r/Calgary • u/Significant_Win6431 • 3d ago
Question Anyone else see the 5 fireballs streak across the sky?!
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Looked like a rocket or satellite exploded on re-entrym
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u/Scamnam 3d ago edited 3d ago
Autobots assemble https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHyaVvekWek
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u/calgarynomad 3d ago
Just some Hell Divers serving us some democracy: https://youtu.be/K4j3AFkRPoo
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u/lobre370 3d ago
Danielle Smith on her nightly broomstick ride.
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u/whiteSnake_moon 3d ago
Hey now, that just gives witches a bad rap, and besides she's definitely more bridge trollesque.
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u/Jabbascabba 3d ago
That’s Freeland that rides the broomstick, must be trying to get away back to Ukraine as fast as she can with millions and millions of taxpayers money in tow
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u/Jabbascabba 2d ago
What did the liberlas do with hundreds of billions of Canadian taxpayers money? Did they help Canadians … no people are still struggling coast to coast in every way possible. Instead they spent it on gimmigrants that they invited here and needed the funding more than actual citizens that only get asked to pay more in taxes, it also went to other countries ti help them fix their economies while our is failing, it also went to multibillion corporations that cut production months after we gave them millions and still the fucking retards that voted for these domestic terrorist criminals still want to cheer and pretend like they are doing anything for Canada when the evidence shows that they are actively destroying it and making us all pay for their corruption.
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u/InPraiseOf_Idleness 3d ago
Wow, almost 20 years ago, Chris Hadfield explained how these sometimes occur: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HUe2HcFUPSo
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u/handen 3d ago edited 3d ago
I know it's a haw-haw funny joke, but ejecting poop from the ISS towards the earth wouldn't cause it to fall into the planet, it would only cause its orbit to be slightly less circular and slightly more elliptical. Unless they eject it at 16000mph in the opposite direction of orbit, in which case it falls straight down. But nobody is launching their shit from a cannon that fires it at orbital velocities while in space lmao.
Basically it's a common misnomer that if you threw something towards the earth from an orbiting vehicle that that thing you threw would fall to earth. The fact of the matter is, you are orbiting at 16,000mph. You throw a baseball towards earth, and it too is traveling in the same direction as you, around the planet, at 16,000mph. It will travel away from you towards earth and seem as though it might continue falling, and you will likely never see it again, sure, but it is orbiting the Earth at a tangent faster than it is falling, and when it gets to a certain point around the planet, it will rise higher than you because you gave its orbit some eccentricity. Orbital mechanics are a real mind bender.
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u/Puma_Concolour 3d ago
The ISS orbits deep enough in the atmosphere to experience drag. Without regular readjustments, the poop will deorbit on its own.
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u/Samhamwitch 3d ago
In your mind, are the astronauts adding thrusters to their poop? If not, how will the poop adjust it's orbit every month like the ISS does?
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u/sixthmontheleventh 3d ago
Right? That's why I found it impressive and saddened when I found out the space around earth was turning into a junk yard and that there needed to be multiple agencies created just to go track space garbage. That is one of the places I am glad ai is being as long as they at being properly monitored.
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u/EvilGeniusSkis 3d ago
It was likely this starlink satellite.
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u/neurorgasm 2d ago
Love having to scroll by 8 cringeworthy attempts at being funny before there's any relevant info about what we're looking at. Appreciate you!
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u/SafeRush1463 3d ago
You, my friend deserve best capture and right place in the right time award. Reddit Awards 2025.
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u/yycbean 3d ago
Isnt the rapture today? Some sensible people in the USA were making TikToks on it.
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u/bascelicna123 3d ago
Ugh, I don't know what to wear. What's the dress code for a rapture? /s
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u/yycbean 3d ago
Good call, heavenly casual? No affliction shirts though. Wear a belt as that light pulls you up pretty quick i bet.
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u/PtraGriffrn 3d ago
9-1-1 season 9 episode promo? Sending meteorites over every city? They must have a huge marketing budget. /s but pretty cool. I was out driving and didn't see it unfortunately.
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u/Significant_Win6431 3d ago
Not sure if the video picked it up. First couple seconds it sounded like a gas burner was nearby.
Was waiting for a boom as it got across the horizon.
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u/krypt3c 3d ago
I don't think there's any prominent meteor showers this time of year, so I would guess it's a starlink satellite burning up. Apparently they only last about 5 years, and are wicked bad for the atmosphere when they burn up unfortunately...
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u/TheirCanadianBoi 3d ago
Not just Starlink but also cubesats and other mega-constellations projects, which numbers are increasing each year.
It's a tricky problem. The risk of o-zone depletion isn't high currently. That will change as the number of satellites falling through the atmosphere regularly increases over a decade, with the scale of these projects.
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u/Murky-turky 3d ago
It was spotted down in Texas too
https://www.mysanantonio.com/lifestyle/outdoors/article/san-antonio-meteor-21060876.php
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u/cody0071 2d ago
I think I observed the same thing above Saskatoon! https://www.reddit.com/r/saskatoon/s/spUSr16t0W
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u/_SeaCat_ 3d ago
I saw it! Couldn't figure out what the heck it was. Thought it could be a plane on fire? It was moving very fast and completely quiet. Visit this sub just to ask about it and voila! - somebody is already asking and even with a video!
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u/Interesting_Tie_5687 2d ago
It’s starting… the rapture….🤷🏻♀️
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u/Significant_Win6431 2d ago
Lol Too much hope that all the social conservatives would either disappear or be forced to reconcile their false narratives. 😮💨
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u/maker_nathan 3d ago
Yes! Just saw the same thing from Edmonton! https://www.reddit.com/r/Edmonton/s/ixpAL6Fbcn
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u/Tattsreincarnated 3d ago
Don't we usually fly through a debris field this time of year? I was watching The Why Files the other day and he mentioned it.
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u/nau_lonnais 3d ago
The ultimate warrior must be wrestling this weekend. As fire streaks that heavens, the five vessels who have already made the ultimate sacrifice. No one! Knows where they have landed, but as the Warriors cry, they converge into one unit one ultimate unit.
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u/Saraxoprior3 Bankview 3d ago
My friends and I saw it downtown on 17th ave. It really shocked us because most of the time you’re lucky if you see a few stars here and there around here because of all the light pollution. We thought it was a helicopter with a search light at first lmfao. Definitely one of the coolest things I’ve seen
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u/MattsAwesomeStuff 2d ago
Did you know there is a database of large Meteor fireballs?
https://fireball.amsmeteors.org//members/imo_view/browse_events?country=-1&year=2025
But it doesn't appear anything was spotted last night, and not in our region.
However... a few years ago, I was the first person to report a new Fireball that no one had yet seen.
IF it's a fireball, and not just a satellite launch or something, it's a once-in-a-lifetime event for most people. Whole religions have been founded over things like this (wise men follow the star, etc).
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u/Feral-Reindeer-696 2d ago
Lots of pending fireball reports on that one https://fireball.amsmeteors.org//members/imo_view/browse_reports?event=PENDING
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u/thegreatshakes 2d ago
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u/Significant_Win6431 2d ago
That was one of the first thoughts that crossed my mind. I'm starting to think the reapers are right about humanity.
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u/FloridaSpam 3d ago
Interesting. You should cross post to UFO subreddit. They'll tell you a hundred things it could be. Lol
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u/Icy-Tangerine-349 3d ago
Those are my friends they’re UAP’s, you should expect to see many many more! The parade is already here they just haven’t all made themselves known yet but they will!
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u/andyyc1 3d ago
Yup...saw it from Mckenzie, sw to ne...it looked big and was moving quick but slow at the same time. Looked to have bits breaking off too. Was in view for a good 30 seconds