Twitter Bits: Drone Pandas and Giant Fireballs

Hell of a news week over here in China, where there’s never a dull moment. In fact the moments are illuminated by all kinds of things. Like drone light shows:

1,000 mini #drones provide a visual feast for people in night air in Sanxingdui Museum in Guanghan City, southwest China's #Sichuan pic.twitter.com/AxWRvChhyB

— China Xinhua News (@XHNews) September 30, 2017

That drone panda is legit cool. In even brighter news, the city of Shangri-La (renamed that from Zhongdian in 2001 to increase tourist appeal) in northwestern Yunnan province got a fiery surprise earlier in the week: an actual “fireball with energy equal to 540 tons of TNT”:

Asteroid reported to have hit near Shangri-La County in SW China's Yunnan Province. Local residents take video of the suspected meteorite. pic.twitter.com/35UD2jVPsB

— CGTN (@CGTNOfficial) October 5, 2017

Crazy.

In news that feels less conspicuously like the opening of a dystopian sci-fi flick, here are lemurs enjoying mooncakes:

Lemurs eating mooncakes (headline news during China's mini silly season). https://t.co/fNOJ0ARkZb pic.twitter.com/jNaUBa18X7

— Frank Hersey (@frankhersey) October 5, 2017

Aww. Happy Mid-Autumn Festival guys!

Cover image: Xinhua