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To: ClearCase_guy

It was moving east, and not very quickly from the video (in which most of the “movement” is an optical illusion from the camera bouncing and the digital optics trying to make sense of the few-pixel image being zoomed in on from long range).

It only looks like it’s “moving west” because you think the contrail has to be closer where it is larger, like those illusions where you think the guy is really big or really small because you think the room is square.

The contrail is bigger further away, because it is spreading out over time. The “start” of the contrail isn’t coming from land, it is over the horizon.


129 posted on 11/10/2010 9:30:06 AM PST by CharlesWayneCT
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To: CharlesWayneCT

I heard that is was traveling west. You say it was traveling east. Fine. I have no grounds to stick to what I heard, and I’m willing to grant that it might have been traveling east.

Question: what was it? The FAA radar tapes show no plane in that area (see page 3 of this article):

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/mystery-missile-launched-missile-off-california-coast/story?id=12097155


135 posted on 11/10/2010 9:35:00 AM PST by ClearCase_guy
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