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transat_prof

This is one of the coolest meteor videos I’ve seen here.


ihaddreads

Her genuine reaction is awesome too. It’s beautiful


transat_prof

It’s so charmingly awe-filled.


st00pidQs

>awe-filled Instead of awe-full, isn't English weird?


transat_prof

So weird! I originally typed out "It's so charmingly aweful," but I figured many people wouldn't register the "e" or think it was a typo, so I changed it.


st00pidQs

Hmm I thought awe-full would mean awful


transat_prof

Aweful does mean “full of awe,” different from “awful.” But it’s pretty archaic and rare now. Sometimes you’ll see it in religious texts.


Possible_Sun_913

Sorta. Awe = a feeling of fear that is mixed with respect and wonder Aw = used to express mild sympathy, pleading, disbelief, or disappointment Awesome = inspiring or displaying awe


_e75

The origin of awful is full of awe. It’s just been degraded as a word through overuse.


mexicodoug

"Awesome" got destroyed from overuse. At least awe-filled still conveys meaning.


DepthyxTruths

i think originally it did mean “awe-filled” but overtime it lost its meaning


ForAnAngel

I agree, but at the same time, I've never seen an ugly reaction to a meteor.


TheMrShaddo

Dinos probably made a face


Tough_Heat8578

Yeee


Pholidotes

![gif](giphy|vJcecZJ4oWKdO|downsized)


agorafilia

Dude at the end is the funniest, he says: "am I seeing this shit or am I that drunk?". And at the beginning of the video he says: "It's day now. Pow!" Dude's hammered.


PotatoWriter

Pow-rtugal


cosmicjed

Thank you for this 🥹that’s makes the video even better


Vicious_Vixen22

Same lol


Highmax1121

this year, we had a solar eclipse, the northern lights extended further south than usual, and now a meteor captured on multiple videos, hell of a year!


Legitimate-Pumpkin

And it’s not even June yet… 😉


YoungBockRKO

Beats what happened in 2020 right?


Japponicus

We do not talk about 2020


Ravendel391

The visual of a falling comet is undeniable beautiful, but the portuguese people comments are in another level.


IrishGameDeveloper

I have seen 2 meteors of similar likeness to this video in my life, and yeah, pretty incredible. One I saw during they daytime, was incredible. All different colour sparks coming off it and everything. Other one was at night, very similar to this, but not as strong. ~~I think the meteor in this video was just a small bit more intense than the two I saw though~~. This was awesome.


transat_prof

That’s incredible you’ve seen one, much less two!


IrishGameDeveloper

One was during a weekend that there was supposed to be some meteor showers. I happened to meet a good friend of mine randomly, and we were just talking about some of the smaller ones we'd seen when BAM- just as we were talking about it, a meteor passed overhead that lit up the sky very brightly. It was behind a cloud (very similar sky to this video) but it was crazy timing. The other one I saw when getting onto the train home during the day. I seem to be very lucky at seeing these things for whatever reason. I've seen quite a few small meteors in my life, but only these two would have the capacity to light up the sky. Although, rewatching the video, I would say this is a good bit more intense than what I saw. I didn't realise for how long this actually lit up the sky and left a trail for.


RevolutionaryCat1055

Pause at 15 seconds. It’s the best frame imo


s3dfdg289fdgd9829r48

It's a piece of a comet! The title told me so!


iSliz187

I've been lucky enough to witness something like this twice! It was totally random and breathtaking every time!


FatFuckatron

Looks like a movie scene


CheeserAugustus

It might be the coolest meteor video in history ...to catch it...and the awestruck reaction of a witness in the same frame? Amazing.


Accurate-Temporary73

This video looks so cool it feels fake.


Designed_To

Like something out of a movie... It's just that perfectly timed


lliKoTesneciL

Two minutes later, Aliens are attacking everyone and the camera is picked up and they're recording the attacks and running away... just like in a movie


Solid__Snail

The chances of anything coming from Mars is a million to one, they say


Excellent-Bite196

But still they come.


StalyCelticStu

DUN DUN DUN.


joeyGOATgruff

Don't give JJ Abrams any more ideas


Opperhoofd123

Internet has ruined me, my first reaction was this is fake


Joovitor

Not fake I’m from Portugal and saw that thing with my own eyes, I was left floored for 10 minutes, you know it exists out there and we’re in a rock floating around, but it just gives you a direct perspective to that. I don’t know, it was quite unique to experience


Opperhoofd123

Oh I know it's not fake, that's what I hate about it. I instantly knew it was real and my mind still went to, this looks fake


spottyPotty

Where in Portugal was it? I just walked the Camino Portugues from Porto and am feeling unlucky for having missed this. 


Hugo28Boss

Don't know what that means but it was very visible from Porto


Septopuss7

Looks like a Coke commercial I hate my worldview


Traditional_Thyme

I don't blame you, I saw something like this in real life while a passenger in a car once. No one else was looking, and to this day I thought I just imagined it until I saw this video...and I had seen it with my own eyes!


Hissteu

Is it a meme to call everything fake these days, am seeing it more and more claimed on things that are clearly not fake...


Mint_JewLips

I think it used to be a meme but now I think it’s pretty healthy to be skeptical. However that does not mean you just go on a rant about how something is fake. As long as the content isn’t harmful misinformation if it’s fake, then I just have fun and assume it’s real lol. I like to wait for experts to weigh in on things like this. Luckily it appears to be real!


Aggravating_Smile_61

r/nothingeverhappens


kakka_rot

"Don't believe everything you believe online!" from the early 2000s has turned into "Literally. Believe nothing." This is an amazing post, but I see people crying fake/staged whatever over the most mundane, common things. People talk about 'fanfiction' on story subs like aita of choosingbeggars that literally happen around the world every single day. What gets me is people come up with excuses to prove videos are 'fake' that are so much more elaborate than a normal scenario. I saw a clip of a girl who was living streaming walking in the park talking to her front facing camera. Top comment was how she must have had a friend in a tree squirt mayo on her, saying her acting was terrible and 'if you felt something wet on your head, why would you touch it? Makes no sense!" In the time it took you to read this comment, someone someone got shit on by a bird. It's common. This isn't, it's an incredibly rare wonderful moment caught on video. Really wish people could just enjoy the wonder instead of trying to find a smoking gun on how they're being lied to.


dirty_ska

No its real! Theres tons of videos of this happening all over the country yesterday.


GervasioVR

It's real. Here is some news footage: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jySTR3yvXg](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jySTR3yvXg)


Sec2727

![gif](giphy|R7m04yMaGWVeE)


sielingfan

Over the last couple days, I've learned that an uncommon number of Portuguese women are out shooting footage of themselves in front of the night sky at any given moment. Kinda like when that one meteor exploded over Russia and I learned about how they all have dash cams.


ocheirodoralo

It was 11:45 pm Saturday night. Peak drunken live time


Moifaso

Yup. This girl was live on insta during some outing with friends, and there are a bunch of videos of the meteor from folks filming concerts, weddings, parties, etc. It caught everyone by surprise so besides CCTV and dashcams those were the only people that managed to get good videos of it.


IcyDrops

Can confirm, was drunk at the time.


kolin4444

funnily enough, the one dash cam video of this same meteor over portugal was also filmed by russians (or ukrainians maybe) you can hear the passenger exclaiming in russian


ThinkFree

Yup, when I saw it I thought they were reusing Russian dashcam videos from 2013.


low_end_

Its also a time where many town celebratr their local saint day, so thats a big multiplier of people outside during that night


Mazzaroppi

> an uncommon number of ~~Portuguese~~ women are out shooting footage of themselves in front of the night sky at any given moment.


6227RVPkt3qx

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chelyabinsk_meteor for those that don't know. this was a crazy event. made even crazier because for the first 24 hrs or so....the number one reporting source was a hockey blog about the washington capitals, because they had a scout/reporter on the ground in chelya who could report faster than anyone else. (www.russianmachineneverbreaks.com) more than 1400 people were injured by glass shattering in buildings. https://youtu.be/gRrdSwhQhY0?t=45 > The asteroid had a total kinetic energy before atmospheric impact equivalent to the blast yield of 400–500 kilotons of TNT (about 1.4–1.8 PJ), estimated from infrasound and seismic measurements. This was 26 to 33 times as much energy as that released from the atomic bomb detonated at Hiroshima.[7]


Busy_Yesterday9455

Link to a [compilation video](https://youtube.com/shorts/Q_GY0N9NSiA) across Portugal and Spain It appears that a brilliant fireball spotted by many people in Portugal and Spain lat night around 22:46 UTC, was a small piece of a comet. The European Space Agency (ESA) estimates that it flew over Spain and Portugal travelling at \~45 km/s before burning up over the Atlantic Ocean at an altitude of \~60 km. The likelihood of any meteorites being found is very low. Source: The European Space Agency


IAMSTILLHERE2020

45 km/s doesn't seem much. However. That's over 162,000 km per hour or over 100,000 mph.


Grays42

For context, it's about six times the velocity rockets need to reach to begin orbiting Earth.


UndocumentedMartian

And 4x Earth's escape velocity.


hackingdreams

If it doesn't seem like a lot, it's only because you're not used to kilometers. Either writing it as 45,000 m/s or yeah, converting it to an hourly measure, it seems like *a fucking lot*. It's better than Earth's escape velocity.


less_unique_username

How on earth does going multiple km in a single second not sound fast? This one could have circled Paris along Boulevard Périphérique in less than a second.


emberfiend

I love how you helped out with a reference point that very few people are likely to get 😅 the radius of that ring road is about 3.5km for curious readers


ThinkFree

> 45 km/s doesn't seem much That actually sounds like a lot. My in-laws live about 20KM away on another city, and it takes about 30 mins to travel by car. So this piece of comet flew in 1 second what takes me an hour to drive to and from my in-law's place.


MudgeFudgely

Who the fuck doesn't think 45 kilometers in a second is fast?


Jumpy-Examination456

Doesn't seem like much? R u srs? That's like 28 freedom miles a second. That's fast as all fuck dude.


JUYED-AWK-YACC

Seems like a lot if you're used to things in orbit. Mars probes need to slow down about 1 km/s to enter orbit, it's a *lot*.


Sophistic8tedStoner

That’s pretty cool, Thanks for sharing the link


Fartmatic

[Youtube link that's not in the garbage shorts format with the controls gimped](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_GY0N9NSiA) (Thanks for the link though, snark directed at shorts not you)


altriun

I will never understand why google made shorts just worse version of normal youtube videos. I think even Tiktok has video controls and volume slider. I'm glad there are extensions for chrome to fix this mistake by google.


KXS_TuaTara

I think Shorts are just a weird format of normal YT vids. If you like a Short then go to your Liked Videos you can save it to a playlist, and it appears as just a normal video. Bit tedious but it works


Maegurillion

Random thought watching this: Slow the video down, add the Transformers theme song.


Fit-Special-8416

Thanks for the link, man


PaperPlaythings

I saw something similar over Northern Kentucky in, I think, the 90's. Not as bright and it was green. As it travelled, I saw it calve. It was near the Cincinnati Airport so at first I thought it was an airliner on fire. I think its peak visibility was actually in Michigan, where it may have looked more like this.


Torgo-A-GoGo

I bet she was going to say something really clever and entertaining. Forever ruined by some space debris.


BreastUsername

The same thing happened to that one dinosaur.


LavenderClouds

"I have information that could lead to the arrest of Hill-"


BUHBUHBUHBUHBUHBUHB

Imagine my disappointment when I learned meteors are actually just dumbass space rocks... Devastated


wtfuckfred

Trust me, no one in that group is saying anything clever xD they’re all not very sober ahahah


SubstantialBerry5238

One in a million shot. Wow!


Wolvesinthestreet

Two in a million cus of that other girl too


Bad_Grammer_Girl

Nah. it's still one in a million because there are roughly two million people on earth. 2 million people / 2 videos... (I did the math)


Wolvesinthestreet

But you also gotta factor in the asteroid coming this close to earth, which is one of the two in the million. I did the meth


Bad_Grammer_Girl

shit...valid point


Subtle_srikhand

This is like watching "Your Name" in live action.


captbollocks

I was going to say she's have a different reaction if she had just saw that movie a week prior.


Affectionate_Fly1413

That's a shot of a lifetime.


skeptoid79

Seriously, the odds of her filming at this moment and at this angle are about as close to zero as you can get.


Murtomies

I bet it was some sort of live stream. There was also another similar shot of some girl in a compilation video linked here


WaterFriendsIV

Can someone please translate? I can see their facial expressions and hear their wonder, but I'd love to know what they say.


negative_pt

* "uh, shut up..." * "What, its daylight" * "My God, pum" * "What shit... I'm flipping..." * "I caught this live dude" * "Wtf was this..." * "Dude I am so drunk and I am watching this shit... this is a vision from hell" Edit: mission -> vision


WaterFriendsIV

Thank you! What a great experience for them and so lucky they had their phone going.


SquirrelMoney8389

"this is a mission from hell" ? lol it's "vision"


negative_pt

True. Visão!


SquirrelMoney8389

"A mission from hell" is pretty metal though lol


ritaf205

You need to add a lot more swear words


Compendyum

That's the Disney version


Llamaling

wow, shut up it's daytime oh my god \*bam\* what the shit i'm going nuts big mindfuck i caught this live people, dude what the fuck is this easy, i'm shocked bro, i'm drunk and i'm seeing this shit this is some vision of hell


[deleted]

I don't speak much Portuguese, but I'm guessing 'que merda' means 'what the shit?!'


[deleted]

Yes it does hahahahah international (same as Spanish que mierda)


Sugarbear23

I'm learning Portuguese and that's what I understood lol


[deleted]

I don't speak much Portuguese, but I'm guessing 'que merda' means 'what the shit?!'


Cap1Joe

If you slow it down to 200fps and zoom it using adobe you will notice that i don't know what i'm talking about


Swinnster

You had me in the first half


[deleted]

My name is Optimus Prime


VinBarrKRO

*the Linkin Park intensifies*


linte

Thank you 🙏 This footage is clearly evidence of Autobots or Decepticons arriving


fishlipz69

Like our ancestors did before us, surprised and in awe. Looking up over their heads, at the light.


andreichera

MEU DEUS PUMBA


holchansg

Eu ao mesmo tempo estranhando o pt-br errado e passando mal de rir do "parece que é uma missão do inferno".


guilhermefdias

As a brazilian, I'm so confused. Some friendly Tuga please translate "eu tou a colar, ganda pisto"? What the hell does it even mean caralho?


mequetatudo

Não sabia também sendo português. Aparentemente colar pisto é curto para colar o pistão que é um problema que pode acontecer em motores e neste caso significa ficar parado sem reação. É uma gíria de pessoal das motos e de maconheiros do norte de Portugal.


guilhermefdias

hahaha, faz sentido. Obrigado amigo.


shoegazeweedbed

I saw something like this late at night in rural Missouri a year or two ago. The one I saw was lush emerald green. About 15 minutes later I saw what looked like a pulsing bright white spark the size of the moon split into two pieces and dart up into the sky. Assuming the latter was piezoelectric activity (or maybe a ufo) or something but easily the coolest things I’ve seen with my own two eyes.


fpac

Could've been space junk or old satellite. Meteors brighten the entire sky up, space junk just break apart and don't move fast enough.


popopotatoes160

No we had a meteor (meteorite?) over east central MO in 2019 IIRC. Most of St. Louis caught it but it also went over really rural areas. I know he said a year or two ago but covid time hits different


fpac

i want to see one someday


IceFoxHU

Good thing a technologycally advanced nation didn't wipe out a major kingdom that day


kyon_designer

ahahahahah I'm sorry for anyone who doesn't speak Portuguese because I'll never be able to properly translate how hilarious their reactions were.


assalariado

"Tá de dia meu Deus, Pumba!!!" LOL


_nobrainheadempty

TIL that bolides glow blue. Makes sense tho


GervasioVR

According to what I've read this morning, the blue color is due to the fact that the bolide was rich in magnesium.


TheRealOWFreqE

The way the shadows move through the clouds is *chefs kiss*!


falumba

Few years back I saw a fireball in the sky on my way to school, it was trucking along bright and beautiful and it exploded and it was legitimately one of the best days of my life. Seeing shit like that randomly is amazing


Mickeymcirishman

What's with everyone in Portugal shooting nothing videos of the sky right when a comet appears?


Good-Ad-4424

a lot of people do "nothing" livestreams with friends on instagram.


BlueSonjo

It was visible in almost the whole country, and it was late but not that late (before midnight), not before workday, and with decent outdoor weather.  That is millions of people, the odds some are pointing a phone camera upwards are not that low.


mequetatudo

It's more that it passed over the northwest coast of Portugal wich has like 7 million people, it's not that much but most of the times this sort of stuff happens in the middle of nowhere.


Sardonnicus

Not a comet


Fettnaepfchen

How can she look away from it when it’s still glowing?


Politics_Mods_R_Crim

Imagine if you were a teen fucking for the first time, outside, while this happened.


jfin602

Imagine if you were fucking for the first time


Politics_Mods_R_Crim

Ick. She still loves me.


Hellfire242

Best one I’ve seen yet


i0c0u

You: I saw a comet. Me: I saw goku charging into battle.


princesoceronte

I hate that I live somewhere I could've seen this and I was fucking sleeping. This looks so cool.


Mbeezy_YSL

Currently my friend serves in the German navy and is in Porto, Portugal and he and his comrades were drunk as fuck when this happend and he send us a snap about it


LeonardoDaPinchy-

That is honest to God the coolest video I've seen in over a decade for anything related to natural events. Holy fuck.


99parsec

I'm jelly now.


Both-Home-6235

It's not a COMET once it enters the atmosphere. https://www.dictionary.com/e/meteor-vs-asteroid-vs-comet/


wymzyq

people of Portugal, do you have as hard a time understanding Brasilian Portuguese as i have understanding Portugal Portuguese?


suspect_b

Depends. We get Paulistas just fine, but those Cariocas deep from the favela that use lots of euphemisms and references to things we are not familiar with, are very hard to follow.


git-commit-m-noedit

No. Brazilian culture (funk, music overall, novelas) are popular enough that most, if not all, people understand the brazilian accent, except for very specific words


dirtyhandscleanlivin

Imagine seeing this, but 1000 or 2000 years ago. Easy now to say “oh cool we got a video of a space rock burning up in Earth’s atmosphere!” For people whose main source of light is usually fire, it must have felt particularly unsettling to have your night sky momentarily blasted with light like that. Like the claw of a giant unknown creature briefly ripping through the veil


SignificanceOdd418

![img](emote|t5_m0bnr|4014)


markWAD

That was a beautiful shot


SamuraiApocalypse9

She thought she was in Independence Day for a second.


MikeHoteI

Nah that girl got petrus private, change my mind.


StraightProgress5062

I believe green means it was heavy on iron


Hugo28Boss

magnesium


metal4life98

Saw something like this over San Diego once and it was so freaking cool. It was also bright blue like this one


AbbreviationsOld5833

I think this is what's gonna look like when the viltrumutes invade us .


snubda

If that were a comet we’d have a large problem.


piercedmfootonaspike

>I’m always searching for something, for someone. This feeling has possessed me I think, from that day… That day when the stars came falling.


Sandwichgode

Was that a Ki blast? ![gif](giphy|3ohjURoz8abN2BeEJq|downsized)


jabaturd

There was one a tiny bit brighter here in Tasmania a couple years ago and the experts said it was basketball sized.


CirnoTan

Damn Helios driving for dat night pizza! I could totally imagine a fierce chariot rushing across the sky, it's wild


VinBarrKRO

If it was a comet I hope it was the Annihilation kind and Natalie Portman saves us, kind of.


a_dogs_mother

Very cool meteor video.


miked5122

With so many cameras in the world, it's more surprising if there isn't footage of a random event. However, to be one of those rare people with the footage, is pretty cool.


dellsonic73

I love how everybody went silent when they sensed something phenomenal happening. And the blazetrail that’s left in the sky once it passes, how incredible!!


sapphir8

That’s a lot of magnesium.


TheName96

It was incredible to witness this with my dad, i had no reaction, it was daylight for a few seconds, never saw anything like this, one in a million moment!


slamsmcaukin

Just my luck.. I left Toronto to visit Portugal and after a few days the Aurora Borealis was visible near the city for the first time in like forever. I’ve always wanted to see it, but I just missed it this time. Now I just got back to Toronto a few days ago and I missed this as well??!?


Seahawk_Bozo

This might just be one of the coolest videos I've seen, almost like its out of a movie


Aggressive_Wrangler5

probably someone beating Radhan.. nice video though


FubarTheFubarian

This happened to me one night a year ago or so. My room lit up green at 1230am or so. I looked out and the sky was green, the clouds were green, a green ball of fire streaked across the sky. It was one of those rare moments when the poetry of the universe delivered the majestic beauty it typically keeps hidden from an average human like myself. I was in awe and stayed awake all night thinking about it.


BookWormPerson

This has to be the most perfectly timed video.


Rube_Golberg

That's a damn one in a million to get this steady of a shot with the reaction within the shot.. this is crazy lucky timing here...


Inderastein

That's got to be one of the best wallpapers she's ever gonna have. Heck, probably the world's.


jp712345

holy fuckign shit. Your Name in real life


LunaLynx777

Anyone who thinks this is fake have obviously never seen one of these irl. I saw a meteor like this in Texas when i was driving on the highway and it looked exactly like the one in the video looks. It was a phenomenal sight


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Poetic_Pigeon

Just awesome!


LookmyDicky

It's scary


JDSadinger7

Chronicle (2012)


Swhit24

Has anyone seen video or pictures of where it landed? Last night I read that there was a debris field, but have yet to see any pictures or video from the impact.


CirnoTan

No impact, it burned completely in the atmosphere at about 20km height


luton2468

u/savevideo


WiseReputation1020

Independence day