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SteamWake
12-09-09, 10:07 PM
Okay this is flat out strange.

Cant wait to hear from the experts on this one.


What's blue and white, squiggly and suddenly appears in the sky?

If you know the answer, pop it on a postcard and send it to the people of Norway, where this mysterious light display baffled residents yesterday.

Curiously, it appears to be unconnected with the aurora borealis, or northern lights, the natural magnetic phenomena that can often be viewed in that part of the world.


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1234430/Mystery-spiral-blue-light-display-hovers-Norway.html
nikimcbee
12-09-09, 10:20 PM
I say russian missle test.
Torplexed
12-09-09, 10:21 PM
Quite a remarkable sight. It's being called the Norway Spiral. According to the Universe Today site it was likely a failed missile launch from a Russian submarine in the White Sea.

http://www.universetoday.com/2009/12/09/what-was-the-norway-spiral/
nikimcbee
12-09-09, 10:22 PM
Quite a remarkable sight. It's being called the Norway Spiral. According to the Universe Today site it was likely a failed missile launch from a Russian submarine in the White Sea.

http://www.universetoday.com/2009/12/09/what-was-the-norway-spiral/

Failed? Isn't that how they all work.:haha:
Torplexed
12-09-09, 10:25 PM
Failed? Isn't that how they all work.:haha:

Just the Russians playing with their giant Spirograph. :D Hypnotize the opposition.
Reece
12-09-09, 10:25 PM
Someone messing with a laser light display I would say, or maybe trying a mass hypnotism!:yep:
Dowly
12-09-09, 10:27 PM
Wow, whatever it was, that's pretty darn cool! :yeah:
nikimcbee
12-09-09, 10:50 PM
Does Norway drink as much as Finland does? Maybe they're all buzzed?
Blacklight
12-09-09, 11:29 PM
Watching the video, it definitely looks like a wildly spinning out of control missile. I think Russia is lying about the "Not a missile test" thing for some reason.
stabiz
12-10-09, 08:27 AM
Does Norway drink as much as Finland does? Maybe they're all buzzed?

Kind of.:woot:
Arclight
12-10-09, 08:34 AM
"failed Bulava missile launched from a nuclear submarine in the White Sea.", apparently. :hmmm:

http://gizmodo.com/5422792/this-is-how-the-mysterious-giant-spiral-happened

*nvm, see this was already clear. Carry on. :oops:
TDK1044
12-10-09, 08:35 AM
Well that's done it. Now everybody knows about the Stargate Program!
papa_smurf
12-10-09, 08:48 AM
Its yet another successful test of the new Russian ballistic missile:har:
SteamWake
12-10-09, 09:29 AM
Wow cant believe not one Al Gore reference :har:
Oberon
12-10-09, 02:32 PM
Not another failed Bulava? :damn:
longam
12-10-09, 03:33 PM
Wow cant believe not one Al Gore reference :har:

Top secret laser gun to make global warming real reference? :salute:
SteamWake
12-10-09, 03:39 PM
LOL

Watch the link that Torplexed posted... at 00:18 in it looks like you can see a self destruct explosion.

It looks hella big but I wonder why no noise was reported.
AVGWarhawk
12-10-09, 08:04 PM
Looks like a new issue from global warming. What has Al Gore said? Does he have a book out yet? Looks like a missle doing loops.
Bill Nichols
12-10-09, 09:52 PM
The Russians don't have a monopoly on missile failures... this was the first underwater launch of the Trident II SLBM:

http://www.defencetalk.com/pictures/data/3064/tridentCrazy.jpg

:arrgh!:
SteamWake
12-10-09, 10:10 PM
The Russians don't have a monopoly on missile failures... this was the first underwater launch of the Trident II SLBM:

http://www.defencetalk.com/pictures/data/3064/tridentCrazy.jpg

:arrgh!:


Thats a freakin awsome photo ! :rock:
Sailor Steve
12-10-09, 10:13 PM
Circle Runner!!!
Snestorm
12-11-09, 07:23 AM
It'd be interesting to know what was going through the photographers mind while taking that picture. He realy had a front row seat. Damned good picture.
kiwi_2005
12-11-09, 07:52 AM
Maybe thats what they want us to believe its a failed missile test... Kinda like Area51 oh that was just a weather balloon... ;)
Arclight
12-11-09, 07:53 AM
It'd be interesting to know what was going through the photographers mind while taking that picture.

Something like "RUUUN!!!", maybe.

Don't think I'd feel at ease with a big, fire spewing missile spiraling out of control within sight of me. :-?
Oberon
12-11-09, 08:47 AM
Never mind the photographer! I reckon the CO or XO at the 'scope would have been in full brown trouser mode when that spiraled around again :dead:
Oberon
12-11-09, 09:16 AM
When good launches go bad:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Z-3fjg4dYY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkT3I6RDPkw&feature=related
(it says Trident II but I'm pretty darn sure it's actually a Russian SLBM)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtjavGsYvao&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7wBN-U2KXI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2sgmMgSUEA&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KApLcKQ3Pu0&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-r9cYp3tTE&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdBwjtgHDi8&feature=related
SteamWake
12-11-09, 09:42 AM
It'd be interesting to know what was going through the photographers mind while taking that picture. He realy had a front row seat. Damned good picture.

He was probably thinking "thank god for telephoto lenses" the boat on the other hand was most likely in oh **** mode...

If you look closely at the photo it almost looks like the missle did a sort of 'skip' off the water at least once.
Gorduz
12-11-09, 03:09 PM
We Norwegian see this "star" as a sign of the coming of the savior of the world (guess who :O: )
stabiz
12-11-09, 03:17 PM
Odin?
Snestorm
12-11-09, 03:20 PM
Balder.
Gorduz
12-11-09, 03:33 PM
one more hint (he left Oslo this morning)
Snestorm
12-11-09, 03:52 PM
Even though I'm not religiouse, I think you should have grabbed Odin or Balder while you had a chance.
Bill Nichols
12-11-09, 05:05 PM
I remember watching this one on TV when I was a child:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JK6a6Hkp94o
SteamWake
12-11-09, 06:15 PM
Anyone else see the irony of the Russians test firing an ICBM close to Norway which coincedently were hosting the Nobel Peace prize recipent whom is a proponent of disarmament?

(Run on sentance award?) :hmmm:
conus00
12-11-09, 11:23 PM
IMO the spiral is too "perfect" to be malfunctioning missile.

I guess the Santa Claus was coming to Norway early this year, was buzzed, an spun his sleigh out of control.
Arclight
12-12-09, 03:24 AM
Either that or he had some funky beans for breakfast. :88)
Fincuan
12-12-09, 08:17 AM
Saw this posted somewhere. An ad campaign for Dreamcast, a pretty plausible explanation if you ask me :haha:

http://lh5.ggpht.com/_GHuMVhWWQPc/SyOXmf9sLMI/AAAAAAAAAok/eRUBxXVB9Ug/X-20091210143148343.jpg

http://lh6.ggpht.com/_GHuMVhWWQPc/SyOXmu2UtyI/AAAAAAAAAoo/f54EuLvgp4E/X-20091210143211890.jpg
SteamWake
12-12-09, 08:25 AM
Saw this posted somewhere. An ad campaign for Dreamcast, a pretty plausible explanation if you ask me :haha:

http://lh5.ggpht.com/_GHuMVhWWQPc/SyOXmf9sLMI/AAAAAAAAAok/eRUBxXVB9Ug/X-20091210143148343.jpg

http://lh6.ggpht.com/_GHuMVhWWQPc/SyOXmu2UtyI/AAAAAAAAAoo/f54EuLvgp4E/X-20091210143211890.jpg

LOL it would have been... I actually owned one of those :doh:
Castout
12-13-09, 12:56 AM
http://www.defencetalk.com/pictures/data/3064/tridentCrazy.jpg



And to think many people today worship science! Can't they see it's been trial and error for a significant part that's called experimenting and testing :hmm2:. No such thing as perfect knowledge even less perfect technology.
Task Force
12-13-09, 01:22 AM
Lol at oberons vids...

Tho the last one would be great for the 4th of july.:yep:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdBwjtgHDi8&feature=related
Snestorm
12-13-09, 07:08 AM
And to think many people today worship science! Can't they see it's been trial and error for a significant part that's called experimenting and testing :hmm2:. No such thing as perfect knowledge even less perfect technology.

Agreed. Especialy on the technology.