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Feb

16

Sprites: The Motion Picture

This is just cool:

Courtesy of Livescience

What’s even cooler is the Motion Picture!  Here’s the Real Media version.

I did a piece on this phenomena and it’s possible ramifications a while back.  In fact, it was a couple of weeks before that pic was taken.  Pretty cool timing huh?  They still don’t know the power of these things, or whether it could destroy a shuttle or not.  But, as opposed to just a short time ago, they no longer doubt they exist at all.

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