat4242 4y agoWhile flying, no but it might break up a bit more than a rock. When on the ground it can be big enough for parts to be identified yeah.
- fredsmith219 4y agoRussian Oligarch.
- andrewstuart2 4y agoSome relevant conversation at https://www.reddit.com/r/RhodeIsland/comments/11p0wyk/fireball_sighting_over_north_kingstown_just_now/ https://www.reddit.com/r/RhodeIsland/comments/11p0wyk/fireba..., which I found when I tried to find an archive link to the dead site by searching. Might be worth noting this was a few days ago.
- s-xyz 4y agoAre we having lately many more meteor sightings than "before", or is it just that we have better tools/more cameras to spot it?
- kibwen 4y agoPeople have had ubiquitous cameras in their phones for a decade, but these fireballs happen way too fast to whip out your phone. The reason that we're seeing them more these days is because of the increasing prevalence of dashcams and home security cameras.
- kristopolous 4y agoThat's probably why the Russian one is so well documented. They have a dashcam culture
- wyclif 4y agoOne of my fave videos is of the Russian guy who keeps driving and pulls his visor down like nothing happened even while a meteor near-misses: https://youtu.be/5bicUPQHcw4 https://youtu.be/5bicUPQHcw4
- kristopolous 4y agoThat's a more focused and responsible driver than I'll ever be.
- orbital-decay 4y agoHad. It was a fad related to the scammers on the roads, and peaked a decade ago. Scammers disappeared/shifted to something else, barely anyone drives with a dashcam now.
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- nntwozz 4y agoThe most common metallic meteors are iron-nickel, so green is a common color. This glow tends to be brightest when meteors hit the atmosphere at high speed.
- FPGAhacker 4y agoDo meteors ever hit the atmosphere at low speed?
- tejtm 4y agorelatively...yes
- jacquesm 4y ago11.2 km/sec at a minimum. (Earth's escape velocity!)
- anamexis 4y agoIt's not immediately obvious to me – why would escape velocity also be the minimum speed at which an object could enter the atmosphere?
- digitalsushi 4y agoIndeed. What if the object was traveling at the same speed as Earth as it revolves around the Sun, and their paths intersect at a very acute angle? That is to say, they met at a traffic 'zipper' ... Could an object collide with earth at a lower speed?
- titzer 4y agoYes, but it is rare because most objects in such orbits tend to either be gobbled by Earth right away, settle into L2, L3, or L4, or enter a high orbit.
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- alecst 4y agoI think I saw one of these during a meteor shower, ten years ago, in Georgia. It was so fast, and so unexpected, that I question my own recollection of it. When I tell people I saw a fireball, they shrug. They don't know how it's different from a shooting star. But in my memory it looks like a smoky fireball, and I had the impression that it was particularly close to the earth.
- OJFord 4y agoI had an experience a bit like that, but with mini-tornadoes, somewhere along the M11 in the UK (Essex I think, but perhaps the edge of Cambs). I recall looking it up afterwards and it seemed to be 'a thing', though none of the news examples I found from various years before the event were anything like as extreme - tens and tens of them, well-formed. A truly bizarre 'what is happening' experience for me - before that I would've said flatly 'we don't get tornadoes here'. Never seen anything like it, before or since, nor even heard of it except for having looked into it then.
- swores 4y ago"the UK gets an average of 30-50 tornadoes a year. That’s more tornadoes per land area than anywhere else in the world (except – weirdly – the Netherlands.)" https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/3QTh1mRGDNg16cDYHgCNP0G/do-you-live-in-the-british-tornado-alley https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/3QTh1mRGDNg16cDYHg... I too would've said we never get them here, apart from remembering one big one in the news I think in or near Birmingham...
- mannykannot 4y agoWhile some do damage, I have to wonder if most of these events would be called merely whirlwinds or dust devils in most of the world? I'm also guessing that in an area of often high humidity, a funnel cloud might more easily form in a relatively weak whirlwind, that if it happened elsewhere. Also, this is south-east England ("Berkshire into London") specifically, and also the Netherlands - some of the more densely populated parts of the globe, so I see a possible correlation to the density of observers here...
- devin 4y agoThis is your annual reminder to have a real DR plan in case us-east-1 goes away. Partly kidding, but also, y'know, when I see "fireball over northeast US" my mind jumps there.
- stevemk14ebr 4y agoif us-east-1 "goes away" most of us have bigger problems than data recovery
- pmoriarty 4y agoCan anyone estimate its speed just from that video?
- andrewstuart 4y agoI saw a meteor once when I was a kid. I was on the beach and it streaked across the sky and exploded into a bunch of other things that streaked a little further and faded out. I never really told anyone because it seem so preposterous that I wasn't really sure I had seen it at all. It was well out over the over the ocean a number of kilometeres and up very high - zero chance it was fireworks and there weren't ny on that night anyway.
- nerpderp82 4y agoI saw something similar, the weird thing is my brain hallucinated sound that couldn't have possibly been there. It was on dark winter night during a ferry crossing and the chunks intersected the horizon.
- infradig 4y agoA fizzing crackling sound?
- nerpderp82 4y agoCrossed with a low frequency white noise like howl. I see "with sound" on the meteorite spotter page, but it still seems like it was made up. Interesting, https://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1932PA.....40..289W#:~:text=If%20the%20meteor%20has%20come,this%20a%20rumble%20or%20roar https://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1932PA.....40..289W#:~:text=.... https://www.science.org/content/article/new-theory-may-explain-music-meteors#:~:text=Meteors%20release%20huge%20amounts%20of,the%20sound%20that%20accompanies%20meteors https://www.science.org/content/article/new-theory-may-expla.... So maybe not.
- bjelkeman-again 4y agoI was on a sailing ship in the Atlantic, on the middle of the night watch, when a large meteor streaked across the sky. It burned with several colours (white, green, red, maybe, can’t remember exactly) and made a strong fizzling sound, like something in a hot frying pan with too much oil. I know that couldn’t be from the meteor’s sound waves, so this is the first sensible explanation.
- guepe 4y agoI actually saw it! I checked all sunday for reports somewhere. Where/ how can I add mine? I saw it going down the horizon - it was the most impressive meteorite I ever saw
- johnjungles 4y agohttps://twitter.com/amsmeteors/status/1466787370477535239?s=46&t=q6J-tvkJ9w7rs1xjXKuLSw https://twitter.com/amsmeteors/status/1466787370477535239?s=...
- macintux 4y agoI've been fortunate enough to get a good look at two fireballs over the last 15 years. They're quite remarkable events, I can't recommend them highly enough...except of course I have no idea how one would seek them out.
- pdq 4y agoIs it possible this is a satellite re-entry? For example, this Starlink was predicted for re-entry a few hours before, on March 11. https://aerospace.org/reentries/starlink-2350-id-47890-reentered https://aerospace.org/reentries/starlink-2350-id-47890-reent...
- justinator 4y agoI was riding my bike to the Longs Peak TH, outside RMNP at around 5:00am one winter - around 9,000' - clear sky. A streak just like this went across the sky. I figured it was either a roman candle or the start of WWIII. Neither turned out to be true. Good summit of Longs Peak, that day.
- nanidin 4y agoI was at the base camp of Challenger Point / Kit Carson Peak, laying out watching the sky after dinner. I saw something similar to this but a bit more green and it shot off sparkles like a firework as it burnt up. Did not make the summit the next day though!
- justinator 4y agoAlways amazing when these things happen when the sky is that crisp and clear, and you're alone!
- laserbeam 4y agoFirst time I see this website. I love how there's a community for observations in the sky, and there's a huge list of documented sightings of the same event, with timestamps, names, multiple photos, etc. Lovely! Meanwhile, ufo sightings have some shaky phone footage and a crazy dude saying basically "woah". I just love the contrast.
- heavyset_go 4y agoI was actually in that general area about a year ago in the late fall and saw something very similar, except at the end it kind of "popped", like it disintegrated or exploded. Is there a meteor shower or something visible there that these might be correlated with?
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- axismundi 4y agoThey're here. We have to stop them before it's too late!
- sebivaduva 4y agoit's called "The Sun" and you should ease on the magic mushrooms
- jollyllama 4y agoChecks out, I saw a lot of little meteors last night