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Lightning that follows you into
your home...
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rain that falls like blood...
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...and a single house spared
total destruction.
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History is filled with tales
of strange weather phenomena.
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Frogs falling from the sky.
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Hail so large that it can
crush an automobile.
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And storms so savage they erase
all traces of mankind.
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Can science help us to find out
why these things happen?
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Or could unseen forces
be at work,
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and if so, could we possibly
harness these forces
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to serve our own needs?
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Well, that is what
we will try and find out.
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The UnXplained S02 - EP05
Extreme Weather Mysteries
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Subtitled by Diego Moraes
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Scientists at Florida State
University publish the results
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of a study on the destructive
power of tornadoes.
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Their conclusion:
tornadoes, which are already
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capable of generating
200-miles-per-hour winds
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are getting five percent
more powerful every year.
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And there doesn't appear to be
a limit as to how strong
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they will become in the future.
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Tornadoes have so much
energy in them.
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The-the energy in a...
in a large tornado,
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like an EF4 or 5,
is more energy
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than is in a nuclear weapon.
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The base of these things are
sometimes a mile wide,
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and they go all the way up
to 30, 40, 50,000 feet high.
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This is a very large structure.
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A skyscraper is teeny-tiny
in comparison to a tornado.
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If scientists are correct,
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and tornadoes are getting
even stronger,
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how are we supposed to
keep ourselves safe
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from their awesome power?
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Especially considering
we still have no idea
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how to predict when and where
they'll appear.
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The thing that's hardest
to explain about tornadoes is
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why the tornado forms,
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and when is it triggered
to come to the surface?
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The problem with tracking
tornadoes is they're only
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for just a very few minutes.
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They form, a warning goes out.
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Only 13 minutes elapses
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before, most times,
the tornado is on the ground.
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So, we don't have a whole lot
of research
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as far as looking at those.
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There is almost an infinite
number of moving parts
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in a tornado.
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There's atmospheric turbulence,
there's moisture,
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there's pressure changes.
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There's electromagnetic
discharges
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and charging going on.
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There's so many phenomena
that you can't even
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make the list complete.
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When we think of the laws
of physics,
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we think of firing a bullet.
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Moves in a straight line,
never deviates.
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But the weather, what a headache
for a physicist.
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Remember the butterfly effect?
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That is, even the flapping
of the wings of a butterfly
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can cause a ripple effect, which
could lead to a tipping point
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initiating a thunderstorm.
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So even small vibrations here
can cause
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massive distortions
of the weather over there.
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That's why predicting
the path of a tornado
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is virtually impossible.
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After a long, hard week,
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the Coffelt family is
looking forward to spending
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a Sunday relaxing
in the comfort of their home.
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But it isn't long before they
realize their plans
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are going to be interrupted.
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We, uh,
started getting
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all these notifications
on our phones.
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Like, "Tornado Warning."
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And then we started getting
a little bit concerned.
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All right.
And we looked outside.
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-The weather's getting
kind of bad.
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It was, like, dark clouds.
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It's-it's hard to describe
because it was just, like,
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coming toward the house.
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It was It was getting
really dark.
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I started walking
towards the door,
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and it just almost went
pitch black.
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My wife yelled, "Go to the
bathroom, go to the bathroom!"
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All of us
my wife and two daughters
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went in the bathroom.
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A minute or two went by,
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and you heard the tornado
coming in.
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It started with a small whistle,
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and then it got louder
and louder.
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And then it just kind of sounded
like a train coming in.
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Like a...
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And it just, boom,
hit the house.
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When we were in there,
it was so confusing
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because-because you didn't know
what was going to happen.
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Especially when we start hearing
stuff happen around us.
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And, you know, we're all just
in that tight space.
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And I was screaming.
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Everything just started shaking,
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-and you could hear the little
snaps going on outside.
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And then it stopped.
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And then it happened again.
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When the violent shaking
finally subsides,
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the frightened family
cautiously leaves
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the safety of the bathroom
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to assess the damage
to their house.
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But to their shock
and disbelief,
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there's none.
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We came out,
we walked out the front door
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and, uh, looked,
saw everything.
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Heh, it was just overwhelming.
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An F4 tornado comes across and
destroys everything around you,
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except for your house,
and you and your family
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still, still standing.
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We were just completely
overwhelmed.
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We could barely breathe,
and just
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couldn't believe the destruction
that was out there.
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It was just breathtaking.
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It can't be explained.
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The emotions and the feelings
that go through, really just,
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uh, it's mind-blowing.
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Despite sitting directly
in the tornado's savage path,
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the Coffelt house was
somehow spared
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when nearly everything else
in sight was leveled.
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Aside from some minor
superficial damage,
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barely a shingle had been
knocked out of place.
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But how?
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There are so many variables
with a tornado
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and why it hits this house
and not that one,
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it's really hard to say.
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There could be little pockets
of pressure,
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little pockets of temperature,
little pockets of moisture.
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Who knows what it is?
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But it could be little pockets
that change the statistics
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of the debris field such that it
just happens to miss that spot.
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Tornadoes never travel in very
straight, regular paths.
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When you picture the video,
it's an interesting path
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to avoid the house.
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But you could imagine
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a tornado circling back
on itself.
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That is not inconceivable.
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This house could have
been lucky to have the tornado
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come down the right side,
turn around,
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destroy the forest
on the other side,
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turn around again
and then go off.
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Could it be that the Coffelts
and their house
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survived simply because of luck?
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Or was it the result of
some kind of
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deliberate intervention?
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After all, from Zeus,
the Greek god of thunder,
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to Set,
the Egyptian god of storms,
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ancient cultures believed
weather was not
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a random force of nature,
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but a power wielded by the gods.
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Major ancient cultures
saw the Earth itself as a god.
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More accurately, a goddess.
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The Greeks had a name, Gaia.
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The ancient Hindu tradition
also saw the planet
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as a feminine divinity.
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So we are in relationship
with the planet.
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There are weather patterns
that are caused
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by planetary energies.
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And this is a living
relationship which can help
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our way of looking
at our relationship
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to the ground we live on.
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All stemming back to some of
the most ancient cultures
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and religious practices
that have been
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with us on this planet.
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A living, conscious planet.
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If this is true, does it mean
that the Coffelts' house was
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deliberately spared by some act
of divine mercy?
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Or was it left standing
to serve as a warning
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that nature must be respected?
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As far as the Coffelts
are concerned,
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the answers hardly matter.
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If there is some miracle
about all this...
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because it's not a miracle.
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'Cause getting hit by a tornado,
that... that sucks.
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You know, I probably shouldn't
be sitting here today.
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I definitely do have
a new respect for the weather.
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It-it really can It can take
everything away from you
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in the blink of an eye.
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Predicting the path,
the precise path
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of a tornado is beyond
our computational ability.
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So when I look at
these videotapes of a tornado
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where a houses basically
dodges the bullet,
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I say to myself,
"What's happening here?
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Was it an act of God?"
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I don't know.
I'm a physicist.
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I say it's the non-linearity
of the laws of physics
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applied to the weather.
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Are tornadoes and other forms
of extreme weather
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not scientific problems
to be solved,
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but rather messages sent to us
by Mother Nature herself?
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-It's an intriguing notion.
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Perhaps if we can learn
to decipher these messages,
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we'll be able to understand
lots of other
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bizarre weather phenomena,
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like the one known as
ball lightning.
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Lightning is one
of nature's most powerful
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and incomprehensible forces.
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There are places in the world,
like Lake Maracaibo,
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that are constantly being struck
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in what seems to be
a never-ending storm.
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But there's another type,
called ball lightning,
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and nobody seems to know
what it is
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or why it happens.
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While out
for an afternoon stroll,
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a local student spots something
that stops him in his tracks.
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Pulling out his cell phone,
he captures incredible footage
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of an eerie ball of what looks
like pure energy,
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floating and bobbing,
as if alive.
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Later analysis reveals
that the video may be evidence
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of one of the most mysterious
weather anomalies in the world:
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ball lightning.
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Any video of ball
lightning is exciting
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and interesting to me
because they're rare.
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I-It's hard to see it.
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And it does confirm the idea
that what you're really trying
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to look at is some sort
of contained plasma-like object.
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Looking at this video,
what's happening
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is this ball lightning
is probably traveling along
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the electromagnetic field line
of the power lines.
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And then when it hits
the, uh, transformer,
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it's just too much power
for the transformer to handle
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and it explodes.
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And you can see that
in the video.
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Unlike normal lightning,
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which follows well-defined laws
of physics,
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ball lightning is much more
erratic in its behavior.
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Even after centuries
of research,
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scientists still don't
really know what causes it.
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Or where this incredible energy
comes from.
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When we think of a lightning
bolt, we think of electricity
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shooting from the heavens,
just crackling with energy...
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...which is totally different
than ball lightning.
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Ball lightning is basically
a sphere a few feet across
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that seems to hover slowly
and then dissipates.
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So how can that be?
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Ball lightning is essentially
lightning in a bottle,
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but there's no glass bottle,
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there's an electromagnetic
bottle.
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So you get these electromagnetic
field lines that form
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the shape of a sphere and
it traps the lightning inside.
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It can range in size
from pea size to dime size,
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baseball size, grapefruit size.
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And the uniqueness
of ball lightning is it lasts
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from 20 to 30 seconds,
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unlike a regular bolt
of lightning,
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which is just a flash.
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Ball lightning has been
mysterious for so long
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because it's hard to capture.
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'Cause when it happens,
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the ball is skittering
and moves around crazy.
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It doesn't just
sit there in one spot,
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so you can't walk up to it
and look at it.
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Is it possible that sightings
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of ball lightning
are just a trick of the eye?
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An optical illusion?
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Or could ball lightning be
responsible for everything
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from mysterious UFO sightings
to strange accounts
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of phenomena known
as spontaneous combustion?
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Ball lightning
was first discovered
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in the 1600s in a European
church when the ball lightning
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came right through the window
and into the sanctuary.
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There are many documented
eyewitness accounts
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not just one but scores of them
through history
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of ball lightning entering
people's homes
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and being cited
by reputable witnesses.
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The most famous sighting
was done in Russia,
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by Czar Nicholas II.
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He had an eyewitness right
in front of the royal family.
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A ball lightning went whizzing
right by and he wrote about it.
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People just say,
"Oh, no, I was standing there
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"after this thunderstorm
in my living room,
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"and this ball of light
came across the field,
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"right through the picture
window, into my room,
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and touched the steam radiator
and popped like a firecracker."
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And I have not read
an explanation for that behavior
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that I consider plausible.
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It's believed that glass
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actually enhances
ball lightning.
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The trace elements in glass,
including lead,
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is very attractive
and a conductor of lightning.
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And we always say stay away
from water and glass windows
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when there's lightning,
because those are conductors.
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And it seems that ball lightning
is very attracted to glass
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and will actually
pass through it
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and then can create
a lot of damage.
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Ball lightning can be
very dangerous.
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It's started fires,
it has put buildings on fire.
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It has caused
a lot of destruction
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just in and of itself.
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If it sounds impossible
for a primal force of nature
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to be contained indoors,
well, you'd be wrong.
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Because, as it turns out,
scientists have done just that.
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In 2006, Professor Eli Jerby
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and researchers
at Tel Aviv University
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used powerful microwave beams
to generate a tiny sphere
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of plasma for fractions
of a second.
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It was the first time anything
resembling ball lightning
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was reproduced in a laboratory.
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It took scientists a long time
to reproduce ball lightning
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in the laboratory.
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Ball lightning needs
a lot of energy.
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And the way
you would create that
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is you have really strange
high electromagnetic fields
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that are wrapped around each
other that traps and squeezes
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the air molecules until they're
so hot that they become ionized
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and literally are like
a big ball of plasma,
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like a little mini-star.
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Could ball lightning actually be
some kind of miniature star,
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one that exists here on Earth?
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According to some scientists,
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the notion is not
as far-fetched as it sounds.
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Which could also mean that
ball lightning has the potential
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to develop into one of the most
destructive forces
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in the known universe.
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Some people suggest
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that ball lightning could be
primordial black holes.
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Primordial black holes are very
small microscopic black holes
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that, uh, would have formed
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at the beginning of the big bang
or just after.
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And it's possible
there's still some of them
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remnants of the big bang
floating around in the universe.
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When I look at ball lightning,
it just seems such a clear
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ion electromagnetic effect
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that it's probably not even
necessary or likely
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to be connected to something
like micro black holes.
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But it there's nothing
necessarily in physics
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that tells you it's impossible
to have it happen.
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Could ball lightning really be
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some type of black hole
in disguise?
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If so, it's probably best
to study something like it
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from a comfortable distance.
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Not unlike
another weather phenomenon
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that has made people
run inside to avoid it
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for thousands of years...
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...blood rain.
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In the skies above this forested
region of rolling hills
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in the southwestern state
of Kerala,
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storm clouds begin to gather.
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Not so unusual
in this part of the country.
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But when the rain starts,
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no one is prepared
for what falls from the sky.
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Something that appears
to be blood.
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And it lasts not for hours
or days or even weeks,
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but for months.
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If I put myself in the shoes
of these people
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that experienced this blood rain
coming from the sky,
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I can only imagine
how terrifying that must be
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and how that must make
those people question
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their own existence and question
the forces of nature
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that are at work in the world.
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That must be earth-shattering
for these people.
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You have to think that
that's sent from the heavens.
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For some reason,
some mystical reason,
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this happened because
it's sent from the gods.
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It's sending out a signal
or a message for some reason.
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After months of wondering
whether the apocalypse
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was at hand, residents sighed
in relief as, suddenly,
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the scarlet deluge stopped.
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And just like every other time
this strange phenomenon
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happened throughout history,
the skies returned to normal.
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Similar stories of red rain
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have essentially spanned history
over thousands of years.
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It's been repeatedly reported,
first in mythology
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and then in historical accounts.
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It goes back maybe
to the sixth century BC.
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We have stories in our theology
and mythologies
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that see this phenomena
happening,
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so it must be one of the signs
of the coming apocalypse.
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But it's a phenomena
that occurs in weather
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around the planet all the time.
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You never know where red rain
is going to occur.
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It's all depending
on weather systems.
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All over the world
there's been rain like this,
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even in the United States.
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Even in the Ukraine and Russia,
this has taken place.
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It's not surprising that
ancient people regarded blood
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falling from the sky
as a sign of impending doom.
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But today we tend not to believe
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in such far-fetched nonsense.
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Especially because, as I'm sure
you'll be relieved to know,
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blood rain isn't
actually made of blood.
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Scientists did analysis of this
red rain and did not find things
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like copper or iron,
things that we think of as red
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that would cause
this water to be red.
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So why was it red?
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What else could have
been in the water
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that made a blood-red rain?
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What scientists thought
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is that it is caused by spores
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that are on trees,
grassy areas, rocks,
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all over the terrain there
in India.
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And those spores blast all
of that into the atmosphere.
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And that's carried
up into the clouds
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and it kind of hangs there.
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Oftentimes spores
are produced prolifically.
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You know, billions of millions
of spores, right,
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go all over the place.
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And so you can imagine
that it would be transported
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up in the atmosphere,
associate with rain,
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00:21:52,686 --> 00:21:56,689
and then come down
as-as a red color as well.
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00:21:56,690 --> 00:22:02,028
The theory that red algae spores
can and do create red rain
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00:22:02,029 --> 00:22:05,406
is believed by most scientists
to be a sound one.
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00:22:05,407 --> 00:22:09,536
But, believe it or not,
there's another theory.
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00:22:09,537 --> 00:22:12,372
One which proposes
that blood rain
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is caused by something
extraterrestrial.
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00:22:17,586 --> 00:22:20,755
If you look at the red rain
under the microscope,
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00:22:20,756 --> 00:22:23,508
what we found was
absolutely staggering,
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00:22:23,509 --> 00:22:27,428
because we found
that there were red living cells
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dispersed in the rain.
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That was the cause
of the red color in the rain.
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And these cells were in the
process of actually reproducing.
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And when examined under
the highest magnification,
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these cells didn't look
like anything
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that we had seen on the Earth.
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Life unlike any on Earth?
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Could it be that the real cause
of blood rain
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is far more profound
than previously thought?
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Coincidentally,
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00:23:04,300 --> 00:23:06,718
there was also a meteor
explosion in the area.
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So the question is: could
those two events be linked?
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What I think happened
was that a fragment
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00:23:13,851 --> 00:23:16,895
of a comet exploded...
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in the high stratosphere,
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00:23:20,441 --> 00:23:23,359
and this comet had living
entities, alien life,
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in the form of these red cells.
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And they became the seeds,
the nuclei of raindrops.
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We've found plankton organisms
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on the solar panels of the
International Space Station.
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00:23:37,374 --> 00:23:41,294
So it's possible that this
meteor that exploded over India
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had some sort of red organic
material in it
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that came from space.
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If the source of blood rain is,
in fact, extraterrestrial,
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00:23:51,639 --> 00:23:53,431
might it help explain how life
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00:23:53,432 --> 00:23:57,144
could have started
here on Earth?
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00:23:59,313 --> 00:24:00,939
One theory
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00:24:00,940 --> 00:24:03,650
of how life can propagate
from one planet to another
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00:24:03,651 --> 00:24:06,445
and even one star system
to another is panspermia.
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00:24:08,197 --> 00:24:10,198
Panspermia is the idea
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00:24:10,199 --> 00:24:14,369
that life on the Earth
started in outer space.
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00:24:14,370 --> 00:24:18,164
And, sure enough, when we look
at meteorites on the Earth,
444
00:24:18,165 --> 00:24:22,377
we find some from Mars,
some from the Moon,
445
00:24:22,378 --> 00:24:24,671
and maybe even some from Venus.
446
00:24:24,672 --> 00:24:29,593
And so, if meteors can go
back and forth, why not DNA?
447
00:24:32,054 --> 00:24:33,638
We tend to think of ourselves
448
00:24:33,639 --> 00:24:36,683
as something that grew
out of some primordial soup
449
00:24:36,684 --> 00:24:39,727
from a random one-time accident
that took place on this planet
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millions and millions
of years ago.
451
00:24:41,563 --> 00:24:45,942
But could it be
that we actually, us humans,
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00:24:45,943 --> 00:24:48,945
are the aliens on this planet?
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00:24:48,946 --> 00:24:50,989
Blood rain.
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00:24:50,990 --> 00:24:55,076
A weather phenomenon so strange
and so unexplained
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00:24:55,077 --> 00:24:58,913
that it calls into question
everything we think we know
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00:24:58,914 --> 00:25:00,915
about who we are
and where we come from.
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00:25:00,916 --> 00:25:03,836
Not unlike another type of rain.
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00:25:04,878 --> 00:25:06,504
One that carries life
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00:25:06,505 --> 00:25:09,174
of a very different kind.
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00:25:21,186 --> 00:25:23,563
Residents awake
to a flash of lightning
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00:25:23,564 --> 00:25:28,109
and what sounds like hail
falling from the sky.
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00:25:28,110 --> 00:25:32,405
But, surprisingly, what is
really raining down on the city
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00:25:32,406 --> 00:25:37,285
is not hail but fish.
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00:25:37,286 --> 00:25:40,538
The images are so bizarre,
when you first see them,
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00:25:40,539 --> 00:25:43,708
you think this must be
some kind of a hoax.
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00:25:43,709 --> 00:25:47,128
Fish falling from the sky.
And they're everywhere.
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00:25:47,129 --> 00:25:49,464
If you're out
in the middle of a small village
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00:25:49,465 --> 00:25:52,133
and all of a sudden
it's raining fish on you,
469
00:25:52,134 --> 00:25:54,677
most people will wonder,
you know, why?
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00:25:54,678 --> 00:25:55,888
What does this mean?
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00:26:04,480 --> 00:26:07,190
I'm sure you're all familiar
with ancient stories
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00:26:07,191 --> 00:26:10,902
that tell of frogs
raining from the sky.
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00:26:10,903 --> 00:26:12,570
Most consider them myths.
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But in actuality,
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00:26:15,032 --> 00:26:19,535
the phenomenon of live creatures
showering down from the heavens
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00:26:19,536 --> 00:26:22,288
is all too real.
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00:26:22,289 --> 00:26:25,458
When you think about it,
it's really mysterious.
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00:26:25,459 --> 00:26:28,961
How could it possibly
be raining fish?
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00:26:28,962 --> 00:26:30,880
Since the tenth century,
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00:26:30,881 --> 00:26:34,092
there's been records
of fish falls from the sky.
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00:26:34,093 --> 00:26:38,513
Small fish from all over the
world have fallen from the sky.
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00:26:38,514 --> 00:26:40,556
I know a-a story
my dad tells me.
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00:26:40,557 --> 00:26:42,809
When he was a kid,
about ten years old,
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00:26:42,810 --> 00:26:45,103
that it rained so many fish
in his front yard
485
00:26:45,104 --> 00:26:46,938
that they picked them up
in wheelbarrow loads
486
00:26:46,939 --> 00:26:48,565
and had a big fish fry.
487
00:26:57,991 --> 00:27:00,952
When you look at anecdotal data,
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00:27:00,953 --> 00:27:04,831
there are many instances in the
past where it's raining fish,
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00:27:04,832 --> 00:27:07,250
and you say to yourself,
how can that be?
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00:27:07,251 --> 00:27:09,377
That seems to violate
everything we know
491
00:27:09,378 --> 00:27:11,337
about storms and common sense.
492
00:27:11,338 --> 00:27:15,550
The reality is, tornadoes
are regularly taking stuff
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00:27:15,551 --> 00:27:20,012
from one place and dropping them
somewhere else.
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00:27:20,013 --> 00:27:22,306
But they're over land and
they're definitely moving things
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00:27:22,307 --> 00:27:25,476
that are typically land-based,
so obviously they're not gonna
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00:27:25,477 --> 00:27:27,478
drop fish
'cause they're over land.
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00:27:27,479 --> 00:27:31,440
But, basically, a waterspout
or a tornado over water
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00:27:31,441 --> 00:27:34,861
is conceivably gonna have
the same effect.
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00:27:34,862 --> 00:27:37,154
It can suck things
out of the water.
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And then, as that object
continues to move,
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00:27:39,032 --> 00:27:40,658
it moves across land.
502
00:27:40,659 --> 00:27:44,328
At some point those will fall
back out of the tornado
503
00:27:44,329 --> 00:27:46,747
and it will look
like raining frogs or fish.
504
00:27:46,748 --> 00:27:48,499
It's not implausible.
505
00:27:48,500 --> 00:27:51,335
I don't think it's a coincidence
that most of the animal rains
506
00:27:51,336 --> 00:27:54,338
that we experience
are-are aquatic animals, right?
507
00:27:54,339 --> 00:27:57,049
'Cause those are probably the
ones that are easiest to suck up
508
00:27:57,050 --> 00:27:59,552
in a waterspout
and then deposit on the Earth.
509
00:27:59,553 --> 00:28:02,054
The notion that a waterspout
510
00:28:02,055 --> 00:28:04,724
could siphon tons of fish
from the sea
511
00:28:04,725 --> 00:28:06,809
before raining them down
miles away
512
00:28:06,810 --> 00:28:09,896
is one that is supported
by many scientists.
513
00:28:09,897 --> 00:28:15,526
But if it sounds far-fetched
to you, you're not the only one.
514
00:28:15,527 --> 00:28:19,280
People have watched waterspouts
over lots of places,
515
00:28:19,281 --> 00:28:23,075
but they never seem to see
anything being scooped up
516
00:28:23,076 --> 00:28:24,869
out of the ocean by waterspouts
517
00:28:24,870 --> 00:28:28,205
that we've actually watched
for a long time.
518
00:28:28,206 --> 00:28:32,752
These occurrences are random
and they're out of place
519
00:28:32,753 --> 00:28:34,337
and they make no sense
520
00:28:34,338 --> 00:28:36,881
and there's really no good
explanation for them.
521
00:28:36,882 --> 00:28:40,551
How does that school of fish,
which are far heavier than air,
522
00:28:40,552 --> 00:28:44,513
traverse hundreds of miles, in
some cases, to be distributed,
523
00:28:44,514 --> 00:28:48,100
deposited over land
and on top of people?
524
00:28:48,101 --> 00:28:51,312
Whatever this phenomena is,
it happened very quickly.
525
00:28:51,313 --> 00:28:55,149
You take a fish out of water,
it is fighting for breath.
526
00:28:55,150 --> 00:28:57,026
It's going to, uh, suffocate,
527
00:28:57,027 --> 00:28:59,528
and that suggests that is
there some other thing at play?
528
00:28:59,529 --> 00:29:01,030
Like, could there be
529
00:29:01,031 --> 00:29:03,908
some strange physics
we don't know yet?
530
00:29:03,909 --> 00:29:06,869
What's really strange
about the fish fall in Yoro
531
00:29:06,870 --> 00:29:10,081
is that it happens about
the same time every year.
532
00:29:10,082 --> 00:29:14,543
It happens so often, they have
a name for it: lluvia de peces,
533
00:29:14,544 --> 00:29:17,213
which means "raining of fish."
534
00:29:17,214 --> 00:29:19,799
So it couldn't be a waterspout.
535
00:29:19,800 --> 00:29:22,093
It has to be something
more to it.
536
00:29:22,094 --> 00:29:27,890
If lluvia de peces can't be
explained by random waterspouts,
537
00:29:27,891 --> 00:29:29,517
then what could it be?
538
00:29:29,518 --> 00:29:31,310
According to some scientists,
539
00:29:31,311 --> 00:29:35,106
the answer could be
even stranger than, well,
540
00:29:35,107 --> 00:29:38,526
fish falling
out of a clear blue sky.
541
00:29:38,527 --> 00:29:42,154
There are places on Earth,
like the Bermuda Triangle
542
00:29:42,155 --> 00:29:44,490
in the Caribbean,
where you do have
543
00:29:44,491 --> 00:29:47,368
these very, very strange
occurrences that happen.
544
00:29:47,369 --> 00:29:50,287
People talk about flying
into these electronic fogs.
545
00:29:50,288 --> 00:29:55,793
I think you have to have
some new physics involved
546
00:29:55,794 --> 00:29:57,712
besides just a waterspout.
547
00:29:57,713 --> 00:30:01,007
Matter is inherently
electromagnetic.
548
00:30:01,008 --> 00:30:05,052
And so, if you have a bunch
of moving gas o-or liquid,
549
00:30:05,053 --> 00:30:09,932
then you are actually creating
a flow of electromagnetism,
550
00:30:09,933 --> 00:30:12,226
which could create
a vortex disturbance
551
00:30:12,227 --> 00:30:15,688
that may have allowed
this phenomenon.
552
00:30:15,689 --> 00:30:19,066
It's as if you can create
some kind of space-time portal
553
00:30:19,067 --> 00:30:22,278
that, uh, transports
these fish or frogs.
554
00:30:22,279 --> 00:30:27,575
Just the waterspout explanation
seems barely plausible to me.
555
00:30:27,576 --> 00:30:31,871
Could interdimensional portals
be what causes fish
556
00:30:31,872 --> 00:30:34,874
to suddenly appear in Yoro
every year?
557
00:30:34,875 --> 00:30:36,625
Perhaps.
558
00:30:36,626 --> 00:30:39,462
But for the people of Yoro,
the question is academic.
559
00:30:39,463 --> 00:30:42,965
As far as they're concerned,
the fish are a welcome sight,
560
00:30:42,966 --> 00:30:46,343
no matter what brings
about their arrival.
561
00:30:46,344 --> 00:30:48,721
If you look
at the people of Yoro,
562
00:30:48,722 --> 00:30:51,015
they go outside and they pick up
all this fish for dinner.
563
00:30:51,016 --> 00:30:53,100
They put it into buckets.
564
00:30:53,101 --> 00:30:55,269
It's a positive thing.
565
00:30:55,270 --> 00:30:58,064
So if we look at it like this,
we take something
566
00:30:58,065 --> 00:31:02,194
that's out of our sphere of
knowledge and we deal with it.
567
00:31:15,373 --> 00:31:20,961
In ages past, fish falling from
the sky was the wrath of God.
568
00:31:20,962 --> 00:31:22,838
I don't think
we're afraid anymore.
569
00:31:22,839 --> 00:31:25,633
But I also think that there
are some things about weather
570
00:31:25,634 --> 00:31:29,178
that we may not understand,
we may never understand.
571
00:31:29,179 --> 00:31:30,805
But that's okay.
572
00:31:30,806 --> 00:31:33,974
Until we're able to verify
whether animal rain
573
00:31:33,975 --> 00:31:38,604
is due to waterspouts,
or something more exotic,
574
00:31:38,605 --> 00:31:41,774
it seems all we can do is either
keep searching for answers
575
00:31:41,775 --> 00:31:44,527
or grab a bucket.
576
00:31:44,528 --> 00:31:46,737
But imagine how differently
we might feel
577
00:31:46,738 --> 00:31:49,448
if we had the power
to actually harness
578
00:31:49,449 --> 00:31:51,450
the forces of nature
579
00:31:51,451 --> 00:31:54,121
and control the weather.
580
00:31:58,667 --> 00:32:01,043
Beautiful, isn't it?
581
00:32:01,044 --> 00:32:03,212
But what if I told you
that the St. Louis Arch
582
00:32:03,213 --> 00:32:06,507
is more than just
an impressive monument
583
00:32:06,508 --> 00:32:09,051
or a tourist attraction?
584
00:32:09,052 --> 00:32:13,430
What if I told you that there
are people who actually believe
585
00:32:13,431 --> 00:32:15,641
it can control the weather?
586
00:32:17,227 --> 00:32:18,644
Sounds preposterous, huh?
587
00:32:18,645 --> 00:32:21,730
Well, we shall see.
588
00:32:26,444 --> 00:32:32,575
Standing 630 feet tall
and 630 feet wide,
589
00:32:32,576 --> 00:32:34,785
the St. Louis Arch is
the world's tallest
590
00:32:34,786 --> 00:32:36,662
freestanding arch.
591
00:32:36,663 --> 00:32:39,915
Memorializing Thomas Jefferson,
Lewis and Clark,
592
00:32:39,916 --> 00:32:43,169
and other great pioneers,
the arch has been nicknamed
593
00:32:43,170 --> 00:32:45,546
"the Gateway to the West."
594
00:32:45,547 --> 00:32:49,717
Each leg of the arch is sunk
in almost
595
00:32:49,718 --> 00:32:54,013
24,000 tons of concrete,
60 feet deep,
596
00:32:54,014 --> 00:32:57,558
enough to withstand earthquakes
and winds as strong as
597
00:32:57,559 --> 00:32:59,393
150 miles an hour.
598
00:32:59,394 --> 00:33:05,274
The exterior is comprised of
2,000 tons of stainless steel.
599
00:33:05,275 --> 00:33:08,944
The most ever used for
any single project in history.
600
00:33:08,945 --> 00:33:13,490
It is, in short,
a modern engineering marvel.
601
00:33:13,491 --> 00:33:16,995
But that's not even the most
incredible thing about it.
602
00:33:19,497 --> 00:33:22,958
Heavy, dark, dangerous
thunderstorms have been known,
603
00:33:22,959 --> 00:33:26,587
on many occasions, to head
directly for the city
604
00:33:26,588 --> 00:33:28,339
of St. Louis.
605
00:33:28,340 --> 00:33:30,132
And as they get closer,
they seem to split
606
00:33:30,133 --> 00:33:33,594
right down the middle,
go out and around the city,
607
00:33:33,595 --> 00:33:37,348
and reconnect after they've
passed the city of St. Louis.
608
00:33:37,349 --> 00:33:39,725
People have said
for years and years and years
609
00:33:39,726 --> 00:33:42,770
that it has to do
with the St. Louis Arch.
610
00:33:42,771 --> 00:33:44,438
It's very strange,
611
00:33:44,439 --> 00:33:46,732
but there does seem
to be an effect
612
00:33:46,733 --> 00:33:50,736
where thunderstorms tend
to kind of break apart
613
00:33:50,737 --> 00:33:53,572
when they get near this thing,
and they reform afterwards.
614
00:33:53,573 --> 00:33:56,659
It doesn't mean that St. Louis
doesn't have thunderstorms.
615
00:33:56,660 --> 00:33:58,035
It does.
616
00:33:58,036 --> 00:34:00,996
But it doesn't seem to have
as many thunderstorms
617
00:34:00,997 --> 00:34:02,707
in the area of that arch.
618
00:34:04,793 --> 00:34:07,962
The St. Louis Arch's
alleged power
619
00:34:07,963 --> 00:34:09,964
to redirect thunderstorms
has led some
620
00:34:09,965 --> 00:34:14,261
to give this phenomenon a name:
the arch effect.
621
00:34:18,431 --> 00:34:20,182
Some people believe
that the St. Louis Arch
622
00:34:20,183 --> 00:34:21,809
is changing the flow of the air
623
00:34:21,810 --> 00:34:24,979
that's causing weather patterns
to occur or not.
624
00:34:24,980 --> 00:34:31,318
But a storm cloud top is
10,000 to 50,000 feet high.
625
00:34:31,319 --> 00:34:34,738
The arch is only gonna be
a few hundred feet high at best.
626
00:34:34,739 --> 00:34:36,907
So how is this affecting
something
627
00:34:36,908 --> 00:34:39,952
that is so much larger?
628
00:34:39,953 --> 00:34:41,996
I think we all are well aware
629
00:34:41,997 --> 00:34:45,249
of the way structures
certainly impact airflow,
630
00:34:45,250 --> 00:34:46,792
air currents and winds.
631
00:34:46,793 --> 00:34:50,087
And the arch is certainly
very large and very geometric,
632
00:34:50,088 --> 00:34:52,339
and I think it does have
what we might call
633
00:34:52,340 --> 00:34:53,924
local micro effects.
634
00:34:53,925 --> 00:34:56,635
But what kind of influences
could that have
635
00:34:56,636 --> 00:34:59,388
on sort of larger weather
systems, particularly storms,
636
00:34:59,389 --> 00:35:02,641
either attracting or
not attracting thunderstorms?
637
00:35:02,642 --> 00:35:05,729
That's harder to kind of really
wrap your head around.
638
00:35:07,939 --> 00:35:10,858
If the shape of the St. Louis
Arch isn't the reason
639
00:35:10,859 --> 00:35:12,776
it's capable
of affecting the weather,
640
00:35:12,777 --> 00:35:14,194
then what is?
641
00:35:14,195 --> 00:35:16,447
According to some scientists,
642
00:35:16,448 --> 00:35:19,408
it's not how the arch
was designed
643
00:35:19,409 --> 00:35:21,493
but what it's made of.
644
00:35:21,494 --> 00:35:25,164
Now, as you look at the design
of this thing,
645
00:35:25,165 --> 00:35:26,540
it's a stainless steel
structure.
646
00:35:26,541 --> 00:35:28,334
It's completely unique
architecturally.
647
00:35:28,335 --> 00:35:31,503
It's basically a ring
made of metal.
648
00:35:31,504 --> 00:35:33,047
Metal is a conductor.
649
00:35:33,048 --> 00:35:35,341
The various stainless steels
and other metals that are in it
650
00:35:35,342 --> 00:35:38,052
conduct electromagnetic energy.
651
00:35:38,053 --> 00:35:40,346
You could, you know,
connect a battery
652
00:35:40,347 --> 00:35:43,557
to one side of the arch
and light a flashlight
653
00:35:43,558 --> 00:35:44,558
on the other side of it.
654
00:35:44,559 --> 00:35:46,852
And that's-that's fairly unique.
655
00:35:46,853 --> 00:35:49,104
You can't do that
with most skyscrapers.
656
00:35:49,105 --> 00:35:53,108
So, one mechanism where it could
affect the local weather
657
00:35:53,109 --> 00:35:58,364
is to short out the Earth's
electric field in that vicinity.
658
00:36:00,033 --> 00:36:03,619
In a weird way, it's kind of an
oddly shaped big lightning rod.
659
00:36:03,620 --> 00:36:05,287
And normally we think
of lightning rods
660
00:36:05,288 --> 00:36:07,498
as being sharp and pointed,
and there's a clear
661
00:36:07,499 --> 00:36:10,000
ion electromagnetic effect.
662
00:36:12,420 --> 00:36:16,298
It has been proven by Nikola
Tesla and other scientists
663
00:36:16,299 --> 00:36:18,801
that you can use
electromagnetic fields
664
00:36:18,802 --> 00:36:20,969
to create holes
in the atmosphere
665
00:36:20,970 --> 00:36:22,805
to manipulate the weather.
666
00:36:22,806 --> 00:36:27,643
Could generating a powerful
enough electromagnetic field
667
00:36:27,644 --> 00:36:30,813
actually make it possible
to manipulate something as vast
668
00:36:30,814 --> 00:36:34,233
and unpredictable as weather?
669
00:36:34,234 --> 00:36:37,486
It's an intriguing
and somewhat unnerving notion.
670
00:36:37,487 --> 00:36:39,905
But believe it or not, in 1990,
671
00:36:39,906 --> 00:36:42,908
the United States military
conducted a series
672
00:36:42,909 --> 00:36:46,705
of experiments designed
to do just that.
673
00:36:48,832 --> 00:36:52,751
There was a secret program
by the military called HAARP,
674
00:36:52,752 --> 00:36:57,798
which was instituted to try
to understand the ionosphere.
675
00:36:57,799 --> 00:37:00,259
This is a matter
of national security.
676
00:37:00,260 --> 00:37:04,430
Communications go through
the upper atmosphere
677
00:37:04,431 --> 00:37:07,725
called the ionosphere,
and we have to study it.
678
00:37:07,726 --> 00:37:12,855
So HAARP shot radio frequency
radiation into the ionosphere
679
00:37:12,856 --> 00:37:17,234
to see how it was distributed
around the planet Earth.
680
00:37:17,235 --> 00:37:19,611
If you look, there have been
many direct correlations
681
00:37:19,612 --> 00:37:23,157
between major storms
and HAARP being active.
682
00:37:23,158 --> 00:37:26,201
It could be that the hurricanes
and superstorms
683
00:37:26,202 --> 00:37:29,037
and tornadoes that are created
while HAARP is working
684
00:37:29,038 --> 00:37:31,623
are actually just
a-a side effect.
685
00:37:31,624 --> 00:37:34,209
But the people that are
operating this device
686
00:37:34,210 --> 00:37:36,295
understand and know
its potential for use
687
00:37:36,296 --> 00:37:38,088
as a weather weapon.
688
00:37:38,089 --> 00:37:42,926
Is the St. Louis Arch not only
an impressive national monument
689
00:37:42,927 --> 00:37:45,512
but also evidence of
the United States government's
690
00:37:45,513 --> 00:37:48,557
ongoing attempts
to control the weather?
691
00:37:48,558 --> 00:37:51,351
Perhaps the answer lies
not by examining
692
00:37:51,352 --> 00:37:53,645
the design of the St. Louis Arch
693
00:37:53,646 --> 00:37:56,940
but by investigating
the extraordinary career
694
00:37:56,941 --> 00:37:59,903
of the man who designed it.
695
00:38:08,036 --> 00:38:11,622
As World War II rages
across several continents,
696
00:38:11,623 --> 00:38:14,583
acclaimed architect
and eventual designer
697
00:38:14,584 --> 00:38:17,878
of the St. Louis Arch,
Eero Saarinen,
698
00:38:17,879 --> 00:38:20,547
is secretly enlisted
by the United States military
699
00:38:20,548 --> 00:38:23,801
to work for a new
clandestine organization.
700
00:38:23,802 --> 00:38:28,764
It's name, the OSS:
Office of Strategic Services.
701
00:38:28,765 --> 00:38:33,311
Or, as it is known today,
the CIA.
702
00:38:35,980 --> 00:38:39,107
The fact that Eero Saarinen
was in the OSS designing
703
00:38:39,108 --> 00:38:41,485
weapons systems
during World War II,
704
00:38:41,486 --> 00:38:44,738
and at a time when the OSS
was looking into
705
00:38:44,739 --> 00:38:46,698
ways to "weaponize weather,"
706
00:38:46,699 --> 00:38:48,075
makes his whole connection
707
00:38:48,076 --> 00:38:49,785
to the design
of the St. Louis Arch
708
00:38:49,786 --> 00:38:51,662
extremely interesting.
709
00:38:51,663 --> 00:38:54,873
Now, that isn't to say I believe
it can control the weather,
710
00:38:54,874 --> 00:38:57,000
but it does open the door
to the idea
711
00:38:57,001 --> 00:38:58,377
that it might have been
one of the things
712
00:38:58,378 --> 00:38:59,838
Saarinen was out to achieve.
713
00:39:01,422 --> 00:39:04,341
While at the OSS,
Saarinen designed buildings
714
00:39:04,342 --> 00:39:06,593
and weapons systems,
many of which were never
715
00:39:06,594 --> 00:39:08,595
completed or built.
716
00:39:08,596 --> 00:39:11,598
Is it possible he later used
these secret plans
717
00:39:11,599 --> 00:39:13,851
to engineer the St. Louis Arch,
718
00:39:13,852 --> 00:39:17,312
creating something
that can actually control
719
00:39:17,313 --> 00:39:21,025
or perhaps harness the weather?
720
00:39:22,694 --> 00:39:25,571
Controlling the weather is
the ultimate superweapon.
721
00:39:25,572 --> 00:39:27,906
It's even more powerful
than the atomic bomb.
722
00:39:27,907 --> 00:39:32,536
So, if Eero Saarinen
was involved in analyzing
723
00:39:32,537 --> 00:39:35,205
and studying the possibility
of weather modification,
724
00:39:35,206 --> 00:39:37,666
and you put
all those factors together,
725
00:39:37,667 --> 00:39:40,377
and I think you have a guy
that basically conducted
726
00:39:40,378 --> 00:39:43,589
a big, giant weather
modification experiment
727
00:39:43,590 --> 00:39:44,883
with the St. Louis Arch.
728
00:39:46,175 --> 00:39:48,552
Weather as a weapon?
729
00:39:48,553 --> 00:39:51,179
There are some who think
the idea is not as preposterous
730
00:39:51,180 --> 00:39:53,390
as it seems.
731
00:39:53,391 --> 00:39:56,768
Especially when considering
that even today,
732
00:39:56,769 --> 00:40:00,397
many world governments are
pouring millions of dollars
733
00:40:00,398 --> 00:40:04,860
into research designed
to manipulate weather.
734
00:40:04,861 --> 00:40:07,696
I think weather modification
has definitely been
735
00:40:07,697 --> 00:40:12,034
an ongoing endeavor of
governments all over the world
736
00:40:12,035 --> 00:40:13,202
for decades.
737
00:40:14,621 --> 00:40:16,455
The St. Louis Arch appears to be
an experiment
738
00:40:16,456 --> 00:40:17,789
in weather modification.
739
00:40:17,790 --> 00:40:19,666
The HAARP device appears to be
an experiment
740
00:40:19,667 --> 00:40:21,085
in weather modification.
741
00:40:22,754 --> 00:40:24,796
Who knows what the Russians or
the Chinese are doing?
742
00:40:24,797 --> 00:40:27,925
There's some sort of technology
out there.
743
00:40:27,926 --> 00:40:31,470
There's been lots of work
in the field of weather control.
744
00:40:31,471 --> 00:40:35,724
Using silver iodide
inside of thunderstorms
745
00:40:35,725 --> 00:40:37,434
to decrease the size of hail.
746
00:40:37,435 --> 00:40:39,102
That goes on in many parts
of the world to
747
00:40:39,103 --> 00:40:40,646
alleviate that problem.
748
00:40:40,647 --> 00:40:44,650
They're always firing rockets
into the atmosphere in China
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to manipulate the weather.
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But is this a good idea?
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You wonder, if you could
steer a tornado,
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what would it take?
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Even a nuclear weapon might just
nudge it, if even that.
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One challenge with that is,
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your shockwave is gonna be hard
to focus, perhaps,
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and it might cause the damage
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you were hoping to avoid
with the tornado.
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I would be looking at how much
can I control or change
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local pressures
in the atmosphere
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near and around the tornado.
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These are forces at work that
could wipe out major cities.
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And we're finding out
every day new things
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that we've never seen before.
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So maybe the lesson
learned here is:
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we shouldn't meddle with forces
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that we don't really understand.
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Because we may not like
the result.
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Weather. At its best
it can cleanse and renew,
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but at its most extreme
it can destroy
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everything in its path.
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No matter how much time
and money we spend
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trying to control it
and predict it,
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it remains, as many things
in our world, among
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the unexplained.
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Subtitled by Diego Moraes
www.oakisland.tk
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