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Originally posted by unicorn1
reply to post by Nocturnalfear
Is English not your first language Nocturnalfear? People unfamiliar with a language often pick a word from the dictionary which doesn't work in the context they are aiming for - they simply don't understand the nuances. The word decline does not make sense in this context as already pointed out by hank. The word you need is 'deny' as already pointed out.
Decline means to refuse or reject in the sense of declining an offer, a drink, a date, a pay rise...
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Originally posted by jackphotohobby
reply to post by jackphotohobby
Following up from post by captiva
I'm wrong here. Apologies captiva (and apologies everyone else for the camera nerdery - it is related to the spiral photos though). Just to be thorough I popped outside with a DX DSLR/tripod, and got some reasonable shots of street lights at ISO-200 F1.8 1/60th second. So you're partly right, and apologies for being snarky. An incident meter was a stupid choice on my part. It would have been better to have tested with a modern matrix meter first. However, these reasonable shots of street lights weren't uniformly exposed well, the majority of the scene was very much underexposed. If I wanted a reasonable exposure like the Norway shots I'd still have to resort to a longer shutter speed or increase the ISO.
However, I still think the shots were long exposures, because of the lack of visible noise, that the scene is well exposed overall, the difference in the width of the spiral between the videos and photos. The rocket wasn't moving fast enough in the videos to have its spiral trajectory captured with a fast shutter speed.
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Originally posted by Agent_USA_Supporter
I almost done with this forum, why? i cant stand the idiotic of some who say it was a missile and who were so quick to join the bandwagon with the media.
So much for ATS uncovering government serects, no offence mods you being great mods to this very forum site
I will still stick around just for few, i will say this if this happens again, and it gets covered as a missile failed up test again i would laugh out loud.
I will still stand by my theory it was HARRP.
Originally posted by captiva
1. If a missile, why has there been absolutly no condemnation of the Russians. Especially when looking at the world condemnation of the Korean launches considering we had prior knowledge of those.
2. If a missile, why was there someone in the right spot to capture the failure on video and more importantly on digital or film stills.
3. Why did the Russians first deny any connection between the spiral and their missile, only to confirm it after the fact?
4. Why has the msm jumped on the strangness, UFO, "out there" aspect of the event and not the Russian launch even though the Russians say there missile failed. ( But still avoid admitting "It was us")
Why have so many people matter of factly accepted the missile theory where as yet all I see is probability. I have seen no hard evidence of it being a missile.
Originally posted by captiva
reply to post by ALLis0NE
"Some photographs had a long shutter speed" How on earth can you state this without seeing the exif details? That comment is prefabricated and does the rest of your argument no good at all.
A slow shutter speed used to capture the event from the start till the end of the spiral would only show a large circular blur with no ridges and no depth.
Respects
Originally posted by Griffo515
1. SOUND- Rockets make a lot of it...why is there none in the VIDEOS?
2. DEBRIS- No reports of any being found
3. POSITION- Why are there no side on photographs and/or video of the lights? what, everyone filming and taking photos all across Norway just happened to be standing DIRECTLY in front of it to give it THIS spiral effect?...I don't think so.
4. VALIDITY- As always, can we rely on the official report given our governments (especially Russia's) track record?
5. PRECISION- How can a failed rocket launch be so PERFECT
6. ILLUMINATION- If it were a failed rocket...would it not explode like 90% of them? where is the ka-boom! where is the light given off in such an event!...there is none. Which brings us back to our 2nd question, where is the debris??
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Originally posted by bsbray11
I can't help but notice that the rocket failure you posted doesn't look anything like this thing over Norway.
Originally posted by bsbray11
Can you post any rocket failures that DO look like the thing over Norway?
Originally posted by bsbray11
Besides not being the right shape, the clouds are also much messier and less exact than the spiral over Norway.