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Hurricane Katrina vs. Hurricane Helene (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 month ago by FlyingSquid@lemmy.world to c/science@lemmy.world

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[–] state_electrician@discuss.tchncs.de 22 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The next storm?

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 23 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Is that a real image?

[–] state_electrician@discuss.tchncs.de 30 points 1 month ago

It's a real screenshot from 2004's banger The Day After Tomorrow.

[–] Buttflapper@lemmy.world 19 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Hate how people are downvoting this guy just for asking a question, like what is this, reddit?

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I wouldn't worry about it. There's a very sad person who tries to downvote all of my posts on a regular basis.

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago

I call that the validation downvote. Just means the federation is still working.

[–] Dozzi92@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

I think they're downvoting the Squid, not the content of the post. I imagine a poster like Flying Squid has made some enemies along the way, the kind of people who literally go and downvote all their posts.

I'll take what I said on Reddit and bring it here: Don't comment on downvotes, they don't matter.

[–] Dasus@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Why would a satellite actually imaging storms want to place a satellite in the image as well?

I think its from some movie, like "the Day after Tomorrow" or something.

Because in movies you can have a shot of a satellite while showing a shot of the storm. I think that's fairly harder to do in real life, seeing you'd have to have two satellites perfectly in sync (and they go pretty fast) or a satellite (space stations are satellites as well) with a very long selfie stick.

Edit actually yah googled "the day after tomorrow storm" and this was one of the first images to pop up, the exact same image https://www.syfy.com/sites/syfy/files/styles/scale_862/public/2022/12/storm.jpg

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I've seen ISS photos that have bits of the ISS in the shot. 🤷‍♂️

But also, I did some searching and no, that is not Hurricane Milton.

[–] Dasus@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Oh yeah there's shots like that. But like, in general. I don't know just made me think of the day after tomorrow and yes it's was that.

I googled "the day after tomorrow storm " and it was one of the first image https://www.syfy.com/sites/syfy/files/styles/scale_862/public/2022/12/storm.jpg

So must've been in my subconscious or smth

[–] turmacar@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Geostorm. Fun enough throwaway Gerard Butler movie.

[–] boonhet@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago

I feel like those words could be used to describe most of his movies (though obviously some are better than others, I'd even go so far as call a couple of them pretty good)

[–] ours@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Absolutely hilarious in the most unintentional way.