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Published: 2010-08-25 00:41:48 +0000 UTC; Views: 3419; Favourites: 92; Downloads: 317
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No, the world isn't ending in this shot. Aliens are not coming to blast us with green lasers, and Will Smith will not pilot a shitty FA-18 Hornet and beat invaders with obviously superior technology (nor will Jeff Goldblum manage to write an intergalactically compatible computer virus). Though it does kinda resemble the clouds that formed from the alien ships in the movie, doesn't it?
This is a small storm that didn't really get big enough to support itself. Formed in southwest Wichita County, Kansas, it migrated south/southeast into Finney County, and skirted west of Garden City, and the airport (to the southeast of town).
In this shot, the storm has outgrown its own ability to support itself, as evidenced by the underdeveloped and overextended updraft. It's still big enough to dump some moisture, but not much, and nothing else. It eventually fell apart entirely and vanished into thin air, from whence it came.
This is the companion shot to Cloudburst .
Canon EOS 30D
Canon EF 20-35mm f/3.5-4.5 USM
ISO 200 @ 1/1000, f/3.5
EV: +/- 2 stops (1/1000, 1/250, 1/4000)
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Who needs aliens on other planets when we have a Star right in front of us?
The Sun is God00) The Universe: https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/1h6k7k/universe_perspective/01) "There's a whole lot more out there than even the most die-hard believers could possibly fathom. The truth is that we - and by "we" I mean this planet and the people of this planet - are in essence blind to what is really going on in the cosmos and outer space." - Smooth Genestar, Dimensions02) "By measuring the number and luminosity of observable galaxies in the known universe, astronomers put current estimates of the total stellar population at roughly seventy billion trillion." - Maria Temming, How Many Stars Are There in the Universe?03) Eustace: "In our world, a star is a huge ball of flaming gas." Ramandu: "Even in your world, my son, that is not what a star is, but only what it is made of." - C. S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader04) "The sun? Conscious? How?" 'In a way lower organisms like you have difficulty to grasp. One thought from the source takes longer than a human life. A conv
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What a beautiful shot!
But when i blinked my eyes i really thought that Will Smith was dragging a long some kind of alien between those trees
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WICHITA COUNTY, KANSAS! I LOVE this photo now! This photo is so real, it looks fake!
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I know. Who knew that BFE-Kansas was on DEVIANTART?! D: D:
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WHOA!!! That's crazy!!! 
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Thanks! It's hard to believe that it was just west of this system on the same night: [link]
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That was still a fun movie....
Very nice shot though of this storm!
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This storm wasn't as well-organized as the other one east of it: [link]
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That's probably one of the coolest cloud pictures I've seen. It reminds me of a giant Man o'War in the sky. Wicked.
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If you enjoyed this, you'll definitely like this one: [link]
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Wow beautiful shot! I love the structure of the storm clouds and warm colors of the sky. The rays of sun behind the cloud though really pull it all together and give it that sense of peace
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I take it you're really not a fan of the campy, patriotic, sci-fi goodness that is the movie "Independence Day"?
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Oh, I love the movie, but it just seems to get hokier and hokier every time I watch it.
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In all fairness, they *did* establish that the aliens borrowed technology as they went and were using ours against us, which helped just a bit with the whole computer virus thing. 
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Oh, I love the movie, I just like making fun of it anymore. It gets hokier and hokier every time I watch it.
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Where would we be if we couldn't poke fun at what we like?
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