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Originally posted by '___'omino
Originally posted by AshOnMyTomatoes
It can account for a spherical spiral better even than a flat spiral.
Originally posted by mrkurns
Nobody seems to be mentioning that witnesses have described this as a "sphere" and a "glowing ball" and not flat. This also explains why the spiral appears to be directly facing the camera in every photo.
I don't think a rocket can account for a spherical spiral?
If you imagine that this launch came from a very long distance from the photos' vantage point, and that the rocket probably entered Earth's upper atmosphere or even space, you begin to see that the scale isn't a problem. If the rocket was a test of an ICBM, it would have had a fair amount of unspent fuel as it reached the upper atmosphere, because it still would have a long way to go. So it's guidance goes haywire somewhere close to the horizon in that photo that's been labeled above, it starts into a spiral but it is still moving along its trajectory. Meanwhile, a fuel leakage (or hell, even a condensation trail) begins, and as the rocket spirals onward through its ballistic arc, the cloud gets sprayed out and slowly continues to move outward from the rocket. This continues until the rocket finishes its current burn stage, or runs out of fuel, or explodes, at which point the light of the thruster vanishes, the cloud glows only from the light of the sun over the horizon, and the last new part of the spiral cloud slowly expand outward like the rest of it, resulting in the dark "hole."
The entire thing is most likely extremely three dimensional, but most of the photos taken are from near head on, and from a great distance from the rocket's origin, so the spirals appear to have all been in one plane.
Well put
Or in space.
This phenomena is very clean, it seems like something that would be created by something happening at a very high velocity.
Originally posted by Brainiac
I'm also intersested why a Russian rocket would fail? Since i stated before that they've been sending rockets into Space for the past 50 years...
Originally posted by Dbriefed
Any idea what CERN was up to at that time?
Did it finally generate a black hole?
Atom smasher catches 1st high-energy collisions
AP
Atom-smasher sets record energy levels: CERN AFP/File – A view of a superconducting solenoid magnet at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) …
news.yahoo.com...
By ALEXANDER G. HIGGINS, Associated Press Writer Alexander G. Higgins, Associated Press Writer – Wed Dec 9, 1:55 pm ET
GENEVA – The world's largest atom smasher has recorded its first high-energy collisions of protons, a spokeswoman said Wednesday.
Physicists hope those collisions will help them understand suspected phenomena such as dark matter, antimatter and ultimately the creation of the universe billions of years ago, which many theorize occurred as a massive explosion known as the Big Bang.
The collisions occurred Tuesday evening as the Large Haldron Collider underwent test runs in preparation for operations next year, said Christine Sutton of the European Organization for Nuclear Research, or CERN.
Two beams of circulating particles traveling in opposite directions at 1.18 trillion electron volts produced the collisions, she said. The Atlas "experiment," one of four major detectors in cathedral-sized rooms in the collider's underground tunnel at Geneva, had part of its equipment turned on and could register collisions.
Originally posted by Zeptepi
reply to post by m0r1arty
So what your saying is that it was all a viral marketing
stunt to promote the new Doctor Who uberultra-reality movie? "Splintered"?
I'll believe that...very well..case closed! Thanks
how very clever.
Originally posted by Stormdancer777
Originally posted by Dbriefed
Any idea what CERN was up to at that time?
Did it finally generate a black hole?
Since you asked,
Atom smasher catches 1st high-energy collisions
AP
Atom-smasher sets record energy levels: CERN AFP/File – A view of a superconducting solenoid magnet at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) …
news.yahoo.com...
By ALEXANDER G. HIGGINS, Associated Press Writer Alexander G. Higgins, Associated Press Writer – Wed Dec 9, 1:55 pm ET
GENEVA – The world's largest atom smasher has recorded its first high-energy collisions of protons, a spokeswoman said Wednesday.
Physicists hope those collisions will help them understand suspected phenomena such as dark matter, antimatter and ultimately the creation of the universe billions of years ago, which many theorize occurred as a massive explosion known as the Big Bang.
The collisions occurred Tuesday evening as the Large Haldron Collider underwent test runs in preparation for operations next year, said Christine Sutton of the European Organization for Nuclear Research, or CERN.
Two beams of circulating particles traveling in opposite directions at 1.18 trillion electron volts produced the collisions, she said. The Atlas "experiment," one of four major detectors in cathedral-sized rooms in the collider's underground tunnel at Geneva, had part of its equipment turned on and could register collisions.
Originally posted by Hellmutt
Less than two hours ago, this phenomena was observed over northern Norway. No one knows what is is. Do you have any idea on what it might be? If so, let us hear about it.
Photo: Odd Magne Haugen
Google translated article
In the morning rush hour, at 07.47, showed the special phenomenon in the sky. It is described as a glowing ball in the sky, which rotated and "thrown out" luminous rings. The phenomenon grew rapidly in a spiral, with bright white rings towards the edges and blue, bright rings in the center. Spiral grew steadily larger, until it eventually was significantly greater than both the moon and other things it will be normal to find in the sky.
"Spiral" also walked across the sky, leaving a bright blue track.
[---]
The whole thing lasted just under one minute and then spiral in the sky collapsed, leaving it in a dark, circular "hole" in the night sky.
Photo: Jan Erik Steine
More pictures here: www.altaposten.no...
Direct link to the article in Norwegian here:
www.altaposten.no...
Another Norwegian article here:
www.tv2nyhetene.no...
[edit on 9 Dec 2009 by Hellmutt]
Originally posted by AshOnMyTomatoes
It can account for a spherical spiral better even than a flat spiral.
Originally posted by mrkurns
Nobody seems to be mentioning that witnesses have described this as a "sphere" and a "glowing ball" and not flat. This also explains why the spiral appears to be directly facing the camera in every photo.
I don't think a rocket can account for a spherical spiral?
If you imagine that this launch came from a very long distance from the photos' vantage point, and that the rocket probably entered Earth's upper atmosphere or even space, you begin to see that the scale isn't a problem. If the rocket was a test of an ICBM, it would have had a fair amount of unspent fuel as it reached the upper atmosphere, because it still would have a long way to go. So it's guidance goes haywire somewhere close to the horizon in that photo that's been labeled above, it starts into a spiral but it is still moving along its trajectory. Meanwhile, a fuel leakage (or hell, even a condensation trail) begins, and as the rocket spirals onward through its ballistic arc, the cloud gets sprayed out and slowly continues to move outward from the rocket. This continues until the rocket finishes its current burn stage, or runs out of fuel, or explodes, at which point the light of the thruster vanishes, the cloud glows only from the light of the sun over the horizon, and the last new part of the spiral cloud slowly expand outward like the rest of it, resulting in the dark "hole."
The entire thing is most likely extremely three dimensional, but most of the photos taken are from near head on, and from a great distance from the rocket's origin, so the spirals appear to have all been in one plane.
Originally posted by hoghead cheese
Originally posted by Hellmutt
Less than two hours ago, this phenomena was observed over northern Norway. No one knows what is is. Do you have any idea on what it might be? If so, let us hear about it.
Photo: Odd Magne Haugen
Google translated article
In the morning rush hour, at 07.47, showed the special phenomenon in the sky. It is described as a glowing ball in the sky, which rotated and "thrown out" luminous rings. The phenomenon grew rapidly in a spiral, with bright white rings towards the edges and blue, bright rings in the center. Spiral grew steadily larger, until it eventually was significantly greater than both the moon and other things it will be normal to find in the sky.
"Spiral" also walked across the sky, leaving a bright blue track.
[---]
The whole thing lasted just under one minute and then spiral in the sky collapsed, leaving it in a dark, circular "hole" in the night sky.
Photo: Jan Erik Steine
More pictures here: www.altaposten.no...
Direct link to the article in Norwegian here:
www.altaposten.no...
Another Norwegian article here:
www.tv2nyhetene.no...
[edit on 9 Dec 2009 by Hellmutt]
I want to say it's a rocket, but I can't get it past my head that the spiral that was lighted and going strong in a circle, was a rocket. The size of the lighted spiral not the contrail had a look of something big, and if it was a big rocket or even a small one mind you, the rocket structure itself couldn't handle the G forces from the maneuver on top of the speed (rockets can go many multiples the speed of sound). And it would break apart and we would have seen a cascade of falling embers, we didn't. Also if you seen the spiral, I know no rocket that could make turns that tight and that clean with the technology we have today. The first thing that I thought it may have been without looking at the spiral but the hole opening in the sky, I thought somebody launched and detonated a small nuke mid air. We would have known big time, also is it being reported that there was any sound when this was observed.
Originally posted by Nyhee
I think we can all agree that a rocket or missile came into play here. but the question is, what caused the spiral, be it a sphere or on a plane? What caused such a perfect spiral that held together better than the exhaust trail did?