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Mystery missile launch': Chinese missile test or airline contrail?
examiner.com ^ | 11/12/10 | Joe Newby

Posted on 11/12/2010 7:02:24 PM PST by Korah

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To: Sto Zvirat
Bravo Sierra. You people are burying your heads in the sand.

Use your head, man. An impotent president is 10,000 miles from home, the Fed has just printed $600 billion of paper that look s like US Dollars, China holds our debt, and this happens.

That's called a shot across our bow where I come from.

81 posted on 11/12/2010 7:48:04 PM PST by buccaneer81 (ECOMCON)
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To: mnehring

It was a weather balloon. Go back to watching Dancing With The Stars.


82 posted on 11/12/2010 7:48:42 PM PST by Georgia Girl 2
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To: spyone

Something tells me that yes it was ours, and it was a snapshot launch, and I think it wasn’t timed for any political leverage, I think it was done to take out a possible very dangerous piece of orbital hardware, something that if it hit in a populated area would have caused major damage.

I’m actually thinking of the movie “Space Cowboys” except we decided we had to shoot something down now and then keep quiet about it.

There is still an unknown amount of birds we have launched with payloads of radioactive fuels aboard. Or worse.


83 posted on 11/12/2010 7:49:23 PM PST by Eye of Unk (If your enemy is quick to anger, seek to irritate him. Sun Tzu, The Art of War.)
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To: mnehring

Oh for Heavens’ Sake!

Is this silly debate really going to be another 100+ comments on a thread?

You are a patient debater?


84 posted on 11/12/2010 7:50:01 PM PST by Global2010
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To: Sto Zvirat
Its a plane, a 757-200, US808 HNL-PHX, just like it was the next day when the same plane, at the same spot made the same kind of contrail.

Post the images or a video of the same plane leaving the same contrail. Otherwise you are just typing on a keyboard.

85 posted on 11/12/2010 7:51:30 PM PST by justa-hairyape
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To: Global2010

Between 8 and 8:30 my wife takes a bath which means a 30 minutes of debate time with all the keyboard experts.

Then, back to real life..


86 posted on 11/12/2010 7:51:57 PM PST by mnehring
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To: Korah
I'm one of those that believe it was a missile not some airliner.
87 posted on 11/12/2010 7:52:08 PM PST by McGruff (A political party cannot be all things to all people. It must represent certain fundamental beliefs)
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To: mnehring
So, the Chinese can't hack DIP to render it impotent?

Think about it. The US is not omnipotent, especially with the espionage of the past 25 years and the treason of the Clinton administration.

88 posted on 11/12/2010 7:52:08 PM PST by buccaneer81 (ECOMCON)
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To: ErnBatavia
The mods need to knock this stuff in the head before the next FReepathon. This place could quicklike become a joke.

After being here for ten years, and having seen every weird thing imaginable pop up here, you still think that?

Geeez, what a nervous Nellie. Relax. This discussion is no weirder than the UFO threads that get posted.

89 posted on 11/12/2010 7:52:15 PM PST by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: Eye of Unk

Except (1) Russia has the same missle-detecting satellites we do and would have raised a fuss. (2) Whoever owns the sattelite would raise a fuss. (3) If that was what happened, even if the US wanted to lie about it they could say “Yes, we were conducting a military training exercise in the area”.


90 posted on 11/12/2010 7:53:41 PM PST by TennesseeProfessor
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To: Eye of Unk

Best post of the thread! Thank you!


91 posted on 11/12/2010 7:53:41 PM PST by buccaneer81 (ECOMCON)
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To: Georgia Girl 2

Indeed. I hear they are working on having a same sex couple next season.


92 posted on 11/12/2010 7:55:11 PM PST by brytlea (Jesus loves me, this I know.)
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To: Korah
Photobucket

This is frame 446 of the video. You can see an object (helicopter) moving in towards the missile trail from the right. On close examination (and we can blow the frame up a bit more without losing all def), it appears to be a Chinook. I believe those are sometimes used in anti-sub missions.

As for anyone getting a sub in there: don't be silly. Piece of cake for anyone having a silent diesel of the modern kind. Like that Swedish item the navy is leasing to try to learn to find.

93 posted on 11/12/2010 7:55:46 PM PST by Hardraade (I want gigaton warheads now!!)
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To: Global2010

I thought you had already said your last word?


94 posted on 11/12/2010 7:56:16 PM PST by brytlea (Jesus loves me, this I know.)
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To: brytlea

“boys or girls?” /DirtyHarry


95 posted on 11/12/2010 7:56:28 PM PST by NonValueAdded (Palin 2012)
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To: TennesseeProfessor
Russia has the same missle-detecting satellites we do and would have raised a fuss.

And if it had been an old CCCP satellite with spent nuclear fuel? The Russkies response, after we shot it down, would be to send the finest bottles of vodka to our NORAD generals.

96 posted on 11/12/2010 7:56:59 PM PST by buccaneer81 (ECOMCON)
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To: buccaneer81

I tell you what, I know we have the best of the best but I also know Obama has been drilling holes in the dikes so to speak. The Chinese should NOT be underestimated, nor the Russians but I also believe they will side with us in the long run.

I can also visualize the possibility that we have so much of a superior edge that we knew where, when what depth and how many farted per hour on a submerged boat.

But when you have a dangerous anti-american POTUS there is also the possibility that our Armed Forces may “neglect” to inform the high and mighty of such events. And I hope they continue to do so!


97 posted on 11/12/2010 7:57:42 PM PST by Eye of Unk (If your enemy is quick to anger, seek to irritate him. Sun Tzu, The Art of War.)
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To: gandalftb

unless it was diesel-electric


98 posted on 11/12/2010 7:58:13 PM PST by Mrs.ThurstonHowell
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To: Eye of Unk
"... I want to see a timeline of events like when the 787 test aircraft had a fire, when the Carnival ship had its fire, how many people may have fried cell phones on that ship, any other vessels that had electronic damages."

Okay...

1. 787 Dreamliner had smoke in the rear cabin from an electrical fire. Seems to be the only plane so afflicted, and being that it was a Boeing test mule, how reasonable is it that it was a quality control problem with the electronics suite?

2. The Carnival cruise line split an engine block. That's why they lost power. Mechanical failure.

3. People on the Carnival ship were using their cell phones to communicate to their families back home. By now, you'd think you'd have heard if 50% of the people on that ship now report that their cell phones are mysteriously fried.

4. The Carnival ship was off Baja California, and the 787 Dreamliner was flying near Laredo Texas. Those two locations are about 800 miles from one another. They're the only two affected by this phantom EMP device, but the entirety of Mexico and the California coastline weren't?

5. The 787 Dreamliner landed at 2:54pm Central time. This contrail was captured on tape at about sundown (5:30pm) on Pacific time. That's five hours difference. The Carnival ship's power went out at 6am on Monday, Pacific time. That's about 36 hours from the sighting of the contrail the next day in the same time zone.

99 posted on 11/12/2010 7:58:28 PM PST by The KG9 Kid
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To: MestaMachine

Pingythingy


100 posted on 11/12/2010 7:58:33 PM PST by Hardraade (I want gigaton warheads now!!)
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