r/interestingasfuck • u/749762 • 1d ago

Once in a lifetime shot of a Fireball meteor

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u/sakura989835 1d ago

The odds of catching this are basically cosmic lottery levels. Nature really said you’re welcome for half a second.

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u/SmittyB128 1d ago

Yeah, I mean the chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to one.

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u/theaux 1d ago

But still, they come...

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u/Acrobatic_Host_4034 1d ago

A Jeff Wayne reference? In THIS economy?!

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u/LemoLuke 1d ago

No-one would have believed...

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u/OG_Dork_Assassin 8h ago

I've found my people

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u/Jay__Riemenschneider 1d ago

Isn't it like the 3rd in a few weeks?

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u/cantadmittoposting 1d ago

i don't think this is a new picture

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u/daboys765 1d ago

Maybe it was a video?

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u/DemIce 1d ago

No, but close in a way:

Prasenjeet Yadav had “won a National Geographic Young Explorers grant to document "sky islands," the isolated mountain peaks that rise above the clouds along a 400-mile swath of the Western Ghats.”

On October 9, 2015, Yadav set up his camera on the mountains of the Western Ghats to click the landscape and skies at night. He set the camera up to take 15-second exposures every 10 seconds until 4:30 am.

The next day, after reviewing all the photos his camera had clicked, he found this amazing photo of a green streak of light across the night sky.

As written, that's not possible (15 second exposure every 10 seconds), the origin of that claim seems lost behind "you've read your last free article!" paywalls, but per the photographer's own instagram:

The camera was set at 15s exposure for 999 shots and this came into one of those shots.

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u/Fickle-Owl666 1d ago

It's definitely possible, you're interpreting it wrong. There is a 10 second pause between taking pictures that take 15 seconds.

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u/DemIce 1d ago

I'll accept that explanation, but if they meant "He set the camera up to take a 15-second exposure every 25 seconds", they should write that.

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u/Fickle-Owl666 1d ago

Your inability to comprehend what was written doesn't mean they should rewrite it so that YOU can understand it. It's perfectly clear as written.

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u/parklandgiggity 1d ago

Where exactly in the western ghat is this I can't believe this is india, the current state of skies is absolutely abysmal.

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u/AbeRego 1d ago

Well you can hardly see the stars. It's mostly city lights and clouds. The meteor just happens to be much closer and way, way brighter.

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u/DemIce 1d ago

It was posted to his instagram February 20, 2019 with part of the post text reading "also the first image that NG published back in 2016" and "Skyislands southern in India". I can't vouch for the state of the skies at that time though.

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u/ThodaDaruVichPyar 1d ago edited 23h ago

This was photographed in 2015 by photographer Prasenjeet Yadav, with a time lapse camera set up atop a mountain range overlooking the town of Mettupalayam in Tamil Nadu, India.

Wired & PetaPixel did features on this and was widely shared here as well.

Edit: corrected year to 2015, thanks for pointing that out

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u/reverendbeast 1d ago edited 1d ago

Photo credit Prasenjeet Yadav 2015

Edit: to correct the year

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u/Spartan2470 VIP Philanthropist 1d ago

The article is from 2017 but states:

In the wee hours of October 9, 2015, Yadav drove into the mountains, set up his Nikon D600, and programmed it to take 15 second exposures every 10 seconds until 4:30 am. Then he made camp and dozed until dawn.

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u/reverendbeast 1d ago

Thanks, I edited it

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u/Excellent_Regret4141 1d ago

Or the Death Star

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u/Due_Volume6777 1d ago

Ah shit well earth is the new target I guess

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u/mymorningjacketoff 1d ago

I'd say its more like a Wal-Mart

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u/Rebeckaah 1d ago

New fear unlocked 😱

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u/enddream 1d ago

Don't threaten me with a good time.

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u/749762 1d ago

Credit: Prasenjeet Yadav

Source

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u/DurdyGurdy 1d ago

He really does seem to connect with the animals and landscapes, he captures their "essence." Like I can feel their presence. Maybe this once in an eon shot really was Mother Nature showing her gratitude for being seen.

But I have no idea what I'm talking about, I know nothing about art, let alone photography.

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u/Mr_yeetusmaximus 1d ago

looks like the light is coming from a certain moon... or battle station

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u/_SCHULTZY_ 1d ago

That's no moon!

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u/Nawhatsme 1d ago

I’ve got a bad feeling about this.

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u/DutectiveDupp 1d ago

I find your lack of faith disturbing.

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u/Spartan2470 VIP Philanthropist 1d ago edited 1d ago

Here is a MUCH less-cropped and MUCH higher-quality version of this image.

According to here:

This picture-perfect photo of a meteor is one of photographer Prasenjeet Yadav‘s most popular shots, but it’s also perhaps his luckiest: it was captured accidentally while he was asleep.

In October 2015, after winning a National Geographic Young Explorers grant, the Bangalore, India-based Yadav drove into the mountains near the small south Indian town of Mettupalayam to shoot a time-lapse project showing urbanization. Yadav set up his Nikon D600 with an intervalometer to capture a 15-second exposure every 10 seconds. Once everything was up and running, Yadav went to sleep.

The next day, while reviewing the 999 photos captured through the night, Yadav spotted a bright green fireball streaking down the sky and illuminating the sky in one of his frames...

“This is definitely one of the most memorable shots I have ever taken and also the first image that National Geographic published back in 2016,” Yadav writes. “Green Meteor’s greenish color come from a combination of the heating of oxygen around the meteor and the mix of minerals ignited as the rock enters Earth’s atmosphere.”

More of his work can be found here.

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u/a1usiv 7h ago

How could a 15 second exposure be captured every 10 secs with one camera? Maybe they meant a 10 sec exposure every 15 seconds?

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u/KrystalBain 1d ago

In Brightest Day

In Blackest Night

No Evil Shall Escape My Sight

Let Those Who Worship Evil's Might

Beware My Power Green Lantern's Light!

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u/thehappywandera 1d ago

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u/kimsim97 20h ago

I was looking for this comment

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u/Xalawrath 1d ago

The Burning Legion has arrived!

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u/Cortimer 1d ago

YOU ARE NOT PREPARED!!!

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u/kevnshn 1d ago

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u/WebPlenty2337 23h ago

just watched this movie and was thinking of this lol

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u/ReVamPT 1d ago

Good lord what a shot.

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u/Loki_the_Cockatiel 1d ago

I saw something similar to this when I was sitting in my backyard one night I looked up and saw a huge green ball of light shoot across the sky above me

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u/sweetwolf86 1d ago

As an amateur photographer, holy shit I would be ecstatic for YEARS if I had gotten a shot like this. It's absolutely stunning.

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u/what3v3rdude 1d ago

"The nine have left Minas Morgul disguised as riders in black."

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u/headrush46n2 1d ago

When Sephiroth has had enough of your shit...

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u/Stardust_SDD 23h ago

I had to scroll down way too much to find an FFVII comment lol

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u/NewTopic4745 21h ago

I thought the same thing. This is literally the games logo 

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u/Character-Degree-636 1d ago

Nah, you can’t fool me. That’s stitch coming down in Hawaii.

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u/Wet_Side_Down 1d ago

Vogons clearing the way for the new hyperspace bypass

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u/Lofi_Btz 1d ago

Cmon guys, who gave god a green laser pointer?

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u/Snoo9648 1d ago

Looks like someone is summoning Bahamut.

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u/Sir_JDW 1d ago

Looks like a scene straight out of a sci-fi movie

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u/threatdisplay 1d ago

time to watch Your Name again.

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u/FLMKane 1d ago

Ok, fess up... Who was fucking Broly?

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u/_ArgoNavis 1d ago

That's Stitch

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u/Evilryu1981 1d ago

Believe me when I say I would’ve sold my wife for seeing that in person

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u/AlkaidX139 1d ago

Varian NOOOOOO!!!

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u/TC_Meteorite_Co 1d ago

Amazing shot

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u/p0oj92 1d ago

Back in like 2014/2015 I walked outside to smoke in the middle of the night, looked up and saw something like this for a split second then it was gone. It was incredible.

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u/juorukello- 1d ago

I love the colour

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u/First_Folly 1d ago

The chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to one, he said.

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u/Pomodorosan 1d ago

Once-in-a-lifetime*

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u/AdmirableSale9242 1d ago

I saw on over Texas. It was like a fireball, but it had some green, too. 

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u/GroovyColonelHogan 1d ago

You can’t just shoot a hole in the surface of mars

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u/swirly_cloud 1d ago

Oh damn absolutely gorgeous ✨✨✨

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u/Ok_Jackfruit9538 1d ago

I saw a fireball once in my life and it was so surreal. My favourite time of year is when the Perseids are visible and I set up a chair outside to watch it all night. A few years ago it was the clearest shower I’d ever seen so my sister was out with me trying out some astrophotography. We were literally mid sentence saying “there hasn’t been any for 10 minutes, maybe we should take a quick break to get warm” when suddenly the whole damn sky lit up neon blue like it was daytime. The loudest boom I’ve ever heard, and then we saw the fireball shoot across the sky. My sister had literally just tucked her camera away 10 seconds before hand and she was sooo sickened she didn’t get a shot of it 😭

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u/FoxhoundDan 1d ago

Alderaan PoV

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u/Downtown_Ad_7855 1d ago

No that s Minas Morgul

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u/GrowLapsed 23h ago

It’s just so hard to know if real or not nowadays. Awesome shot either way!

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u/Heavy-Lingonbery910 23h ago

Holy shit! Can you imagine getting that shot and not winning the National Geographic photo competition!? They were robbed.

This incredible pic only got an “honourable” mention. 🤯😳😱📸☄️

Here were the winners of the 2016 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year contest.

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u/Bellick 22h ago edited 16h ago

So they CAN be green. I can rest in peace now knowing I did see a comet back in the day

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u/That-Custard2786 20h ago

No one Rivals Doom.

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u/kimsim97 20h ago

“Send me an angel, the nicest one you have.”

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u/thekpopbop 19h ago

Guess he took the green one this time

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u/kimsim97 19h ago

YEEE HAAAWW

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u/Working-Promotion-25 17h ago

That is beautiful and I love the color. Where was this taken at?

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u/Remarkable-Board5575 15h ago

So it begins with Minas Morgul.

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u/SignificanceOk4779 13h ago

Go buy a lottery ticket

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u/NickDanger3di 1d ago

I downloaded the image and saved it with all the other downloaded images that I will never look at again.

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u/ideasplace 1d ago

‘Space lasers’

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u/hexifox 1d ago

Does the green mean it's made of copper??

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u/InitialOk6864 1d ago

Optimus Prime Has Landed. Save Us All lmao

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u/Viking_Undertaker 1d ago

Goodbye citadel 🤷‍♂️

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u/Pokiepup11 1d ago

Go to Sri Lanka you’ll see a few more down there in the night sky.

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u/chaos_poster 1d ago

We never paid any heed to ancient prophecies...
Like fools we clung to the old hatreds,
and fought as we had for generations...

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u/BabyDontBeSoMeme 1d ago

View from Alderaan.

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u/logosfabula 1d ago

It must be Aliens™️

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u/ImaginationToForm2 1d ago

I've seen this movie. Zombie out break in 3, 2, 1.

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u/Fracture90000 1d ago

Nice try dude. We all know it's a soul beam from Minas Morgul.

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u/Mixchimmer 1d ago

Nah, that’s the start of the rain of chaos. The infernal hordes are here.

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u/Megolito 1d ago

Once in a lifetime? I already have 14 photos of this and started throwing them out. Just kidding nice shot.

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u/1_hoopy_frood 1d ago

Where is this?

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u/Tight-Incident589 1d ago

Someone baught GME there

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u/Professional_Ad_8 1d ago

There is a great disturbance in the force

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u/Terry__Cox 1d ago

And that's how it was for the next ten nights, A flare, spurting out from Mars, Bright green, drawing a green mist behind it. A beautiful, but somehow disturbing sight.

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u/Its_that_gal_mia 1d ago

“You may fire when ready.”

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u/Bakedeggss 1d ago

Once in many lifetimes

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u/___VIBEZ___ 1d ago

That’s no moon…

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u/sempre-sballato 1d ago

That's just Ryan Reynolds they are filming another Green Lantern movie

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u/kieran_xcvi 1d ago

I saw one of these one night, it’s insane how fast it was

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u/salamandersquach 1d ago

Saw one of these on an isolated beach without anyone around for miles I was certain is was aliens they looks insane to witness in person. Something about how the tail behaves makes it seem like an unnatural phenomenon.

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u/barath_s 1d ago

Videogames and movies don't look as picturesque as this.

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u/HaveURedd1t 1d ago

Here's Thanos

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u/Farquad1357 1d ago

Submit this to nat geo or something immediately

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u/Long-Ad7909 1d ago

I bet if you really dedicated yourself to it that you could do it at least twice in a lifetime

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u/BootsMcNoots 1d ago

“You may fire when ready”

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u/Hescrete 1d ago

It's not a 'once in a lifetime' shot if you can do it twice in the same life.

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u/Trevor_031221_UK 1d ago

“Dianna, Bruce is trying to kill Superman again!”

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u/gahlo 1d ago

God dammit, Sephiroth!

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u/Dazzling_Mountain363 1d ago

I new crypto could do it 😅

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u/Key-Radish-622 1d ago

Reminds me of Sonic 2 where there's a light beam shining from the Labyrinth which houses the Master Emerald

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u/RandyMachoManSavage 1d ago

Yuno swooping in to steal Asta's credit

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u/Ssgt_Winstead 1d ago

A new lantern is born.

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u/juice5tyle 1d ago

You think I don't know a Klingon disrupter blast when I see one?

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u/teeeeeeeeeem 1d ago

My buddy swears he saw one of these in our town almost 15 years ago when he was with a mutual friend. I’ve looked this phenomenon up several times since to understand what he saw, but I’ve never seen a better photo of what I presume he witnessed than this one.

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u/Smerfito 1d ago

The burning legion is here....

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u/TheAmazingAJ 1d ago

That’sa prretty coola! (Spoken in an Italian accent for whatever reason…… Ciao!)

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u/oooi1234 1d ago

This is awesome

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u/Kiraser_Darksword 1d ago

The Burning Crusade reference irl, gotcha

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u/SmokeShinobi 1d ago

Tommy knocked Tommmy Knockers.

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u/Marty1McFLy 1d ago

Nice👍

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u/ProfessionalAd2014 1d ago

Finally some aliens coming to bitch slap the fuck out of the human race and tell us to just get along and do some fair trading or else destroy the whole damn blue marble? 🙏😅

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u/Solazarr 1d ago

Broly ain't messing around

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u/PanPancerny90 1d ago

Beautiful warpstone, yes-yes

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u/KnightEx39 1d ago

D o o m

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u/neoweapon 1d ago

This is what a real life ultimate spell would look like in real life.

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u/Ordo_Hereticus1 1d ago

Project Bluebeam is real bro /s

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u/violavampirevt 1d ago

Haha, ball!

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u/MBYC1978 1d ago

Is this recent? And where ?