WHAT IS THIS LINE? (on my Super Blue Blood Moon Photo) - Smarter Every Day 188

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[@numbblackpicture]

having rocket lights turned on for you is the adult equivalent of making a truckdriver honk with a string pulling gesture.

[@r3gret2079]

Well he is a rocket engineer so that probably helped a ton.

[@laurakemp5979]

I appreciate how the rocket center just turned the lights on for you. 😂

[@OGPatriot03]

and that the church was kind enough to let him do what ever as long as he didn't ruin the grass. Nice folks.

[@scottb721]

Patriot 03 they would have been cross otherwise

[@RealLuckless]

You might be surprised how happy people are to do small things if you politely ask the right ones.

[@iwantitpaintedblack]

and then sent him a bill of a few thousand dollars for the inconvenience this light turning has caused

[@genkai7278]

It's only because he's white remember this is alabama if he was black the church would of called the cops on him

[@lolzdatguy4987]

0:42 stage separation confirmed

[@anthonysalazar4744]

Lol I was thinking this too

[@yanislestrat1224]

"We have S-IVB sep"

[@xdev_henry]

How did you think about this?!?!? But it's pretty funny!

[@tobymiller781]

Lol

[@samueljett3505]

XD

[@Avin_Alaff]

WE DEMAND AN UPDATE!!! :)

[@52SamsMinecraft25]

yes plz

[@marwintalens7066]

I just looked on Google maps, there are steel cables holding the rocket in place

[@Donovan_J19]

@@marwintalens7066 you forgot about 5:23

[@marwintalens7066]

@@Donovan_J19 just take a look... You can see it in the shadow

[@Donovan_J19]

@@marwintalens7066 I looked there's no cables

[@irondmax]

Its called a creeping wave. Caused by the optical light bending around the rocket antenna, which focused the refraction as a horizontal plane optically. Airy disk resulting from the wave diffraction on a circular aperture. The antenna was a focused point causing the diffraction of the light from the moon. Bending light focused incorrectly, into an anomaly.

[@nathanfenton161]

Wave theory explains some pretty bizarre phenomena. This is definitely a thing with radio propagation, too. It's very similar to the effect used to calibrate telescope mirrors for the Foucalt knife-edge test. Interferometry is quite fascinating. It would seem that the moon is far enough away that the light is well collimated, and essentially coherent at the aperture of the camera, and some the rays bent around the nosecone are actually developing destructive interference with the rays cast from beyond either side of the nosecone. I suspect it would be just as likely that the the line could have been a bright line instead of a dark line if the nosecone were a different diameter.

[@surfextrem]

well that's what I was thinking, but I was wondering why it only happened at the very end of the antenna and not all along it ? Because this phenomenon is well known with a slot or a wire and a laser, but with a large light source, it should be visible on the full size of the object which bends the light beam, isn't it ?

[@irondmax]

Most likely the antenna was a source to bend the electromagnetic waves from the moon. Causing wave interference (out of phase), thus the dark line. depending on what the antenna shape is, and if it was grounded.... electrostatic charge could have made the effect. There is a voltage differential between the ground and the air, which increases with height. Check out Coral Castle telescope. Ed Leedskalnin made his own telescope.

[@mthaygood3334]

yea like havr u notice wen look at son for lon tim it mak eys go blurru just lik line

[@sandeepbjm]

irondmax I

[@iGstudiosChannel]

Please make an update video when you (+ internet) will find it out, I am sure it will be interesting. Love your videos!

[@Timothious_Maximus]

yes, i also want to know the answer.

[@Benson_aka_devils_advocate_88]

Seeing that I don't have a twitter account I hope he posts a video explanation as well.

[@humphred4912]

The people running the simulation just forgot to turn on V-Sync.

[@ketsu9670]

Nah, they cant sacrifice too much fps.

[@thelastarkitekt]

hmm

[@matteyyy4950]

@my R6 T-Hunt players XD

[@oscarandersson2190]

My renderdistance is really low please fix

[@seancalifornia510]

Now this comment is funny LOL thank for the laugh bud

[@michaelfreed2473]

Destin, any updates!? 3 years down the line my guy, still confused and we always be needing a new Smarter Every Day video.

[@r3gret2079]

Riiight?

[@forestfishburne7900]

??

[@andromeda-elvoldelsavions]

4 years now

[@specstakun]

@@andromeda-elvoldelsavions 5

[@t-RU-Man]

Are you aware of Crrow777 videos with "waves"? I think it has the same nature (which is still unknown)

[@tomeiker2709]

Please please pleeeeeaaaaase do a video update when you figure this out!!!!!!

[@mathieugolos90]

+1

[@cybervoid8442]

i know he will

[@Gibblets411]

Did you see his water droplets floating on water video? Have no fear, he will.

[@tycox9364]

The line is gone when the light on the rocket is off. There is a frame in the video that shows this.

[@JonnyD3ath]

Ty Cox no its not, look at 4:21 onwards, the light is flashing but the line is always there

[@Adam26b]

Been 3 years...i come back here every few months hoping to get an update

[@jrocksburr2724]

Honestly I don’t think we’ll ever get an answer just because of how difficult this phenomenon would be to replicate. I’d have to assume it’s a glitch with the camera tbh.

[@jojojo9240]

@@jrocksburr2724 I would guess it's an antenna because it's not perfectly horizontal, sticks to the top of the rocket and cannot have something to do with the actual rocket tip because the light rays have to come from those specific points you see on the picture.

[@deinemuddaisdoof]

"swamp gas"

[@pppaybackkk]

Have you tried turning your moon off, and restarting it?

[@vijethbharadwaj4540]

You know that is most Indian solution ever. Here Whenever something is not working, first thing anyone says is just switch it off and switch it on again. Everything will be alright. Next solution is to tap it on the head. 😂

[@CreepyChappy]

@@vijethbharadwaj4540 that’s a technician trick

[@vijethbharadwaj4540]

@@CreepyChappy switching it off and on or tapping it on the head??

[@tango_uniform]

@@vijethbharadwaj4540 That's actually a MSFT thing. Been doing that since 1989.

[@ignacio8761]

SmarterEveryDay: We did the math Also SmarterEveryDay: We looked it up in a website

[@TurtleMarchingKing]

Actually 😂😂

[@savtheastroguy]

😂😂

[@TurtleMarchingKing]

Its a cloud, smh

[@trihsty]

they still have to do the altitude though

[@huibu8987]

It's still math

[@typedef_8463]

That’s optical diffraction folks. The moon is a point source and the rockets tip acts as a knife edge. Fun fact, the sharper that point on the rocket, the longer that line will be. Actually doing my thesis on an application of this principle. Huygens principle in action

[@iamezza]

Diffraction seems like a likely explanation. But the moon isn't a very small 'point' source, it's much larger than say a star or laser. Also why does it appear as a line of darkness and not a line of light, like you normally see with diffraction?

[@joshx413]

For it to be constituted as diffraction, the equilateral angle must coincide with the atmosphere on a sub particle level. More or less, I have no clue what Im talking about and just saying random smart sounding words.

[@ronjones4069]

You nailed it. The tip of the rocket acts as a point source and becomes a source for light that has the same coherence of the direct moon light. The interference band is indeed a line of light and dark dots, but they are much dimmer than the moon light and look dark, sort of like the blazingly bright sun spots look dark against a much brighter sun. The tip of the rocket probably has a nice shiny tip, like the glass dome over a light. At a few miles distance, it becomes essentially a point source.

[@e1123581321345589144]

That was my first thought as well but then I got thinking... diffraction imprints happen to points of light, not points of shadow. This coupled with the fact that the color of the line is the same color as the sky makes me think it's an atmospheric phenomenon that's just not visible until it's back-lit by the setting moon. If you look closely at the photos you'll see that it's slightly more pronounced on the left than it is on the right and it even starts dissipating before the moon passes the tip of the rocket.

[@somerandom7672]

Why didn't it show up on other cameras?

[@jpdemer5]

People have been photographing spires in front of the moon for many decades, without (as far as I know) anyone noticing any lines. That means that the effect is specific to this particular object. In fact, it seems specific to the aircraft warning light on top of the rocket. Which will usually be a red glass cylinder with a rounded top, serving as a protective cover for the actual light source within. (Google "aviation obstruction light" and look at the images.) So we have a reflective cylinder in the line of sight, reflections from which can create interference patterns in a plane perpendicular to the cylinder. I haven't been able to find a discussion of interference patterns off of reflective cylinders, but I'm willing to bet that's what we're seeing here: destructive interference due to reflected light. At high enough resolution, the line might even resolve into a series of light and dark bands. Put a good telescope on that light housing, and I bet you'd see it tilted off of the vertical - that's why the line isn't perfectly horizontal.

[@asdfasdf3989]

I've heard that others have seen this as well.

[@VitorFThome]

That is not it probably because you would need a coherent light source, and the light from the sun reflecting at the moon surface at night is not a coherent light source, so no interference patterns could happen. 🤓

[@hrkoon8]

Gosh you are smart

[@dimitriedgarmetz3147]

​@@VitorFThome "jpdemer5" meant a sun reflection at the top of the rocket, and not a reflection at the moon surface. Is there a newer video of Destin commenting on the possible cause of the line? Also the lights from the rocket center might have reflected, but I still don't understand how a reflection could cause a dark line.

[@lucas_d_]

​@@dimitriedgarmetz3147 ever seen the famous double slit experiment? or the color effect on soap boubles, hardened steel? -> Lightwaves with similar wavelength interfere with eachother

[@Mr.Knotty1]

The most boss comment I've heard.... "" I wanted my picture to look right so I called NASA and told them to turn the lights on."" 100% my idol 😃

[@sebbers]

you know its real when he takes his hat off and scratches his head in curiosity

[@Benson_aka_devils_advocate_88]

Will you post a video explaining what's causing this phenomenon once you figure it out? Seeing as I don't have a twitter account I would greatly appreciate it! Thank you in advance!

[@mrtoolegittoquit2]

Janusha I think it's guilty tbh...

[@Server0750]

Looks to me like a camera glitch, the camera tried to focus two objects at different distances, the line goes two ways to the left and right, the lower part of the moon looks to be in a different focus, and so looks a bit smaller than the top part.

[@chrismofer]

@@Server0750 that's not how cameras nor how this telescopic lens work. they can't focus on two things and a human has to focus it regardless.

[@armouredskeptic]

The moon was refreshing - Just wait for your browser to reload.

[@joshrichards8928]

Moon.xe has stopped responding

[@Allen-by6ci]

cool seeing armoured skeptic in the wild...

[@crazyjimmiy]

@@Allen-by6ci ditto

[@FartKillerX]

Shouldn't you be making a video or something?

[@Sophia-bm9ch]

it received a real time texture update, 2k to 4k

[@S.T.R.Y.K.E.R.]

0:42 that’s where my grandma and grandpa used to live. I loved that place so much. My grandpa actually made the awacs plane.

[@lorrielerette7230]

Wow that was an amazing amount of cooperation and preparation!

[@joshuab4586]

“Let me just give a call to the Rocket Center” you know, like everybody else can?

[@jcloud2928]

Please share how that worked for you.

[@vaudemu2263]

@@jcloud2928 you just call them. Either they agree or they dont. I live thirty minutes from the space and rocket center. People around here are usually pretty nice, but honestly, i think the free advertisement is something they wouldnt turn down, even for a random youtube guy

[@TheBlacktom]

Everybody else can.

[@jet_aviation]

@@vaudemu2263 he's not random. His dad worked on big nasa projects

[@CodingWithBen]

jet ro wow really? Didn’t know that

[@earthygreen]

It is now October 2019 and I'm not seeing an answer to this. DESTIN! Did anyone ever tell you what was happening? You really need to make a follow up on this and add it to this video's annotations.

[@toonsgy5314]

I was thinking the same thing... and i don't find a respond to. Is this related to the transparent light on top of the rocket ? If you have a réflexion of the same moon light but with a shift phase due to the transparente light on top ? could it be like that ? The angle came from nowhere on this video but if you go and look closer the top of the rocket and see if a tilted lightbob or reflective surface is present... no ?

[@rolando2395]

@@toonsgy5314 that's probably it.. because the line stays on the tip of the rocket as the moon continues to go down

[@beefcakeandgravy]

Seconded. November 2019

[@AemVR]

Dustin

[@brandonbullins]

I answered it

[@Aleph_-_0]

Third meaning for blood moon(in terraria): You can’t even stay indoors

[@samueljett3505]

Yeah.

[@dorothygray6461]

We're just dealing with Destin having a crisis over youtube on edited footage. Now think about how his wife feels.

[@sparkyboi2802]

Blood moons are auper annoying. Especially in hard mode

[@johnnyfeaver7756]

@@sparkyboi2802 just go underground

[@malkrie1444]

@@johnnyfeaver7756 or just be slightly above ground and put a single block of dirt in front of your door.

[@bigbigblast]

When you said, "I don't know what it is," my jaw dropped.

[@zaksullivan4093]

@@KyZeNickX he's just a simple Rocket scientist

[@vikrantdhapa]

Make a video on the explanation of the phenomenon... I am really curious tp know...

[@CanadianProdigy]

it is because of destructive interference. The tip of the antenna creates the same thing as in the two-slits experiment.

[@dnyaneshwardarade6120]

Yes it is also described in brief history of time

[@dnyaneshwardarade6120]

Or go to heaven to ask Steven hawking

[@IAMSTEVIERAYBITCH]

@@dnyaneshwardarade6120 Stephen Hawking is definitely not in heaven.

[@dnyaneshwardarade6120]

bbear steven hawking died

[@DavesChaoticBrain]

Did it happen on both cameras? EDIT: 3 days later, yes, I know he said it happened on both cameras. I just missed it. Loads of interesting theories and great discussion here though!

[@smartereveryday]

It happened on all 3 cameras, but only from one of our 2 shooting locations. We were approximately 2.2 miles away. Here are the exact TPE data from this shot: app.photoephemeris.com/?ll=34.700583,-86.619095&center=34.7058,-86.6382&z=14&spn=0.05,0.14&dt=20180131063500-0600&sll=34.711166,-86.655948 I was shooting with a 300mm lens on a Canon 70D, also a 100mm lens on a Panasonic GH5. Trevor also saw it on his Canon7D MkII. All the raw photos are in the dropbox folder on the Patreon page. (Sorry I've limited that folder of photos to Patrons only because they're cool and have an incredible track record of keeping all photos and digital content for personal use only www.patreon.com/posts/raw-saturn-v-16800811 ) Here's one of the images I put up on a public post (Paywalls suck.) Here you go: www.patreon.com/posts/16802286

[@paulcapocasa4416]

Dave Wilson He had stills from his camera, then he had video from actual video. This may have been the same camera. I know your line of questioning.....his friend didn't seem to notice it, so it would be nice to see his photos to compare.

[@mohammedsaad3503]

SmarterEveryDay maybe it's due to the scatering of BOTH lights (WHITE LIGHT OF Rocket AND SUNS RED LIGHT)

[@OrganicGreens]

My guess is the line is the consequence of how digital cameras decodes sensor data. Its not a typical setting with the rokit being so far away and the moon being even farther maybe the software that is decoding the sensor has some kind of bug in this setting

[@DavesChaoticBrain]

SmarterEveryDay 3 cameras? Wow. Very bizarre indeed then. It's too late now but would be interesting to know if it was visible through just a telescope or if it is strictly some side effect of digital capture.

[@liamxavier3701]

Dude, love your shows. Down-to-Earth explanations and presentations. Wish I had teachers such as you!

[@parkerjohnstone5273]

me too

[@daniwalmsley611]

Okay this is super cool. That saturn V has a special place in my heart, I'm british and was visiting the USSRC when I was like 14. I flew into Huntsville late at night, these two lovely people from the centre picked me up and I look out the window on the interstate and I see the saturn V all lit up. Its an amazing sight and I don't think I could ever forget it

[@Wheelygonzales]

0:42 Really glad the actual Saturn V rockets didn't do that! 😂

[@myselfremade]

They do though. Repeatedly. Otherwise they wouldn't be able to make it to the moon!

[@Wheelygonzales]

Anthony No, I mean unintentionally just break in half in the middle of the flight.

[@nThanksForAllTheFish]

The blood moonlight would have been polarized and relatively narrowband. It diffracts around the tip of the rocket and since the tip is tapered, there is one radius that would cause destructive interference between the diffracted moonlight and the light that would otherwise have come from the dark line.

[@blessedthistle9702]

Fraunhofer line

[@RaindropsBleeding]

I have a theory. There's a light at the tip of the rocket that lights up. There is most likely a reflector inside that light, designed to reflect the light from the bulb in all horizontal directions. I suspect that the light from the moon is reflecting out of that reflector, and that the light wave is interfering with itself, casting a shadow at all points where the wave intersects, i.e. a line. I am not a well learned physicist and I have no omnidirectional reflector with which to test this theory.

[@mandomestizo]

yes it has to do with the blinker light on top of the rocket, and a reflector explains it all....i think he knows that but wants to make it a mistery.....

[@jamus618]

I believe that's the explanation. Nice work.

[@TheOriginalFaxon]

This seems like the most logical explanation based on real physical properties. Someone needs to test this theory. Either way it's an excellent theory

[@scrodingerscat.]

but the rocket is too far away so line should not be that clear as there are other sources of light around it

[@gregjones7196]

3 years and this is STILL amazing!

[@EmpiricalPenguin]

It's the Earth's shadow, as the Earth is flat of course. 😧

[@Joelmavelikara]

EmpiricalPenguin dafaq?

[@BirchPlanks]

Made me laugh, thank you

[@uknowngamer1017]

EmpiricalPenguin the earths a square, but because of the angle it compressed the shadow to just a slit

[@blakephelps2854]

Im dead 😂😂😂

[@johntate6537]

I don't usually like trolling, but OMG that is some quality trolling! My hat is off to you sir!

[@cesaryoshikawa7656]

It's a render bug of far objects. Just a proof that we live in a simulation. xD

[@malvarezroson]

Shut up Morty

[@cryangallegos]

César Yoshikawa matrix anti-aliasing confirmed

[@moejoejoe]

MSAA: LOW MIP MAPPING: OFF

[@limbus_patrum]

How do I get to console? I want to paly with /GodMode

[@Myemnhk]

Even if we did doesnt matter. Tgis is our reality and it doesn't mean anything if we are in one. But thats assuming thats even happening

[@truthselfevident]

I've seen videos of a shockwave looking line traveling over the entire moon from different people at different times.

[@myagleny1406]

Wow.. Four of us saw a line like the one on your picture on the full moon last night, no contrails, no wires, JUST across the face of the moon, slowly descending as if it was being scanned. Thanks to Jo and Hack for finding your video 😄

[@powerman91]

Saw the same exact thing a few weeks ago. Out in fhe middle of the country side so there was absolutely nothing in front of the moon. Been looking for an explanation for it.

[@dhawthorne1634]

When reflecting telescopes view stars, the support arms for the forward mirror disrupts the light making the stars appear to have points coming off of them. Perhaps, since the object blocking the light was further away and taking up less FOV than the light source, it created a line of darkness from the object rather than lines of light coming from the light source. I'd like to add that the number of support arms determines how many "rays" are in the final image (3 arms, 3 points; 5 arms, 5 points). Since the tip of the rocket was the blocking object, it would stand to reason that there would be only one line, or a series tiny dots that only look like a line.

[@oMartyrr]

I saw this with my own eyes, so I doubt it has to do with the telescope or camera.

[@ichangedtheworld]

D Hawthorne awesome response.

[@CharlesBosse]

Darn, I liked this for a reason.

[@CharlesBosse]

Grievenchy actually, if you saw it with your eyes... what happened when you moved your head? Did the line stay on the 🌒 or move with the top of the rocket?

[@andersledell8643]

O don't know anything about optics, but would this explain why we only saw the line in the second set of photos?

[@AwsumAwsumness]

Ever notice that Destin's accent always gets stronger when he's talking with someone else from Alabama?

[@smartereveryday]

My knuckles were cold.

[@carlosjohnson6271]

Oh

[@denjisenpai4569]

eh, makes sense

[@Gmoyer11Tech]

That's how mine works

[@lvl20galathem]

Yeah, I speak with a stronger accent when I'm here in Kentucky, but less when I'm not.

[@0626jrp]

Great video. Love taking pictures of stuff like that.

[@jefflove2298]

Ive watched all of your videos and i had no idea we lived in the same city(until i re watched this one) Just knowing that such an amazing person is so close is awesome!

[@Sponcered]

have you tried turning the moon off and then on again?

[@PeterLunk]

Don't worry, it's just a glitch in the Matrix :P

[@Someone-ish]

Welcome to my brain visitor!

[@nibel-k1433]

@@adriantcullysover4640, I tought the same thing.

[@deductivevariance3497]

Nasa is going to patch it out with the next GlobeEarth update.

[@reecetilley585]

So your calling flat earth a glitch in the matrix?! Give this man a medal!

[@greensphinx]

James William Watson same

[@Recroom.grandpa12]

0:42 you never see destin not smile it made me laugh so hard when he made face and i dont know why

[@ForeverOfMusic]

3:13 reminds me of the end of Majora's Mask when the moon falls.

[@Michaelosophie]

I think it is because of the bulb, which refracts the lights passing through. Because of the slight angle of the refracted lights and the distance at which you are looking at it, the refracted lights might interfere with the other lights. And because the bulb has a “cylindrical” shape, this will only effect the lights perpendicular with the cylinder and create a “line”

[@sedled2829]

But the light turns off and its still there?

[@FoxvoxDK]

Sed Elmi Bulb as in the plastic or glass that protects it. I'm guessing that the light from the back and front diffracte.

[@1KianWR]

Looks like a thin cloud layer viewed from the side only visible when backlit. If you look at the images the line moves a little and does not line up with the rocket top on the last images This makes good sense since the clouds move. In the film of the moon before the slide show around 3:18, you can see multiple cloud lines across the moon.

[@lamarethington]

I think you may be right about this.

[@Dreamlight000]

I agree, thin cloud layer. The lower layers being further away would appear thinner and only show when backlit by the moon.

[@bekanav]

I very much agree and I wrote very similar answer and saw your reply afterwards. A kind of nice to see we came to same conclusion, thank you KianwR !

[@Kharnellius]

Yep, was wondering if that was what it was. First thought I had. That or the trail of an airplane, perhaps.

[@danielm.edwards1977]

Love the passion...I captured a ufo crossing the moon..and many of us know of Crrow 777

[@seanthewanderer1307]

I commented on this in another video. This looks to me like the edge of the "Wave", due to the reflection and angle of the light. The "Wave" is a holographic shield that covers the surface of the moon. It goes around the surface of the moon constantly, but we see it only every so often, due to lighting. Sometimes it resembles like a heat wave going all the way across until it disappears. Many people, including amateur astronomers have documented it. It's interesting, and possibly coincidental that it was at the edge/tip of the rocket. Very cool shot!

[@nola1439]

I know light can do weird things when bending around things, but I’m no expert. I think you should try to recreate it with a dull round light and a pointed object and see if you can get the same effect.

[@jacobopstad5483]

That's a great idea! I would love to see that.

[@EssenceRare]

Yes! Because if he can repeat it it’s proven. Unless Atomes behave the way we expect them to as the observer.

[@blessedthistle9702]

Fraunhofer line

[@OhhYasssh]

hey its us... audience... welcome back to comment section Destin

[@smartereveryday]

Greetings Yash. Please deliver physics answers to my brain.

[@OhhYasssh]

i'm still a learner tho

[@ChristinaMoralesMindfuqed]

YASH RAJ SHARMA this is great

[@mmjmedic822]

Reflection shadow. Congrats on your shot

[@bt3of4]

refraction and sometimes reflection (obscured reflection plane actually). GA pilots see several of those as they climb through the layers of smoke, smog, thin cloud layers, etc. They always seem to have a "reference" source, such as the wingtip outside, an object between you and some distant fix, and similarly, the tip of your rocket. This reference source makes it appear that these "lines" are emanating from some object. The closer you are in RELATIVE (think parallax) altitude to the source of refraction (or sometimes reflection), the thinner the line is. The length of the line is dependent on the source of light being refracted. Wide backlight (and obscuring 'surface'), wide line (remember to account for parallax in this).

[@ZanHecht]

If you watch the time lapse, there were very clearly stringy-looking clouds that night. This was clearly a cloud or contrail that was at such an altitude that it wasn't illuminated by the sun or ground-based light pollution, and was therefore only visible when silhouetted against the moon.

[@InLoveWithFlight]

Zan Hecht sounds really reasonable. Pure coincidence that it is aligned with the tip of the rocket from that specific point of view.

[@davecrupel2817]

Interesting possibility

[@rolanddeschain6089]

Zan Hecht my first though was fog. Sometimes when the morning sun clears the air from the fog, plus it is windy, you see stuff like this on tall buildings or mountains.

[@larryscott3982]

Zan Hecht I’d bet large on contrail.

[@liammorris6354]

34°42'33.91"N, 86°38'56.71"W Shows Power lines directly in your path of view. While your altitude of 60' was high, it changes the relative height of the power lines. It just happens that your horizontal view catches the wire just right. At such a shallow angle of difference to you line of sight relative to the intersection of the power lines, the power line in the limited field of view of the illuminated moon makes the wire appear straight. Or, same issue, different lines, the ones on Beaty Rd SW immediately WEST of your viewing spot. Jarods' drone view @ 2:30 shows a utility pole RIGHT of CENTER in the trees. If the view altitude is >60', you can't see the wires. but if your camera height is lower, they could possibly be the "LINE"

[@64156ful]

First off, they would obviously place the camera At the 60-foot level if that's the best view height, they are doing it for the photos and looking at it through the camera. Second, the bottom of those power lines are ~15-18 feet off the ground (by regulation) the top of the lines were about twice as high, even if the camera was lower than Destin and they were at sixty ft. the camera would be well over 20 feet higher than the lines.

[@mace_x6277]

thats some serious dedication right there

[@AlexJW224]

That so cool! I was there last year for my 8th grade space camp trip!

[@zeeshmeister]

I believe it's called a 'glitch in the matrix'

[@AdrianHertz]

Is so obvius actually, the line is the shadow of the flat heart being casted onto the moon it just happen to align with the tip of the rocket`s perpective a phenomenon known as the tide pod effect

[@maryslittlehelpers8163]

5:02 Just a thought, but my best guess would be that this is an example of atmospheric refraction induced by a cold front on top of a warmer front that just happened to line up in the right spot at the top of the rocket. If you take a closer look, you can see that the "edges" of the moon are slightly deformed at that line. It's almost as if the bottom section of the moon was cut off and moved slightly higher than it should be. If the temperature of the air under the line was slightly warmer than the temperature above the one (and not a gradient, but isolated fronts), then the change in air density would appear to make the bottom of the moon slightly higher than rest of the moon. Also, since this was a sunrise and you are taking the images towards an urban center I would expect a warm dome of air beneath a colder front (if you look carefully, you can see a slight arc in the line, as if it's a part of a larger dome). It appears that the temperature that night dropped to around 20 degrees Fahrenheit on the night in question. So, the line would just be an artifact cause by light warping as it passes through from the cold front to the warm front. Just a thought.

[@martinlicht1969]

Dielectricity/magnetic effect being induced by the celestial alignment and expressing in the coaxial circuits of light. With wisdom, one can go beyond the line effect and do things beyond amazing taking advantage of celestial alignments. Cool video..

[@bidlis]

horse named Elvis.. im done

[@smartereveryday]

He's not my best horse. That one was named "Best Horse". But I decided it wasn't actually the best horse, so I got rid of that one and got an awesome one named "Bree". She's the best.

[@williamgibson737]

Off Topic: I spent all that time soothing Satori just to find out that I can't keep him in a stable to access at will. I guess some creatures are meant to be free.

[@smartereveryday]

What? Wait spoilers don't tell me.

[@jeffirwin7862]

A horse has no name.

[@RoadkillbunnyUK]

This is where I tell you I have an actual horse named Elvis. He is black and white and asthmatic. He is also awesome 😁

[@npdove8]

Flight SWA1031, sorry if someone already said this, is a regularly scheduled St. Louis to Houston flight. Flight track puts it over Batesville Arkansas at 6am. Easy way to find this, zoom out on Destin's moon map, the moon bar points to Luxora AK, heading of 290.8, keep going to about Ash Flat, the plane's track and the moon's cross around here. I could be wrong. But the jet stream was pushing at 60 knots to the east, so by the time Destin took the photo 30 minutes later, contrail would be closer to Jonesboro. Plane could have been under the horizon, contrail over maybe? Destin was stoked about the moon, probably didn't notice a faint strobe light 30 minutes before. Did some math with a lot of guessing. Church 632ft + 60ft lift=692, US S&R 665ft + 363ft rocket= 1028, 1028-692=336, Distance between 11631ft, some sin and cosine, Destin's camera angle is 1.655 degrees. I don't how to account for earth curvature, but for flat-earthers assume the plane at 38,000ft is on a 90 degree triangle and the other angle is 1.655, the distance the camera could see the plane is 250 miles. Straight line distance Huntsville to Jonesboro, 240 miles. Again, I dont know all of the math to pin point a plane in the sky. There was also a private jet around Memphis, but I think it was moving the wrong way to make the line flat to the ground. If this isn't it, I just wasted a lot of time.

[@HEAVYxxMETAL]

It most certainly wasn't any kind of condensation trail. It seemed to be more a trick or phenomenon of light because it rose fluidly with the tip of the rocket, it definitely wasn't any clouds or things like that.

[@milliosmiles5160]

Not sure that rocket tip did any rising, it was still there at the end of the photo shoot!

[@HEAVYxxMETAL]

It rose relative to the moon; while the moon was going downwards, it made the rocket appear to move upwards. I'm not sure if you knew what I meant or are just confused, haha.

[@rey5597]

HerrStoneman it didn't move upwards. The line is stationary as the moon goes down. I don't think we can rule out contrails just yet

[@rich1051414]

I think there is something really interesting going on, but it is some kind of atmospheric lensing effect I do not understand. The point on the rockets tip must be necessary for the effect. If this is the case, people should be able to recreate it easily and determine if atmospheric distortion is required for the effect to work.

[@friedrichklappenbach2429]

This line could be a gravity wave known in atmospheric science - not to confuse with gravitational waves known from astronomy. The layered atmosphere has certain regeions with strong density changes along the vertical direction (e.g. the boundary layer). These changes can allow surface waves to propagate and even to break - very similar to the waves you see on the water surface. These waves are called gravity waves because the reacting force is the earths gravitation. So if you look along such a surface in the atmosphere - what is very likely to be the case under these shallow angles - light will be refracted and seen from elsewhere but the expected background. On a evenly distributed layer this effect will not be visible, because it affacts all the lightrays equally. But with the presence of a gravity wave a anomaly is introduced that makes this phenomen visible. Just a speculation from an atmospheric scientist. Nice video by the way!

[@JuanCarlosHazanow]

It is a cloud interrupting the light that comes from the sun behind the set at that precise angle 3:34

[@Freizeitflugsphaere]

I sadly missed that event😓... Therefore i appreciate that you did a video about it!

[@UAVwaffle]

Freizeitflugsphäre same we had a cold front on the same day so it was raining 😭

[@QCpowarr]

Same here bud.. You're not alone on that one. I went to bed early that night at around 10pm.. I usually go to bed at 1-2am.. I didn't get anything in my facebook feed about it either so I completely missed it. But at least SmarterEveryDay got us covered with a great 1080p 60fps video! :)

[@acoow]

If you don't publish an answer to this question, I will make a Voodoo doll of you and batter and fry it in butter.

[@kuro13wolf]

Relevant profile picture

[@moonw0rt]

Dead

[@jazzer2284]

Ok

[@Khorzho]

I think I found a way to test this! Somehow get a light source behind something with the same shape as the rocket including a bright red aircraft warning light. Get the same light conditions. See if you can replicate it with that camera (if you still have it) or another.

[@AlxandreNotavo]

I forgot about this video until youtube recommended it to me again. So, what was it?

[@hannDreistZett]

I wanna know as well.

[@jrocksburr2724]

I’ve been wanting to know for 3 years but literally can’t find anything

[@BIONICLECLAYPOKEMON]

When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie, that's amoré!

[@jeffirwin7862]

When a grid's misaligned with another behind, that's a moiré!

[@jaredtownsend7379]

Was just listening to that song..

[@Hootkins.]

When you swim in the sea and an eel bites your knee, that's a moray!

[@Centfla60]

Ouch

[@gordonfreemanthesemendemon1805]

when you die with a guy who's name is bill nye, thats a whoregay

[@elevown]

So are you sure there were no wires? They don't need to be at the rocket - maybe a power cable etc like halfway between you and the rocket? Or what about a very distant and thus thin looking contrail, that just happens to line up with the rocket tip - and you could not see against the dark sky till the moon descended behind it? If you can rule those out my guess is some kind of optical effect like you said.

[@LeoH3L1]

The fact it is parallel with the top of the frame suggests it could be an auto-iso issue caused by the sudden contrast, if the camera is using a rolling shutter, it will see light, then a thin strip of dark at the tip of the rocket, then light again, that sudden change could be causing it to adjust the ISO, over compensate, create a bright line, then over compensate the other way on the next scan line, causing a dark line on the left hand side of the image (just using left hand roll as an example) then it passes over the dark spot, again, but does not pick it up this time, and continues with a dark line, then when it gets to the next lline, it has had enough time to react that it sorts itself out for the rest of the image. Anyway that's what I think is going on there.

[@juano3000]

The prism in the top of the rocket difracts light and sends a beam in straight line to the camera lens. According to the Fraunhofer effect, this beam is reacting to the shutter slit, creating that interference line. Smaller slit width, longer unidimensional interference.

[@ChitosVids]

I would try to replicate this again with a normal full moon, and then even try different angles (lower/higher) to see what happens

[@EmissaryOfSmeagol]

The Blood Moon rises once again! 0:32 Respect!

[@renshiai]

its cool

[@Snowflake-hg1tn]

Weeb

[@BananaSlayer_]

“Please be careful, Link.”

[@ACEZL]

I think the reason is the tip of the rocket has a blinking light made of glass I assume. I think it is not the moon or the rocket but how your special telescope camera picks up the image along with the atmosphere as you mentioned.

[@DanielAirthNelson]

This is a diffraction meniscus or node point where two atmospheres of air meet but will not mix (for many reasons including moisture level and temperature). The meeting point between the atmospheres creates a diffraction point where light bends acting like a distortion lense such as seen in some mirage photos. They are usually horizontal due to gravity and density and invisible to the naked eye unless observed in a distant mirage or zoomed-in on a large illuminated background like the moon. It happens to be almost aligned up with the tip of the rocket, I say 'almost' because it is slightly below the tip and not perfect.

[@fishtripper]

It's now January 1st 2020 so did you ever find an answer to that question last decade or is it still a mystery.

[@jdel1538]

It's now the 2nd

[@gizmoguyar]

It's now April 15th 2020. Still no sign of an answer...

[@shahryarmishra5858]

It's been answered hahas, the Fraunhofer Lines

[@charonme]

@@shahryarmishra5858 that doesn't explain it

[@TormentaEV]

Greetings from June 6th, 2020. Still no answer from S.E.D. on why we get that line... but keeping very optimistic!

[@ididafewthings]

Isn’t it obvious? The line is the shadow of the flat earth which happens to coincidentally be at the tip of the rocket.

[@ididafewthings]

Oh... I just realized that the flat earth community has already spotted this fact in other comments. What a bunch of smart people we are!

[@b1aflatoxin]

LOL - Funny stuff, but you gotta put an emoji like ;) or :p at the end of your trolling, otherwise a bunch of idiot flat Earthers will be agreeing with you.

[@theonly5001]

No that is a Chemtrail which hasn't dissolved into the atmosphere properly. I wouldn't be surprised if Destin would dissapear tomorrow. Because the government doesn't want us to know..... But the Contrail theory seems the most logical of all I've read.

[@b1aflatoxin]

It could be a contrail yeah. I wonder if they have any photos of the rocket after the sun came up? That would put much of this debate to rest. It obviously has something to do with lighting (since its only seen with the backlit moon.)

[@totaledorbgaming7280]

then how does that explain the continually growing shadow on the moon huh?

[@bartwalterssax]

I love this channel....all Destin wants is a photo....then......cue boom lift, lights, camera...

[@GOwBahddaym]

It’s a glitch in the matrix

[@garole]

I commented the same thing but didn't got any likes . Soo

[@GOwBahddaym]

@@garole another glitch in the matrix?

[@PK-lr8mh]

RoFL 🤣😂🤣😂

[@garole]

@@GOwBahddaym yea

[@SuperJumper]

They may have forgot V-Sync (Credits:standard carrot) Not gonna steal the credits

[@mitchm5049]

i don’t know what it was about 0:42 seconds but i die every time just the look on his face when that piece flew off and how he looked like “ uhh should i keep going “ then starts laughing as he puts it together just makes me feel like i’m watching a video a friend made thanks destin for adding funny little moments you have like that

[@baganatube]

After eight months, do you have an answer?

[@oleksandrzakharchenko9026]

I'd like to know as well

[@ryba_god]

@@oleksandrzakharchenko9026 It was maybe chemtrail :D

[@lokatzlikina]

It's called creeping wave

[@lostspace5811]

It was a powerline held up by a big mom

[@darkdialect]

It takes usually nine months to get answer :)

[@keeianfazilkee8552]

Super cool shoot...

[@FatManPhoto]

I was out there for a work trip last month (was across the street at the courtyard and wanted to visit the Space center but got crazy sick and did not get a chance to. Hopefully next time. I think that line is just normal optical diffraction caused by the escape tower sharp point. I've seen these effects when shooting other glass/sharp/pointed items during solar or lunar events. Saw it during a partial solar eclipse when shooting the Disneyland castle during a partial solar eclipse. (no the shot did not come out like I wanted but it was still worth it.

[@vzgsxr]

Rick James is headed to the moon to snort that massive line. 😂

[@hempwick8203]

lmfaoooo homie ily

[@brianchristine9301]

🤣🤣 Can't stop laughing!

[@lucacaro9225]

Its called a 'diffraction imprint' minutephysics explain it the best in their video 'Why are stars Star-shaped?'

[@Skemooo]

Upvote this answer this indeed is a diffraction imprint from Satrun Rocket Tip

[@Hirudin]

luca caro That was an interesting video, but the moon in these images is hardly a point of light, and the line is dark, not light. Also, the line doesn't change orientation as the cameraS are moved. And it's doubtful that the aperture of those fancy lenses is a slit.

[@Leonj2932]

luca caro except it's not a diffraction of light . It's literally a black line , absence of light .

[@paulharris9107]

that's awesome :) thanks!

[@Leep458]

so it diffracted light away from where the lens is, Ever seen a laser light re/deflected? it goes in a straight line, but then it's direction changes. The light from the moon that was going to hit the lens, but then got redirected into a different direction away from where they were idk, just a guess

[@darmachain]

I think it is a light wave cancelation from the reflected light along the reflected angle with the moon being the source of light and the angle at the tip of the cone on the rocket reflecting back at the moon. This would explain why the line never leaves the tip of the rocket but is reflected on a specific angle spread outward the same as light leaving a convex surface this light interferes with the light coming from the moon and canceled out but because of the dispersion from the convex shape of the cone should make the image appear as a dark line as opposed to a black point. this would be visible directly from behind the rocket in line with the moon but would not be visible from any other angle due to nonopposing light.

[@donfoster5576]

Imaging sensor is a CCD, which unloads the data by shifting the charge sideways and sequentially across the line of pixels. Question: If a very bright source, possibly IR or UV in that warning beacon (which we wouldn't see with our eyes but which might be sensed by the CCD) were to saturate one or several pixels, would that saturate the entire line of pixels, making them appear dimmer (and thus producing a dark line)?

[@Captain_Hapton]

Psh... we all know it's the shadow from the cable that's holding the moon up in the sky.

[@CC-uk6xd]

Wouldn't the cable just go directly into the moon and wrapped around it

[@o_mag_pie_o666]

Hahaha

[@YonehtAKehteD]

🤣🤣😂

[@saivardhanchowdary7918]

Why can't they go wire less??!!🤔🤔

[@reecetilley585]

@@saivardhanchowdary7918 they cant do that yet because the moon landing was faked which proves we cant go to the moon and make it wireless Plus, if we did, it would fall down and tip flat earth and all humans would fall off into the void and go extinct Obviously

[@aaronmicalowe]

At first I thought it must be a image interpretation glitch like we used to get on TVs when viewing an interlaced image. If you didn't have a monitor with a de-interlacer built in, then you'd get lines exactly like this. But you said you also saw it through the viewfinder. Unless that viewfinder is an internal lcd screen, you shouldn't also be able to see it with the naked eye. If it is an internal LCD screen and not direct sight then it's possible the same interlace is happening there too. And I don't think it can be a sensor error from the light on top of the rocket because it's there when the light is off.

[@JimButler1234567890]

I used to live in Huntsville. I guess you were standing on the bridge at Sparkman.

[@JamesCrane]

It's the power transmission line that runs north of Cooke Dr. There are several lines that are suspended from the poles in the area. The height of the line in question is higher than the lift you used, but lower than the rocket's tip. One of these lines became visible as the moon lit it from behind and just so happened to be aligned with the top of the rocket from your vantage point.

[@huawafabe]

My best guess is: there's a power line between camera and rocket that you kind of... missed?

[@huawafabe]

If you look at the map, there's indeed a power line between the shooting location and the rocket. *thinking* But you cannot possibly have missed that can you :D

[@huawafabe]

But the tip of the rocket doesn't move, the moon does

[@lt.youtube4113]

Fabian Huber 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@jetison333]

thats probably it

[@huawafabe]

jetison333 yeah he wrote in another comment that it's visible on several cameras but only on that one shooting spot. That would make sense. Maybe the power line is thin and hardly visible. So it's easy to miss but on those photos you can see it

[@ainsleywainsley]

i was me bro i was flying my straight line kite that night

[@KarlParish]

Hahahahahaaaaa!!! This comment totally killed me!! I'm laughing like crazy in my office!! Thank you!!

[@ainsleywainsley]

i have proof bro, here is a video of me flying my kite that very night - /watch?v=Xwwm8NDH9Ls

[@KarlParish]

Ahahaaaa!! Mate, you look stoned.. and you have a look of Bart Simpson too!!

[@clarencecausey7473]

ainsleywainsley dude LMFAO!!!

[@loliswat8223]

LMFAO!!!!!

[@sheriframsay717]

very intriguing !

[@janineadkins8170]

I don't know about light waves and pulses but there is no line at 3.36 where the rocket's top light looks to be off and above the moon on the left, on my computer screen, but there is a dark line when the light comes on. The on-off effect of the light seems to pulse a shadow to its left and right, not on the moon as such, but in front of the moon and picked up by your cameras. Sort of like when you blink your eyes really fast while looking at a bright light and you see a negative, dark, or shadow effect that appears in front of your eyes. Why the shadow is diagonal could depend on whether the light is circling, similar to a light house, or the strobe is faster on one side, or because of the moons angle in relation to the rocket's light. Just my best guess and something to consider.

[@adamemac]

Wow, Destin! Those shots were incredible! No watermark, though?

[@shemp69]

The line is his watermark

[@dan110024]

Too many people get worked up about having their watermark on pictures these days.

[@adamemac]

dan110024 Destin had stills from his tattoo gun slo-mo video taken used without even giving him credit. That's why I asked.

[@dan110024]

adam mac actually I believe it was basically the whole video. But yeah..

[@JustBackOutNow]

Its Tito 😂

[@behnamsaeedi]

What is even weirder is that right before the tip of the rocket touches the moon, it looks like it warps the moon (as if there is surface tension between the tip of the rocket and the edge of the moon), it's also easy to reproduce, same thing happens when looking at shadow of the tip of two pens as they get closer to one another. I think it has something to do with Light diffraction and Diffraction grating.i'm not sure how

[@georg2010cz]

Regarding the Sound Traveller Project. You actually had basically the same idea as I had a while ago, but didnt pursue it. I am a great fan of ASMR and such binaural sound art which helps to experience by emerging into it by illusion. So definitely wish the creator much luck and support!

[@bluemalamute]

how perfect was the verse at the end. I always think of "When the Saints Go Marching In"--(when the moon turns to blood . . . )