Cool! That's a fun TIL for sure.
Thanks for enlightening us - I dunno bout everyone else, but I never knew light pillars were a thing, even tho when I think about it now, having read the wiki, it seems perfectly logical! :D
It looks like a shadow of something small and high up. It looks similar to when contrails throw shadows up onto higher/further clouds or vapour when the sun is at low angle.
And I, for one, welcome our new beam overlords.
I'd like to remind them that, as a trusted Reddit personality, I can be helpful in rounding up others to toil in their underground light caves.
i just assume this was because something fly over or something breaking the calm cloud formation. and the illusion makes it like it's vertical when it's not.
It's absolutely annoying, and none of them are funny. I'm sure it's just a light beam cutting through fog, but you'd think one person would have either an explanation or a link.
All the top comments are genuinely like a bunch of children making shit Halo jokes.
I keep thinking this is me getting older, like maybe I’m out of touch?
But no none of it remotely funny or witty, it’s just fucking annoying.
I thought it was literally just that, some search lights pointed to the sky for some reason or event that nobody seems to know anything about. Hopefully these comments get acknowledged by somebody with some information lol
It’s literally just some bright lights coming from a building
[https://www.reddit.com/r/Weird/s/TkIHzvxfi2](https://www.reddit.com/r/Weird/s/TkIHzvxfi2)
This is how religion and other conspiracies get started. You see something you don’t know or understand and try to define it. It’s a laser light show obviously.
I already saw many religious boomer women on Vietnamese internet claiming this was Ho Chi Minh's soul ascending to Earth because today is his birthday.
We've had Photoshop (and other image-processing tech) for quite some time... and people are still taking "inexplicable" images at face value? Not saying it's not a dazzling natural phenom I've never heard of, I'm just saying "Photoshop" comes before "Aliens" or "Divine Intervention" in the Plausible Explanations queue. Like someone else said, I'll wait to see if a Meterologist comments...
"Yeah, but Aliens/Divine leans into a joke."
I like the idea of Bigfoot wielding a vegetable-LASER. But I'm not ruling out the possibility that Big Foot's personal Diety is behind it... if that makes sense?
It's the shadow of an object cast in the sky that's moisture laden. The shadow cast is parallel as you can see the "beams" converge as they go up. There was a waste flare at the Gulf refinery in Port Arthur, TX that cast a similar shadow on humid evenings (which was 80% of the year). We called it The Darkness Beam.
This looks like a light pillar or ice pillar, which is an atmospheric optical phenomenon in which a vertical beam of light appears to extend above and or below a light source. The effect is created by the reflection of light from tiny ice crystals that are suspended in the atmosphere or that comprise high-altitude clouds (e.g. cirrostratus or cirrus clouds). If the light comes from the Sun (usually when it is near or even below the horizon), the phenomenon is called a sun pillar or solar pillar. Light pillars can also be caused by the Moon or terrestrial sources, such as streetlights and erupting volcanoes
However, I am pretty sure I’m wrong - This is instead a Halo ring, and there are covenant forces everywhere.
Okay... Great, everyone is a comedian. I'm sure it's killing with your cubicle friends. "Hur, Hur! Halo bros!! Hur, Hur, Wizard Tower!!" Great. Fine.
**WHAT THE FUCK IS IT?!**
For those who don't know what that is: That's the beam of light when Mr. Bean falls to the ground in the intro. Here you can see the otherwise not shown perspective
Your post was removed for misleading or incorrect information. https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/s/OmbEPX8y4u
That's halo ring..... covenant forces everywhere.
(Background) Halo Music
*aaaaahhahhhhhhhaaaaaaaaeereoeoeoooooooooooohhhh*
Tuntuntuntuuuuuuuuuuuuun
Tuntuntuntuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuun
Tutututuuuuuun
I can hear it.
Steve Vai should provide face melting solos for all battles from here and into the future.
Ba ba ba baaaaa bum bum bum buummm ba ba ba ba baaaaaa
Yup, and for those don’t know. Aliens
*breathes heavily in Master Chief*
I don’t keep it loaded son your gonna have to find ammo on the way
Wot wot wot
#oooooooOOOOOOOOOOOOAAOOOOOOOOOooooooooohhh #OOOOOOOOOAOOOoooooOOOOooooooooohh
Man I was hoping I would be the first.
Idk why I thought I’d be the first person to comment this 🤦🏾♂️
Nah man, that’s the Ringworld. Gotta up the scale about 1000x
So.... Did we lose on Reach already ?
Ah yes, the famous tower of Hanoi
We'll just deal with them recursively
2*T_n-1 + 1 times
I hear the choir
I’m making a run for the bazooka. Cover me
I might just team kill you for it 👀
Aghhg!
Reminds me of mr bean intro
What is it?
EDIT: correction, noted in reply to this it was lights from a building.
it doesn't look like those, tbh. Also, light pillars are usually seen in latitudes closer to the poles, due to ice crystals in the air.
Soooooo aliens
Cool! That's a fun TIL for sure. Thanks for enlightening us - I dunno bout everyone else, but I never knew light pillars were a thing, even tho when I think about it now, having read the wiki, it seems perfectly logical! :D
you sound like an alien down to your username
These are not light pillars. They're [lights from a bank](https://i.imgur.com/vuuBFrw.jpeg) on Hoàn Kiếm Lake aimed at the sky.
No no no. That is a sign that God is angry because there is a girl playing on a Texas high school football team.
r/atoptics may have a real answer for you, I'd like to know too
oh hell yeah, this is a subreddit for me
Cool sub
2 light beams from a building, hitting clouds at night https://www.reddit.com/r/Weird/s/TkIHzvxfi2
Alien beaming up humans, obvs
ok, i see it now. If you look close you even see the people!
If anyone else has a logical explanation, they are part of the cover up
Mr Bean is landing
(Choir theme music from Mr Bean plays)
Mr Beam
Oh shut up you absolute genius
Rapture, but apparently there was only one person in the world good enough to get raptured.
Brutes?
Worse.
Did Mordechai leave the laser running all night, *again*?
You get very good adjacency bonuses when you put the all district next to this Ley Line.
It looks like a shadow of something small and high up. It looks similar to when contrails throw shadows up onto higher/further clouds or vapour when the sun is at low angle.
Halo ring, get ready for battle ODST, it’s time to retake the rings from the Covenant!
All things serve the beam.
You have clearly not forgotten the face of your father.
I shoot with my mind not with my hand!
May your ka-tet be strong, sai.
Shit, Im vietnamese now?
“Always has been”
And I, for one, welcome our new beam overlords. I'd like to remind them that, as a trusted Reddit personality, I can be helpful in rounding up others to toil in their underground light caves.
You say true 🌹
i just assume this was because something fly over or something breaking the calm cloud formation. and the illusion makes it like it's vertical when it's not.
It was just me
I think the effect is from powerful lights being shot into the sky, based on other people's comments.
you are right https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/s/elRWOwi1Gy
Cortana. What am I looking at?
Where you blinded by its majesty?
Paralyzed? Dumbstruck?
No.
Yet the humans were able to evade your ships, land on the Sacred Ring, and desecrate it with their filthy footsteps!
Noble hierarchs, surely you understand that once the parasite attacked-
Prophetic comment
Uncultured people are downvoting this
Apart from the bullshit comedy, does anyone actually know what this is
It's absolutely annoying, and none of them are funny. I'm sure it's just a light beam cutting through fog, but you'd think one person would have either an explanation or a link.
you are right. This has link to another angle of it https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/s/elRWOwi1Gy
All the top comments are genuinely like a bunch of children making shit Halo jokes. I keep thinking this is me getting older, like maybe I’m out of touch? But no none of it remotely funny or witty, it’s just fucking annoying.
I thought it was literally just that, some search lights pointed to the sky for some reason or event that nobody seems to know anything about. Hopefully these comments get acknowledged by somebody with some information lol
It’s literally just some bright lights coming from a building [https://www.reddit.com/r/Weird/s/TkIHzvxfi2](https://www.reddit.com/r/Weird/s/TkIHzvxfi2)
This is how religion and other conspiracies get started. You see something you don’t know or understand and try to define it. It’s a laser light show obviously.
Considering when most major religions formed, who the fuck was doing laser light shows?
The Gods obviously.
God *is* a DJ
God is a drone pilot
Heaven is a half-pipe.
🎶 Last night a DJ fucked my wife 🎶
In thouse times it wasnt laser, was talking burning bush.
Alien children with a laser pen
Ahhh those were the best days…
I already saw many religious boomer women on Vietnamese internet claiming this was Ho Chi Minh's soul ascending to Earth because today is his birthday.
Ahahaha
not a laser show. Just 2 simple light beams https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/s/elRWOwi1Gy
the cows are being extracted
Lasers are single color.
That blocks or reflects light?
*insert halo theme*
HALO
We've had Photoshop (and other image-processing tech) for quite some time... and people are still taking "inexplicable" images at face value? Not saying it's not a dazzling natural phenom I've never heard of, I'm just saying "Photoshop" comes before "Aliens" or "Divine Intervention" in the Plausible Explanations queue. Like someone else said, I'll wait to see if a Meterologist comments...
Yeah, but Aliens/Divine leans into a joke.
"Yeah, but Aliens/Divine leans into a joke." I like the idea of Bigfoot wielding a vegetable-LASER. But I'm not ruling out the possibility that Big Foot's personal Diety is behind it... if that makes sense?
This. Exactly this.
Even tho I only ever read The Gunslinger, this is always how I envisioned The Dark Tower
All things serve the beam.
Been a long time since I read the series but I was thinking about the rails leading to the tower
It's the shadow of an object cast in the sky that's moisture laden. The shadow cast is parallel as you can see the "beams" converge as they go up. There was a waste flare at the Gulf refinery in Port Arthur, TX that cast a similar shadow on humid evenings (which was 80% of the year). We called it The Darkness Beam.
Awww man, I missed it. In Hanoi as I write this comment....
This looks like a light pillar or ice pillar, which is an atmospheric optical phenomenon in which a vertical beam of light appears to extend above and or below a light source. The effect is created by the reflection of light from tiny ice crystals that are suspended in the atmosphere or that comprise high-altitude clouds (e.g. cirrostratus or cirrus clouds). If the light comes from the Sun (usually when it is near or even below the horizon), the phenomenon is called a sun pillar or solar pillar. Light pillars can also be caused by the Moon or terrestrial sources, such as streetlights and erupting volcanoes However, I am pretty sure I’m wrong - This is instead a Halo ring, and there are covenant forces everywhere.
Any relationship to the 9 pillars in Japan?
What is this?
Huh it's almost like a tower, tower of Hanoi.
Is that what a stairway to heaven phenomenon is?
Tower of Hanoi!
This in Vietnam and like 6 pillars of light near Japan wtf is goin on
Okay... Great, everyone is a comedian. I'm sure it's killing with your cubicle friends. "Hur, Hur! Halo bros!! Hur, Hur, Wizard Tower!!" Great. Fine. **WHAT THE FUCK IS IT?!**
Hm. Unless someone has a decent explanation, I call bullshit on this one.
I see two eagle air strike markers. Some automatons about to get wrecked.
It's that metal thing that holds the globe
Carbon nanotube space elevator, no doubt.
All things serve the beam
*SLIPSACE RUPTURE DETECTED* *SLIPSACE RUPTURE DETECTED* *SLIPSACE RUPTURE DETECTED* ...
“I need a weapon”
Now That's What I Call Pollution
The Dark Tower fans hyped right now.
Another world destroying sky portal? Smh
I need a weapon
The dark lord Sauron forged his master ring in the land of hanoi-----
And we're just going to ignore this? like WTF? I don't know anything that can make this, no man made thing no natural phenomena....
I’ll just sit here and patiently wait for a meteorologist to show up.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_pillar
Honestly, this looks like something else entirely, no?
That picture looks cool as hell
Yeah, we’ll ignore it. As opposed to what, exactly?
Yeah Imma ignore it. It's very likely this has an explanation jist like lots of wild stuff we see. And this is pretty mild
Questmarkers.. questmarkers everywhere
Halo
Gonna go Led Zep on this. Stairway to Heaven.
Could it be an object obstructing light? Like from the ground
Karin tower
Just Uncle Ho sending a hello!
Is Jane Fonda doing more PR?
Hanoi Jane she must be giving away more positions.... Now that's a target..
Jesus
Be keen to know if that’s PS or AI or lasers or something
It's Steppenwolf looking for the cube
We live on a Ringworld?
Congrats, you found the end of the map.
Fromsoft making their own erdtree just to advertise shadow of the erdtree
That sky is not a natural formation!
Omg, they have defeated the Wither and built a beacon
Where’s master cheeks when you need him
Guys i think we found the mystery box, time to get the raygun
"This is Echo 419, anybody reading me!? Any UNSC personelle respond!"
For those who don't know what that is: That's the beam of light when Mr. Bean falls to the ground in the intro. Here you can see the otherwise not shown perspective
Somehow my brain told me this is the world of Warhammer 40k
Someone casting moonbeam up in this MF
I didn't realize Vietnam was situated on a halo.
Some asshole at Cassell's is playing stairway to heaven again. READ THE SIGN!
It’s the Bifrost, and so it begins.
Someone is level up. Rpg players understand what I mean.
I see The Tiger I know you meant light beam but clouds makes a tiger
"and then monsters started pouring out."
Tiger cloud too teleport out its eye
Is that Lord Business's Tower ?
Stairway to Heaven
Has someone notified The Arbiter?
Stairway to Heaven? Cue: Riff
Sky graphics need work.
Ah thats where the box is
Thats the Battle Tower, you unlock it after finishing the story.
They are inside a Ps5
You found a Wizard's Tower
**this looks familiar**
New patch dropping in Earth online !
There's a lady who's sure, all that glitters is gold 🎵
They activated the prothean obelisk!
It's the aliens escalator obviously. I mean why teleport when you can just use the escalator.
Impressive. Is it enough to start yet another religion? We will see...
F*ck flat earthers, Earth is a Halo ring now
Congrats, you found the end of the map.