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To: BigBobber; RadioAstronomer

Anyone who doubts missile defense can work, check these photos of a space shuttle launch taken from 220 miles up in the ISS.

http://www.warrenellis.com/?p=3183

Internet Hoax.

Those photos were NOT taken from the ISS, or any orbital platform.

They were taken from a NASA RB-57 aircraft at an altitude of about 10-12 miles, NOT 220 miles.

11 posted on 03/09/2007 4:52:34 PM PST by longshadow (FReeper #405, entering his tenth year of ignoring nitwits, nutcases, and recycled newbies)

To: longshadow

Still a 1000 K exhaust plume really stands out aganst a 300 K Earth, and even more so against a 3 K space background.

12 posted on 03/09/2007 4:57:12 PM PST by null and void ("If you have always done it that way, it is probably wrong." - Charles F. Kettering)

To: longshadow

I think you mean a WB-57

14 posted on 03/10/2007 2:05:34 PM PST by RDTF (They should have put down Barbarella instead of Barbaro)

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