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Title: Who fired what?
Post by: Nickbat on 09 November 2010, 22:54:56
 :o :o


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-11723438
Title: Re: Who fired what?
Post by: tidla on 09 November 2010, 22:57:04
bloody bonfire night! will it never end? ::)
Title: Re: Who fired what?
Post by: Richie London on 10 November 2010, 11:59:54
it was just an optical illusion  :-?
Title: Re: Who fired what?
Post by: bluey on 10 November 2010, 12:33:24
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bloody bonfire night! will it never end? ::)
;D ;D ;D ;D

'tis very strange tho......
Title: Re: Who fired what?
Post by: Xplicit 2.0 on 10 November 2010, 13:18:40
looks fake to me.... at the very start, look how, when he starts zooming in, that the land u see below starts to move (as if he is moving the camera) but the vapor trail does not move... or is this just me?  :-? :-? :-?
Title: Re: Who fired what?
Post by: Lizzie_Zoom on 10 November 2010, 13:19:54
To me it looks every bit like a submarine missile launch ;)
Title: Re: Who fired what?
Post by: Nickbat on 10 November 2010, 13:21:04
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looks fake to me.... at the very start, look how, when he starts zooming in, that the land u see below starts to move (as if he is moving the camera) but the vapor trail does not move... or is this just me?  :-? :-? :-?

T'was a CBS cameraman, so I doubt he/she would fake it. There are many arguments going as to whether it was jet contrail, or a rocket of some description.

I'm keeping an open mind.  :-/ ;)
Title: Re: Who fired what?
Post by: Xplicit 2.0 on 10 November 2010, 13:39:45
people will make up any old s***e though these days.... and that makes it a lil bit more convincing... being a camera man he may hav skill in video editing/special effects.... just looks odd how the stream doesn't move but the ground does
Title: Re: Who fired what?
Post by: djac on 10 November 2010, 13:47:03
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people will make up any old s***e though these days.... and that makes it a lil bit more convincing... being a camera man he may hav skill in video editing/special effects.... just looks odd how the stream doesn't move but the ground does

It's called parallax - the nearer object (the ground) appears to move but the distant object (the smoke/contrail) appears to remain stationary.
Title: Re: Who fired what?
Post by: Lizzie_Zoom on 10 November 2010, 13:51:39
It certainly seems to be baffling a lot of "experts" in the States, including those in the Pentagon who should know about these things!

There are systems in place to track any missile or plane, so what did they record?  If they didn't activate, why not?  If it had been a missile, not of USA military oriigin, why were no anti-missle missiles sent up?

A load of questions to be answered! ;) ;)
Title: Re: Who fired what?
Post by: Xplicit 2.0 on 10 November 2010, 15:02:49
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people will make up any old s***e though these days.... and that makes it a lil bit more convincing... being a camera man he may hav skill in video editing/special effects.... just looks odd how the stream doesn't move but the ground does

It's called parallax - the nearer object (the ground) appears to move but the distant object (the smoke/contrail) appears to remain stationary.
well thats a rather big stream then if the horizon moves that much but the stream doesnt at all...

meh either way, was just my opinion, not really bothered by it either way really lol
Title: Re: Who fired what?
Post by: djac on 10 November 2010, 15:10:51
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people will make up any old s***e though these days.... and that makes it a lil bit more convincing... being a camera man he may hav skill in video editing/special effects.... just looks odd how the stream doesn't move but the ground does

It's called parallax - the nearer object (the ground) appears to move but the distant object (the smoke/contrail) appears to remain stationary.
well thats a rather big stream then if the horizon moves that much but the stream doesnt at all...

meh either way, was just my opinion, not really bothered by it either way really lol

I don't think that what you are seeing move is the horizon. It appears to be a ridge or something a lot nearer the camera, possibly just a few hundred metres away  :y
Title: Re: Who fired what?
Post by: aaronjb on 10 November 2010, 15:48:16
Pfft, it's just a really, really big pop-bottle rocket of course! ;D
Title: Re: Who fired what?
Post by: Xplicit 2.0 on 10 November 2010, 15:51:11
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people will make up any old s***e though these days.... and that makes it a lil bit more convincing... being a camera man he may hav skill in video editing/special effects.... just looks odd how the stream doesn't move but the ground does

It's called parallax - the nearer object (the ground) appears to move but the distant object (the smoke/contrail) appears to remain stationary.
well thats a rather big stream then if the horizon moves that much but the stream doesnt at all...

meh either way, was just my opinion, not really bothered by it either way really lol

I don't think that what you are seeing move is the horizon. It appears to be a ridge or something a lot nearer the camera, possibly just a few hundred metres away  :y

to be honest i cant even remember anymore.... bad day at work  :(
Title: Re: Who fired what?
Post by: Debs. on 10 November 2010, 16:06:39
 : ::)......every giggly school-boy`s dream:

 :P Somebody`s sent a probe up to Uranus! ;D
Title: Re: Who fired what?
Post by: aaronjb on 10 November 2010, 16:20:59
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: ::)......every giggly school-boy`s dream:

 :P Somebody`s sent a probe up to Uranus! ;D

I do not dream about having any probes up my uranus! ;D ;D
Title: Re: Who fired what?
Post by: Dishevelled Den on 10 November 2010, 16:48:24
I put it down to bloody idiots like these...........



http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=258_1289362867
Title: Re: Who fired what?
Post by: Banjax on 14 November 2010, 11:58:10
I'd forgotten about this until I heard on the "wireless" that physicists had come to a conclusion - vapour trail off a plane, apparently - its so long that it disappears over the horizon and looks like its coming up from the ground, add to that the slow dispersion of the older part s of the trail and it all adds to the effect of something being fired up in the air as opposed to travelling parallel with the ground  :(

the most boring explanations are usually the most accurate  :y