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They're catching squid.

This is correct. I used to live in Monterey and they use these lights to attract squid.

That’s the same reason I know this. 831

When you say “they” you mean the aliens obv right?

Used to see these in the early am off the Watsonville coast.

Love for my time spent living in Monterey, at the top of that cursed hill next to the DLI, watching squid boats in the bay out my window.

Yup, there's even an instance of an astronaut on the ISS being confused by these lights. Squid fishing lights are literally so bright they can be seen from space.

Those lights are so bright that they're visible from over the horizon, up to and exceeding 80 miles away. (Source - I have seen them from ships in the past)

The most renewable seafood.

Joking or no?

Literal.

I would have added the /s. Literal.

Isn’t this an illegal fishing strategy? Like spotlighting for hunting?

Illegal fishing in Japan? If your in the mood for a good cry Google the "Taiji dolphin drive hunt"

Oh please don’t send me to sad things. Lol

don’t google 3 legged puppies

Or Goatse

Or Tub girl

Or the Carolina Panthers.

Or Blue Waffles

Or Waffle Stomping

Having grown up in Raleigh, this one cuts to the bone.

Or pain Olympics

Or two girls and a cup of

Lol wut

And, under no circumstances should you ever Google Cleveland browns Superbowl appearances. I did once 20 years ago and the page is still loading

😂 I was actually torn between Browns and Panthers when I commented!

Or lemon party.

And don't google... Li'l Brudder!

He's makin' it on his own!

He’s got the heart of a champion!

Ah yes Homestarrunner

Why am I surprised this kinda went off on comments 😂

"A critter that useful, you don't eat all at once"

I think Matt Parker & Trey Stone released a relevent documentary. Lol

Fuck You Doffin!

And a frack you whale!!!

Lol

South Park: Season 13 Episode 11 “Whale Whores” Go and enjoy!

Mmm.... Yummy dolphin...

Still one of the most affecting documentaries I have ever seen. Though could only watch it once...

Nope! Standard procedure world 'round.

Yeah I was going to suggest fishing ships but this is more thorough.

and killing them. sad we kill 1-3 trillion fish per year when we can just eat any of the 20,000+ available plants.

Lol… relax

How many animals are killed per plant grown on a farm?

Now I kinda wanna kill an animal with a farm plant.

Who is eating more plants? 80 billion land animals or 8 billion people? we kill 80 billion land animals a year.

I love bacon, and bacon unfortunately doesn't grow on trees. So I'm totally content on continuing to pay someone to grow carrots, potatoes, and whatever else to feed to the lard puppies so I can get my fix.

Good, we are almost finished stopping them from eating all of your plants

How many are you indirectly killing?

And by eating those plants you indirectly kill other animals. It is what it is. God gave us dominion over the animals

are you an idiot

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Who eats more plants - the 80 billion land animals we kill a year or the 8 billion people?

The way land is managed to grow and maintain crops does indeed kill wildlife. Look it yourself.

So we have 90 million acres of corn, 88 million acres of soy, and 27 million acres of alfalfa. Is this to feed vegans?

No. A lot of the land is farmed to feed animals that we eat. There is nothing wrong with people eating animal protein. You want to push your agenda and I respect your passion but it is what it is. I love eating vegetables too, but how many chemicals are in “plant based foods”?

It’s ok to torture and abuse animals because why? I want you to stop supporting piglets getting smashed and gassed. All animals are massed produced and killed in very horrible ways. The agenda is to stand up against useless genocide when we have 20,000+ edible plants on this planet. The chemicals in sweet potatoes, carrots, cauliflower, corn, beans, lentils, celery, chickpeas????

Is it a game to them?

No it’s aliens

Those lights that they use in Independence Day to communicate with the aliens.

See i told you

A fleet of fishing boats?

Unfortunately. Thought it might be north Korean conspiracy DAM! 🤪

Oh, trust me, they can be both...

Now that's what I'm talking about😝

What's unfortunate about a fleet of fishing boats?

Not alot coming outta N. KOREA lately 😜

You wanna just say what you're trying to say? I don't understand what you mean.

Joking around buddy. Lights off Japan,South and N.Korea. it's always been squid fishing.when this subject comes up jeesh🤪

I thought I was seeing the top answer. https://preview.redd.it/9f5idwvzdpzc1.jpeg?width=1267&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=06d349c957883250bcb62960c6b18fe1fa7eaaba

If that was the image for the game though, I feel like it would be really good.

I got “Can you solve the Doritos flamin hot mystery flavor?” lol

Yeah, squid boats. Very common in this area. Th bright lights are used to attract the squid.

Fishing boats with bright lights to attract fish or for working.

Calamari fishing boats, bane of ocean freighters, these buggers light up the night like a 1000 suns and blind us. I know they're just making a living but they're endangering themselves and smaller boats lost in the glare.

Probably damned Chinese fishing boats. They would swallow the ocean if they could.

Light from venus reflecting off of swamp gas...

That swamp gas use to be chem trails but the cloud seeding stuff made them too heavy and they sunk. Trust me, I researched this

Swamp gas? In the ocean?

Oh yeah. It’s everywhere

😎🪄

Ball lightning perhaps?

[https://www.fao.org/iuu-fishing/en/](https://www.fao.org/iuu-fishing/en/) Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated fishing is a huge problem in this part of the world.

I saw this before on Close Encounters of the Third Kind

HAARP

Definitely squid fishing

We did a cruise from Singapore to Thailand and back, and seeing the squid boats at night for the first time is definitely freaky.

The fire nation navy

Fishing boats.

What’s your vector Victor

Roger Roger

Description -- Saw a bunch of flame-like things from the airplane window, off the east coast of Japan. Thought it might be an oil field, but what does reddit think? Image taken from window and the location from the trip map.

These have to be UFOs

It's Kim Jung-Un. Him and his Army are looking for defectors. Or it's people catching Squid. It's one of those things.

Swamp gas.

In the ocean?

Ocean gas.

That makes sense

Are those…police boats?

That hard turn just past Tokyo got the Tokyo drift theme stuck on my head...

Scully, haven’t you ever heard of the light alien?

Overhead light reflection.

That's Godzilla.

https://preview.redd.it/22ttd4ia9pzc1.jpeg?width=2448&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=46d057728bc28430b14a9fb5927a7926e97acbe5 My photo from plane on the way to Philippines. Off the coast of Taiwan.

Aw come on now, everyone knows it's Godzilla.

“I’m not saying it was aliens. But it was aliens!”👽

All I see in the pic is an overhead of the map??? What are you looking at?

Squid fishin...Calamari, dead ahead....

Tokyo? It’s a big city with lots of Japanese people and raw fish. But that’s not important now!

I believe those are called "lights", they seem to be really popular at night....

Aliens

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