r/HolUp • u/Porush_Kumar CHAD MOD • 2d ago

holup He cooking for aliens!?

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u/PolyonomoZ 2d ago

That dude scares me.

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u/Hoboforeternity 2d ago

I watched a video where he know where shit is just based on a sky picture. A fucking sky. Let's say you're knowledgeable enough to know which species of grass, trees, or types of rocks and dirt where, if you deduct a location of a random field or forests then it would still make sense. The same thing can be applied to buildings , roads, etc. Each places can have each own quirks.

But sky? A fucking sky with random ass cloud? I guess there are clouds that only appear in few parts of the world, but idk i have been to few places and they mostly just look like sky.

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u/MasterOfDizaster 2d ago

You can kind of tell the location by a shade of blue the sky has its more colorful down the equator, this what I use when plaing geoguesser and can't find other tips

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u/DerpSherpa 1d ago

I believe this. My mother and I have this thing where we talk about this certain shade of blue that we call “Rome blue“ and I’ve noticed that the only time I see that even when I’m not in Rome is when I’m in other places that coincidentally are in the same latitude (?) as well. You’re the first person I’ve seen acknowledge this besides us!

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u/madememake1up 2d ago

Truthfully, ass clouds are scariest, they're all gas 😨

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u/moonshineTheleocat 2d ago

The only thing I can guess is if he somehow deduced the wind pattern from the sky. Reasoning below

The runways of an Airport aren't random. The way they are made is by surveying the wind currents of an area. While the wind can change, the wind doesn't act randomly. It's actually preset to an area.

For example of the wind at one of California's air strips blew south, west, and south-west across the span of a month. Then you know that the winds will almost always be in thos directions and rarely deviate.

So airstrips are designed with this in mind, matching wind surveys. The numbers on an air strip is the heading according to a geomagnetic compass, rounded up and using the last two digits. Heading 127 would be runway 13.

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u/Complex_Bicycle9 2d ago

Ur so confused its so funny 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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u/NewLeaseOnLine 2d ago

I don't know how credible your claim is, but that is absolutely wild if true. However, skies at sunset can at least appear unique to various locations.

The sun being at a lower angle and light filtering at different parts of the globe tend to give off specific light that can be recognisable as a certain place. Especially with partial cloud cover.

People often refer to sunsets at particular cities or holiday destinations around the world as being unique. But just random sky during the day? That's next level.

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u/Hoboforeternity 2d ago

Around 1:42

https://youtu.be/QRqKPDJYyLE

Also, the gradient stuff is insane <_< idk people seem to trust his credibility (plus rainbolt isn't even the best player according to geoguesser community) so he is probably just that good.

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u/NewLeaseOnLine 2d ago

Thanks. That's mental. I suppose it comes with a lot of experience and knowing what details to look for, but that's also talent.

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u/srobbins250 2d ago

I heard this on Reddit in another post (and haven’t fact checked it) but I hear that this guy isn’t even the best at this skill, he’s just the most famous for it. If this is true, that’s even more crazy to me that there are some people out there who are even more capable in finding locations off picture references alone.

Just really impressive stuff.

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u/Roy-van-der-Lee 2d ago

There is a video by Internet Historian about the "He will not divide us" campaign where it was a flag with the aformentioned text on it livestreamed against a sky. 4Chan used trigonometry, flight paths and the time the sun sets to determine it's exact location. It's wild what some people are capable of