WTF?! Lights In The Sky!!

[Capn Flukie]

It's pretty cool to see it in motion...

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnIrx2MT85s&feature=player_embedded[/yt]

 

[Jono]

Over Norway...probably Slartibartfast checking out his fjords, they've won awards you know.

 

[Australis]

Having now seen some video footage, looks like someone just jumped back into hyperspace...

Also, one site had footage of a similar thing taken over Tomsk, Russia in 2006. Hmmmmm.

 

[JRS]

It wasnt an UFO...it was only the Russians

This from BBC:

"Norwegians have been left mystified by a strange light display in the night sky captured over a military base in Skjold.
Eyewitnesses were left wondering whether they had seen a UFO.
However a statement from Moscow later confirmed that a missile launch from a Russian submarine in the region had failed"



http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8404991.stm?ls

 

[Jadzia]

They're attempting to hypnotize Norway.

 

[Locutus of Bored]

Here's actual video of the spiral forming as the rocket spins out of control. Pretty neat looking Fail.

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrNh8b_0elw[/yt]

 

[John Picard]

Here's actual video of the spiral forming as the rocket spins out of control. Pretty neat looking Fail.

Yeah -- It's "neat" until someone loses an eye.

 

[Locutus of Bored]

Here's actual video of the spiral forming as the rocket spins out of control. Pretty neat looking Fail.

Yeah -- It's "neat" until someone loses an eye.

Why do you think it went down? Odin didn't want to sacrifice his other eye, so he shot it down with his spear, Gungnir.

 

[Jadzia]

my simulation is superior, methinks

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wilTf3zPeoE[/yt]

 

[Australis]

As I said in the SciTech thread, who's firing rockets, and why?

 

[Jadzia]

Is it Russia? Are they developing smaller than usual (but still long range) rockets for submarines, that are also nuclear capable? Perhaps it's the small size that's causing all the technical problems?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSM-56_Bulava

 

[Red Ranger]

I just hope some nutty Christians didn't stare into the lights too long -- they'd probably go blind, like that bunch who stared into the Sun, bless their hearts. -- RR

 

[Samurai8472]

Since when did the Russians get boomtube technology?

 

[M'Sharak]

Emily Lakdawalla had an entry about this on the Planetary Society blog, including the audio for a radio-show appearance in which she explained what happened, as well as an animation by unmannedspaceflight.com's Doug Ellison, which illustrates how this rocket launch fail could have produced the pattern observed.

 

[Kirby]

The wheel in the sky keeps on turnin'
I don't know where I'll be tomorrow

 

[Gil T.Azell]

^



Is Quinn Mallory living in Norway and opening a portal?