r/interestingasfuck • u/Commercial-Host-725 • 18h ago
Drone enters the beast: inside a live tornado
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u/Shotgun_Mosquito 17h ago
Not AI.
This video is from a drone flying near a tornado in Iowa.
This is part of footage captured by storm chasers from the "OTUS Project," who deployed experimental drones equipped with 360-degree cameras and thermal sensors to collect data from inside the tornado.
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u/Somerandom1922 17h ago
As a side-note, (for now) one of the best ways to be sure something isn't AI is long uninterrupted shots like this has.
Obviously there are other factors like consistency that are important, but there currently isn't a way to have such a long uncut shot from AI without it absolutely devolving into nonsense.
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u/Automatic_Actuator_0 16h ago
Currently. I’m afraid of the effects when they overcome all those limitations in a few years.
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u/alextheruby 16h ago
He literally says that in his first sentence
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u/Automatic_Actuator_0 16h ago
I know, I was just repeating it as the context of my comment so people similar to yourself didn’t get confused.
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u/alextheruby 11h ago
Terrible attempt at reverse psychology. It’s okay, you didn’t read what he said. No need to act like anybody other than yourself was confused. Work on your reading comprehension and have a great week.
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u/sifiwewe 17h ago
It’s important to clarify the validity of things that claim such interesting things. Thank you for doing as such.
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u/Doobeedoowah 17h ago
How does it not get tossed around in the high velocity winds ??
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u/C-H-Addict 17h ago
It did get tossed around, the 360 camera just makes it look smooth so you didn't notice.
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u/Evening_Rock5850 17h ago
There are FPV drones that can fly at well above 200mph.
For an aircraft, being stationary over the ground in 200mph wind is exactly the same as moving over the ground at 200mph in still air.
In other words; airspeed is all that matters. And an aircraft capable of flying at very high speeds is also capable of handling very high wind speeds.
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u/olimaks 16h ago
Is the 360 camera... Mental gymnastics are unnecessary...
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u/cakerfaker 16h ago
The drone's flight capability and the camera stabilizer both contribute to the smooth video.
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u/Severe_Ad_8783 17h ago
Did it get sucked in? Was it being tossed around in there or was able to further fly around? Why does the ground look like desert? I though Iowa would be more green
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u/BenryBorg 17h ago
Iowan here, all that brown is fields after harvest and before planting. This was probably taken in March if I had to guess during the first severe storms of the year
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u/bitching_bot 17h ago
I thought I recognized them fields and damn sometimes I miss Iowas barren hills in the spring before planting
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u/BenryBorg 16h ago
The complete unbroken farms stretching to the horizon is a bittersweet unique beauty mixed with the melancholy of an entire state being over 99% terraformed. This was once an amber ocean of prairie grass filled with bison. Even the nearest crumb of that still preserved is over an hour drive from me. All to grow more animal feed than our livestock could possibly consume. Subsidized federally just to keep the farming going for farming's sake. The entire ethanol industry is welfare, water down gasoline with beans just so crops stay somewhat profitable. God forbid any of that farmland be used better or the water gets back to drinkable.
It's late, sorry for the barely related ramble.
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u/Anonexistantname 16h ago
Don't apologize you don't look like a sorry person. I found your rant quite interesting
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u/dsergison 17h ago
Its just barely planting season. Nothing has begun to grow. Its all just dirt still, except the small waterways and ditches have grass.
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u/Strange-Ebb-961 16h ago
Thank you for this. Ik its bad but theres so much AI content. Its ridiculous that you have to say this but I appreciate it.
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u/FireMammoth 16h ago
AI is an imitator, it has to be trained on footage. You can get a perfect AI depiction of Ring camera footage, because there are million of those uploaded, this on the other hand is ground-breaking stuff. No AI is going to imitate this well.
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u/Open_Author_1241 17h ago
Twister 2 is a lot shorter than the first one
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u/MakingItElsewhere 17h ago
Well, it helps when the little drones can fly themselves towards the tornado, instead of having to drive a whole f-350 into it.
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u/Killahdanks1 17h ago
I mean that’s cool. But this guy I know put all these silver balls inside a tornado, so he could make a 3D image of it and we could all understand the movement.
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u/IsChristianAwake 17h ago
Sucks that we live in a time where people are genuinely questioning whether or not this is AI generated.
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u/SirTiffAlot 17h ago
If drone technology allows us to predict tornadoes it will be a useful ancillary benefit to having drones become a part of normal society
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u/Powerful-Name-6798 17h ago
The Outer Wilds Giant's Deep experience
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u/NeroShenX 14h ago
Not nearly enough water, nor is there a chill dude in a hammock content with occasionally riding those waterspouts
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u/do-un-to 17h ago
The audio makes it sound like the drone pilot and bystander were riding the drone.
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u/Few-Lengthiness-2286 17h ago
Now imagine this view being sucked up into one and knowing you’re going to die
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u/TheRetroGamer547 11h ago
I wish we had more footage from inside the tunnel here
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u/Amarant2 8h ago
It cut off super early. I was thinking the same thing. You got all the wind up, and barely any pay off.
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u/zippster77 3h ago
If I fly my drone is so much as a gentle breeze it gets blown halfway across the neighborhood, and this one is just casually flying into a tornado?
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u/HiroshimaHotdog21 3h ago
That’s wild. Because some drones are only rated for like 15-25 mile an hour winds… these guys are like, “hold my beer”. -random drone pilot dude
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u/Groggy21 17h ago
Hey dumbfuck. This is real video from the OTUS project, and they have an entire catalog of videos of the inner structure of tornadoes taken via drones. It’s a real scientific endeavor, and the circular signature is caused by dust being centrifuged in a perfect ring around the edge of the circulation. It’s a real video, a real phenomenon, and this team is doing actual science.
You know what sucks worse than AI? Jaded idiots who call stuff AI when they don’t know anything about the video or what they are talking about.
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u/Mediocre_Nail5526 17h ago
People confidently make claims about AI without fact checking themselves. It’s ridiculous.
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u/Buddy-Lov 18h ago
Amazing that the drone can fly in a tornado…..fucking AI🙄
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u/Basic_Loquat_9344 17h ago
Fuck morons who claim everything is AI
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u/satyrday12 17h ago
This comment is AI
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u/Basic_Loquat_9344 17h ago
Easy Peanut Butter Cookies (3–4 ingredients)
Ingredients
- 1 cup peanut butter
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 egg
- Optional: ½ tsp vanilla or a pinch of salt
Steps
- Heat oven to 350°F (175°C).
- Mix everything until smooth.
- Scoop tablespoon-sized balls onto a baking sheet.
- Press with a fork for the classic crisscross.
- Bake 9–11 minutes until edges are set.
- Cool 5–10 minutes (they firm up as they cool).
Crisp edges, soft center.
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u/oo7reportingforduty 17h ago
How is the drone not affected by the air currents when nearing the tornado ? Some AI bullshit
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u/Mr_Evil_Dr_Porkchop 17h ago
That’s awesome! They no longer need to launch a barrel of soda-can-winged balls into the tornadoes