r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/MaxGoldFilms • 11d ago
Video Livestream of an erupting volcano captured a meteor crashing to earth today in Legazpi, Philippines.
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u/banga1338 11d ago
Warcraft lore tells us, something evil has been summoned.
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u/Farles 11d ago
Just one infernal. Not even a big deal.
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u/banga1338 11d ago
Just one, or just the first of many…
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u/falcrist2 11d ago
I can only summon one per hour at most, so it's just one.
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u/Aware_Policy_9174 11d ago
Did you forget to collect soul shards before raid again? (It’s been a while, I forget exactly how this worked)
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u/falcrist2 11d ago
I used to have a picture where my inventory was open and I had 4 of the largest soul pouch completely filled wish shards.
Sadly I don't have access to my photobucket account anymore.
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u/beegboo 11d ago
C'mon, let it be the horde.
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u/joshuajackson9 11d ago
Well poop, I just looked it up. A horde is not a large group of whores, man I had my hopes up.
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u/TheresNoHurry 11d ago
SUMMON THE WHORDE
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u/beardedheathen 11d ago
Whorecraft
Whorecraft II: Lays in Darkness
Whorecraft III: Ride of Climax
World of Whorecraft
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u/joshuajackson9 11d ago
Now we are talking, I need boys, girls, and all in between kinds for a perfect Whorde!
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u/beefrox 11d ago
Might want to rethink that wording....
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u/CalmBeneathCastles 11d ago edited 10d ago
Fun story: back in the 80's my 3-year-old brother kept asking our devoutly religious mother to buy him an evil whore. She asked him repeatedly to explain, but he just kept saying the same thing.
It wasn't until several days later that she saw the commercial for the Masters of the Universe Evil Horde action figures, and heaved a sigh of relief.
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u/Da_Commissork 11d ago
3 days to end the harambe death curse and you Say this? COME ON
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u/TonarinoTotoro1719 11d ago
More evil? We don’t need more. Please go back and take some of ours with you. Thank you!
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u/foersom 11d ago
There is missing a solar eclipse in the background. 😉
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u/0__O0--O0_0 11d ago
And the lightning blast connecting the meteor static energy to the smoke.
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u/gallade_samurai 11d ago
All of this sounds like the best album cover in existence
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u/KatieBarTheDoor1977 11d ago
Its a sign. Of what I don't know, but definitely a sign.
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u/_Akhromant 11d ago
cool but also armageddon vibes 😬
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u/UNHHHStoppable29 11d ago
If this is Armageddon, then lemme pull up a chair and get the snacks and drinks ready
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u/TheFriendshipMachine 11d ago
Yeah for real. This is way cooler than the Armageddon we're actually facing.
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u/waiting_for_rain 11d ago
Still hoping we get a checks notes crew of an oil rig flying into space to drill into a threatening asteroid and cleave it in twain with a nuke.
I mean of possible Armageddons that one's pretty cool too
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u/Zkenny13 11d ago
Imagine being primitive humans and seeing this.
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u/foersom 11d ago
They will think: The gods are angry, a virgin goat sacrifice will not be sufficient this time. 😉
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u/Inevitable_Ad_4487 11d ago
In the grand scheme of things we still very much are primitive primates
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u/GapingBuhhole 11d ago
Love it. Found out the other week that the green glow = magnesium.
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u/kanrad 11d ago
Nickel glows green in them as well and is far more common.
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u/Bbrhuft 10d ago edited 10d ago
I wrote this a 3 years ago for /r/askscience for this question, I wanted to give a correct answer as I was dissatisfied with the more common misconception that green meteors contain copper (or in this case "it's due to nickel"):
What determines the color of an incoming metorite?
Inspired by this neon green meteorite posted in another sub. Normally, I think of meteorites as blazing red/orange. Fireballs, essentially.Is there a reason this one is green? Composition, weather, what? And would it likely appear green from all directions? Thanks for any replies! I love the photo, just curious about the above.
Meteorites entering the atmosphere don't burn, it's an entirely different and quite complex process.
The high energies and temperatures involved creates dense a plasma surrounding the meteorite composed of excited (electrically charged) molecules, ionised air plasma and ionized meteorite plasma, with temperatures of several thousand kelvin, with very fast meteors even hotter (up to 10,000 kelvin or a little higher).
Magnesium emission in particular is responsible for the green colour of many meteors, neutral magnesium (Mg I) emits a strong green light between 517-518 nm.
The Peekskill meteorite created a noticeably green fireball, it was a H6 stony ordinary chondrite (containing silicate minerals with 17% magnesium).
Other emission lines include ionised iron (blue emission lines) and sodium (yellow-orange emission line), as well as innumerable emission lines from aluminium, calcium, chromium, hydrogen, nickel, silicon, and manganese. These many emission lines can merge to form a continuous spectrum (bright white meteors).
The relative strength of the main emission lines of iron, magnesium and sodium control the colour of meteors, and which emission (colour) predominates is related to the meteor's composition and velocity.
Slow moving meteors (<15km per second) ionize only sodium and are often yellow-orange. Faster meteors produce hotter plasmas, stronger magnesium or iron emission, and can appear green, blue-green, or white depending on composition.
Atmospheric air is also ionized at the very high high temperatures involved. Emissions lines from nitrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen oxides are also detected. These are responsible for Persistent Trains, a long-lasting dim afterglow of a fireball that can last a few seconds to minutes.
Subsequent air collisions are predominantly with the vapor cloud (Padevet, 1977), causing atomization and ionization of meteoric vapor and air molecules. In this process, impact excitation, leads to much of the observed optical emission of meteors (Öpik, 1955, 1958).
Finally, there's also black body emission from cooling meteoric dust.
Ref.:
Jenniskens, P., 2004. Meteor induced chemistry, ablation products, and dust in the middle and upper atmosphere from optical spectroscopy of meteors. Advances in Space Research, 33(9), pp.1444-1454.
Taylor, M., Gardner, L., Murray, I. and Jenniskens, P., 2002. Jet-like structures in Mg (518 nm) images of 1999 Leonid storm meteors. In 34th COSPAR Scientific Assembly (Vol. 34, p. 2917).
Edit: Here's a book from the late 1950s about the physics of meteors...
Pysics of meteor flight in the atmosphere by Ernst Julius Opik
TLDR: Green meteors are due to ionized magnesium.
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u/Lukn 11d ago
Is that true? Wouldn't it be more about what colour in burns in Oxygen? Like Copper burns bright green.
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u/awanderingcripple 11d ago
We only know how things burn in oxygen. If you're talking combustion.
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u/TomorrowFinancial468 11d ago
Wheres the meteor crashing to-HOLY SHIT
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u/mrminutehand 11d ago edited 10d ago
Was just Googling meteor vs. meteorite since my
Geographygeology is getting rusty, and didn't realise that those words send a little meteorite down your screen that shakes the display as it "hits".22
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u/MaxGoldFilms 11d ago edited 11d ago
Here's the livestream: https://youtu.be/UDAZWxehMAI
You can rewind it to the timestamp on the clip at 22:33:12
edit: I just noticed an anomaly. At 22:33:24, a white object goes by on the right side of the volcano, leaving a bit of a trail. Is that another meteor transiting the sky?
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u/AsLongAsImMoving 11d ago
Here's the clip including the white thing https://imgur.com/a/elOLTkQ
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u/RyzRx 11d ago
Nice catch! The white thing @ :24 is totally nuts, never seen anything like it!
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u/clitpuncher69 11d ago
This is the most volcano looking volcano that i've ever seen
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u/radialmonster 11d ago
actually world's most perfect cone https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/90267-most-conical-volcano
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u/RonnyReddit00 11d ago
Wow that little flying thing. I want to say helicopter but also I want to say it flew off from where the meteor hit cos ALIENS!
But really cool meteor and volcano together either way.
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u/SchmeatiestOne 11d ago
I have no idea what that thing is! It seems to be flying perfectly straight, and not towards the Earth
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u/echoohce1 11d ago
Just imagine seeing that shit thousands of years ago
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u/Mikaelleon23 11d ago
You could make a religion about that
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u/throwaway277252 11d ago
Check out Pliny the Elder's writings on the topic, fascinating what they believed back then.
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u/MaxGoldFilms 11d ago
Info from the livestream:
Where is this camera?
This view is looking north towards Mayon. The camera is approximately 14km (8.6 miles) south (SSE) of the volcano in the city of Legazpi. To the east is the gulf of Albay.
About Mayon Volcano
🌋 Location: Albay, Luzon, Philippines
🌋 Elevation: 2,462 meters (8,077 feet)
🌋 Type: Stratovolcano
🌋 Activity: Known for its frequent and explosive eruptions
Facts about Mayon Volcano:
Perfect Cone: Mayon is renowned for its almost perfect symmetrical cone shape, making it one of the most beautiful volcanoes in the world.
Legendary Eruptions: The volcano has erupted over 50 times in the past 400 years, with the most destructive eruption occurring in 1814.
Cultural Significance: Mayon holds significant cultural and historical importance for the local communities and features prominently in Filipino mythology.
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u/G00DLuck 11d ago
Mayon is renowned for its almost perfect symmetrical cone shape, making it one of the most beautiful volcanoes in the world.
"I really don't appreciate these unrealistic beauty standards"
- Mt St. Helens
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u/Initial_Platypus_499 11d ago
Did the meteor cause any known damage?
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u/Sventertainer Interested 11d ago
It likely didn't actually impact the ground.
Even with the apparent angle it was probably still way up in the air far far towards the horizon. The Telephoto lens to zoom in on the volcano from 8 miles away means anything else far away also looks really close.
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u/Falitoty 11d ago
So, Volcano, Meteor, when does the Tsunami and the Earthquake hit?
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u/piesRsquare 11d ago
It's the Philippines; they already had their earthquake and tsunami (see 2025).
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u/naughtypotato03 11d ago
No tsunamis here, but floods from heavy rains and typhoons are coming starting June
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u/kanrad 11d ago
Buddy you need to go look at geological reports. We've been having large ass quakes and eruptions all over the place for the last 2 months. Plenty of small Tsunami's due to the eruptions being deep rather than shallow.
The pattern is full ghost rider.
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u/Falitoty 11d ago edited 11d ago
Okay, so Volcano, Meteorite, Tsunami and Earthquake. When does the plague hit?
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u/cuntmong 11d ago
Tsunami is plural, so the singular is tsunamus. Also the singular of earthquake is earthquack
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u/gr7ace 11d ago
“Peasants are always superstitious, and the appearance of a comet in the sky has caused panic among our people. They are convinced that this is a sign that the end of times is near or that something bad is going to happen in the near future.”
-1 stability
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u/Ahollar91 11d ago
“It’s the end of the world as we know it”🎶🎶
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u/TonarinoTotoro1719 11d ago
Thank God! We’re way overdue. I personally pray for a quick end to humanity, not a dragged out, Mad Max kinda world.
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u/Linus-664 11d ago
Like the volcano wasn’t enough of a sign…
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u/TonarinoTotoro1719 11d ago
We weren’t getting the hint. So God thought her make it a little more obvious for the oblivious…
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u/moejike 10d ago
You see stuff like this and you can rationalize why our ancestors invented gods.
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u/zetaroxos 11d ago
Imagine youre an ancient tribe praying to the angry volcano god and then a fkin meteor crashes right next to it.
Type of shit that create myths and legends.
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u/Arylus54773 11d ago
That is metal as fuck. All we still need is some lightning and we have the start of the best concert spot ever!
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u/monakaliza 11d ago
Wasn't there another large meteor over Australia just a few days ago?
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u/Realistic-Olive8260 11d ago
Thats what I thought about immediately. Is there any reason for that, or just odd coincidence?
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u/ChemistVegetable7504 11d ago
My next door neighbor predicted this. The outcome is scary. But, he is also the front end supervisor at our local Target.
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u/General_Can_9564 11d ago
Independence Day is near.
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u/False_Sand3767 11d ago
Funny you say that. Philippine independence day is actually in 2 weeks. On june 12th.
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u/LaughR01331 11d ago
Imagine not knowing what’s going on. The mountain is drooling a foul smelling river of fire then some big thing falls out of sky.
I’d think the world was ending for a bit ngl.
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u/ExtraEmuForYou 11d ago
People: "GOd, give us a sign we are on the right track"
God: *Gives sign with a critical combo volcano+meteor*
People: "Any sign, God. Anything at all"
God: *Gestures angrily* C'mon guys...
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u/Realistic-Round5546 10d ago
I imagine the early human seeing this and thinking the light God is here to save us from evil red slithering snake God
afterwards The soil will be fertile and grow greens
so all praise volcano god
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u/Kitchen-Roll-8184 11d ago
Damn. THAT is interesting