Of course! Adding to Wikipedia is fun! It's fun to share knowledge/experiences and to think about someone using that info in some random assignment in the future!
it is trivially easy to edit wikipedia and it is genuinely cool to add a lil bit to the corpus of human knowledge. wikipedia is one of the only things that gives me hope for humanity lmao. the fact that wiki-graffiti gets fixed eventually, people who genuinely want to contribute are more prevalent and passionate than shitty people trying to tear it down. it's not perfect but it's one of the best achievements we've got.
A few years back I got some really great pictures of lenticular clouds in Antarctica when I was stationed there. Maybe I'll see if Wikipedia might want them.
It depends. If you're going as a tourist, maybe. Those tours are expensive.
I got hired as a contractor and worked for two seasons. Definitely worth it if you are okay deploying for long periods of time. Take a look at the USAP website for jobs if you're interested.
What did you do as a contractor? If you don't mind telling. This is the sort of stuff that I fantasize about doing some day, although I probably never will.
The way the reply offsets your picture makes it look like the Bugs Bunnies are playing a game of Warship, but with saws and their lives on the line. Bottom Bugs Bunny just missed and top Bugs Bunny is right on the money and now bottom Bugs Bunny will not only experience defeat, but suffer a slow excruciating death.
Love this. Although technically it's not a spelling mistake, it's a grammatical mistake. Like how folks will also use "seen" incorrectly. "Today I seen a cloud hole."
In OPs case, sawed is spell correctly. "I sawed a hole in the cloud." Is grammatically correct if they cut a hole in the cloud with a saw, but not when they seen it. I mean saw it with their eyes. 😊
It actually makes it more likely, because it boosts engagement. The account has 70,238 post karma despite Reddit's current submitted-post endpoint returning zero posts. But search indexing reveals numerous posts by the account that have subsequently been removed.
I'm getting more and more suspicious because I see it more often. It was like this 10 years ago too with intentional spelling of factual mistakes, but it's gotten worse.
Unfortunately typos, spelling errors, and grammatical mistakes is no longer a guarantee that a post was written by a human. The spambot operators have figured out the big tells and trained their LLMs to remove them. Notice how you don’t see the emdash anymore, even though that was a dead giveaway for a little while. Well now they can also include human looking mistakes in their writing.
It doesn’t mean OP is a bot. In fact it looks from their other comments that they’re human. I’m just saying that text errors can’t guarantee you’re reading something from a person anymore.
My understanding is this is caused by either cold air dropping or warm air rising and it punches a hole in the clouds. It’s really cool and nature is amazing. From these type of clouds to aurora and rouge wave nature is awesome terrifying and beautiful
A fallstreak hole – also known as a cavum,[1]hole punch cloud, punch hole cloud, skypunch, cloud canal, or cloud hole – is a large gap, usually circular or elliptical, that can appear in cirrocumulus or altocumulus clouds. The holes are caused by supercooled water in the clouds suddenly evaporating or freezing, and may be triggered by passing aircraft. Such clouds are not unique to any one geographic area and have been photographed from many places.
Looks like Google Lens which uses AI hallucinated the older date. The post in that WetlanderHumor sub is from today and is literally a crosspost of this post lol.
Former meteorologist here, its called a cavum. It has this shape because the middle part of the cloud froze earlier, which means that the drops were heavier and fell while the rim is still water drops.
Sorry for the English, not my first language but i think you get it.
This cloud photo was originally posted in 2018. The other person did not see this cloud formation with there own eyes, the other person simply re-uploaded somebody's else's photo for nothing more than likes. 3 month old account with 90000 karma is doing nothing more than Karma farming. Welcome to the world of Recycled posts, photos, and stuff
I can just make out some smoke/cooling stacks on the hill. They must have warmed the air just past the dew point in that circle? The wind must be super calm that day.
Reddit is so predictable. EVERY comment is about spelling and nothing about the actual picture and the phenomenon. After two or three spelling comments, what was everyone else hoping to achieve by regurgitating the same comment? Do these sheep not feel any kind of awkwardness by being repetitive and boring? "My identical comment is going to be much more funny that the other hundred already posted!"
Remember that the bots are hardcoded to be confrontational to incite arguments and drive engagement.
I’m starting to add an unrelated section to my posts that is bot bait. I’ve had people reply “I have over 30 years experience doing x” and then suddenly delete their comments because of it.
Absolutely Nothing in the world gets people harder than a chance to point out an error in a social media post. Even if there are already a thousand comments pointing out the error, it’s flies on shit.
OP casually discovers a fallstreak hole and everyone’s just glossing over the much bigger revelation that this motherfucker apparently owns a saw powerful enough to cut through the atmosphere. 😂
Seriously though, that’s a gorgeous shot. The streak falling out of the center makes it look like somebody actually punched a hole through the sky and it started leaking.
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u/powderhound522 15h ago
This is super cool! OP, your pic is better than the cover pic on the Wikipedia article; you should upload it there as a replacement.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallstreak_hole