r/BeAmazed • u/freudian_nipps • Aug 11 '26
Nature A natural phenomenon known as a "light pillar" on a ski slope in Austria
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u/wild-stallions85 Aug 11 '26
I would have taken my chances and jumped through it 😆
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u/wild-stallions85 Aug 11 '26
I would bring culture. 😆
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u/mongolian__beef Aug 11 '26
Bruh they have cat people, not sure Gangnam Style will compete 😂
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u/deathonater Aug 11 '26
You're absolutely right, maybe the Macarena, perhaps?
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u/AllUltima Aug 11 '26
Legwork is less strenuous in the Macarena, which is helpful if you happened to have taken an arrow to the knee
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u/greybush75 Aug 12 '26
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u/Finger_garland Aug 12 '26
sigh
Pre AI, pre-TikTok-domination reshaping everything into pure algorithmic feeds of short form content... Skyrim shuffle was one of the last products of a still-not-completely-shit Internet
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u/BiblesandBiscuits Aug 12 '26
My discord group still quotes those Skyrim Poops atleast once or twice a month. Legendary videos
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u/ionlyhavetwolegs Aug 11 '26
Hey you…
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u/False-Entertainment3 Aug 12 '26
You’re finally awake.
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u/I_Call_Everyone_Pat Aug 12 '26
You were trying to cross the border, right?
Walked into that imperial ambush, same as us. And that thief over there...
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u/HPTM2008 Aug 12 '26
Honestly... sounds great.
Although, having done that already, it's jarring as shit! I, uh, fell asleep playing VR too late and woke up still in the game at my campsite. I've also just fallen asleep next to fire while camping in real life, so I should've kniw not to get too comfy. And it was like, 6 hours after a 12.5 hour night shift so I was pretty tired already.
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u/marvinrabbit Aug 11 '26
You can't, really. It exists at a certain angle between the observer and the sun. So it's going to move as you do. It's kinda like finding the end of the rainbow. It just keeps moving as you go toward it.
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u/So_HauserAspen Aug 11 '26
Problem is when you go through it, you end up in a timeline that is exactly identical to the one you left except for a few atoms here or there changing locations.
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u/EducationalNailgun Aug 11 '26
Absolutely. I ran into a big dust devil once. I didn't go anywhere cool, but worth the risk. It picked me up and pretty unceremoniously dumped me a short distance away. I wasn't hurt, but I was covered in dirt. Everywhere. Inside me. All the face holes were full of dust turning to mud. Every crevice was packed. My clothes looked like I packed them full of dirt before I got dressed. Would totally try again.
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u/TacTurtle Aug 11 '26
"Welcome to the World of Light. What tragedies have befallen the World of Darkness?"
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u/Magoo1985 Aug 11 '26
I’m very tired but I read that as “I would have taken off my clothes and jumped through” 😂
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u/TDRichie Aug 11 '26
That’s just where the skiers respawn if they fall off the map
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u/ElegantCoach4066 Aug 11 '26
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u/EarthGoddessDude Aug 11 '26
That gif is perfect
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u/ElegantCoach4066 Aug 11 '26
Isn't it? I found it one day looking for different laughing reaction gifs.
Now I use it all the time.
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u/thesilentmordecai Aug 11 '26
That makes more sense. I was waiting for like a wizard to appear or something.
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u/ShadySorcerer Aug 11 '26
Imagine seeing that like 180 years ago youd freak the fuck out
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u/fejkpotatis Aug 11 '26
Imagine how many humans have seen this over the past 200.000 years?
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u/Sidewalk_Tomato Aug 11 '26
Probably responsible for 34 legends and 6 religions.
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u/ObiePNW Aug 11 '26
The name Jesus Christ is the result of the phrase “Geez that’s bright” breaking down over time. When people saw this light they would go “Geez that’s bright” and over generations the phenomena became the basis of Christianity. Traces of this history can still be found in the phrase “seeing the light” when used in relation to Jesus Christ.
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u/Gogglesed Aug 11 '26
That makes more sense than Christianity.
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u/Da_Question Aug 11 '26
eh not really. Christianity is the result of attaching thousands of years of mythos to a popular guy 50-100 years after he died. "I am the son of god, you are the son of god, we are all the children of god." Became "He's the son of god" etc etc.
Think of how we view people only a few hundred years old where we have much better records of their lives, and still a lot of bullshit is thrown around. A few generations removed from his life, and years of storytelling and we get the bible (part 2).
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u/Apocalypse_Knight Aug 11 '26
Idk didn't it steal a lot from legends before it and pagan holidays?
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u/UnoriginalStanger Aug 11 '26
Problem with the idea of stealing is that they're "stealing" from other religions that too have stolen, for example the noahs arc has been in at least 6 religions before it.
The pagan holidays and stuff is more about how christianity intentionally incorporates/reinterpits local traditions into their own mythos to merge local beliefs with the greater religion.
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u/Loinnird Aug 11 '26
Lmao Noah’s arc being the story of Noah’s ark in anime form.
And really there’s only a few times per year where you had enough surplus food to celebrate a holiday in pre-industrial times, so of course they’re gonna share similar dates.
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u/Apocalypse_Knight Aug 11 '26
It most likely had to do with written records. I doubt most spiritual or pagan worshippers kept written records so it was just more convenient for christianity to co-op them.
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u/Ok-Perspective5844 Aug 11 '26
The ancient Sumerians had a deity/ies with similar traits/details (I think)
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u/Intelligent-Egg213 Aug 11 '26
Can’t wait for AI to get ahold of this.
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u/Sidewalk_Tomato Aug 12 '26
Imagine trying to explain that utterance to someone years ago, especially pre-Terminator.
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u/Krojack76 Aug 12 '26
Some today would still try to claim it's an angel or a sign from a higher power.
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u/NRMusicProject Aug 12 '26
Imagine the people who see it today, reject scientific "conspiracy" explanations?
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u/houstoncouchguy Aug 12 '26
Not going to lie, if I saw this alone on the mountain, I’d probably be willing to entertain some pretty off the wall explanations.
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u/sal_mugga Aug 11 '26
Bro if I saw that outside yesterday I would freak the fuck out , I’d tell my kids turn around. We out of here lol
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u/Ilookouttrainwindow Aug 11 '26
I'll be honest, there's a pretty big chance I would start freaking out if I've seen it. But probably because I would think I'm having a stroke. Not religious freak out
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u/transphotobabe Aug 11 '26
My first thought was how this easily could have been something that inspire the lore of “angels” in ancient days
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u/SCUDDEESCOPE Aug 12 '26
I would have still freaked out before this video because I had no idea about this phenomenon
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u/stevein3d Aug 11 '26
C’mon dude your once-in-a-lifetime chance to ski through a light pillar and you go around?
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u/Octowhussy Aug 11 '26
Or maybe it moves with the beholder, like a rainbow does
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u/baylonedward Aug 12 '26
As the chosen to be the only one that can see it, he should at least tried if it was a Skyrim portal.
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u/Saritiel Aug 11 '26
I've played enough STALKER to know an anomaly when I see one. That thing will probably tear me limb from limb while incinerating my eyes.
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u/JerkBezerberg Aug 11 '26
That's a new religion 200 years ago
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u/adastrajay Aug 11 '26
With the internet that could be a new religion today.
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u/Incidion Aug 11 '26
Hey, you could make a religion out of this!
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u/salazar0106 Aug 11 '26
I love seeing random history of the world references in the wild
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u/Incidion Aug 11 '26
Then you would love /r/unexpectedbillwurtz
Though you've probably seen it already.
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u/mothzilla Aug 11 '26
I don't like you mocking my new religion.
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u/Ok_Boysenberry_6597 Aug 12 '26
Username checks out. You’ve found your god, the light is calling you home.
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u/draeth1013 Aug 11 '26
Yesterday, I saw a video of a lightning storm over an erupting volcano. Lightning appeared (from that angle at least) to be striking the gout of lava. It made me think the same thing.
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u/LordDagron Aug 11 '26
Can anyone explain what actually causes this?
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u/Jupitersd2017 Aug 11 '26
Here I had to look it up - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_pillar?wprov=sfti1
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u/Ha1lStorm Aug 11 '26
Dang it says they can be caused by light from erupting volcanoes. That would be one hell of a thing to see!
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u/mudslags Aug 11 '26
Pompei checking in
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u/wasabimatrix22 Aug 12 '26
For the lazy: "The crystals responsible for light pillars usually consist of flat, hexagonal plates, which tend to orient themselves more or less horizontally as they fall through the air. Each flake acts as a mirror which reflects light sources that are appropriately positioned below it, and the presence of flakes at a spread of altitudes causes the reflection to be elongated vertically into a column. The larger and more numerous the crystals, the more pronounced this effect becomes."
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u/SagattariusAStar Aug 11 '26
It should be vertikal above the light source though
https://atoptics.co.uk/img/blog/light-pillars-2.png
I couldn't find any image resembling the video on google when looking for this term.
Though light can be weird I assume
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u/flappity Aug 11 '26
Yeah, I don't think this would be called a sun pillar. Maybe a "Subsun"? There might be a more precise term for them but the terminology with atmospheric ice crystal optics goes extremely deep.
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u/oliviercoma Aug 11 '26
It’s actually a subsun, not a light pillar
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u/TheSonOfDisaster Aug 12 '26 edited Aug 12 '26
That's way cooler than anyhow.
I was about to say what a waste of an amazing phenomenon to call it something so simple and bland.
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u/bozog Aug 11 '26
Ice crystals yadda yadda magnetic field blah blah oblique sun rays wah wah relative perspective...or something
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u/superbhole Aug 11 '26
My hypothesis is that there's a big area of snow that is perfectly curved in such a way that it reflects sunlight into a focus, illuminating all the teeny tiny ice and water droplets suspended in the air showing where the focus is happening
Kinda like if you point a flashlight through a magnifying glass in a thick fog... Except more like pointing it at a concave metal dish on the ground and it makes a focal point above it
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u/djnotskrillex Aug 11 '26
Not sure myself but if you've ever messed with a magnifying glass trying to burn things, you'll see a similar shape with the light. Maybe some kind of atmospheric phenomenon focus the light in a similar way and it reflects off the crystals in the air?
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u/Shaltibarshtis Aug 11 '26 edited Aug 11 '26
*Sigh* So many confidently incorrect comments. It is not a light pillar, nor a sub-sun (although technically it is part of it), it's a lower tangent arc when the Sun's elevation is about 20°.
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u/Gloomy_Industry8841 Aug 11 '26
I’m obsessed with light phenomena!!!!
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u/ResidentTick Aug 11 '26
That’s pretty cool! I would have stood in it to see if I go to another dimension
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u/semmu Aug 11 '26
i dont think you can reach it, just like how rainbows works, its all a matter of perspective, and if you move they move as well (and then fade away i guess)
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u/HeartOn_SoulAceUp Aug 11 '26
The ghost of a famous Austrian downhill champ. There are many to choose from. RIP.
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u/SomwhereInTheMiddle Aug 11 '26
Imagine 3200 years BC and seeing that… no wonder people thought there were gods.
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u/Sidewalk_Tomato Aug 11 '26
People are still saving slices of bread and individual Doritos that look like Jesus.
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u/jstrongiii Aug 11 '26
30 mins and no sex jokes yet? C’mon Reddit, those are rookie numbers!
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u/ladyeira Aug 11 '26
Good music choice for once! If there was a real Mushi, I could imagine it would look like this.
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u/backleftwindowseat Aug 11 '26
Yes! Before I even unmuted it, I thought "this feels like something from Mushi-shi"
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u/Themarvcraft Aug 11 '26 edited Aug 12 '26
The title of the post is not correct. This a different type of halo that is even more rare: a so called lower contact arc. One can tell by the general appearance of the halo. A light pillar halo would need ice crystals in the shape of hexagonal plates with the base face facing up/down so it would be a very straight non-rounded beam connecting to the sun. However, this halo is caused due to hexagonal column crystals whose base face is pointing into a sideward direction. For more insights check this amazing (german) website: https://www.meteoros.de/themen/halos/haloarten/ee06
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u/plan_with_stan Aug 11 '26
Honestly, the things you could see but not record and just show to your pals on Reddit 5000 years ago… I’m not surprised religions sprouted and proclaimed there to be a god.
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u/Longjumping-Brick487 Aug 11 '26
I’m reading The Moon Pool by A. Merritt and this is exactly how I envision certain scenes.
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u/UseDue6373 Aug 11 '26
Cute music OP 🤦♂️
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u/LivreOrange Aug 11 '26
mushishi ost
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u/Professional-Box4153 Aug 11 '26
Scrolled entirely too far down to find this. Recognized it immediately. Excellent choice. I was actually surprised no one made a "It's a Mushi" comment.
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u/AbiQuinn Aug 12 '26
I shoulda scrolled first lmao... I literally just saw this and commented the music gave me mushishi vibes... welp it is mushishi music lmao.
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u/Waste_Airline7830 Aug 11 '26
I can totally understand old people looking at this sorta shit and be like "omg it's an angel!"
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u/Boom2215 Aug 11 '26
One of the things I love about Canadian winters is how strange light and the atmosphere behave.
Happy to see it's not just a Canadian thing.
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u/Matt-D-Murdock Aug 11 '26
I wonder if any Austrian can chime in, if there were legends around this. I recall reading that Austria had Elf folklore similar to Irish Faeries
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u/AGrandNewAdventure Aug 11 '26
I'd go through it without hesitation in the ignorant hope I'd appear somewhere or somewhen else. I'd roll the dice considering our current timeline.
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u/KZD2dot0 Aug 11 '26
Nothing to see here, folks, just the holy virgin bringing another visit. Just move on.
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u/kikiweaky Aug 11 '26
Looks like the windows in His Dark Materials that Lyra and Will traveled through.
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u/Kl3en Aug 11 '26
Now I see why people believed in fairies and supernatural tales back in the old days
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u/ImpossibleSentence19 Aug 11 '26
Is this repeatable? Like can a scientist recreate this with the same settings?
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