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Offline ShadowWolf_IH

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Re: Strange light over Norway... wtf is this?
Reply #20 on: December 09, 2009, 09:16:06 pm
nobody can take a joke anymore.  Maybe when we learn to laugh at ourselves we can also laugh at others.
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Re: Strange light over Norway... wtf is this?
Reply #21 on: December 09, 2009, 09:27:25 pm
I thought it was funny. :P But then again, I don't see pointing out someone's virginity as an insult.
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Offline Androgeos Exeunt

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Re: Strange light over Norway... wtf is this?
Reply #22 on: December 10, 2009, 08:44:44 am
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Re: Strange light over Norway... wtf is this?
Reply #23 on: December 10, 2009, 10:04:43 am
Quote from: iamzack on December 09, 2009, 08:46:43 pm
No way. I am always nice and sweet and kind etc.

That settles it, it was the invasion of the body-snatchers.
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Re: Strange light over Norway... wtf is this?
Reply #24 on: December 10, 2009, 05:08:42 pm
Quote from: iamzack on December 09, 2009, 08:46:43 pm
No way. I am always nice and sweet and kind etc.

To your bloodhounds, sure.
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Re: Strange light over Norway... wtf is this?
Reply #25 on: December 10, 2009, 07:10:57 pm
Quote from: redsniper on December 09, 2009, 04:32:23 pm
Quote from: watsisname on December 09, 2009, 03:26:47 pm
The Anti-Spirals will kill us all!!!
Quote from: Thaeris on December 09, 2009, 03:30:03 pm
the friggin' Power of the Spiral is going out of control...
ROW ROW...

my thoughts exactly

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Re: Strange light over Norway... wtf is this?
Reply #26 on: December 10, 2009, 08:32:16 pm


Trippy...
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Offline Thaeris

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Re: Strange light over Norway... wtf is this?
Reply #27 on: December 10, 2009, 10:01:35 pm
I've got this sudden urge to shave... my ear off...

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Re: Strange light over Norway... wtf is this?
Reply #28 on: December 11, 2009, 05:44:57 am
heh I came to post this.. subspace? spiral power?

Didnt the Large Hadron collider fire today?
 

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Re: Strange light over Norway... wtf is this?
Reply #29 on: December 11, 2009, 05:48:39 am
After watching that video.. defiantly subspace.. it even opens up...
 

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Re: Strange light over Norway... wtf is this?
Reply #30 on: December 11, 2009, 08:48:31 am
It it's the Shivans I think they're a tad bit early...
 

Offline esarai

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Re: Strange light over Norway... wtf is this?
Reply #31 on: December 11, 2009, 08:52:27 am
I don't get how a missile could cause a contrail and spiral that looked like that unless it was some new super-high-power plasma thruster rocket...  Unless my experience in rockets is totally wrong, there is no conventional propellant that leaves a blue contrail that lasts that long, or that dissipates like that.  That's the strangest part--I've never seen a rocket contrail dissipate like that.  Ever.  

So, three logical explanations:

1.  The Russians just fired off some new super-awesome engine technology and the world should be afraid.  
2.  Just a CG composite made to mess with people (though the level of motion matching and similar quality suggests either a lot of work went into it or it was actually real).
3.  Aliens frakking with our minds and someone actually capturing it on film because high-quality cameras are becoming more and more available.

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Offline Kosh

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Re: Strange light over Norway... wtf is this?
Reply #32 on: December 11, 2009, 09:30:51 am
Quote
1.  The Russians just fired off some new super-awesome engine technology and the world should be afraid.


We'll be afraid when it works. :p
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Re: Strange light over Norway... wtf is this?
Reply #33 on: December 11, 2009, 11:05:52 am
Chances are is the Russians have it, the United States already has it.  Russia still hasn't recovered from communism.
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Offline captain-custard

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Re: Strange light over Norway... wtf is this?
Reply #34 on: December 11, 2009, 12:26:46 pm
if you look hard into the spiral you can see another world , phillip pullmans books were right, but who has been cutting children away from there souls......... well besides MTV...
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Re: Strange light over Norway... wtf is this?
Reply #35 on: December 11, 2009, 06:58:06 pm
lol andicirk.
<Nuclear>   truth: the good samaritan actually checked for proof of citizenship and health insurance
<Axem>   did anyone catch jesus' birth certificate?
<Nuclear>   and jesus didnt actually give the 5000 their fish...he gave it to the romans and let it trickle down
<Axem>and he was totally pro tax breaks
<Axem>he threw out all those tax collectors at the temple
<Nuclear>   he drove a V8 camel too
<Nuclear>   with a sword rack for his fully-automatic daggers

Esarai: hey gaiz, what's a good improvised, final attack for a ship fighting to buy others time to escape to use?
RangerKarl|AtWork: stick your penis in the warp core
DarthGeek: no don't do that
amki: don't EVER do that
 

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Re: Strange light over Norway... wtf is this?
Reply #36 on: December 11, 2009, 07:21:23 pm
 

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Re: Strange light over Norway... wtf is this?
Reply #37 on: December 11, 2009, 07:25:01 pm
Quote from: esarai on December 11, 2009, 08:52:27 am
I don't get how a missile could cause a contrail and spiral that looked like that unless it was some new super-high-power plasma thruster rocket...  Unless my experience in rockets is totally wrong, there is no conventional propellant that leaves a blue contrail that lasts that long, or that dissipates like that.  That's the strangest part--I've never seen a rocket contrail dissipate like that.  Ever.
You have to take into account whatever sort of strange lighting conditions were present at the time.  Remember, it was at night, so incidental light from the moon or nearby population centers could have pulled off some interesting effects.  Contrails can last for quite some time; if you ever look at a jet contrail during the daytime, you'll notice that it sticks around for many minutes, and shuttle launches likewise leave a long-lasting plume.  As for the spiral, both computer simulations and actual tests I've seen over the past day or two have produced that exact same pattern when one is looking straight down the flight path of an unstable, careening rocket.

Or what Fenrir posted. :p *grabs crowbar*
 

Offline esarai

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Re: Strange light over Norway... wtf is this?
Reply #38 on: December 11, 2009, 08:54:42 pm
Personal rocket flight experience and videos I've seen make most of that seem so unlikely and complex as to be dead by Occam's Razor.  I've never seen a rocket leave a contrail that smooth, that transparent, or with that kind of motion after leaving what could be the rocket.  Most exhaust plumes decelerate rapidly after leaving the vehicle.  This does not happen in that video.  The exhaust seems to keep moving.  And the blue.  I have a hard time coming up for a simple explanation why there was such a deep blue hue coming from the phenomenon's "beam" when light sources at that time of day are mostly low-energy (reds, oranges and yellows).  

I don't want to say I don't think it's possible that there is an 'earthly' explanation for it.  I just want to say that the complexity of such an explanation makes it seem improbable.
« Last Edit: December 11, 2009, 09:01:01 pm by esarai »
<Nuclear>   truth: the good samaritan actually checked for proof of citizenship and health insurance
<Axem>   did anyone catch jesus' birth certificate?
<Nuclear>   and jesus didnt actually give the 5000 their fish...he gave it to the romans and let it trickle down
<Axem>and he was totally pro tax breaks
<Axem>he threw out all those tax collectors at the temple
<Nuclear>   he drove a V8 camel too
<Nuclear>   with a sword rack for his fully-automatic daggers

Esarai: hey gaiz, what's a good improvised, final attack for a ship fighting to buy others time to escape to use?
RangerKarl|AtWork: stick your penis in the warp core
DarthGeek: no don't do that
amki: don't EVER do that
 

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Re: Strange light over Norway... wtf is this?
Reply #39 on: December 11, 2009, 09:05:21 pm
Well, when multiple actual rocket scientists around the world look at the same video and come to that conclusion, and when the phenomenon corresponds exactly with an admittedly-failed Russian conventional missile test, I would think that going with the consensus is the safe bet. :p
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