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Chapman_Baxter  (OP)

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01/06/2011 01:16 PM
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so have i

i was washing windows on a cloudy day
in 95 i had one float thru my dining room window out the front door. amazing shit.
 Quoting: Phennommennonn

Again, weird shit. I seriously hope I see this kind of thing again, and this time be armed with my mobile phone with which to take a photo.

In regard to some other posters post, I wouldn't think that poking a ball of lightening wouldn't be such a good idea. :D

Last Edited by Chapman_Baxter on 01/06/2011 01:17 PM
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I could really go for a chicken pot pie right now....

wait, what was this about again?
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I could really go for a chicken pot pie right now....

wait, what was this about again?
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I've had this av since I reg'd, I looked for it again,. couldn't find it - perhaps once it's selected, no-one else can use it?
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01/06/2011 01:21 PM
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I've seen ball lightening. Yeah, after I washed my shorts using too much bleach.

Get it? Shorts? Bleach? Ball "lightening"? HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!

rofl
Chapman_Baxter  (OP)

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01/06/2011 01:24 PM
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I've seen ball lightening. Yeah, after I washed my shorts using too much bleach.

Get it? Shorts? Bleach? Ball "lightening"? HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!

rofl
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You're lucky you're toothpaste.
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I have seen "ball lightning" but it was during a huricane. i was looking out my window watching a dead tree (was worried it was gonna blow right into house) wanted a heads up.

then i seen a blue ball of light about twice the size of a basketball. it hovered at the window for a few seconds and just disapeared.

was very strange
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01/06/2011 01:40 PM
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You can make ball lightning in the microwave! Yay science!
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01/06/2011 01:41 PM
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I can create ball lightening in my microwave and it sounds plausible that one could form in your chimney and even move into the room, hover and then disappear. It's natural phenomena, nothing more. If it formed OUTSIDE the house and then entered the chimney then that would be something a little crazier. But based on the story it sounds like it formed inside the chimney and that's totally believable.
Total Protonic Reversal...
Chapman_Baxter  (OP)

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I have seen "ball lightning" but it was during a huricane. i was looking out my window watching a dead tree (was worried it was gonna blow right into house) wanted a heads up.

then i seen a blue ball of light about twice the size of a basketball. it hovered at the window for a few seconds and just disapeared.

was very strange
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1029687

In my case, the weather was basically calm, there were no storms as far as I was aware. It was autumn time and a bit cold but that was it.

Blue ball lightening seems quite common from the responses so far, no-one seen white/yellow? Also, everyone elses experiences seems to tell of much larger objects than that in my own experience.
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Chapman_Baxter  (OP)

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01/06/2011 01:43 PM
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I can create ball lightening in my microwave and it sounds plausible that one could form in your chimney and even move into the room, hover and then disappear. It's natural phenomena, nothing more. If it formed OUTSIDE the house and then entered the chimney then that would be something a little crazier. But based on the story it sounds like it formed inside the chimney and that's totally believable.
 Quoting: GUANO

I have no doubt that it is a natural phenomena, but it certainly gave me the willies (for want of a better term).
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I believe that was a creature made out of plasma. You might want to look up "will-o-wisp" on Wikipedia.
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If you ever get close to another one, poke it with a stick...you can't tell shit about something unless you poke it!
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ROTFL.. Metal conduit will tell you more than a stick.
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[link to en.wikipedia.org]

I think it was just looking for food, they like gasses and strong vapors, even alcohol.
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is on its way out of the door -- and they are REJOICING.


They have timeless wisdom and KNOW Liberalism is a Failure.


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Suddenly lightening can do anything! no matter how crazy!!!

That was an orb, sonny, orbs have energy and do cause a buzzing in your brain

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Even the sprites that live in the ether know that Liberalism
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They have timeless wisdom and KNOW Liberalism is a Failure.

Embrace the Free Market and you shall be rewarded for your hard work.
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? Can you tell us more?
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I have personally witnessed "ball lightening" which entered a squat at which I was living at the time via the chimney. It then hovered in the middle of the room for a good 20-30 seconds, with several witnesses all looking at each other and at the thing, going "WTF?" and such forth, until it exploded/vanished/popped out of existence.

It made no sound upon entry, but there was a faint electrical buzzing sound whilst it hovered.

I still can't explain it, but I will never forget it.

I wonder what wild and interesting explanations you can all come up with?
 Quoting: Chapman_Baxter


pics or it didn't happen...
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I believe it occurs when lightning makes a loop and traps air in a plasma state inside a spherical, barely stable, field of radiation.

At least, that's a vague memory I have from some documentary I saw years ago about this phenomenon.

The radiation is the reason they can pass through glass and walls I believe. They disintegrate, but the energy and radiation pass through the wall, recreating the plasma-ball on the other side. Pretty cool stuff.
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an orb ate my hamster wtf
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They have timeless wisdom and KNOW Liberalism is a Failure.

Embrace the Free Market and you shall be rewarded for your hard work.

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? Can you tell us more?

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 Quoting: FreedomStands
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Liberalism doesn't exist in nature.


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A short video of people's stories of witnessing ball lightning




Ball lightning is an enigma, a paradox in science. No one has shown how naturally occuring plasma balls can maintain themselves for so long. Nikola Tesla created some through his experiments, but science hasn't really explored the electrical side of things. We live on a dynamically electric planet, upper atmospheric lightning and ball lightning aren't given enough attention by science.. we need to think Tesla style!
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Either children of the sun beginning to awake or ketamine. 50/50.
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01/06/2011 01:57 PM
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If you ever get close to another one, poke it with a stick...you can't tell shit about something unless you poke it!


ROTFL.. Metal conduit will tell you more than a stick.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 271412


While standing in a bucket of water...

It should become a reaction to all phenomena, just like when you see a sign that says: WET PAINT, you just have to touch it to see...

So, I say poke everything with a stick...See some goop on the sidewalk? Poke it with a stick...Is Grandpa sleeping or dead? Dunno, let's poke him with a stick...Here's what I'm talking about:


Poor people do poor people things, and rich people do rich people things.

You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity.

What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.

The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.

When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is the beginning of the end of any nation.

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pics or it didn't happen...
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Sorry, unless you would like to invent a time machine and give me unrestricted access, I can't help you.
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Even the sprites that live in the ether know that Liberalism
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They have timeless wisdom and KNOW Liberalism is a Failure.

Embrace the Free Market and you shall be rewarded for your hard work.

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? Can you tell us more?

..


Liberalism doesn't exist in nature.



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TOO TRUE churchlady
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I have seen "ball lightning" but it was during a huricane. i was looking out my window watching a dead tree (was worried it was gonna blow right into house) wanted a heads up.

then i seen a blue ball of light about twice the size of a basketball. it hovered at the window for a few seconds and just disapeared.

was very strange

In my case, the weather was basically calm, there were no storms as far as I was aware. It was autumn time and a bit cold but that was it.

Blue ball lightening seems quite common from the responses so far, no-one seen white/yellow? Also, everyone elses experiences seems to tell of much larger objects than that in my own experience.
 Quoting: Chapman_Baxter



it was a very beautiful bright blue almost white, very bright. scared me a little but was more worried about that tree blowing in my house, my father in law also claimed that he had seen several in his yard, during the same storm, except he said his was moving all over the yard. mine just hovered right at the window like it was watching me lol
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A friend of mine developed a theory that the ancient lighting of the interior of the pyramids, etc., was the "technology" needed to make and sustain "ball lighting."
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A short video of people's stories of witnessing ball lightning

Ball lightning is an enigma, a paradox in science. No one has shown how naturally occuring plasma balls can maintain themselves for so long. Nikola Tesla created some through his experiments, but science hasn't really explored the electrical side of things. We live on a dynamically electric planet, upper atmospheric lightning and ball lightning aren't given enough attention by science.. we need to think Tesla style!
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 499484


I believe they are living creatures, when they disperse their particles they don't appear like a lightning ball anymore but they are still there.
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it was a very beautiful bright blue almost white, very bright. scared me a little but was more worried about that tree blowing in my house, my father in law also claimed that he had seen several in his yard, during the same storm, except he said his was moving all over the yard. mine just hovered right at the window like it was watching me lol
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It probably was watching you, I believe they are living entities made out of plasma, and are well known around the world:

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My mother had the same exact thing happen to her in the 60's at the house I grew up at. Ok, what I'm about to say sounds kinda insane but this is exactly how my mom told it to me when I was a kid AND she did have some proof to show me when even has a kid I had a hard time believing it.

Don't remember the year and unfortunately my mom died in 98 so I cant really ask her. Anyway I know it sometime in the late 60's. All this happened in a town called Pueblo in southern Colorado. She said she was just sitting at home croshaying which she loved to do when when, I cant remember if it was a rain storm or a hail storm hit. Regardless, it was extremely electrical. I remember her saying she was scared because my father was at work at the time and hard rain storms always seemed to spook her. Anyway, at some point she stood up to walk to the bathroom and this "giant fireball" (that's exactly how she described it) broke through the front room window, rolled though the living room of the house made a 180 turn right after knocking her out of the way and as she was falling to the ground she watched it roll out her bedroom window which was the room to the right of the living room. This ball knocked her out I guess and when she called the cops, my dad at work, and who knows who else. Anyway, when everyone got to the house the most interesting part was (besides of course two giant burning holes in our house where windows once were) their was a giant tree in the front of our house that I guess the fireball had rolled strait up when it chose to return to where ever it had came from leaving the tree with this giant gash like split at the bottom. The tree I refer to never actually died and when I was born in 1975 that split was still very much there. I remember my mother and father telling me this story when I was old enough to remember and all my child hood I could go out to my front yard and see this scar on the tree this situation left behind. Now before everyone starts bad mouthing the credibility of my dead mother, let me say that she was a baptist Sunday school teacher and the most honest person I have ever met not to mention every time she told this story to me it would make her blatantly emotionally distressed so I personally believe her. This is also besides the fact that I've never seen a tree look like this ever in my life. It was like someone took a giant scolding hot butter knife from the bottom of the tree and ran it up the base about 6 foot splitting the tree open like a banana. Anyway, there is my story, bash away.





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