Atmospheric homes of elves and sprites revealed

[ThaJSpraya]

Earth's alive

[YourPotatoGod]

Please don't narrate again.

[FinishedRoughly]

i thought this video was about midgets and booze

[Rael0505]

This would certainly explain a lot of UFO sightings. People love to see shit they don't understand and claim with certainty that they're aliens.

[Jayson6767]

halos are actually made of fire?! they should be for devils O_0

[Jakkaroo]

Good article, but my god never let this woman ever voice a video again. Really makes the information hard to absorb. Incredibly annoying tone, total incompetence at delivering information. I spent more time trying to interpret the emphases of each statement than I had before the next.

[Rael0505]

@Jakkaroo Thank you, I completely agree. So many people suck at reading, I don't know why... it's just reading. I hate the typical "reading voice" so many people put on when they read something aloud.

[vbb1964]

You voice makes me want to commit suicide.

[sarcoed]

I think they call it heat lightning too

[trakkaton]

Elves on newscientist - I had to watch this!

[CelestialElf]

We love the upper atmosphere because we can see infinite Aurora Borealis' there, and its peaceful....

[Gouled96]

@CelestialElf That is what I call a High elf me'h lad.

[anisocoro]

I have observed a far storm with a telescope from ground, but i have managed to see only "normal" lights, neither sprites, nor elves. are you sure that these phenomena happen all around the world, and they are not coonfined within definite latitudes?

[beachxaddict]

They are hard to spot with the naked eye or even with a high powered telescope, especially since they appear for about 1/10 of a second. The images you saw are usually captured with a expensive equipment designed to capture these lights with very sensitive lenses capturing images at hundreds or even thousands of frames per second. Usually the initial flash of lightning will over expose your eye causing you to miss that sprite, or whatever they want to call them.

[iamdabest245]

Don't blink the Elves could escape... literally

[Gouled96]

@iamdabest245 Only id they put into extra Jump and Agility.

[xxstebxx]

So elves do exist!!!! :D

[slssk79]

i knew it. i love em

[Gouled96]

@xxstebxx Only if believe like I, time to go dance with some Gnomes, Minoutar, Elves, Druids, Dwarves, Wizards, Leprechauns, Elementals, Driads, and my favorite the Hobbits

[kiuhy7]

neat

[ReneeNme]

I just saw a Discovery Channel clip where they said storm Sprites can be as wide as 10 miles and shoot 50 miles straight up.Dayyum.

[Maniacjelly]

Really?

I just saw a NGeo one and it said 200 miles wide 40 miles tall

[Airclot]

Well, I saw a PBS one where they said it was 500 miles wide and 80 miles tall.

(This is not true)

[sonofhendrix]

stupid mainstream 2nd tier scientists.

Plasma Cosmology!

[iloveallecchianime]

elves are perfect for sucking dick!~

[RandomDiscontent]

what a sexy robot voice she has

[chaodemon]

my grandfather told me that elves ain't real.i cna prove him wrong by now lols

[ZebraJones01]

So what's the problem with people joking about like, real elves? You prudes have no sense of humor, fuck every single one of you

[DriesDD]

Are elves the same as ball lightning, or is ball lightning even different from the phenomena in this video? (Check wikipedia if you want to know about the atmospheric phenomenon 'ball lightning')

[IronMafiosa]

WTF? Everybody know elves live in Rivendell. Bunch of science geeks...

[ComputerGeek3310]

I thought elves where humanoid!

thx for crushing my dreams!

[Gouled96]

@ComputerGeek3310 Elves are lightning elementals, thats why my +4 epic mace of earthen strength, magically enchanted with lightning resistance, and Flametongue scroll, is so highly effective on Elves, Halflings, HalfElves, and DarkElves. I spent a lot of time minning in whisper wind gates just to get it with quest materials, hand forged by and upgraded with my Dwarvish rituals. (Yes that is a joke not relative to any game, I guess it would be D&D).

[Gouled96]

@ComputerGeek3310 Yes they are. These elves are using lightning spells, they are a lightning elemental.

[ZB90]

Why not just call it Lightning duh

[Eastview605]

Because lightning is a different phenomenon. There was a big dispute among scientists in the early years of this research. There were some who wanted to call it lightning, but they tended not to be lightning researchers and didn't know the subject very well. The real lightning research community prevailed, and a whimsical set of names (sprites, etc.) was chosen so as not to confuse them with real lightning.

[AtheistDiscGolfer]

Haha i knew elves were real

[ZebraJones01]

This is bullshit, this had nothing to do with REAL elves!

[alphakristjan]

There are no REAL elves...

[ZebraJones01]

Wow really? I'm very aware of that dude, hahaha, quit being a smart ass. I'm just disappointed is all

[SporeFinatic]

Thats kinda cool, somewhere in space...THey opened up a worm hole through space and are sending morse code messages to CONTACT OTHER LIFE. heheh...NO BODY BELIEVES ME. and the worm hole is too small and could harm any living being. LIGHT CANT BE HURT.

[UncleKennybobs]

Imbecile.

[MadsterV]

I'd be more concerned about what they are than how often they appear.

[knschauer]

A man summoned a UFO on the news. see my favorites. there real and there here!

[melleen888]

This is something that is interesting though needs further study to attest how true is this..mmmmm

[dumsaint]

hmm, interesting to note that at 56 secs an elf looks quite a bit like an ufo, and as perhaps most ufos wouldn't want to be detected, appearing over oceans is a good idea... hmm... oh, by the way, not a believer in any sense of the word, but a free-man who questions EVERYTHING

[vortical911]

wow! i had never heard of this phenomenon... innnnnnnnnteresting........

[mushufreak]

VERY INNNNNNNNNTERESTING!

[JWJSSIF]

cool but i hate her voice. someone fire her. give her job as a mimic :D

[XioNilrem]

I remember seeing something about these years ago, but they had no idea what caused them or what they really were.

[Eastview605]

The theorists have been very busy during the last ten years. Now they know exactly what they are, what causes them, and the underlying physics.

[urumqilik]

i wonder how many of these mistaken as ufos

[TheAmazingTurd]

Personally I haven't seen anything on the video that remotely resembles a ufo.

[Moynzy]

This is megalightning and its cool ive seen the documentory called megalightning on discovery science

[mackbolin]

truly science at the edge...nice video...just when you think you figured it out nature say ...no,no...look at this.kewl!!!!!!!!!!

[AVIMOAS]

amazing vid!

[leander24]

omg I thought real elves and sprites living in the atmosphere :/

[sbiugan]

wht causes them?

she didnt say :(

[DirectorJonas]

watch?v=1UEOZGFzPas

[Winnuting]

lame i thought this would be something cool like things living in the sky

[alikill]

hahah yeah!

I was let down

[kukelz]

hey guys u just found out some science myself: how to get a similar voice over : first drink a milkshake as fast as you can with maxed out brainfreeze. Than secure your head tightly in a wrench, and there you go.

[tehcexymeowmix]

Change the title of the video please, it's very misleading. I thought I would see Santa's elves and ghosts.

[ROCKERGURL79]

Hahahah yeah really !!! I think harrp has alot to do with this too ... but i have to agree it does sound a little silly !!!

[ZebraJones01]

HONESTLY! At least nerds aren't giving you shit for your clever comment, you should see mine towards the bottom of the page, haha.

[alphakristjan]

Ok i get it. :)

[ZebraJones01]

Haha, glad we can all agree, hahaha. No hard feelings duder

[Hez0]

Arghh, the voice over.

[WreKkLessX]

this videos title was very misleading o_O

[Colipso]

thought you ment "elves"

[shaochiavang]

UFO???

[edmondov]

These so called scientists think they have explanation for everything. even if it's a vague one. They have to be correct b/c everyone else is not smart like them.

[SobaniForce]

they're, not, trying, to, explain, anything. they're reporting the facts.

[chicograndma]

i didn't know that!

[creegirl9]

thats great... but what they hell are they???

[deadlychemist]

electrical discharge, like lightning.

[TaxDeducted]

I wish the title of this was EXACTLY what it meant.

[Fahim00717]

I might have mistaken them as UFOs.

[DrakeMagnum]

Now you can refer to them as IFOs.

[shamansays]

its probably haarp conducting experiments..

[kribaby76]

Beautiful

[amozoness6]

STOP TALKING!

[JoshuaGodinez]

Cue wacko conspiracy theorists in 3.. 2...

[krneel128]

:( why is the crucial information in text only?

[krneel128]

Increased electron density may be an effect, but what is the cause??

[matieman77]

during/before a thunder storm, the clouds are charged negatively (more electrons) and lightning occurs when the clouds discharge to the ground...

[ilia1233]

very nice thx

[mattb521]

God dammit, those elves are fucking with the satellite TV again!

[stuffisgd]

elves drinking sprite? I love their cookies.

[baxizach]

wat

[Keylimedelight]

I would so do her voice.

[TheStarryDawn]

These elves in the sky, are they organic beings?

Problably not, but I was just wondering

[stevensteven327]

i like her voice

[LukaZGD]

this chicks voice is so fucking iritating....

[sh8oony]

this chicks voice is so fucking sexy....

[GetMeThere1]

It's so irritating that I don't understand how she can stand HERSELF!

[ilia1233]

so true

sounds like she is plugin her nose or something

[lazymornings]

very informative stuff.

[mungbeanman]

Looks nothing like the elf that lives on my shoulder and tells me to burn stuff.

[shadling21]

what are you talking about?? ELVES DO EXIST. this vid PROVES it!! o.O

[tardesnegras]

i thought this video was going to be able those little balls of light that show up in pictures sometimes, some people call them ghosts...i dont believe that but i wonder what it is...

[bankitdrew]

orbes

[singlespies]

cool - never knew about those:)

[IAMANIS]

elves rule

[Richona]

kool.

[Terr0c1ty]

hahaha, i look at the related videos for this and the second one is "RickRoll'D" hahahaha

[weezcake]

Elves are the reason for my dropped calls!

[thoseofmiddlearth]

how are elves formed? i keep seeing them at night and i think its a mini sonic boom or something going off

[Baseball101Films]

cool

[minieggg1]

bloody elves messing with ma TV reception =/

[JJTHESLAYJ]

Yaaaaay