Comments on: The home of Elves and Sprites found

The home of Elves and Sprites found

dibblda — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 12:01:34 -0800

Elves in the upper atmosphere. Weird phenomena and not well understood, they are observed in the upper atmosphere. More can be found here and here.

By: Marisa Stole the Precious Thing

Marisa Stole the Precious Thing — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 12:11:53 -0800

That's very cool that beautiful, upper atmospheric phenomena are being studied further but I think the real question here is - just how are they able to make enough toys for the world's children every year?

By: felix betachat

felix betachat — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 12:18:10 -0800

As you are reading this, a dragon continues to gnaw at the root of the world.

By: shadow vector

shadow vector — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 12:26:48 -0800

Elves, it seems, like it wet and warm. *chortle*

By: kcds

kcds — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 12:30:43 -0800

What's the big deal here? "Sprites" are more correctly known as "player/missile graphics", I thought it was well known Elves can often be sighted at the local Dairy Queen, and blueJets depart daily from JFK and Dulles to Long Beach and Oakland.

By: Guy_Inamonkeysuit

Guy_Inamonkeysuit — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 12:44:02 -0800

Flux capacitor photon bursts.

By: Guy_Inamonkeysuit

Guy_Inamonkeysuit — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 12:51:04 -0800

And at first I thought you meant these things.

By: dibblda

dibblda — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 12:57:45 -0800

And I thought you were talking about Back to the Future :-)

By: stubby phillips

stubby phillips — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 12:57:52 -0800

if only it had been "elvis in the upper atmosphere" where are my glasses?

By: WinnipegDragon

WinnipegDragon — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:02:20 -0800

So if there are elves, I guess we are not living in Talislanta then. (I pity anyone who gets this joke...)

By: XMLicious

XMLicious — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:16:50 -0800

* tells joke about atmospheric hobbits *

By: freq

freq — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 14:05:34 -0800

That's interesting, but recently people have been observing other unexplainable phenomena in the lower atmosphere!

By: never used baby shoes

never used baby shoes — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 14:10:28 -0800

(I pity anyone who gets this joke...) Pity me for getting it, but I reserve my pity for the person who had it top of mind enough to make the joke.

By: dhartung

dhartung — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 15:42:30 -0800

Ha! Next you'll say there are cookies in my computer.

By: SPrintF

SPrintF — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 18:01:45 -0800

Zombies of the Stratosphere!

By: Balisong

Balisong — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 18:21:32 -0800

They're always after 'me Lucky Charms!

By: homunculus

homunculus — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 18:30:34 -0800

Elves, it seems, like it wet and warm. Warm, anyway.

By: bonefish

bonefish — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 00:09:40 -0800

Back in the 60's, my old man, a radar-navigator on B-52's, used to tell me about having observed this kind of phenomenon as a way to temper my enthusiasm for UFO sightings. "There's a lot of weird things going on in the atmosphere we don't understand yet and they are not necessarily aliens from outer space" he'd say. So it was very gratifying to me when this stuff started getting photographed in 1989, confirming his tales. He also recounted to me witnessing ball lightening, another rare phenom. Thanks for this post!

By: Herodios

Herodios — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 06:41:34 -0800

I read that as "ELVIS" in the upper atmosphere. I will admit to being disappointed when I followed the link. Also: FSM in the upper atmosphere. -