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First recorded activity by BoatBanter: Nov 2010
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OK...who has been playing with the buttons?
On 11/9/10 10:28 PM, Gene wrote:
On Tue, 09 Nov 2010 21:20:08 -0500, wrote:
On Tue, 09 Nov 2010 20:21:10 -0500, wrote:
On 11/9/10 7:46 PM, Wayne.B wrote:
On Tue, 09 Nov 2010 17:20:02 -0500, wrote:
The North American Aerospace Defense Command, or NORAD, issued a
statement jointly with the U.S. Northern Command, or NORTHCOM, saying
that the contrail was not the result of a foreign military launching a
missile. It provided no further details.
Of course that implies that they know what it was - probably some
classified test.
Or, just as likely, they're clueless. But I agree that it was some sort
of U.S. military "exercise."
NBC is saying this was just a commercial airliner contrail shot from
an angle that made it look like a rocket.
That really sounds far fetched..... I work at an airport and we do
enjoy watching contrails and discussing aerodynamics of same, given
appropriate metrological conditions.....
BUT, even with perfect metrological conditions, mistaking that for a
rocket/missile shot really tries the imagination....
If it was a missile, it was the S L O W E S T missile every
launched. Even the reflection off the object looks like the reflection
off of a plane at sunset. The optical illusion makes more sense than a
very very slow missile.
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Spoofers can go to Hell in a handbasket
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