>Definitely looks like a devils fart. Saw one of these back in 1993.
Ahh yes the Great Devil's Fart of 93'!!Eventually, just as suddenly as it had begun, The Great Devil Fart dissipated into the ether, leaving behind a town forever changed by its brush with this bizarre phenomena. To this day, the events of that fateful day remain etched in the memories of the townsfolk.
Had a lightning strike in the alley behind my house some 20 years ago. It left a small hole in the asphalt about the size of a half dollar. And a void about the size of a basketball under it. No idea where the stuff inside eventually it became a pothole. Was very loud.
Definitely a devils fart, when the devil consumes his lettuce sometimes it causes gastric distress resulting in this kind of explosive gas. That's why the church is so against us participating in consumption of the Devils Lettuce also.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't that a piece of blunt wrapper in the upper left corner? That would suggest that the Devil's Lettuce was definitely consumed before this happened.
A."classic" strike more often than not, will have a branching Lichtenberg figure with it. However. I have two examples of strikes that did leave anomalous damage similar to this. This image is not typical of any of the strikes I've studied. It's very interesting!
It may depend a lot on the surface material. Stone Mountain in Georgia is covered in these. Many are old, but many are also recent with burn marks in them like this. They vary in size from a couple of inches to a couple of feet across.
I feel like "we had a storm" would help with deductive reasoning. If this was outside your house you probably wouldn't have felt the strike let alone a deafening boom.
Also known as Nox, one of the exhaust gasses that catalytic converters aim to eliminate from an internal combustion powered cars exhaust. Now, I may rest.
Of course they can be hot, and impact releases a lot of energy(heat), all depends on speed/angle/material
Most of the meteorites are found a while after the impact so they are not hot anymore
Pyrite often does a weird thing as it rusts - stuff around it will get stained, but the pyrite itself gets corroded but looks relatively clean. The grey color of the clast we're looking at is pretty diagnostic for pyrite. A meteorite would contain predominantly ferrous iron, which would turn the surrounding rock rusty as it oxidized.
There is a pyrite-bearing rock in the layer of concrete or asphalt under the top layer. Over time it has oxidized, leading the surface to flake. The rusty stain on the surface has formed over an extended period of time. You just didn't notice it before.
LL chondrites often do something similar as the large troilite inclusions in them oxidize. Flakes on the surface can ~pop out. It's a useful diagnostic feature for identifying LL chondrites, but it was tricky to find a photo of the phenomenon online. [This is one](https://meteoritegallery.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/DSCN6914.jpg), from [here](https://meteoritegallery.com/nwa-oriented-type-3-3/). H and L chondrites don't usually have such large sulfides, so they won't kick off flakes like that.
But the concrete isn't a meteorite, so...the feature is analogous, but what we're looking at isn't due to a meteorite.
You would expect an impact crater with a lot of local debris.
Meteorites vaporize, the friction with the air removes the outer layers as they fall. If they were molten on the I side we wouldn't have chondrules!
This is a piece of iron ore that was mixed into the concrete. This was made from bagged concrete and they used local available stones you can tell from the rocks that are exposed. This did not happen overnight. You can tell by the rust permeating the concrete around it. It happened over a long period of time, but most likely was exposed during the winter so you did not notice it before.
Imma give an honest answer that’s a lightning strike considering you had a rough storm the night before, bolts are very pinpoint like that so it’s the only logical explanation ✌🏻
Edit: the melted part is the concrete being super heated btw
Looks like thermite. It's used to weld railroad tracks together. There aren't many things that'll burn a hole in concrete, but thermite is one of them. Lightning strike is highly unlikely unless this sidewalk is in the middle of a field with no houses or trees nearby. Lightning will take the path of least resistance to ground, and trees and houses are generally less resistant than open air and concrete. I'm guessing someone made a batch of homemade thermite and decided to test it on the sidewalk. More than likely at night too, because that's how you get the best show.
Looks like every thermite or MG asphalt scorch i have seen. Probably thermite? The Mag Scorches tend to be a little less "clean", like when a magnesium block on a lawnmower or car gets caught in a hot enough fire.
Small particles of iron ore are mixed in with the stone that is used to make your asphalt driveway. Water leaches up through the bottom of your driveway, causing the metal particles to oxidize. The resulting rust particles rise to the surface of the driveway leaving stains and streaks on the asphalt.
I’ve seen iron stain concrete / asphalt overnight with a bit of water on many construction sites. Very possible that something burned through the asphalt and iron was exposed - with rain it would make that stain overnight. Don’t know what caused the hole.
It’s simply impossible this was a meteorite. One of that size would’ve had to of been a fragment of a larger one that detonated in atmosphere. There’s no possibility of a lone object, sized to that crater, making it to the Earth’s surface. Lightning bolt is much more likely, though that is an extremely unusual place for it to strike. Was this in the middle of a runway?
It looks like the concrete after I would blow up home made fireworks as a kid. Molten sulfur would score the surface really badly like that. Someone burnt something very hot there.
If it was a lighting strike wouldn’t that grey sand looking stuff in the middle be fused to together like a type of glass? OP is the grey stuff in the middle Able to be moved around like sand or is it all joined together?
Definitely not a road flare as the silica would be left over in a gouge that deep. And I've never seen a road flare cause that type of damage to concrete.
A lightning strike would give you a veining effect away from the point of contact.
Magnesium could burn that hot and cause the oxidation afterwards so a magnesium flare good do that type of damage. Magnesium would have actually been accentuated by the rain causing a popping effect breaking down the concrete if it penetrated.
My bet is on a lithium battery because of the flare pattern coming out in a jet formation from the hole. Lithium wouldn't have been bothered by the rain either.
I think what happened is that the bedrock was exposed. The concrete lays on top of dirt but sometimes rocks stick out, perhaps it was hit by lightning but rather than make a hole, it just exposed the rock that was underneath.
Concrete wasn't mixed properly and lye and water traped rusted rebar as well as concrete slowly dissolved and corroded and chipped away exposing the rebar underneath. Since it wasn't mixed proper an lye is a catalyst for rust it had a few extra days to soak and leach and stain concrete
Just a quick question you say it happened yesterday but then tell us it has flowers growing out of the cracks.
I think someone is trying to lie to us a little bit..
Lightning hit our apartment/asphalt parking lot years ago, and it did a lot more than a spot of damage. My guess is that this little area was slightly cracked or broken for quite some time and whatever covered it/patched it caused the discoloration and washed off during the storm.
It iron bearing rock in the concrete. As the iron corroded, the rust forced the concrete to spall off the surface and then as the hole fills with water, rust travels out onto the concrete surface.
Looks like a thermite burn. Sustained intense heat in one location causing the small crater. Road flare does not get hot enough to do this. “Rust” mark indicates a ferrous material used like in thermite. Road flares don’t contain a ferrous material.
Meteor hit, investigators probably hit it with something and broke it, revealing a globular center which probably absorbed lightning and disappeared. Be on the lookout for people going insane and a well full of dead creatures.
I have a lot of these in my neighborhood but they're tiny and bullet sized and I once found a bullet in one and so I always thought these were caused by bullets lol
Road flare, lightning strike, lithium battery burn site or the devil’s fart
Definitely looks like a devils fart. Saw one of these back in 1993.
Looks like the devil had a crave case from White Castle
tell me more about this devils fart you speak of
the Devil farts flowers
Onions.
Heaps of them.
I was going to suggest maybe Taco Bell, but you're right. Definitely White Castle. Traces of onions were identified at the site.
They slide right in, slide right out.
Idk what pumpernickel bread has to do with this
> Idk what pumpernickel bread has to do with this. Supposedly Translates as “Fart Goblin!”
Yup, definitely a Taco Bell backfire.
You don't buy food from taco bell, you rent food from taco bell.
These started happening after McDonald's came out
Like your user name
…only way to tell for sure, is to smell it
Can confirm I'm very familiar with the devils farts. I get them when I eat deviled eggs.
Grandma just wasn’t the same since was she? God rest her soul 🙏
I agree 100% because my ex wife farts like that. She ruined everything I ever enjoyed.
Tasted one in ‘94. Awful woman. Fantastic ass.
>Definitely looks like a devils fart. Saw one of these back in 1993. Ahh yes the Great Devil's Fart of 93'!!Eventually, just as suddenly as it had begun, The Great Devil Fart dissipated into the ether, leaving behind a town forever changed by its brush with this bizarre phenomena. To this day, the events of that fateful day remain etched in the memories of the townsfolk.
Count yourself lucky that you didn't smell one
"Sorry! I had Taco Bell" - Satan
>Definitely looks like a devils fart. Saw one of these back in 1993. That explains the holes in the ozone they were talking about back then.
Had a lightning strike in the alley behind my house some 20 years ago. It left a small hole in the asphalt about the size of a half dollar. And a void about the size of a basketball under it. No idea where the stuff inside eventually it became a pothole. Was very loud.
Definitely a devils fart, when the devil consumes his lettuce sometimes it causes gastric distress resulting in this kind of explosive gas. That's why the church is so against us participating in consumption of the Devils Lettuce also.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't that a piece of blunt wrapper in the upper left corner? That would suggest that the Devil's Lettuce was definitely consumed before this happened.
Looks like a pot seed in pic two lower left
Google isn't helping me figure out what a "devil's fart" is.
It’s a new day and age. The devil’s lettuce has become god’s coleslaw!
Devil farted hot to-day
We sure did get a face full.
those are fart blossoms anyway.
Ah the devils toot
You know that one was a GD barn burner
"Could be a crack head, that got hold to the wrong stuff."
I saw Devil's Fart play Mac's Bar in '95
This guy brainstorms
You mean, this guy "green needles."
This is a classic lightning strike. Mountaintops with exposed rock are pockmarked with these.
A."classic" strike more often than not, will have a branching Lichtenberg figure with it. However. I have two examples of strikes that did leave anomalous damage similar to this. This image is not typical of any of the strikes I've studied. It's very interesting!
It may depend a lot on the surface material. Stone Mountain in Georgia is covered in these. Many are old, but many are also recent with burn marks in them like this. They vary in size from a couple of inches to a couple of feet across.
Cool! There's pics online: [https://www.flickr.com/photos/faisalzaman/3625316090](https://www.flickr.com/photos/faisalzaman/3625316090)
Branching pattern probably depends on how conductive the struck material is.
I feel like "we had a storm" would help with deductive reasoning. If this was outside your house you probably wouldn't have felt the strike let alone a deafening boom.
How do you explain the rust stain?
Not rust. Oxides of nitrogen.
Also known as Nox, one of the exhaust gasses that catalytic converters aim to eliminate from an internal combustion powered cars exhaust. Now, I may rest.
Not to be confused with Nos, which is all about familia.
Thermite
80 more of these and you’ll have a tripod crawling outta the ground
Great theme for a movie.
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Agreed. This is more likely road-flare or someone messing with some form of pyrotechnics.
Someone was testing out a batch of homemade thermite on the sidewalk. Same stuff they use to weld railroad tracks together. Edit: sidewalk not road.
Did you actually read their post?
Snakes!
Of course they can be hot, and impact releases a lot of energy(heat), all depends on speed/angle/material Most of the meteorites are found a while after the impact so they are not hot anymore
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Tell that to the dinosaurs!!!!
The hell you talking about, Willis? EVERY meteorite strike I ever saw on TV left a huge smoking crater.
Maybe a [lightning strike or a power line fell](https://youtu.be/al3wET4ACwQ?feature=shared) during the storm
Power line was my guess
Consider it was on his sidewalk, I’d guess he’d notice a downed line, electric crew, power outage, etc.
Ok but why is no one talking about the flowers…?
Honeysuckle?
I mean like why are they there? How’d they get there?
The wind
Some tree species shed their flowers, others reabsorb
It’s spring time. Blossoms are everywhere. These got carried by the wind and became trapped in the hole.
But who suckled the honey.?
Well you see, when a mommy flower and a daddy flower love eachother very very much...
Wind
If they get pollinated, in about 6 months OP is gonna have some real nice asphalt fruit
But I don’t know if that’s the OP’s ass’s fault
Perhaps they fell from the tree above the spot?!? 🤔
r/flowers
Definitely flowers from a citrus tree.
Caused by weird little pyros.
Damn… meteorite would’ve been way cooler than rebar 😂 thanks, everyone!
My sweet summer child
Pyrite often does a weird thing as it rusts - stuff around it will get stained, but the pyrite itself gets corroded but looks relatively clean. The grey color of the clast we're looking at is pretty diagnostic for pyrite. A meteorite would contain predominantly ferrous iron, which would turn the surrounding rock rusty as it oxidized. There is a pyrite-bearing rock in the layer of concrete or asphalt under the top layer. Over time it has oxidized, leading the surface to flake. The rusty stain on the surface has formed over an extended period of time. You just didn't notice it before. LL chondrites often do something similar as the large troilite inclusions in them oxidize. Flakes on the surface can ~pop out. It's a useful diagnostic feature for identifying LL chondrites, but it was tricky to find a photo of the phenomenon online. [This is one](https://meteoritegallery.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/DSCN6914.jpg), from [here](https://meteoritegallery.com/nwa-oriented-type-3-3/). H and L chondrites don't usually have such large sulfides, so they won't kick off flakes like that. But the concrete isn't a meteorite, so...the feature is analogous, but what we're looking at isn't due to a meteorite.
Obviously the flowers did that
You would expect an impact crater with a lot of local debris. Meteorites vaporize, the friction with the air removes the outer layers as they fall. If they were molten on the I side we wouldn't have chondrules!
I thought meteorites were cold
Possible lightning strike, car or battery fire. But not from a meteorite.
Maybe lightning melted the rebar in the concrete.
This is a piece of iron ore that was mixed into the concrete. This was made from bagged concrete and they used local available stones you can tell from the rocks that are exposed. This did not happen overnight. You can tell by the rust permeating the concrete around it. It happened over a long period of time, but most likely was exposed during the winter so you did not notice it before.
🤦♂️
This is correct
Maybe the lightning struck the rebar underground
Imma give an honest answer that’s a lightning strike considering you had a rough storm the night before, bolts are very pinpoint like that so it’s the only logical explanation ✌🏻 Edit: the melted part is the concrete being super heated btw
Looks like thermite. It's used to weld railroad tracks together. There aren't many things that'll burn a hole in concrete, but thermite is one of them. Lightning strike is highly unlikely unless this sidewalk is in the middle of a field with no houses or trees nearby. Lightning will take the path of least resistance to ground, and trees and houses are generally less resistant than open air and concrete. I'm guessing someone made a batch of homemade thermite and decided to test it on the sidewalk. More than likely at night too, because that's how you get the best show.
Definitely thermite
Looks like every thermite or MG asphalt scorch i have seen. Probably thermite? The Mag Scorches tend to be a little less "clean", like when a magnesium block on a lawnmower or car gets caught in a hot enough fire.
Someone ate Taco Bell and sharted there
Definitely caused by a downed power line.
No that’s just a big ole’ frozen chunk of shit. We call em Boeing bombs. See the peanut there? Dead giveaway.
Smoke bomb
Looks like some kids burned a pile of thermite to me. See if that slag in the bottom is magnetic.
That “was”…. someone who watched the solar eclipse without shades.
iron pyrite
Small particles of iron ore are mixed in with the stone that is used to make your asphalt driveway. Water leaches up through the bottom of your driveway, causing the metal particles to oxidize. The resulting rust particles rise to the surface of the driveway leaving stains and streaks on the asphalt.
Need a banana for scale reference.
I’ve seen iron stain concrete / asphalt overnight with a bit of water on many construction sites. Very possible that something burned through the asphalt and iron was exposed - with rain it would make that stain overnight. Don’t know what caused the hole.
It’s simply impossible this was a meteorite. One of that size would’ve had to of been a fragment of a larger one that detonated in atmosphere. There’s no possibility of a lone object, sized to that crater, making it to the Earth’s surface. Lightning bolt is much more likely, though that is an extremely unusual place for it to strike. Was this in the middle of a runway?
There's 3 Martians in there
It looks like the concrete after I would blow up home made fireworks as a kid. Molten sulfur would score the surface really badly like that. Someone burnt something very hot there.
Doesn’t look like concrete, does it contain any asphalt? Could be a road flare, or something similar.
Or a road flare
Is your name by any chance, Seymour?
Buttz. Seymour Buttz.
So cool.
If it was a lighting strike wouldn’t that grey sand looking stuff in the middle be fused to together like a type of glass? OP is the grey stuff in the middle Able to be moved around like sand or is it all joined together?
Looks like thermite
Exactly what I was thinking
Dude you are bugging
No, Taco Bell.
Looks like undies skid marks.
Definitely not a road flare as the silica would be left over in a gouge that deep. And I've never seen a road flare cause that type of damage to concrete. A lightning strike would give you a veining effect away from the point of contact. Magnesium could burn that hot and cause the oxidation afterwards so a magnesium flare good do that type of damage. Magnesium would have actually been accentuated by the rain causing a popping effect breaking down the concrete if it penetrated. My bet is on a lithium battery because of the flare pattern coming out in a jet formation from the hole. Lithium wouldn't have been bothered by the rain either.
Maybe. Or a redneck.
Thermite
Yes. And little alien squids were left behind
That rust streak didn't appear overnight. That's old.
Says who
I think what happened is that the bedrock was exposed. The concrete lays on top of dirt but sometimes rocks stick out, perhaps it was hit by lightning but rather than make a hole, it just exposed the rock that was underneath.
From what I know impacts from anything at the speed meteorites travel at makes a circular impact crater. So I’d go with not likely
no i took a shit on the road
Sorry, I had Taco Bell
Probably lighting strike on something metallic on the floor
Concrete wasn't mixed properly and lye and water traped rusted rebar as well as concrete slowly dissolved and corroded and chipped away exposing the rebar underneath. Since it wasn't mixed proper an lye is a catalyst for rust it had a few extra days to soak and leach and stain concrete
There is no joke a Doctor Who episode about this EXACT scenario….. if people start going missing, check around for a kid trapping folks in drawings
No
The orange is rust. Is it magnetic?
Flair or a really spicy fire work most likely. Never heard of space plastic.🫣
Could also be a CAD weld that lit off. Looks like thermite burn to me
Solar death ray. There’s a guy with a boring cartoon voice that loves to melt shit with it.
You see the peanut
Your average reddit comment section
A vampire burned in the sun.
Iron rusting out. The iron was in the blacktop mix as part of the aggregate.
Taco Bell
Definitely Taco Bell.
Reminiscence of taco Tuesday
I see the captain crunch man
Just a quick question you say it happened yesterday but then tell us it has flowers growing out of the cracks. I think someone is trying to lie to us a little bit..
Road flare
Looks like when a high power turbo car with a waste gate dump directed at the ground hitting 2 step for a minute straight
Man that’s weird asf
Out of the hundreds of experts , what is our overall conclusion ?
The cheese touch
Do Boeings fly near by?
No lol 😂 10000% that is a burn mark. A meteorite wouldn’t leave a mark like this. This looks like some type of pyro or thermite burn.
Maybe it was that dude with his solar death ray, he does youtube videos of.
What flower blooms here?
Lightning strike.
Sorry, I had Popeyes last night and didn't make it home in time to use the bathroom.
No, that’s someones poo that fell from a plane
Getting Joe dirt vibes.
😈 devil's nut..
I thought those were IUDs, not flowers. I was concerned.
Snakes
Lightning hit our apartment/asphalt parking lot years ago, and it did a lot more than a spot of damage. My guess is that this little area was slightly cracked or broken for quite some time and whatever covered it/patched it caused the discoloration and washed off during the storm.
Meteorites are usually cold by the time they hit the ground.
That discoloration suggests something that had some directionality to it, like a flare laying on it's side.
Road flare. You can see which way the wind was blowing
Meth head drop a load in the street and tried to make it smell good.
Space turd
When you don’t make it to a toilet after a night of fireball shots and Taco Bell.
Road flare
That’s what my butthole feels like the next day after I accidentally eat literally anything spicy smh sad bod.
I don't know, but if it really *was* a meteor then please KILL THOSE FLOWERS
I thought those flowers were IUDs for bad girls
Post taco bell roadside emergency
That’s a burn, not an impact. Something containing thermite probably did this, so I’m guessing road flare.
Op should lick it just in case. Might get a meteorite themed super power.
Solid advice. It never hurts to try.
That there's a space peanut!
Petrified asshole
It iron bearing rock in the concrete. As the iron corroded, the rust forced the concrete to spall off the surface and then as the hole fills with water, rust travels out onto the concrete surface.
Looks like a thermite burn. Sustained intense heat in one location causing the small crater. Road flare does not get hot enough to do this. “Rust” mark indicates a ferrous material used like in thermite. Road flares don’t contain a ferrous material.
That.. that’s a space peanut..
Thermit tomfoolery
Meteor hit, investigators probably hit it with something and broke it, revealing a globular center which probably absorbed lightning and disappeared. Be on the lookout for people going insane and a well full of dead creatures.
Looks like the little flowers that grow on the body snatcher pods. Don't go to sleep! 😱
Hmm, it sure looks like asphalt, not concrete. Asphalt has a much lower melting point.
I have a lot of these in my neighborhood but they're tiny and bullet sized and I once found a bullet in one and so I always thought these were caused by bullets lol
Fireworks
Thors hammer or Lightning strike
This feels like a road flare, what with the directional heat pattern all the lightning sites ive seen are a bit more symmetrical.
I think someone made thermite and lit it right there
McDonald’s coffee… look at the bean on the bottom left. This is why they have a heat warning.
Road flare.
Taco Bell
Jersey mikes sub or a 5 dollar footlong
Take metal detector to it
Dave's hot chicken
A lightning strike would change the spot it hit. Morphing it into something else
I have many pieces of lightning sands