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How to ldentify that Light in the Sky (files.mastodon.social)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 10 months ago

This flowchart is missing "Swamp gas from a weather balloon was trapped in a thermal pocket, and refracted light from Venus"

[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago

They forgot "is it followed by a bright flash and mushroom clouds?" → nuke, so grab some whiskey and make your peace because you're probably too close.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Where's ufo? /s

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

What about auroras? Not /s

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Any of the non-terminal nodes

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

most of these are aliens actually

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

What if Alexander Gerst is waving a flashlight at me from his boat in a downward u motion?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Not really big, slowly blinking and regularly burning my retinas

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

What if it's big and moving? And burning my retina too ?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

WOW, you learn something new every day, who thought that this thing that burns your retina or cook english turists in the Beach, is the Sun?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

SNe?