Unsolved Mysteries That Have Confused Scientists For Years

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  @WaltC3 · 1 year ago

  I wanted to interject my own personal experience with ball lightning.  The house I grew up in was a sizable, older home with large windows.   All of the windows were covered in storm glass (helping heating/cooling efficiencies). I was ~18 or so, and home from college on an early afternoon, IIRC. I was sitting in a nice leather armchair watching television, some 12 feet away, dad at work and mother shopping, when I recall a terrific thunderstorm raging around our house--huge cracks of thunder and lightning seemed to be bombarding the house--unusually so, reminiscent of what I might expect in a war zone--very loud. Lots of flashing and crashing thunder--violent.  Suddenly, I saw this ball of lightning wafting through the house a few feet from me in the chair!--It had come through a window on the other side of the house, across that hallway, in through the open door to the den where I was and was moving steadily, slowly, straight across to the window on this side of the house directly opposite the window where I assumed it had entered. It was perfectly silent, a ball shape, white in color, maybe five feet in diameter,  with orange and yellow fluctuating fiery highlights. I remember sitting in the chair as if what I was seeing was surreal. I knew what it was, and I thought about standing up and approaching it (not to touch it, of course) but I found I was rooted to the chair and I simply could not move!  Then I watched as it moved across the room in front of me and straight out through the window in the den I was in.  That was it! It was silent, it burned nothing, no smoke or fire, and traveled steadily and sedately until it simply exited the window and then disappeared. I'm 72 and I've never forgotten that event. Nor had I thought of it in many, many years, until I started watching the Astrum presentation about ball lightning! Yes, indeed, I can testify that phenomenon is perfectly real, and it is, literally, balled lighting!  I thought I'd share the recollection here.

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  @Cosmictraveler25 · 1 year ago

  As someone who struggles with sleep, this video was a gift. I was completely captivated and felt myself drifting off with stars in my mind.

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  @messenger8279 · 1 year ago

  I think sending radio signals to an advanced civilisation is a bit like a cave man hammering on a hollow log and not getting a reply from the moon. I guess we are not yet advanced enough to achieve the contact we desire.

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  @sparkybob1023 · 1 year ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PCURPue7Bc&amp;t=56">0:56</a> it’s a marsupial!

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  @Zthabarber · 6 months ago

  This guy has such a good narration voice. I watch his videos to help me sleep while learning random facts that mean nothing to me realistically but interesting facts nonetheless. Such incredible production quality too

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  @DEATH-THE-GOAT · 2 years ago

  Bill Nelson looks like an alien in a really bad disguise

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  @NotBirds · 2 months ago

  I have a feeling humanity is in for a brutal transformation in the next few years

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  @StevenWeinhofer · 1 year ago

  Beyond, &nbsp;thank you for this enlightenment, I appreciate you. 💯

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  @xkragee8322 · 4 weeks ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PCURPue7Bc&amp;t=1350">22:30</a> is cl297 from Lockheed Martin, the “tictac”

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  @rogerdudra178 · 2 years ago (edited)

  I have had the luxury of laying on my back in a good gerry bag watching the earth turn at night &nbsp;in Glacier Park and in the Bob Marshall Wilderness of this state. &nbsp;It&apos;s a good view.

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  @MakerInMotion · 1 month ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PCURPue7Bc&amp;t=1205">20:05</a> Big OOF. The Nimitz Incident happened off the coast of San Diego, not South Carolina 😮

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  @zephyramethyst9455 · 1 year ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PCURPue7Bc&amp;t=1209">20:09</a> lol ‘southern carolina’

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