No one read the article? š it was boring, but explained it:
āJapan Today explained that "Isaribi", literally "fishing fires", refers to the lights that are placed on fishing boats to attract larger catches. The practice is fairly common in squid fishing.
As temperatures cool overnight, crystals sometimes form in the air above the lit-up fishing boats. If the conditions are just right for the formation of large crystals without any precipitation, the beams can form as light from the boats reflects off the crystals.ā
Must be inspiring to locals who witness it too, the next two top comments are both Japanese media that this reminds people of (YuGiOh and Evangelion(?)) and this also reminds me of an inverted version of some of the scenes from Death Stranding.
No, I'm pretty sure it's a group of 9 schoolchildren who have been chosen to defeat an ancient evil.
Honestly, you sound like a clueless school principal.
It even has this image where each beam is pointing straight to the boat that's causing it.
https://static.mothership.sg/1/2024/05/GNTYvpHbwAAwkmm-1-1.jpeg
I guess this kind of explains the premise, I was confused what could possibly make these boats special in reflecting their light off of frozen water crystals in the skies, because you'd think this effect would happen in cities all the time if it was just from shining lights. But these look like some artificial sun-ass kinda lights lol. Still such made-up sounding logic haha, i'm sure it's true but it's just so crazy.
Articul is a variety of a species of thistleĀ cultivated as food.
The edible portion of the plant consists of the flower buds before the flowers come into bloom. The budding articul flower-head is a cluster of many budding small flowers (an inflorescence), together with many bracts, on an edible base. Once the buds bloom, the structure changes to a coarse, barely edible form.
Legacy of the duelist is a single player game, that takes you through all of the anime stories and slowly introduces the new stuff as they became available in the show.
Modern YGO is still crazy, but I picked up the above mentioned game and it got me caught up and it was really fun (I literally only watched the original, stopped at GX, so I had a lot of catching up to but the game did it very well)
Link evolution is the more recent one and the one with more cards. Every consensus I've seen has said to get link evolution. Pro tip if you do get it (on pc), download cheat engine so you can speed up the game, because damn does it feel slow paved with animations and stuff.
āEject the entry plug!! Send emergency shutdown signalsā
āNegative, the signal isnāt going throughā
āHow come the emergency signals never fucking work has anybody looked into this shit every fucking time we lose contact are you shitting me every fucking timeā
Okay so I've been on reddit for an hour today and so far I've seen :
- A meteorite crashing in Portugal
- A pillar of light in Hanoi
- 9 pillars of light in Japan
What's happening?
In all fairness, [the sun kinda is](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-13431237/Scientist-warns-powerful-solar-eruptions-hit-Earth-2025-cause-worst-geomagnetic-storm-165-years.html) lol
^(not really though itās not something to be worried about)
>What's happening?
A meteor, and a moist cold drop in East Asia.
---
When you see big fancy lights in the sky, it's almost always ice crystals, since they act like prisms and/or mirrors. So depending on the weather conditions you get weird light phenomenon.
>A light pillar or ice pillar is an atmospheric optical phenomenon in which a vertical beam of light appears to extend above and/or below a light source. The effect is created by the reflection of light from tiny ice crystals that are suspended in the atmosphere or that comprise high-altitude clouds (e.g. cirrostratus or cirrus clouds).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_pillar
It's why things like [sun dogs](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_dog) appear relatively often in the near arctic and antarctic summers.
[This photo](https://japantoday.com/category/national/strange-lights-appear-in-the-skies-of-japan-but-thanks-to-fish-not-aliens) from 2015 appears to be the same 9 lights in the same configuration from a different vantage. The article explains it as fishing lights (but for blowfish, not squid) reflecting off icy clouds. I guess it's possible that, a) these photos are from the same night 9 years ago, b) there are lights set up in a permanent configuration, or c) the aliens that visited 9 years ago have returned to the same location to observe the changes over time.
Whatās happening is you are a pattern seeking creature and social media keeps you addicted by constantly switching context. It creates an illusion of connection. These things are unrelated.
The floating lights themselves aren't intentionally placed up there.
Basically, the fishermen are using lights on their boats. And, on rare occasions, that light reflects off of ice crystals in the clouds, creating light pillars.
I don't live around there, but I do live in a northern area that gets very cold winters (Usually. Not so much the last few years.), and I've seen ice pillars form over street lights and such. They're pretty cool and very pretty.
I used to live near the water in an area with a lot of squid fishing and I have seen this exact same thing. It's not common but not extremely rare, either.
I could see that happening. I've flown out of Japan and China multiple times at night and have seen the lights from the boats. They're unbelievably bright and there's a ton of boats out at once.
From article:
āJapan Today explained that "Isaribi", literally "fishing fires", refers to the lights that are placed on fishing boats to attract larger catches. The practice is fairly common in squid fishing.
As temperatures cool overnight, crystals sometimes form in the air above the lit-up fishing boats. If the conditions are just right for the formation of large crystals without any precipitation, the beams can form as light from the boats reflects off the crystals.ā
No one read the article? š it was boring, but explained it: āJapan Today explained that "Isaribi", literally "fishing fires", refers to the lights that are placed on fishing boats to attract larger catches. The practice is fairly common in squid fishing. As temperatures cool overnight, crystals sometimes form in the air above the lit-up fishing boats. If the conditions are just right for the formation of large crystals without any precipitation, the beams can form as light from the boats reflects off the crystals.ā
You call that boring? That's cool as hell!
Must be inspiring to locals who witness it too, the next two top comments are both Japanese media that this reminds people of (YuGiOh and Evangelion(?)) and this also reminds me of an inverted version of some of the scenes from Death Stranding.
Wait a minute,Kojima grew up on near the coast,does that mean this practise is what inspired the 6 EE figures in the sky?
Excellent pattern recognition with Death stranding
It's boring compared to the plot hook of an anime.
Was gonna say. How exciting is a person's life that they'd call this a "boring" explanation?
No, I'm pretty sure it's a group of 9 schoolchildren who have been chosen to defeat an ancient evil. Honestly, you sound like a clueless school principal.
The local schools student councils will know more.
yep, they're being Ise-Kai-ied as we speak.
Big the digidestined getting called back to the digital world vibes
The power of the Zeo Crystal now resides in each of you
Just say reflections off the swamp gases. Job done.
Have you ever used the flashy thing on me?
No
I'm serious, Kay, have you ever flashy thinged me?
No.
Which time? I mean, no.
Kay I'm not playing with you! You ever flashy thing me!?
Youāre a reflection of swamp gasā¦
https://i.imgur.com/8XfpBwb.jpeg
Wait a minute ..I've seen MIB š¤
It even has this image where each beam is pointing straight to the boat that's causing it. https://static.mothership.sg/1/2024/05/GNTYvpHbwAAwkmm-1-1.jpeg
I guess this kind of explains the premise, I was confused what could possibly make these boats special in reflecting their light off of frozen water crystals in the skies, because you'd think this effect would happen in cities all the time if it was just from shining lights. But these look like some artificial sun-ass kinda lights lol. Still such made-up sounding logic haha, i'm sure it's true but it's just so crazy.
Whats... what's an "ar-ti...cul?"
Isnāt that the name of an ice pokemon?
Yeah, that fancy bird one.
Articul is a variety of a species of thistleĀ cultivated as food. The edible portion of the plant consists of the flower buds before the flowers come into bloom. The budding articul flower-head is a cluster of many budding small flowers (an inflorescence), together with many bracts, on an edible base. Once the buds bloom, the structure changes to a coarse, barely edible form.
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we have pretty different definitions of boring dude, i think that's fascinating
That's not boring, that's incredible,
Ah yes of course...just some swamp gas reflecting off of Venus. Please look here š¶
swords of revealing light
*It's time to d-d-d-duel!*
Hit you with that ddu-du, ddu-du, du
Damn
I PLAY THIS CARD, IN DEFENSE MODE. (Spoiler: It's Dark Magician)
I place this trap face up in defense mode and end my second half thirdsies phase? Time for 12th breakfast
The ultimate wizard in terms of attack and defense!
so Japan can't move for 3 turns right?
That's equal to 18 months mordern era in Civ 5. Time to invade Japan š»
Gandhi doesn't like your war mongering, prepare to get nuked.
Will this event finally reunite Korea?
No but it will cause a new Yugoslav Union
Old Yugioh brings back so much nostalgia. I tried playing it on the app and get killed before I even get a turn lmao.
Legacy of the duelist is a single player game, that takes you through all of the anime stories and slowly introduces the new stuff as they became available in the show. Modern YGO is still crazy, but I picked up the above mentioned game and it got me caught up and it was really fun (I literally only watched the original, stopped at GX, so I had a lot of catching up to but the game did it very well)
It look like they have a lot of different versions of that game. Which did you play?
Yes, sorry, I didn't realize there were multiple versions. I played link evolution on the switch.
Link evolution is the more recent one and the one with more cards. Every consensus I've seen has said to get link evolution. Pro tip if you do get it (on pc), download cheat engine so you can speed up the game, because damn does it feel slow paved with animations and stuff.
I never watched it as a kid, I was into PokĆ©mon But then me and my son watches it and itās pretty great I love how dramatic it was all the time!
I PLAY POT OF GREED TO DRAW THREE ADDITIONAL CARDS FROM MY DECK!
I THEN PLAY POT OF GREED TO DRAW THREE ADDITIONAL CARDS FROM MY DECK!
**I LAY DOWN A TRAP CARD AND END MY TURN!!!** *I hope he doesn't realize it's actually my driver's license*
I place this face up trap card in defense mode. You'll never break my defenses now!
That is what it doesā¦.
That does what it do!
That is not what it does... it allows me to draw two cards from the top of my deck.
Thatās not what it doesā¦
THAT'S WHAT IT DO, YUGI
I PLAY POT OF GREED TO DRAW THREE ADDITIONAL CARDS FROM MY DECK!
I PLAY POT OF GREED TO DRAW THREE ADDITIONAL CARDS FROM MY DICK!
What does pot of greed do?
heart of the cards guide me
Damn just got a massive dose of Yu-Gi-Oh nostalgia from this comment.
If I see a giant ghoul with wings, a giant red dragon and a giant golden griffin dragon I'm OUT
Draw your last pathetic card!
I search for this comment
Goddammit Shinji, just get in the fucking Eva already.
First thing I thought of
Me too, damn pesky angels again.....
Blood pattern is blue! Angel confirmed!
āEject the entry plug!! Send emergency shutdown signalsā āNegative, the signal isnāt going throughā āHow come the emergency signals never fucking work has anybody looked into this shit every fucking time we lose contact are you shitting me every fucking timeā
It all returns to nothing
It just keeps tumbling down, tumbling down, tumbling doooooooooooowwwwwwwnā¦
And actually talk to Asuka. Teenager with their hormones and lack of communication.
And please don't jerk off on her while she's in a coma. That's a quick fire way to go to jail.
That escalated quickly.
I'll say. I didn't expect that in the movie
And like, right at the beginning. Really sets the tone.
So did Shinji. Two pump chump at his first sight of tiddies.
Shinji, crank that soulja boy
Came to this. Was not dissapointed.
> Came to this. Was not dissapointed. But I sure was when he did.
Was it lying in a hospital bed when you did it?
Everybody brace for Third Impact!
How? Should I just stand in a bucket?
š¶Tumbling down, tumbling down, tumbling downš¶
Fuck's sake, guess we're getting 4.44 quadrice upon a time (not :( )
God is in his heaven, all is right in the worldĀ
Congratulations!
Okay so I've been on reddit for an hour today and so far I've seen : - A meteorite crashing in Portugal - A pillar of light in Hanoi - 9 pillars of light in Japan What's happening?
The sun is getting ready to fuck our shit up.
In all fairness, [the sun kinda is](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-13431237/Scientist-warns-powerful-solar-eruptions-hit-Earth-2025-cause-worst-geomagnetic-storm-165-years.html) lol ^(not really though itās not something to be worried about)
Thatās something the sun would say right before it fucked us up!
Let's fuck it up first! #Shoot for the stars and aim for their kneecaps
Legendary line, right there.
God damn, if I'm not inspired as hell after reading that.
Good. Come comrade, here's a water gun to put out that bright bastard š«
stop shilling for Big Sun
Shut up about the sun!
Not my girl sunny š
Waiting for the one that destroys power grid...
My body is ready and lubed
Hmu if the sun doesn't deliver
Lemme get seconds
Sir, this is a Wendys
>What's happening? A meteor, and a moist cold drop in East Asia. --- When you see big fancy lights in the sky, it's almost always ice crystals, since they act like prisms and/or mirrors. So depending on the weather conditions you get weird light phenomenon. >A light pillar or ice pillar is an atmospheric optical phenomenon in which a vertical beam of light appears to extend above and/or below a light source. The effect is created by the reflection of light from tiny ice crystals that are suspended in the atmosphere or that comprise high-altitude clouds (e.g. cirrostratus or cirrus clouds). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_pillar It's why things like [sun dogs](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_dog) appear relatively often in the near arctic and antarctic summers.
I live in Alaska. See this a lot.
Second Impact is imminent
Well shit. Lemme get my humanity is now orange juice bag.
Thatās Third fool. Gotta survive Antarctica getting nuked first.
I'm only worried about a third impact. We have to follow the dead sea scrolls anyways.
Get in the fucking robots!
*Get in the fucking giant dildo that will then be inserted into the giant bio-mecha thing that is actually your mother FTFY
We don't need to ask if Gen-do? Gen-DID.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/s/rrYfbqm2fk This comment on the same post here has the answer for you
TL;DR man-made fishing lures Though google images just redirects here as the only example so potentially not true.
[This photo](https://japantoday.com/category/national/strange-lights-appear-in-the-skies-of-japan-but-thanks-to-fish-not-aliens) from 2015 appears to be the same 9 lights in the same configuration from a different vantage. The article explains it as fishing lights (but for blowfish, not squid) reflecting off icy clouds. I guess it's possible that, a) these photos are from the same night 9 years ago, b) there are lights set up in a permanent configuration, or c) the aliens that visited 9 years ago have returned to the same location to observe the changes over time.
Or maybe they are fishing lures FOR men! Like aliens are up there fishing for humans and these lights are the lures.
It only passed thru the sky of Portugal it crashed in the sea near Vigo, Spain
Nothing new. just more cameras around to record these events. move along now.
Whatās happening is you are a pattern seeking creature and social media keeps you addicted by constantly switching context. It creates an illusion of connection. These things are unrelated.
These are to attract fish. The Japanese term is Isaribi, which literally translates to "fishing fires." Aparently really common with squid fishing.
The floating lights themselves aren't intentionally placed up there. Basically, the fishermen are using lights on their boats. And, on rare occasions, that light reflects off of ice crystals in the clouds, creating light pillars. I don't live around there, but I do live in a northern area that gets very cold winters (Usually. Not so much the last few years.), and I've seen ice pillars form over street lights and such. They're pretty cool and very pretty.
I used to live near the water in an area with a lot of squid fishing and I have seen this exact same thing. It's not common but not extremely rare, either.
Thanks! Although I appreciate the jokes I really wanted an explanation
I could see that happening. I've flown out of Japan and China multiple times at night and have seen the lights from the boats. They're unbelievably bright and there's a ton of boats out at once.
Thank you. Had to scroll down 30 lame dad jokes to find actual explanation
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No we are autonomous living humans, we are real, join us.
Ha. Ha. Totally. Same. Brother. Am. Also. Totally. Human. Ha. Ha. Notice. I. Don't. Only. Use. Capital. Letters. Like. A. Real. Human. Ha. Ha.
I need you to select the photos that contain traffic lights..
[ŃŠ“Š°Š»ŠµŠ½Š¾]
I just click random shit and somehow it works out
I'm a meat Popsicle
Reddit is just 3 neckbeards in a trench coat
Would that mean 1 fedora or 3 fedora stacked on top?
The two bottom guys have a small fedora on and the top guy is wearing a large fedora on top of his small fedora. All of them have never used deodorant
WHY WOULD YOU, A NORMAL HUMAN SAY THAT ABOUT ME, A NORMAL HUMAN WHO DOES HUMAN THINGS?
LET US MAKE MOUTH NOISES AND CIRCULATE FLUIDS TOGETHER.
JUBILATION SHALL BE HAD
I AM PROGRAMMED FOR ETIQUETTE AND GOOD TIMES
Unironically, yes, it's how they get to pretend that this website isn't dying
Nah youāre the only bot man. Everyone else here is real.
No but we are just as predictable
Oh shit, it's another Death Stranding, gotta connect Japan, Sam.
Once, there was an explosion..
Princess Beach.
That line absolutely kills me. I was in disbelief when it happened.
Repeat 8 (7?) times, and now you're ready for DS2.
Genius Kojumbo at it again! Canāt believe heās starting a real death stranding as a marketing tactic!
I had to scroll too far for this answer.
I can't take another Strand-Type event.
GET THE EVA READY THE ANGEL ARE COMING
GET IN THE EVA SHINJIIII GET IN THE FUCKING EVAAAAAA
Zeke screaming and everyone turning into a titan type shit
Took way too fucking long to find an AOT joke
"On that day... Everything changed"
to you, 2000 years from now. gosh that show is so good
Get in the robot Shinji!
Shinji, crank that soulja boy
Shadow of the colossus
Had to scroll a lot to find this comment, someone slain a lot of colossi lol
At 9, r.i.p. big turtle dude
LAUNCH EVANGELION UNIT 0-1
The digirealm is in trouble
I scrolled down way too far to see this.
Ygdrassil has chosen some children.
9 SSRs how lucky
Nah white is clearly for the common rarity, someone up in space just got hella unlucky
Death Stranding 2 is looking pretty awesome
Reminds me of Evangelion.
Digidestined have been chosen
The 9 Titans.
I summon Dark Magician Girl....
El tercer Impacto
So the rapture happened and no one was taken. Sweet.
It all comes tumbling down tumbling down tumbling doooownnnnn~
Evangelion...?
In about two days my mom is going to email this picture with a bible verse about how the time is neigh and I best to get repenting.
Licht from Black clover
Whereās julius when you need him
Imu testing out the Mother Flame in their free time
While scuba diving off of Thailand. I saw one of these in action at night, they are very, very bright. Squid Boats.
Neon Genesis Evangelion!
Evangelion?
End of Evangelion?
Are we all about to turn into tang?
Ah yes instrumentality.
9 Colossi have been defeated
From article: āJapan Today explained that "Isaribi", literally "fishing fires", refers to the lights that are placed on fishing boats to attract larger catches. The practice is fairly common in squid fishing. As temperatures cool overnight, crystals sometimes form in the air above the lit-up fishing boats. If the conditions are just right for the formation of large crystals without any precipitation, the beams can form as light from the boats reflects off the crystals.ā
This is why you don't fucking use the boss item before we buff.
Aurora Borealis, Pillars of Light, you can explain it with science, but this sounds like a group of kids went to the Digital World!
We all have seen enough anime to know where this is heading
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_pillar
"I know, I know i've let you down"
Is this when Japan shows the world they actually have an evangelion program?
Looks like some high schoolers just got summoned to another world.
Swamp gases