Posted on 10/17/2022 9:46:21 PM PDT by BenLurkin
An astronaut onboard the International Space Station (ISS) has snapped a peculiar image of Earth from space that contains two bizarre blue blobs of light glimmering in our planet's atmosphere. The dazzling pair may look otherworldly. But in reality, they are the result of two unrelated natural phenomena that just happened to occur at the same time.
The first blob of light, which is visible at the bottom of the image, is a massive lightning strike somewhere in the Gulf of Thailand. Lightning strikes are typically hard to see from the ISS, as they're usually covered by clouds. But this particular strike occurred next to a large, circular gap in the top of the clouds, which caused the lightning to illuminate the surrounding walls of the cloudy caldera-like structure, creating a striking luminous ring.
The second blue blob, which can be seen in the top right of the image, is the result of warped light from the moon. The orientation of Earth's natural satellite in relation to the ISS means the light it reflects back from the sun passes straight through the planet's atmosphere, which transforms it into a bright blue blob with a fuzzy halo. This effect is caused by some of the moonlight scattering off tiny particles in Earth's atmosphere, according to Earth Observatory.
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I'm going to go out on a limb here and venture a guess. From all the provided evidence, I'd say what the astronaut saw were blue blobs.
Are you sure they were blue?
Ordinary blue blobs or bizarre blue blobs?
Mellow.
Sure seems to be a lot of blobs these days
Blobs in space.
Blobs on the beach
Blobs running for governor in Georgia
A special blue light. Not a blue light special (for those of us who remember K Mart.)
gangs of ozone, just hanging out waiting for human parasites to die.
Yo, listen up here’s a story
About a little guy
That lives in a blue world
And all day and all night
And everything he sees is just blue
Like him inside and outside
Blue his house
With a blue little window
And a blue corvette
And everything is blue for him
And himself and everybody around
Cause he ain’t got nobody to listen to
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DBA5Wx9T7U
“I have a girlfriend, and she is so Blue”. 🥶👍
That is one of the Blue Blob aliens. Friendly for the most part. If they start to turn purple and red then get away fast!
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Optical illusion.
Very large target designators?
Good one.
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