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Originally posted by infinite
reply to post by mixmix
We cannot be sure if EISCAT was testing at the time of the event. They've apparently denied it over several e-mails to ATS members.
Until I get a hold of test data from the night, nothing is certain.
Originally posted by ph00nknzarrk
reply to post by danman23
Congratulations. You seem to have come across their "research rocket thingy" But did you come across this also? Nisse / Rexus-6 Homepage Where they do state under most important facts that it spins 3.2 times per second, has a planned apogee/summit of its trajectory of about 100 Kilometers/60 Miles and is designed to spill waterparticles into the almost vacuum there.Pictures of water spraying payload construction Now, if combined with artificially induced airglow and these maps which do show the meeting point in space of the trajectories of the sensing radars, heating emitter, and projected trajectory and payload release, in this case spraying water from a rotating rocket in almost vacuum...
heating map
another map
pictorial/map description of trajectory of Nisse/Rexus-6
...what would your intuition/logical reasoning tell you?
Yah, Yah, i know. Intuition and reasoning are no hard facts. So what? The russians do deny their failed launch having anything to do with it, is that not a fact too? :-)
Originally posted by SLaPPiE
I really don't think a missle was a good theory. This was too dim, there was no smoke, and that white swirl is pretty much impossible to create with a rocket.
please debunk my theory.
Originally posted by Pryde87
Thats what I initially thought when I first read about it. But there are a few problems with the railgun theory. The first one being that the effect wouldnt last that long. The spiral was present for around 10 mins. The rail gun plasma and trail would only last a couple of seconds and the plasma is only created behind the shell when the air is super heated. Once it cools it would disapear. Also railguns are not powerful enough to have much impact on a meteorite. They are being developed as naval guns due to their lack of recoil and fire a shell similar to a 155m artillery piece. Although it would punch right through a ship, you would need one hell of a large projectile to have an effect on an asteroid. Its a good theory but I still think all the evidence points to a missile, although I would like it to be a more interesting cause.
Originally posted by Gromle
The spiral was in an eastern direction of Tromsø.
And no, it was not EISCAT.
The eiscat facility has neighbours, and is visible from the mainroad that leads into Tromsø City.
If blue beams was shooting up from EISCAC, lots and lots people would have seen it. This happened in the middle of the morning rush.
Originally posted by XyZeR
Originally posted by SLaPPiE
I really don't think a missle was a good theory. This was too dim, there was no smoke, and that white swirl is pretty much impossible to create with a rocket.
please debunk my theory.
This video ( a 3dsmax simulation) explains in great detail and lament terms how is IS INDEED possible for a failed rocket to produce exaclty what we saw in Norway...