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Common enough but it still lacks an explanation. They don't know what causes these flashes. That is the point.
by wheelerof4te 3y ago
Common enough but it still lacks an explanation. They don't know what causes these flashes.
That is the point.
- mholt 3y agoWhy are these flashes definitely not transformer stations or similar? Seems like an obvious answer from my armchair at least. Earthquake wave travels from epicenter to camera, and on its way it shorts out power infrastructure.
- Izkata 3y agoThe wikipedia page mentions occurrences in the years 869 and 1888.
- almostnormal 3y agoEven back at those times earth quakes (2 miles/s) were a bit slower than the speed of light.
- Izkata 3y agoI don't know about 1888, but I'm fairly sure that electrical infrastructure didn't exist over a thousand years ago.
- lunarimiso 3y agoWell, with that attitude it didn't
- wheelerof4te 3y agoIt did exist before the Younger Drias period, though. Atlantians used it to power their space ships.
- phire 3y agoI've experienced it once myself, and I'm not 100% sure. There was a large power substation about 5km away in roughly that direction, and that was my original assumption. But I don't think it tripped (at least not completely), as we didn't lose power. It was also far brighter than I would expect from an arc at a substation (it drowned out local street lights), higher in the sky, with multiple flashes covering much more of the sky than a single substation. So I strongly lean towards it being earthquake lights, which is a documented phenomenon.
- wheelerof4te 3y ago> So I strongly lean towards it being earthquake lights, which is a documented phenomenon. Or, you know...UFO's.
- VincentEvans 3y agoIf they wanted to create a clickbaity ominous sounding article that hints at otherworldly, mysterious, or alien nature of the observed and otherwise fairly easy to explain phenomena associated with a dramatic event to drive traffic to their site - they could make up various claims.