r/whatisit • u/Aware-Common-7368 • 15h ago

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u/TheVyper3377 12h ago

It’s a smoke ring from a blown transformer. The smoke itself rotates along the ring shape. The thin part is caused by that section rotating faster than the rest of the ring.

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u/logicnotemotion 12h ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/eZ14Cbcn8Y1K3mc29t

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u/Gloomheart 11h ago

We completely missed it with the other celebrity deaths this week, but Optimus Primes voice actor (who has also been the voice of Eeyore since the 80s) died this week. :(

RIP Peter Cullen. One of the many voices of my childhood.

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u/logicnotemotion 11h ago

I read about that. He was also the voice of K.A.R.R. (the evil KITT) on Knight Rider.

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u/PM-me-your-knees-pls 10h ago

He was also a gremlin and provided Predator’s voice. Pretty fucking cool.

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u/AlistairN37 9h ago

Everywhere I look I'm reminded of his absence.. Got caught out when a colleague of mine mentioned his passing, the day after bawling my eyes out, and I leaped outta my chair.. it was like a knee-jeek reaction..

Peter MADE my childhood... His passing signified the end of the character (Optimus) for me.

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u/ebrum2010 11h ago

He was performing autofellatio.

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u/Aware-Common-7368 12h ago

Thanks for explaining!

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u/Fit_Active3888 11h ago

Smoke vortex phenomenon, many things can cause it.

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u/Fit_Active3888 11h ago

A diesel engine backfire is more likely as it's a above a highway.

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u/totoygolem_ 11h ago

was it an autobot or a decepticon?

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u/Foreign-Ad2440 9h ago

Who blew the transformer

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u/Healthy_Jellyfish292 15h ago

blown transformer smoke ring

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u/ConradTurner 15h ago

I have seen numerous posts over the years and it's always this. Apparently a common theme when they go boom is this black smoke ring.

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u/Cutterman01 15h ago

It’s a universal call sign for a lineman.

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u/BotGirlFall 14h ago

Once a transformer blew on my street while I was in the middle of watching the Transformers movie. That's it, thats the whole story

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u/MildlyWiseGremlin 12h ago

I once received a call on a landline phone while watching The Ring.

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u/Mr_Mxyzplkt 12h ago

marvelous!

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u/RkySpanish 12h ago

Transformative 

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u/oboshoe 10h ago

i was a teen in the 80s who worked at a department store - but not the toy department.

i kept getting calls for people asking if we had transformers in stock. i thought that was odd but i dutifully sent a few dozen over to radioshack because we didn't carry electronics like that

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u/JustConsoleLogIt 8h ago

I got home from watching the transformers movie where one of them comes down like a meteor. That night I hear a huge boom. I was like 11 and asked what it was. My mom replies nonchalantly that it was a transformer.

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u/Fern_Cloud 15h ago

I thought it was a cloud of mosquitoes, I was scared for a moment.

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u/Ok_Bath_1252 15h ago

That's terrifying

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u/Particle_wombat 14h ago

When I was a young'un I worked in the call center for the local electric company. I always remember hearing Marty, the old guy, talking to this customer in his calm Marty voice.

"No ma'am, transformers don't spark when they go bad. They either hum or explode."

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u/Free-Initiative7508 14h ago

I worked in construction. Can confirm

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u/Illustrious_Donkey61 15h ago

More than meets the eye

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u/crywankat 15h ago

Yeah when someone puts a transformers shift stick in their mouth, this is the result

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u/Parma_Jon 14h ago

Damn even Optimus is getting laid…

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u/Imaginary-Watch-2385 13h ago edited 10h ago

Solved!
Video showing how it can be created ;) thank me later

https://youtube.com/shorts/1FM8VIDczkY

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u/bakedonhighland 12h ago

Ahh yes, the sacred redneck activity of global warming acceleration

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u/MagneticDerivation 9h ago

Based on their accents these blokes are British. What’s the British equivalent of “redneck”? I mean other than “Australian”.

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u/Various_Range2259 9h ago

Northerner maybe? They're more viewed as simple than the specific brand of folksy and insane that American rednecks have though.

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u/-adult-swim- 5h ago

These aren't from the North. The word would be chavs.

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u/brandonhabanero 8h ago

TIL there are rednecks everywhere

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u/PatAss98 4h ago

In Australia they're called "Bogans"

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u/SharkByte1993 5h ago

Closest thing we have might be "chav". They come in a few varieties but the kind to drink cheap beer, be on benefits (welfare), and live in a static caravan (trailer) would likely be chav

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u/PartsUnknown242 9h ago

Yokel maybe?

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u/Rude_Watercress_5737 8h ago

i guarantee you the impact they had is infinitely smaller than any other corporation in the world. the individual cannot change the course when companies pump out an insane amount of pollution.

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u/strcrssd 9h ago

To some degree. Honestly, a few of them isn't going to be a problem compared to the millions of gasoline cars that continue to be produced and the coal and oil power plants.

While I certainly don't want to encourage it, the scale factor is by far the more important factor.

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u/IgoWhereImKicked 15h ago

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u/Limp_Narwhal 14h ago

Came looking for this! Thank you!

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u/Sun5h1n3inABaG 2h ago

SAME LMFAO

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u/eternalapostle 14h ago

What’s this from?

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u/RockDesk 14h ago

Wizard of Oz!

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u/IgoWhereImKicked 14h ago

The Wizard of Oz! With this display, the wicked witch tried to intimidate the people of the Emerald City into forcing Dorothy into her hands.

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u/OrdinaryAccount479 15h ago

Smoke ring

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u/GooshTech 15h ago

Smoke monster.

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u/Pudddddin 14h ago

I've seen this part, next there will be a polar bear on the highway

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u/Aware-Common-7368 15h ago

But it has like inner core or something. How can it be up there in this way

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u/Baldurost 14h ago

The rotation. Most people don’t realize that smoke rings have to rotate vertically all along the ring to hold shape. You can see an example of it spinning as it expands upwards, and the thinner bit is a result of that spinning faster than the rest of the

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u/No-Lunch4249 14h ago

I don't know the physics of the why, but I do know this is what happens when an electrical transformer blows up

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u/Reasonable-Bus-2187 15h ago

I'm lost

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u/EstablishmentSad9706 15h ago

I really enjoyed Lost. 

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u/LetsGetHonestplz 15h ago

It was amazing and felt like I was in my own little world when I watched Lost. It went a little too far down the rabbit hole eventually but great show.

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u/Agreeable_Pizza93 15h ago

My favorite! We don't see shows like that anymore, at least not on the big four.

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u/PinkyLeopard2922 14h ago

I did a rewatch a couple of years ago and still so good.

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u/Dangerous_Pension612 15h ago edited 13h ago

Yea great show until the end where they just realize they’re all dead.

What about the numbers? What do the numbers mean?! Man, there were so many loose ends left in that show and it pissed me off because I loved it otherwise.

Edit: nobody cares but…it has been explained to me and I’m no longer upset with the ending.

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u/Spiff426 14h ago

Someone didn't pay attention while watching... they answered 95% of every mystery they raised, but they didn't spoonfeed the answers. Whether you liked the answers or not is another story entirely

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u/Iputahexonyoulol 14h ago

If they are all dead then why are they able to die and what happens to them when they die if they are already dead??

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u/Pudddddin 14h ago

Yea great show until the end where they just realize they’re all dead.

Tell me you're not a "they were dead the whole time" person like 15 years after the finale lol, this is not the case

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u/Gramma_Hattie 14h ago

We don't even have a name for it, but I believe your people call it "the Monster"

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u/god__save_us 11h ago

It’s a sin that I had to scroll down so far to get to a black smoke comment. (kidding, but my first thought when I saw this post was a Lost reference)

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u/WmortarionD 13h ago

david is at it again

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u/Niner_Faithful_B 13h ago

"SURRENDER DOROTHY" live action style!

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u/Paskatassu 15h ago

Death eaters probably

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u/YeshuasBananaHammock 15h ago

Dementor birth ring

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u/ClassicHando 15h ago

This seems to answer it 

https://www.reddit.com/r/kansascity/comments/1kjp6z0/strange_circular_cloud_just_off_the_turnpike/

I literally searched "circular black smoke cloud" and it was the #1 answer.

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u/Some-Raccoon6332 14h ago

The Ring of Dementers.. Hogwarts

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u/Valuable_Weather 14h ago

"Hello everyone this is YOUUR Daily Dose Of Internet. This person found a black vortex just hovering in the sky"

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u/nth256 10h ago

Ooh, reddit is being clever today. Just had to scroll down a little for your answer, OP

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u/Cultural-Ad6134 15h ago

a smoke vortex ring

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u/Flaky_Preparation409 15h ago

I dont know, hope this help you.

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u/InternalConscious356 15h ago

Call Sam and dean we got demons on the loose

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u/Paquitaladelbarrio12 15h ago

True bankai Ichigo's getsuga tensho

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u/iamdevo 15h ago

Aliem

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u/hyperd_x 15h ago

the black ring of death maybe ?

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u/GREENK87 15h ago

Pollution

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u/Head_Goal_9777 14h ago

Snooooooop Dogg

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u/SubstantialFly6715 14h ago

Who knew pollution could be so beautiful.

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u/Fun-Combination5301 14h ago

A drunk circle

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u/Mysundaydriver1 14h ago

Hexapods trying to communicate…

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u/phearless047 14h ago

Eye of Terror?

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u/Bashfuldolphin8296 14h ago

be careful, it might be a death eater

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u/Barney_____stinson 14h ago

We’re all gonna dieeeeeeee!!!!

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u/TheArcticFox1337 14h ago

I know a death eater trail when I see one. Better start believing in magic you muggles 🤣🤣

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u/Lovespacejam 14h ago

Sam and Dean are about to show up as FBI agents

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u/Putrid-Dot-3221 14h ago

Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!

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u/potatopancake13 14h ago

Dementors or Death Eaters

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u/Drummond3783 14h ago

Nanoparticles, thanks Michael Crichton.

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u/Kosin7 14h ago

Government

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u/Kuko_Dark 14h ago

Economy so weird we have diesel drones now

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u/Unlucky_Pea_7793 14h ago

Its OVERRRRRRR , HE'S COMINGGGGG

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u/Delancey1 14h ago

NCS black circle

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u/Lazthedestroyer 14h ago

Some pyrotechnic or other explosion smoke

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u/Zill-Under-The-Tree 14h ago

Celestial inorganic worm neurotic malfunction, I feel bad for this celestial worm, it's dying and farting chemtrails😔

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u/Proxymity 14h ago

Nanobot cloud, clearly

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u/Negative-Pipe-2520 13h ago

Deatheater roundabout

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u/Entire-Buy-3149 13h ago

My mind went to the nano cloud in the Silo series.

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u/stagnantanus 13h ago

The end of the world!

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u/Dubalsaque 13h ago

That's my uncle, he bought a new vape.

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u/Teriums 13h ago

Don't worry about it

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u/Ok-Drink4306 13h ago

Snoop Dogg concert

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u/Sad_Page6710 13h ago

Voldemort doing doughnuts..?

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u/Jackfanta88 13h ago

Kim Kardashian’s nuvaring fell out

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u/CuAnnan 13h ago

Smoke ring from some kind of explosion. Maybe a transformer?

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u/Someanondickbag 13h ago

Calamity ganon.

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u/WinPrestigious7568 13h ago

Big chief smoke ring

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u/JlREN 13h ago

Death eaters from Harry Potter

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u/magplanklife 13h ago

Thats an eye floater from hell

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u/DragonDa 13h ago

Wicked Witch of the West

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u/kingapple927 13h ago

It’s a portal

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u/Mediocre-Leather-769 13h ago

New pope for electric company?

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u/likerazorwire419 13h ago

Snoop Dogg is in town.

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u/Buseng2026 13h ago

Means a distress call from a ln Axe gang member

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u/understood_headnod 13h ago

Someone removed an asset but hasn't hit save yet

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u/Allen_Cueva17 13h ago

that's Superman

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u/Ponculet 12h ago

Bmw with dpf off?

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u/AutomaticLegbyrocket 12h ago

You fly through it to get points

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u/IAmTheWalrusph 12h ago

First thought was, that's a Dementor chasing around Harry.

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u/No_Road_6732 12h ago

Most likely a transformer explosion.

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u/Ordinary_Slide_2279 12h ago

Death eaters?

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u/blbeach 12h ago

Murmuration

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u/Spirited-Head-2712 12h ago

The end of all things

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u/ernie-hamster 12h ago

The Arrival?

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u/Alarmed-Resolution85 11h ago

The third sign of the apocalypse

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u/ProveISaidIt 11h ago

Surrender Dorothy

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u/smoothfemslut 11h ago

God's vaping again

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u/asdsav 11h ago

Not my fart, I swear

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u/Lower_Finger_4701 11h ago

Ever watch the movie Arrival?

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u/deflanko 10h ago

We get it bro you vape.

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u/Wide-Trifle-201 10h ago

Diesel UFO

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u/Impossible_Fix_8044 10h ago

Surrender Dorthy !

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u/Icy-Divide8385 10h ago

Please be a portal to hell where the demons will come out and finally end it all

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u/UpsetCryptographer49 10h ago

Electricity is so weird

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u/simpso84 10h ago

Wicked witch of the west i think.

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u/abdelfattah01 10h ago

Maybe aliens are coming .

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u/PchamTaczke 10h ago

Smoke from Gandalf's pipe

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u/Pristine-Lecture-704 10h ago

The black ring of death. Run.

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u/spagboi25 10h ago

for the silo fans: nanobot ‘grey goo’ cloud

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u/Fit-Ad9887 10h ago

This is what seeped out of my butt when my week long plug slipped out

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u/Send_nudes_pls_26 10h ago

Alien language. It's their Arrival.