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There's a variety of reasons you get beams of light in photos. In this photo a beam of light happened to line up with a forest fire (well, with the smoke, but close enough). This was explained away as a “lens flare“, but it's not really a lens flare. It's a light streak caused by very fine streaks of grease on the lens. These streaks typically occur when people clean their lens (really the lens cover) with a finger. The light streak is at right angles to the grease streaks, and can vary quite a bit. Discussion: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Do you have a friend who has got a bit too far down the rabbit hole of conspiracy theories? You might be interested in my new book: Escaping The Rabbit Hole — How to Debunk Conspiracy Theories with Facts, Logic, and Respect. Published by Skyhorse Publishing, September 2018. Advance Reviews: “The subtitle says it all: Mick West demonstrates with exquisite style, wit, and insight how those three rare and valuable species, Fact, Logic and Respect (each now on the very brink of extinction) have in harness the power to shine light into darkness and dispel the miasma of bias, superstition and balefully proud ignorance that is threatening to poison our age.”—Stephen Fry, actor, comedian, activist “Mick West explains in clear terms not only how people get into conspiratorial beliefs, but how to disabuse them of those same mistaken ideas.”―David Pakman, host of The David Pakman Show “Mick West and his Metabunk website have become the go-to sources for curious minds overwhelmed by fantastic conspiracy claims circulating pop culture. The problem we professional debunkers have is that conspiracies do happen―Lincoln was assassinated by a cabal, World War I was triggered by a conspiracy to kill the Austrian Arch Duke, Watergate was a cover-up, there were no WMDs in Iraq―so some skepticism about conventional explanations is warranted. What we need is a conspiracy detection kit, and Escaping the Rabbit Hole is precisely that, arming readers with the tools they need to filter all the conspiracy craziness bombarding us daily. Was Hillary Clinton running a child sex ring at a pizza parlor? No. Did the Pentagon Papers and Wikileaks reveal that our government has been lying to us and covering up their misdeeds? Yes. How can we tell the difference? Read this book, which belongs in every newsroom and congressional office.“―Michael Shermer, Publisher Skeptic magazine, monthly columnist Scientific American, author Why People Believe Weird Things, The Believing Brain, and Heavens on Earth
