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Originally posted by davesidious
The lack of atmosphere caused the spiral to be very uniform and stable.
Originally posted by bsbray11
You see what I mean about this thing going to be huge, if it is really 300 miles up in space, when the jumbo jets you see in the sky are cruising only 7.5 miles up?
Originally posted by SLaPPiE
I think it would help to use the minimum altitude guesses to then determine if the spirals appearent outer diameter is even plausable.
Many of us just don't see the missle you do and we don't believe a random failure can be so perfectly odd. Yes some of the video looks plausable as a missle, but the stills and IR just say "That's no missle" to us.
We are still speculating as to what the really is while thae farts want it put to bed. Sorry bout that.
Originally posted by bsbray11
The only reason I can see for you trying to place this spiral directly over the White Sea, is simply because you are trying to FORCE it to be a rocket as per your personal opinion, which was pre-conceived and apparently not based on any of this math.
What is your field of expertise again, or your college/university major? Why should I even believe you intuitively understand what you are saying in the first place? Because as far as I have seen, the extent of your expertise is the arrogant chap on your avatar, decorated with medals for consistently denouncing mysterious appearances in the sky as rockets, satellites and swamp gas no doubt. And it's no secret that it doesn't take more than an adolescent with an undeserved sense of accomplishment to achieve all that. So I am simply asking out of curiosity, what exactly are your credentials?
Originally posted by downisreallyup
If there is the tiniest chance that perhaps physics is even remotely incomplete in its description of the universe, any true scientist OWES IT to science and himself to investigate any serious scientific claim, using his best ability, with an open mind, critical thinking, and scientific rigor. He MUST NOT, however, limit his thinking to only that which he has already concluded, but must seriously seek an explanation that may indeed either enhance or modify his existing assumptions.
In short, he must seriously guard against that infernal enemy to true science....PARADIGM!
Originally posted by Bordon81
My own pet theory is that the circular polarization from an EISCAT beam might have corralled the particulate matter into a beautiful reflecting spiral. Both EISCAT and HAARP use a similar spiral beam.
Originally posted by bsbray11
Originally posted by Bordon81
My own pet theory is that the circular polarization from an EISCAT beam might have corralled the particulate matter into a beautiful reflecting spiral. Both EISCAT and HAARP use a similar spiral beam.
That is the first thing I've read that actually sounds credible to me.
Congrats.
Who knows what in the hell the thing actually was. I just can't believe a malfunctioning rocket could maintain such a steady and consistent trajectory while spiraling around out of control.
I noticed much to my horror that Tromsø where you reference the Rex Features photos is not the correct location. Those 3 very popular shots taken by Jan Petter Jørgensen (Rex Features) were from the vicinity of the north breakwater (visibe in the photos) at Skjervoy some 55 miles to the northeast of Tromsø. You can verify this yourself by using Google's terrain mode and looking northeast from behind the breakwater at sea level and you will clearly see the same mountain range (Kvanangstinder) that is in the photo backgrounds. If you look closely at the video by Kevin Martin you will see that he also correctly locates the photos at Skjervoy.
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So far I have successfully mapped photos from Skjervoy, Markenes (Hwy E6), Storsteinnes, and Harstad to Google with the lay lines to the spiral all converging around the NW entrance of White Lake and the origin converging near the lower SW portion of the Lake and possibly inland to the west of the Lake (Russia). In any case, the spiral phenomenon is clearly not over Norway. I'm in the process of posting these to my website and can provide the link later is you are interested.
There is also a very interesting photo from Puoltsa, Sweden I think on Road BD-870 (www.nsd.se...) which shows the spiral in almost the exact stage of formation as the 1st Skjervoy photo and with no visible obliqueness despite this location some 160 miles SW of Skjervoy, quite revealing in itself that this phenomenon was hundreds of miles away. Unfortunately no discernible geographic features to map to Google Earth (mountains, etc.)
Originally posted by AceWombat04
So, if I understand correctly, the premise is based upon the speculated distance of the phenomenon from its origin point to somewhere over Norway, and if the location from which the photograph was taken was 55 miles away from where it was initially assumed to be, it would change the math but not significantly enough to invalidate the premise.
However, if it was indeed not over Norway at all but instead much further away and merely visible from Norway (as suggested by the post I quoted - I'm not saying that's my assertion. I'm not asserting anything myself and am just asking questions,) then the validity of the premise or at least its mathematical basis would change a lot.
EISCAT is an acronym for the European Incoherent Scatter Scientific Association. It operates three incoherent scatter radar systems, at 224 MHz, 931 MHz in Northern Scandinavia and one at 500 MHz on Svalbard, used to study the interaction between the Sun and the Earth as revealed by disturbances in the ionosphere and magnetosphere. At the Ramfjordmoen facility (near Tromsø, Norway) it also operates an ionospheric heater facility, similar to HAARP. Additional receiver stations are located in Sodankylä, Finland, and Kiruna, Sweden. The EISCAT Headquarters are also located in Kiruna.
Originally posted by AceWombat04
if we can prove that the phenomenon was not visible anywhere but in Norway (more or less,) the math proves that there are least a lot of unanswered questions pertaining to the rocket hypothesis
Another assumption; that "no one" outside of northern Norway saw the spiral. The satellite image show that the majority of Scandinavia was covered with clouds and fog but you are right, there were areas that were not; Puoltsa,Sweden for example. It is about 200km south of Tromso. Interestingly, the photo taken from there also has the spiral in the East. Since the spiral was observed in such widely separated areas, in the same general direction and perspective, it would indicate that the spiral was quite distant from both. No?
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