this is not #AI

this is not a scene from a movie

this is simply a one in a billion video shot at the right time at the right angle by a teenager in #portugal a few days ago, may 18/ 19

fucking amazing! positively biblical

#space #meteor

experts say it was a #comet fragment, a few feet wide

https://www.news.com.au/technology/science/space/blue-meteor-falls-through-the-sky-over-spain-and-portugal/news-story/7bd39d794d6a5e79feade5723e4d4787

addendum

since it really is such a perfectly cinematic shot, the movie soundtrack edit is necessary:

@benroyce

I already love the light saber in the foreground.

@benroyce Live-action Kimi No Na Wa just dropped??

credit (thanks to @jsit for linking it):

Portuguese content creator Milena Refacho

https://www.tiktok.com/@notmilarefacho

once-in-a-lifetime Mila!

maravilhoso!

https://ca.news.yahoo.com/girl-awestruck-capturing-brilliant-blue-203014587.html

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@benroyce

Wow. Thank you fellow citizen Ben Royce 🇺🇸 🇺🇦.
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@benroyce Consider the odds.

It sure would be amazing if one solid video of a UAP was shot.

@benroyce That beautiful! I feel like I've seen one like that before.
In college I took an intro to astronomy and found out how frequently we get meteorites and it's way more than u would think!
@benroyce oh man that is amazing!
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@jsit

thank you!

and a massive thank you to Milena Refacho for the once in a lifetime shot

@benroyce I remember *seeing* one that looked almost that good, during the '85 Geminids shower. But already having a camera pointed in exactly the right direction is a far rarer thing.

@mattmcirvin

exactly

1. being there that night
2. being there that hour/ minute
3. seeing a meteor
4. seeing a meteor so big it flashes the sky
5. seeing a meteor of such a large variety it lights up the whole sky
6. having your camera on
8. capturing the meteor in frame
7. having your camera pointed in such a perfect orientation it frames you and the arc in perfect cinematic majestic harmony. you can't get better scene composition in the movies

just absolutely mind blowing odds

@benroyce (From the news articles, it sounds as if that fireball was actually way bigger than the one I saw)

@mattmcirvin

it was indeed a very rare very big one, a few feet wide they say. the color wasn't even the usual green or yellow or red (if you even get color at all), but a brilliant blue

completely lottery winning odds

@benroyce

This is the positive side of lots of people chronicling their lives through a phone cam.
@benroyce This incidentally calls to mind XKCD/1235 about the prevalence of smartphone cameras today: "In the last few years, with very little fanfare, we've conclusively settled the questions of flying saucers, lake monsters, ghosts, and Bigfoot".

@60sRefugee

wait until AI deepfakes get more prevalent

at least we'll get another xkcd comic about that

@benroyce I think I understand what they are saying without knowing any portugese