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What just happened in sky over Los Angeles?
finny
Posted on 06/19/2005 8:27:21 PM PDT by Finny
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To: smonk
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posted on
06/19/2005 10:08:23 PM PDT
by
ATCNavyRetiree
(I can most times spot a liberal...they look weak, cowardly and undisciplined.)
To: Kirkwood
Kirkwood, the contrail of the shorter one is much, much longer than what we saw. There was NO contrail. You couldn't even tell it was forked into a V unless you looked through binocs.
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posted on
06/19/2005 10:08:24 PM PDT
by
Finny
(God continue to Bless President G.W. Bush with wisdom, popularity, safety and success.)
To: KneelBeforeZod
---swamp gas---
reflecting the light from venus.
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posted on
06/19/2005 10:08:40 PM PDT
by
smonk
To: MrStumpy
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posted on
06/19/2005 10:09:54 PM PDT
by
Finny
(God continue to Bless President G.W. Bush with wisdom, popularity, safety and success.)
To: ATCNavyRetiree
![](http://putupon.smugmug.com/photos/588834-M.jpg)
LOL! exactly.
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posted on
06/19/2005 10:09:59 PM PDT
by
smonk
To: Irving Two Smokes
Isn't the U-2 single engine?
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posted on
06/19/2005 10:11:02 PM PDT
by
null and void
(You will never be really good at anything you do just for the money...)
To: smonk; null and void
POOF! I am now wearing your hat.
Oops - sorry those are my skivvies - but don't worry - its the latest thing in Gitmo, or so I've read. ;-)
Ahh - guilty pleasures - smoking on the porch with an adult beverage, Bose PC speakers lightly cranking out my MusicMatch Jukebox selections - and now I gotta go in and watch Season 1 Disk 4, #3 "24" with my son and then go to the beach tomorrow. Not a bad Father's Day! Nite Nite.
Think I'll change my handle to "Lucky" ... ;-)
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posted on
06/19/2005 10:11:10 PM PDT
by
Tunehead54
(In memory of our bravest in armed service to our nation.)
To: null and void
Hmmmm ... this thing was so high it was way, way past Edwards after five minutes. But an Aurora ... wonder if that's what it was?
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posted on
06/19/2005 10:11:51 PM PDT
by
Finny
(God continue to Bless President G.W. Bush with wisdom, popularity, safety and success.)
To: Graybeard58
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posted on
06/19/2005 10:12:28 PM PDT
by
Finny
(God continue to Bless President G.W. Bush with wisdom, popularity, safety and success.)
To: Irving Two Smokes
Besides, they add chlorofluorosulfonic acid to the fuel to suppress contrail formation.
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posted on
06/19/2005 10:12:36 PM PDT
by
null and void
(You will never be really good at anything you do just for the money...)
To: Finny
---See my post 103.---
or any of the 12 subsequent posts directing you to post #103.
yeesh. complicated thread.
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posted on
06/19/2005 10:13:56 PM PDT
by
smonk
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To: Finny
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posted on
06/19/2005 10:14:03 PM PDT
by
Private_Sector_Does_It_Better
(The UN did such a fine job with "Oil for Food" in Iraq, let's let them run the whole country!)
To: bobbdobbs
An object reentering like a capsule will have a plasma ball around it in the extreme upper atmosphere due to the surrounding upper atmospheric atoms being ionized (getting electrons stripped off) plus ablated material getting ejected. When speed is cut as the object enters lower atmosphere, you will see a contrail formed by that object as the water condenses out of the air. The persistence of the contrail will vary with the humidity of the air. You may have seen jets with contrails that go on and off and that is due to passing through different altitudes with layers of air with different humidity or else passing through "rivers" of air at a given altitude that hold relatively more moisture, but not enough to condense out as a cloud.
To: Irving Two Smokes
That's what google says, so it must be true...
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posted on
06/19/2005 10:16:58 PM PDT
by
null and void
(You will never be really good at anything you do just for the money...)
To: TXnMA
have you observed a shuttle reentry or a SR-71 return from max altitude/speed? Nothing special from an observer's point of view about an SR-71 (or U2) descent.
OTOH, 50 years of R&D following the X-15 design program would probably result in a spectacular re-entry.
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posted on
06/19/2005 10:19:52 PM PDT
by
steve86
To: null and void
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posted on
06/19/2005 10:20:52 PM PDT
by
eyespysomething
( A penny saved is a government oversight)
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To: Finny
I just saw some black helicopters in the sky over where I am.
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posted on
06/19/2005 10:21:41 PM PDT
by
Allegra
(But It's A Dry Heat...)
To: TXnMA
"I've read through the whole thread, and am inclied to take your observation seriously."
I don't and here are a few reasons:
1. she is knowledgable about this kind of phenomenom.
2. She has the vocabulary to explain this kind of phenomenon.
3. She know of sites (she mentioned what I think was an airforce base) and has knowledge of other similar phenomena.
4. She had binoculars handy to look at the phenomenom.
If you read all of her posts, I'm sure you will find other reasons as to why there is nothing to what she saw. Mind you, I'm saying that she may have actually seen something in the sky, but it's of no particular importance.
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posted on
06/19/2005 10:23:40 PM PDT
by
Baraonda
(Demographic is destiny. Don't hire 3rd world illegal aliens nor support businesses that hire them.)
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