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Is that a real image?
It's a real screenshot from 2004's banger The Day After Tomorrow.
Hate how people are downvoting this guy just for asking a question, like what is this, reddit?
I wouldn't worry about it. There's a very sad person who tries to downvote all of my posts on a regular basis.
I call that the validation downvote. Just means the federation is still working.
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.
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
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.
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
Geostorm. Fun enough throwaway Gerard Butler movie.
Absolutely hilarious in the most unintentional way.
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)