Posted on 11/10/2010 12:45:55 PM PST by Gargantua
Exploding the That Wasnt A Missile Myth
By Gargantua
What appeared to be a missile rose from below the horizon, streaking into the sky off of California leaving a condensation trail identical to the kind that have been filmed being left by a ground-or-sea-to-air launch of a Minuteman missile or ICBM.
First, the Government was inexplicably mum on the topic. Next came a series of sometimes contradictory explanations. Now, days after the event, the finally agreed-upon explanation hits every news station all at once. Its the con-trail of a jet returning from across the Pacific.
There are two glaring problems with this obviously false explanation.
First, the shape and density of the con-trail.
A missile launch would be more dense and wide at its base, just as we see in the images weve been shown. A jets con-trail would be thinner and smaller the further away as it trailed off toward the horizon. We see the opposite in the availale video footage.
Second, the lighting.
In the video footage, we see stratus clouds out over the ocean behind the rising missile. The setting sun is shining on, and illuminating, the bottom of those clouds. On the con-trail, however, the illumination from the sun appears on the right-hand-edge; just as it would if this were a launching missiles vertically rising con-trail. There is no illumination of the underside of the jets horizontally oriented con-trail because it is not a jets con-trail, it is a vertically-oriented missiles launch contrail with the sun lighting up the side away from us. Very obviously so.
The Government must think we are at least as stupid as they are if they think this lame explanation is going to fly.
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Fair enough. Sorry.
Or the plane descended from ultra-cold 30k ft. on its approach to LAX and the contrail disappeared?
Damn, this stuff is so totally tin foil, I can't believe any Freepers are buying in.
Study some perspective drawing or get some common sense!
Next night, same conditions, same contrail, same flight.
This is almost as kooky as the woman that was spraying her lawn and saw “chemtrails” in the hose stream.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HV9gRFv5Kgc
So while I appreciate all the naysaying dorks (really, I do...) I'll go with the 4-Star General on this one.
(not too smug, heh heh heh...)
8^D
So while I appreciate your uninformed and incorrect assumption here, I'll go with the 4-Star General on this one.
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This from last September
This from 60 years ago in California
Here's one from out in the mountains.
Learn prespective -- as in the drawing kind. Photos (and video) do indeed lie.
Stuff it, jerk. You don't know diddly squat.
I tied to explain this to y'all, but there are none so blind as they who refuse to see.
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Very impressive. /s
Frankly, it doesn't help your credibility to insult those trying to engage in honest discussion.
My gut tells me it was a missile, but the data doesn't support that gut instinct, if it was on film in flight for 9 or 10 minutes. If you can prove it was only on the video for one minute, the case is closed. But no one has proven that, even though everyone seems to be working on that assumption, including your General on Hannity.
Lt. General Thomas McInerney (Ret) says it's definitely a missile on Hannity, which will replay at midnight EST this evening, in case you'd like to hear it from a real expert.
Learn some prerpective, Dittz.
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That car is traveling uphill and the contrail goes behind a relatively close tall mountain. Viewing angle and horizon elevation are important perspective metrics.
You really are full of something. Probably yourself.
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If one more person posts those same two stupid pics again, especially the one on the bottom, I’m going to have to conclude that critical thinking is considered evil in today’s society. No thought goes into putting those up for comparison at all.
No proof for a missile. Plenty of proof and explanation for contrails.
I swear, its like no one ever looks up at the sky anymore. Where are the reports of this missile launch from San Diego or north to Oxnard? I once watched a Delta launch from VAFB as it passed over the ocean W of us in Oceanside, quite cool, especially the staging.
And the ionized gas cloud that you get from exhaust in the ionosphere. Where is that in this “missile”? How come this “missile” moves so slow?
The kook is strong in so many, but reason and logic is scarce.
OK, I got your number. Thanks.
Sorry, no comparison!
No similarity at all.
Well the smart ones do anyway...;o)
I haven't seen anything that constitutes proof.
I swear, its like no one ever looks up at the sky anymore.
Really? It seems to me like you have never seen a missile launch.
I spent the first 27 years of my life living within a mile of Stapleton Int. Airport. For about 40 years I spent hundreds of hours outdoors as a carpenter, hunter, fisherman and wild crafter. I have also been a fan of space launches and have seen on film almost every major launch since Friendship 7 which I clearly recall watching as a child. And then the Challenger disaster from the Cape.
Your great powers of observation might have noticed that I said that before. Your lack of skill in debate and discussion might actually be worse than your critical thinking skills.
How come this missile moves so slow?
It appears to move slow for a missile because it is moving away at an angle to the northwest, as the photographer said it was, and because it is already very high up by the time the video shows its movement. The angle away from the camera doesn't reveal the distance traveled due to perspective.
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