My new toy rocket! - Page 3

HTAM · 11-10-2010, 12:24 AM

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Originally Posted by badgoalie85

airplane!

^That was a great movie!

**AlteredStateGrl** · 11-10-2010, 12:40 PM

i *heart* when nun talks rockets and missiles and jets and cars.

HTAM · 11-10-2010, 01:44 PM

Airplane.

Great. Let's have the Flight #, and Flight plan filed, and this can be put to rest.

Flamingnun · 11-10-2010, 02:35 PM

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Originally Posted by AlteredStateGrl

i *heart* when nun talks rockets and missiles and jets and cars.

Everyone loves my rocket.

Meh, news is saying it's an "optical illusion" of a passenger plane. Whatevs.

Hmm.

Lloydy · 11-10-2010, 02:41 PM

Nailed on.

José · 11-10-2010, 04:24 PM

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Originally Posted by higherthanamile

This incident isn't a Black Ops Speculative Aircraft like The Aurora Project.
I would support the needed secrecy prior to things like that being publicly deployed.

This is right there in the public eye, it's a missile, and they are playing the disinformation game. Waggin' the dog.

At least until they figure out how they can explain why they ain't doin' no 'splainin.

Someone fucked something up or missed something they shouldn't of.

I'm not trying to argue about it with you, dude. Just bringing some of the color to the thread that ASG mentioned.

?

I personally think it's pretty bad ass.

This shit is no secret.

**AlteredStateGrl** · 11-10-2010, 04:38 PM

They "think" it was a plane.
UPDATE: The pentagon ALSO says it was a plane.

But they're still not saying for sure, and no one has said anything about...

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Let's have the Flight #, and Flight plan filed, and this can be put to rest.

...if it was a plane.

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Experts think California ‘mystery missile’ was merely a plane
By Brett Michael Dykes
– Wed Nov 10, 12:23 pm ET

Surely by now you've heard about the "mystery missile" that darted across the Southern California sky. Military officials and other federal authorities don't appear to have a clue as to what the flying object could have been. But some outside experts have a simple explanation for the uproar: What appeared to be a projectile spreading across the sky in the video was simply a contrail, the plume of smoke that airplanes typically leave in their wake.

(UPDATE: The Pentagon is now also saying that it was a plane.)

"This thing is so obviously an airplane contrail, and yet apparently all the king's horses and all the king's men can't find someone to stand up and say it," John Pike, a defense and aerospace expert, told the Washington Post's John Pomfret. Pike noted that the projectile was moving much slower than a missile would, adding that "there's a reason that they're called rockets."

Here's how Pomfret laid out Pike's case for the contrail theory:

It looked like a missile launch, he said, because of an optical illusion that made the contrail appear as though it started on the ground and zoomed straight up. In reality, he said, the contrail began on the horizon and ran parallel to the ground.

"It was an unusually clear day," he said. So what looked like a missile launch 35 miles off the coast of Los Angeles was actually the contrail of a jet that stretched 300 miles into the distance, he said. "At the end of the day, you really have to go with the simplest explanation," he added.

Pike is not alone in that assessment.

Harvard astronomer Jonathan McDowell told New Scientist that because a helicopter in flight recorded the video of the incident, it employed a visual angle that distorted the arc of the contrail. That effect was compounded, McDowell maintained, by the distinctive lighting of the sky at twilight -- and the net result was a bit of an optical illusion.

"What isn't clear to me is whether anyone but this helicopter saw it," McDowell said. "If it's coming over the horizon, straight at you, then it rises quickly above the horizon. You can't tell because it's so far away that it's getting closer to you -- you'd think it was just going vertically up."

In a blog post titled "It Ain't No Thing," arms control guru Jeffrey Lewis agreed: "The short explanation is that we don't see a lot of jet contrails head-on, especially from the vantage point of a helicopter. So, it looks like a missile to everyone else, including former Deputy Secretaries of Defense. But it probably isn't."

Nor, it seems, is this the first time that a jet contrail has triggered anxious speculation about a mystery in the heavens. There is, indeed, a website called Contrail Science devoted to explaining the visual quirks of contrails -- while debunking some of the wilder theories about what's going on up there.

Experts think California ‘mystery missile’ was merely a plane | The Upshot Yahoo! News

Cerpin Taxt · 11-10-2010, 05:09 PM

America can do whatever the fuck they want and people just don't care. I wouldn't be surprised if they're just testing the waters to see how little of a shit people give about what's going on around them.

osirus2020 · 11-10-2010, 07:14 PM

I hope the missile hit something.

**SageTree** · 11-11-2010, 06:20 AM

^

HTAM · 11-11-2010, 10:32 AM

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Originally Posted by Cerpin Taxt

America can do whatever the fuck they want and people just don't care. I wouldn't be surprised if they're just testing the waters to see how little of a shit people give about what's going on around them.

I care, man. I can't be the only one.

Man in Black · 11-11-2010, 10:39 AM

if it was a Chinese missle, does that make it a "red" rocket??

José · 11-11-2010, 01:46 PM

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Originally Posted by higherthanamile

I care, man. I can't be the only one.

yeah but what he was trying to say is what are you actually going to do about it?

sure, lots of people care, but they aren't actually doing anything about it...

HTAM · 11-11-2010, 02:05 PM

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Originally Posted by SpankyMcLankey

yeah but what he was trying to say is what are you actually going to do about it?

sure, lots of people care, but they aren't actually doing anything about it...

I know that, Spanky.

Yahooka is my subscribing circulation. Think of my posts as 'The Stoner Informative', Online Edition. With a huge Comics section, and some Politics, Current Events, Opinion, and Arts and Leisure sprinkled in.

No coupons though, Fuckers!

José · 11-11-2010, 02:41 PM

I am pretty fucking stoned...

I went to wyoming last week and thought of you driving through town. I'll definitely have to stop next time.

HTAM · 11-11-2010, 03:08 PM

Well, it's the thought that counts...

In other news-

Through further searching it appears that I have some Neeeeeeeews from the Undergroooooouuunnd

FlightAware > US Airways #808 > 08-Nov-2010 > PHNL-KPHX

José · 11-11-2010, 04:21 PM

was with my parents, unless you wanted to see them too...oh hey we gotta stop by higherthanamiles house, hang on.

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Lloydy KTF Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: England Posts: 11,976 Thanks: 533 Thanked 2,478 Times in 1,139 Posts	Nailed on. __________________ Keep the red flag flying high

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Cerpin Taxt Yahookan Zealot Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Canada Posts: 7,213 Blog Entries: 1 Thanks: 843 Thanked 1,919 Times in 1,011 Posts	America can do whatever the fuck they want and people just don't care. I wouldn't be surprised if they're just testing the waters to see how little of a shit people give about what's going on around them. __________________ Step Back. Evaluate. Recognize. "All memory is really a form of regurgitation of undigested experience." -Alan Watts

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HTAM Old School Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 3,872 Thanks: 2,368 Thanked 2,117 Times in 1,179 Posts	Airplane. Great. Let's have the Flight #, and Flight plan filed, and this can be put to rest.

11-11-2010, 02:41 PM	#55 (permalink)
José YaHookan Join Date: Sep 2007 Posts: 3,364 Thanks: 62 Thanked 147 Times in 72 Posts	I am pretty fucking stoned... I went to wyoming last week and thought of you driving through town. I'll definitely have to stop next time.

11-11-2010, 03:08 PM	#56 (permalink)
HTAM Old School Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 3,872 Thanks: 2,368 Thanked 2,117 Times in 1,179 Posts	Well, it's the thought that counts... In other news- Through further searching it appears that I have some *Neeeeeeeews from the Undergroooooouuunnd* FlightAware > US Airways #808 > 08-Nov-2010 > PHNL-KPHX

11-11-2010, 04:21 PM	#57 (permalink)
José YaHookan Join Date: Sep 2007 Posts: 3,364 Thanks: 62 Thanked 147 Times in 72 Posts	was with my parents, unless you wanted to see them too...oh hey we gotta stop by higherthanamiles house, hang on.

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