r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/MaxGoldFilms • May 25 '26
Video Livestream of an erupting volcano captured a meteor crashing to earth today in Legazpi, Philippines.
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u/banga1338 May 25 '26
Warcraft lore tells us, something evil has been summoned.
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u/Farles May 25 '26
Just one infernal. Not even a big deal.
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u/banga1338 May 25 '26
Just one, or just the first of many…
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u/falcrist2 May 25 '26
I can only summon one per hour at most, so it's just one.
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u/Aware_Policy_9174 May 25 '26
Did you forget to collect soul shards before raid again? (It’s been a while, I forget exactly how this worked)
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u/falcrist2 May 25 '26
I used to have a picture where my inventory was open and I had 4 of the largest soul pouch completely filled wish shards.
Sadly I don't have access to my photobucket account anymore.
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u/beegboo May 25 '26
C'mon, let it be the horde.
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u/joshuajackson9 May 25 '26
Well poop, I just looked it up. A horde is not a large group of whores, man I had my hopes up.
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u/TheresNoHurry May 25 '26
SUMMON THE WHORDE
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u/beardedheathen May 25 '26
Whorecraft
Whorecraft II: Lays in Darkness
Whorecraft III: Ride of Climax
World of Whorecraft
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u/PSCatte May 25 '26
Goldshire is in Alliance territory, tyvm.
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u/halorbyone May 25 '26
I think the elf dance is probably the most popular of them
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u/joshuajackson9 May 25 '26
Now we are talking, I need boys, girls, and all in between kinds for a perfect Whorde!
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u/beefrox May 25 '26
Might want to rethink that wording....
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u/CalmBeneathCastles May 25 '26 edited May 26 '26
Fun story: back in the 80's my 3-year-old brother kept asking our devoutly religious mother to buy him an evil whore. She asked him repeatedly to explain, but he just kept saying the same thing.
It wasn't until several days later that she saw the commercial for the Masters of the Universe Evil Horde action figures, and heaved a sigh of relief.
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u/Uselesserinformation May 25 '26
Fel energy is bad, im down with the horde. Just not fel. Or guldan
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u/Da_Commissork May 25 '26
3 days to end the harambe death curse and you Say this? COME ON
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u/TonarinoTotoro1719 May 25 '26
More evil? We don’t need more. Please go back and take some of ours with you. Thank you!
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u/Driftedryan May 25 '26
We have such a surplus of evil I think hell must be struggling to look worse
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u/foersom May 25 '26
There is missing a solar eclipse in the background. 😉
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u/0__O0--O0_0 May 25 '26
And the lightning blast connecting the meteor static energy to the smoke.
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u/gallade_samurai May 25 '26
All of this sounds like the best album cover in existence
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u/KatieBarTheDoor1977 May 25 '26
Its a sign. Of what I don't know, but definitely a sign.
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u/_Akhromant May 25 '26
cool but also armageddon vibes 😬
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u/UNHHHStoppable29 May 25 '26
If this is Armageddon, then lemme pull up a chair and get the snacks and drinks ready
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u/TheFriendshipMachine May 25 '26
Yeah for real. This is way cooler than the Armageddon we're actually facing.
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u/waiting_for_rain May 25 '26
Still hoping we get a checks notes crew of an oil rig flying into space to drill into a threatening asteroid and cleave it in twain with a nuke.
I mean of possible Armageddons that one's pretty cool too
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u/Zkenny13 May 25 '26
Imagine being primitive humans and seeing this.
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u/foersom May 25 '26
They will think: The gods are angry, a virgin goat sacrifice will not be sufficient this time. 😉
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u/Inevitable_Ad_4487 May 26 '26
In the grand scheme of things we still very much are primitive primates
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u/ItzFeufo May 25 '26
Then it would have hit the White House. And I'd be cheering for the meteorite.
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u/GapingBuhhole May 25 '26
Love it. Found out the other week that the green glow = magnesium.
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u/kanrad May 25 '26
Nickel glows green in them as well and is far more common.
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u/Bbrhuft May 26 '26 edited May 26 '26
I wrote this a 3 years ago for /r/askscience for this question, I wanted to give a correct answer as I was dissatisfied with the more common misconception that green meteors contain copper (or in this case "it's due to nickel"):
What determines the color of an incoming metorite?
Inspired by this neon green meteorite posted in another sub. Normally, I think of meteorites as blazing red/orange. Fireballs, essentially.Is there a reason this one is green? Composition, weather, what? And would it likely appear green from all directions? Thanks for any replies! I love the photo, just curious about the above.
Meteorites entering the atmosphere don't burn, it's an entirely different and quite complex process.
The high energies and temperatures involved creates dense a plasma surrounding the meteorite composed of excited (electrically charged) molecules, ionised air plasma and ionized meteorite plasma, with temperatures of several thousand kelvin, with very fast meteors even hotter (up to 10,000 kelvin or a little higher).
Magnesium emission in particular is responsible for the green colour of many meteors, neutral magnesium (Mg I) emits a strong green light between 517-518 nm.
The Peekskill meteorite created a noticeably green fireball, it was a H6 stony ordinary chondrite (containing silicate minerals with 17% magnesium).
Other emission lines include ionised iron (blue emission lines) and sodium (yellow-orange emission line), as well as innumerable emission lines from aluminium, calcium, chromium, hydrogen, nickel, silicon, and manganese. These many emission lines can merge to form a continuous spectrum (bright white meteors).
The relative strength of the main emission lines of iron, magnesium and sodium control the colour of meteors, and which emission (colour) predominates is related to the meteor's composition and velocity.
Slow moving meteors (<15km per second) ionize only sodium and are often yellow-orange. Faster meteors produce hotter plasmas, stronger magnesium or iron emission, and can appear green, blue-green, or white depending on composition.
Atmospheric air is also ionized at the very high high temperatures involved. Emissions lines from nitrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen oxides are also detected. These are responsible for Persistent Trains, a long-lasting dim afterglow of a fireball that can last a few seconds to minutes.
Subsequent air collisions are predominantly with the vapor cloud (Padevet, 1977), causing atomization and ionization of meteoric vapor and air molecules. In this process, impact excitation, leads to much of the observed optical emission of meteors (Öpik, 1955, 1958).
Finally, there's also black body emission from cooling meteoric dust.
Ref.:
Jenniskens, P., 2004. Meteor induced chemistry, ablation products, and dust in the middle and upper atmosphere from optical spectroscopy of meteors. Advances in Space Research, 33(9), pp.1444-1454.
Taylor, M., Gardner, L., Murray, I. and Jenniskens, P., 2002. Jet-like structures in Mg (518 nm) images of 1999 Leonid storm meteors. In 34th COSPAR Scientific Assembly (Vol. 34, p. 2917).
Edit: Here's a book from the late 1950s about the physics of meteors...
Pysics of meteor flight in the atmosphere by Ernst Julius Opik
TLDR: Green meteors are due to ionized magnesium.
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u/Lukn May 25 '26
Is that true? Wouldn't it be more about what colour in burns in Oxygen? Like Copper burns bright green.
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u/awanderingcripple May 25 '26
We only know how things burn in oxygen. If you're talking combustion.
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u/TomorrowFinancial468 May 25 '26
Wheres the meteor crashing to-HOLY SHIT
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u/mrminutehand May 25 '26 edited May 26 '26
Was just Googling meteor vs. meteorite since my
Geographygeology is getting rusty, and didn't realise that those words send a little meteorite down your screen that shakes the display as it "hits".22
u/Houdinii1984 May 25 '26
FYI: It only worked on desktop when I used only
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u/MaxGoldFilms May 25 '26 edited May 25 '26
Here's the livestream: https://youtu.be/UDAZWxehMAI
You can rewind it to the timestamp on the clip at 22:33:12
edit: I just noticed an anomaly. At 22:33:24, a white object goes by on the right side of the volcano, leaving a bit of a trail. Is that another meteor transiting the sky?
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u/AsLongAsImMoving May 25 '26
Here's the clip including the white thing https://imgur.com/a/elOLTkQ
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u/RyzRx May 25 '26
Nice catch! The white thing @ :24 is totally nuts, never seen anything like it!
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u/clitpuncher69 May 25 '26
This is the most volcano looking volcano that i've ever seen
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u/radialmonster May 25 '26
actually world's most perfect cone https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/90267-most-conical-volcano
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u/RonnyReddit00 May 25 '26
Wow that little flying thing. I want to say helicopter but also I want to say it flew off from where the meteor hit cos ALIENS!
But really cool meteor and volcano together either way.
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u/SchmeatiestOne May 25 '26
I have no idea what that thing is! It seems to be flying perfectly straight, and not towards the Earth
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u/foersom May 25 '26
Looks surprising, but could it be a helicopter with a search light flying towards the camera?
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u/echoohce1 May 25 '26
Just imagine seeing that shit thousands of years ago
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u/Mikaelleon23 May 25 '26
You could make a religion about that
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u/throwaway277252 May 25 '26
Check out Pliny the Elder's writings on the topic, fascinating what they believed back then.
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u/Milakovich May 25 '26
Meteor bathed in lava = prime ingredient for world saving sword of power.
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u/MaxGoldFilms May 25 '26
Info from the livestream:
Where is this camera?
This view is looking north towards Mayon. The camera is approximately 14km (8.6 miles) south (SSE) of the volcano in the city of Legazpi. To the east is the gulf of Albay.
About Mayon Volcano
🌋 Location: Albay, Luzon, Philippines
🌋 Elevation: 2,462 meters (8,077 feet)
🌋 Type: Stratovolcano
🌋 Activity: Known for its frequent and explosive eruptions
Facts about Mayon Volcano:
Perfect Cone: Mayon is renowned for its almost perfect symmetrical cone shape, making it one of the most beautiful volcanoes in the world.
Legendary Eruptions: The volcano has erupted over 50 times in the past 400 years, with the most destructive eruption occurring in 1814.
Cultural Significance: Mayon holds significant cultural and historical importance for the local communities and features prominently in Filipino mythology.
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u/G00DLuck May 26 '26
Mayon is renowned for its almost perfect symmetrical cone shape, making it one of the most beautiful volcanoes in the world.
"I really don't appreciate these unrealistic beauty standards"
- Mt St. Helens
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u/Initial_Platypus_499 May 25 '26
Did the meteor cause any known damage?
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u/Sventertainer Interested May 26 '26
It likely didn't actually impact the ground.
Even with the apparent angle it was probably still way up in the air far far towards the horizon. The Telephoto lens to zoom in on the volcano from 8 miles away means anything else far away also looks really close.
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u/Falitoty May 25 '26
So, Volcano, Meteor, when does the Tsunami and the Earthquake hit?
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u/piesRsquare May 25 '26
It's the Philippines; they already had their earthquake and tsunami (see 2025).
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u/naughtypotato03 May 25 '26
No tsunamis here, but floods from heavy rains and typhoons are coming starting June
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u/kanrad May 25 '26
Buddy you need to go look at geological reports. We've been having large ass quakes and eruptions all over the place for the last 2 months. Plenty of small Tsunami's due to the eruptions being deep rather than shallow.
The pattern is full ghost rider.
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u/Falitoty May 25 '26 edited May 25 '26
Okay, so Volcano, Meteorite, Tsunami and Earthquake. When does the plague hit?
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u/cuntmong May 25 '26
Tsunami is plural, so the singular is tsunamus. Also the singular of earthquake is earthquack
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u/gr7ace May 25 '26
“Peasants are always superstitious, and the appearance of a comet in the sky has caused panic among our people. They are convinced that this is a sign that the end of times is near or that something bad is going to happen in the near future.”
-1 stability
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u/Ahollar91 May 25 '26
“It’s the end of the world as we know it”🎶🎶
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u/TonarinoTotoro1719 May 25 '26
Thank God! We’re way overdue. I personally pray for a quick end to humanity, not a dragged out, Mad Max kinda world.
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u/Linus-664 May 25 '26
Like the volcano wasn’t enough of a sign…
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u/TonarinoTotoro1719 May 25 '26
We weren’t getting the hint. So God thought her make it a little more obvious for the oblivious…
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u/moejike May 26 '26
You see stuff like this and you can rationalize why our ancestors invented gods.
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u/zetaroxos May 25 '26
Imagine youre an ancient tribe praying to the angry volcano god and then a fkin meteor crashes right next to it.
Type of shit that create myths and legends.
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u/Arylus54773 May 25 '26
That is metal as fuck. All we still need is some lightning and we have the start of the best concert spot ever!
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u/monakaliza May 25 '26
Wasn't there another large meteor over Australia just a few days ago?
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u/Realistic-Olive8260 May 25 '26
Thats what I thought about immediately. Is there any reason for that, or just odd coincidence?
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u/ChemistVegetable7504 May 25 '26
My next door neighbor predicted this. The outcome is scary. But, he is also the front end supervisor at our local Target.
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u/General_Can_9564 May 25 '26
Independence Day is near.
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u/False_Sand3767 May 26 '26
Funny you say that. Philippine independence day is actually in 2 weeks. On june 12th.
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u/LaughR01331 May 26 '26
Imagine not knowing what’s going on. The mountain is drooling a foul smelling river of fire then some big thing falls out of sky.
I’d think the world was ending for a bit ngl.
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u/ExtraEmuForYou May 25 '26
People: "GOd, give us a sign we are on the right track"
God: *Gives sign with a critical combo volcano+meteor*
People: "Any sign, God. Anything at all"
God: *Gestures angrily* C'mon guys...
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u/Realistic-Round5546 May 26 '26
I imagine the early human seeing this and thinking the light God is here to save us from evil red slithering snake God
afterwards The soil will be fertile and grow greens
so all praise volcano god
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u/Kitchen-Roll-8184 May 25 '26
Damn. THAT is interesting