Strange Blue/White Spiral Over Norway..

[Obev]

但是，我说汉语。什么？

[Celeste]

翻訳には限り行うことができます。 w

[Khajit]

Actually we already have giant robots. Let me find the link. It's a guy in canada doing most of em because he wanted to see them used in gladatorial combat one day.

[Meresgi]

Obviously the other faction is rifting in Norway! Hurry before they gank our lowbies

[Khajit]

Here's the link to the guy making giant robots for combat in his garage.
http://www.popsci.com/scitech/articl...05/man-machine

[Rhinox]

Miz doesn't seem to impressed by it so probably means nothing.

[Kaylia]

Here's the link to the guy making giant robots for combat in his garage.
http://www.popsci.com/scitech/articl...05/man-machine

He foresees mechas having uses in the military and the construction industry

Lol

[Aesctaa]

This was a RSM-56 Bulava SLBM fired from 'Dmitriy Donskoy', a Russian Nuclear-powered boomer.

The trajectory was intended, and the launch was not a failure, or in any way 'out of control'.

This trajectory is incredibly difficult for the BMD to recognize(and track), so its ideal for 'first strike' scenarios, and secondly it 'wastes' delta-v, keeping the entire test within the designated firing range, while still providing adequate information to ascertain a real-world maximum firing range.

[Khajit]

Lol

When pressed in an interview he admitted he really just wanted to see gladiator combat with them.

Owens is working on two more prototypes, modifying the design to make it lighter and more maneuverable. He foresees mechas having uses in the military and the construction industry but acknowledges that right now they’re best suited to entertainment. The first application he has in mind: mecha-vs.-mecha battles, demolition-derby style.

[Purrrfect]

Obviously the other faction is rifting in Norway! Hurry before they gank our lowbies

Fuck! Made it to the last page with no one using my Aion reference...

[Hellfury]

At first, I thought the picture was just a long exposure like this, but I was wrong

Spoiler: show

Holy shit guys, I took this picture of the sky at night and look at it!

Looking back at the the pictures, both clouds (white and blue) actually make sense. The blue cloud is the direction of the missile, and it surrounded by a bigger white spiral that is a leak on the side.


I made a picture to explain what I'm saying


The leak on the side is going to make the rocket rotates around the x axis, creating a huge white spiral when you project it on the YZ plane (which is what you see in the picture). The smoke recently emited is still close to the rocket, while the one emited a while agothe outer ring. Because it's not perfectly balanced, there was also a small oscillation that will slightly change the angle of the rocket as it progress. This angle augment as it progress on x axis, making the "blue spiral" bigger at the last moment.

(took out the images, forgive me)

(the initial picture that was really funky (first one in this thread) was reported by the initial papers to have been taken with really long exposure time, making it look weirder than it was. (still looks funky in the videos though) that tiny detail was just left out when everyone else picked it up, wish to hell I could find that article again.


as for the source of the phenomenon
(rough translation of the essence from http://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/ur...cle3414748.ece [one of the more credible, non-tabloid national papers])

"Men utover kvelden sier likevel kilder i det russiske forsvaret til TV 2 at det var en langdistanserakett som ble skutt opp fra en ubåt og at prøveoppskytingen var mislykket."
sources in the russian military admit that it was a long distance rocket launched from a submarine, and that the testlaunch failed.

"
Også forsker Truls Lynne Hansen ved Nordlysobservatoriet i Tromsø sier at det dreier seg om en rakett som ble skutt opp fra Kvitsjøen.
– Raketten har trolig kommet ut av kontroll og eksplodert. Det spesielle spiralformede lysmønsteret kommer av at sola skinte på drivstoffet som lekket ut, sier han til NRK."


researcher on aurora borealis Truls Hansen believes it's a rocket launched from the white sea that got out of control and exploded, the spiralshaped lightpattern is most likely due to the sun reflecting on the leaking fuel.


Edit: Ah, here's the source: http://www.vg.no/nyheter/vaer/artikkel.php?artid=596385
the text under the image:
"UTROLIG: - Bildene er tatt på dampskipskaia i retning øst, cirka klokka 07.50. Jeg kan tenke meg at det pågikk i to, tre minutter. Det var ikke til å tru. Jeg ble helt skjelven da jeg så det, sier Jan Petter Jørgensen. Bildet er tatt med stativ og lang lukkertid. Foto: Jan Petter Jørgensen"

roughly translated:
Incredible: the images are taken at the steamboatdocks direction east, at roughly 7.50 AM. I'd guess it lasted for two-three minutes. It was unbelievable, I trembled [no idea how to translate the actual meaning of the phrase] when I saw it, says Jan Petter Jørgensen. The photos are taken with a tripod and long exposuretime. Photo: Jan Petter Jørgensen

[guartz]

if a missile was spiraling out of control, it would be more erratic I should think.

[Dimmauk]

So its either: UFOs or Angel/Apocolypse or LHC or Global warming or Russia fired a missle at Norway while Obama was accepting his Nobel? W.W.B.D. What would Bush do?

[Effluo]

W.W.B.D. What would Bush do?

Glass 'em

[Brien]

Here's the link to the guy making giant robots for combat in his garage.
http://www.popsci.com/scitech/articl...05/man-machine

wow I have found a new calling in life, and want to be this guys apprentice.

[zoobernut]

How long until Palin starts a campaign to invade Russia?

[Byrthnoth]

The Russians said it was one of their rockets?
http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2009/...e-failure.html

[Max™]

How long until Palin starts a campaign to invade Russia?

Well, at least she'll just need an overnight bag since it's right next door!

[Priran]

it's obviously some sort of lolification ray that will halt the growth of norwegian women at 12 years old

[Olo401]

Somehow the idea of norwegian lolis is unappealing..