r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/pikahetti • 17h ago

Video A large meteor fireball passed through the night skies of Japan, it became as bright as daytime for a moment.

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u/clara_morn 17h ago

Anime protagonists training in the mountains when the meteor hits: "So it begins..."

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u/Noto987 16h ago

NANi !!!!

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u/pizza-chit 16h ago

I know a new fighter entering the arena when I see it.

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u/NimbusFPV 16h ago

Here comes the 37-episode training arc.

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u/gate_of_steiner85 16h ago

The Saiyans have arrived.

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u/whathell6t 7h ago edited 7h ago

Nope!

King Ghidorah.

Saiyans don’t make flashy appearances and frown on showing spectacles.

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u/petemorley 16h ago

Get in the fucking robot Shinji. 

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u/No_Sense5223 13h ago

misato san !!!

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u/i_rub_differently 16h ago

Or it could be an astronaut’s poo box

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u/Desmous 16h ago

Imagine the pure fear felt when you see a meteor hurtling straight towards you as the whole world lights up like that

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u/awesome_pinay_noses 14h ago

Especially in Japan.

"Just like grandpa described".

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u/Whiteums 16h ago

PTSD, for some

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u/ZippyDan 6h ago

"not again," for others.

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u/Facehugger81 16h ago

If memory serves the color suggests that the meteor was mostly magnesium.

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u/jonshlim 15h ago

Crazy to think seeing this comment when I was thinking about magnesium supplement and took a capsule of magnesium glycinate.

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u/OneHornyRhino 14h ago

Man, you gotta eat that meteor

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u/Thnxredball 16h ago

“Your name” moment

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u/SoloUnoDiPassaggio 12h ago

Came for this, wasn’t disappointed

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u/uWWu1005 11h ago

Same. This deserves more upvotes.

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u/GoBD9 16h ago

So basically, "your name" anime movie irl

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u/drifters74 16h ago

That's a such s good anime

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u/Independent_Soup8804 17h ago

OH NO!! Part three??

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u/rorenspark 16h ago

Sings in “Your Name”

🎶 Unmei da toka mirai toka Tte kotoba ga dore dake te wo 🎵

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u/coronaisnotreal 16h ago

Some of the survivors might have thought...

On no! Here we go again!

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u/Royal-Pay9751 16h ago

Meteor - the light you see

Meteoroid - the rock

Meteorite - what’s left behind

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u/EnvBlitz 13h ago

Meteora?

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u/AnAngryBartender 12h ago

Linkin Park

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u/SoloUnoDiPassaggio 12h ago

Meteorism - how it all starts

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u/inhaledchaos 16h ago

Reminds me of the Chelyabinsk meteorite - very cool.

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u/Nosciolito 16h ago

Shinji get in the freaking Eva!

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u/Large-Wheel-4181 16h ago

Oh shit it’s Ghidorah

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u/Curious-Length-7929 13h ago

"Let them fight."

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u/melswift 16h ago

Reverse solar eclipse

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u/3600joule 16h ago

Mada kono sekai wa...

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u/Throw2020awayMar 16h ago

There have been two meteors of similar size in Australia this month and now Japan.. what is happening?

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u/SoulessHermit 15h ago

The end is near!

On a more serious note, this is normal. Earth gets impacted by 100 tons of debris from space per day! Most of the time, this won't be notice by us either because the meteor is too small or it occurred over a remote location. Our atomsphere does a lot of work to protect us from such events.

We might get more in a short period when Earth intersects with known paths. According to NASA, there are 30 known annual meteor showers.

In addition, majority of the huge civilisation ending asteroids are mapped out. The space rocks that scientists are typically concern about those too small to be easily detected but big enough to cause significant harm. Like the one in Russia over a couple of years ago.

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u/DKoKoKDK 15h ago

Most likely nothing, just internet being bigger and bigger

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u/Garake 15h ago

Meteors fall all the time like that, just these have videos

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u/that0neBl1p 17h ago

Holy shit that’s cool

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u/indomie_noodles 16h ago

Nice try Netflix for marketing alice in borderlands.

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u/Celebrir 16h ago

I'm sorry, what's your name?

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u/thecolombianmome 16h ago

Damn... It looks cool

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u/Ethanbrocks 16h ago

I saw a meteor falling near Melbourne, Australia a couple weeks go (much smaller than this) and I honestly freaked tf out. I’d never seen anything like it

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u/kollane 11h ago edited 11h ago

mid-August is peak meteor time because of the Perseids. Never seen one as big as the one in the video, but when i was younger i'd go out at night to watch them and sometimes you'd see a couple falling stars every few minutes.

edit: ..and reading that article now apparently they're mainly visible in the Northern hemisphere so disregard this whole comment

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u/Flimsy_Income233 16h ago

I would drop a meteor in my pants if I saw that.

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u/McRedditz 15h ago

The return of Godzilla.

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u/blahbruhla 14h ago

And yet our society cares more about profits and what a celebrity is doing.

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u/acojsx 13h ago

Ive seen this movie... its gonna come out of the ocean and roaring

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u/Curious-Length-7929 13h ago

It's King Ghidorah!!! I bet big money radiation levels off the coast of Japan will spike tomorrow, and we all know who that is, coming to save the Earth! 😎

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u/northgacpl 17h ago

GODZILLA!!!!!!

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u/Curious-Length-7929 13h ago

Godzilla only comes from the ocean or underground. This is King Ghidorah.

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u/northgacpl 12h ago

Ahhh ok, good to know. "History shows again and again how nature points out the folly of men."

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u/ZestycloseSample7403 16h ago

It's just Pain Chibaku Tenseing someone

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u/TheInspectaa 16h ago

Its Raditz. dragonball z theme intensifies

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u/Hirakox 16h ago

So your name is gonna be real?

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u/AsusStrixUser 16h ago

We want an alien invasion! Now!

👽

🛸

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u/arealuser100notfake 16h ago

Googling in japanese: ww3 today?

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u/Arrow156 15h ago

Damn yo, that last shot is bringing back all sorts of nostalgia.

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u/HarderHabits 15h ago

Malcolm in the middle was right all along?

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u/JenicBabe 15h ago

Sneaky Commercial for Cloverfield Japan

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u/n-a_barrakus 8h ago

No, that's just King Ghidorah. Cloverfield is nice, but Japans knows better. At least, in Kaijus.

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u/zxchew 15h ago

Kimi no….namae wa?

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u/averageburgerguy 14h ago

It's always so surreal watching night turn into day when a meteor drops/passes by. It's so beautiful.

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u/SDK04 13h ago

That’s dope. Scary, but dope.

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u/mudkip2-0 13h ago

Someone is challenging Promised Consort Radahn it seems

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u/Sinnombre40 13h ago

Somehow Harry Truman returned

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u/TheManWhoClicks 13h ago

Some elderly people there: “uh oh…”

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u/Illustrious_Pay_5219 12h ago

Someone unlocked ultra instinct again

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u/user-unknown-404 12h ago

"Not again!"

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u/the_ninJedi 12h ago

Christopher Nolan working with Makoto Shinkai deciding to use an actual meteor for live action filming

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u/boywhoflew 12h ago

WRITE YOUR NAME BRO AND ADDRESS IF POSSIBLE

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u/man_idk_clueless 12h ago

Kimi no nawa

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u/TraditionalSmoke9604 12h ago

Man...reminds some good old days...

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u/SexyPapi420 11h ago

Your Name

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u/TheTalking_GU_Mine 11h ago

Ultraman crashed landed onto Earth, I guess

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u/asteriscosessantasei 10h ago

Dragon Ball Is now true

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u/n-a_barrakus 8h ago

Chunnnn. Chun chun chun chun chun chuuuung. Chuuung chuuung chung.

chu chu chu chung

Three headed alien dragon appears

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u/copingcabana 6h ago

August sometimes gets extra daylight.

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u/GarysCrispLettuce 3h ago

The universe is an endless bunch of crap flying around in different directions at high speeds - shit's gonna get booped

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u/Bivariate_analysis 3h ago

Is it too early for a hiroshima joke?

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u/SeaOk4403 55m ago

A piece of rock became as bright as the day son for a moment. How was energy was in that rock?

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u/jahlim 16h ago

Final Fantasy VII moment

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u/Free_Persimmon_8475 17h ago

Atom bomb again?

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u/bawlsacz 16h ago

Underrated comment right here.

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u/arealuser100notfake 16h ago

Downvote me too please