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this photo has been presented as

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evidence that beams of energy from space

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are starting forest fires the

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explanation given for the photo is that

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it's just a lens flare but it's not

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really a lens flare is something

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slightly different it's actually a dirty

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lens color

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let me explain where is this mysterious

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streak of light well what it actually is

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is a artifact of a smear on the lens the

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when people try to clean that camera

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lenses on a small phone like this they

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often will just use a finger and they

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will swipe across yeah you can see after

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I just swiped across the the beam change

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it's now this different beam here and

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the reason is is that when you swipe you

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leave these little streaks in this

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direction and the light kind of gets

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refracted by them and so you get this

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streak across the same thing you get on

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a windscreen when your instrument wipers

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strike across it you get these streaks

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that go along it so I can do a few

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different angles here and you know there

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are succeeded in cleaning it well how

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often happens though is people have

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slightly greasy fingers and say you get

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these streaks like this and if I did it

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up you get if I did like 45 degrees and

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get ones that are more dag and only if I

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do it straight up and down

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you'll get ones to the side so I can't

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really see it and if I do it

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horizontally

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you'll get one there's more that's it

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got it depends of course on just what

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the last streak was you can see this one

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in this direction and you know there's

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some big ones over there and then

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there's a big one going in this

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direction so these types of streaks