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Originally posted by FanarFanar
Originally posted by Gerizo
Originally posted by MiTS1965
Originally posted by Gerizo
It has showed up for at least 2 consecutive days, look at the youtube account of the person that posted the videos and you can clearly see he has posted a couple of nights in a row. Same flight each evening? Dude, it looks like a comet and its huge.....IT IS NOT A PLANE CONTRAIL!!!!
Which bit of it being a daily scheduled flight are you having a problem with?
It is a plane and it is a contrail.
Let me explain:
Have you heard of lunar eclipses? Thats when the moon passes behind the Earth relative to the sun and enters the Earth's shadow. The Moon appears red. This is because the atmosphere of the Earth acts as a prism and refracts the sun's light. Long wavelength light, like red, is refracted more than shorter wavelengths like blue. So red light gets refracted more and faintly illuminates the Moon, causing it to appear a deep red. This is because, at full eclipse, the moon is on the opposite side of the Earth than the Sun so only the deepest reds get refracted enough to illuminate the Moon.
This means that when the sun is just below the horizon slightly longer wavelengths at the lower end of the spectrum are refracted so an airplane with a contrail heading towards a sunrise/sunset vividly reflect those wavelengths - causing a vivid red or orange reflection from its contrail.
This is scientific fact. You can try to deny it as much as you want depending on how much you want to believe in your fantasies but it is a fact!
I suggest you try to educate yourself before pontificating on things you obviously have no knowledge of.
Says the new ats member that just signed up in March of this year....I did not need the lesson. It is not a plane nor a contrail. You have done nothing but post words. Where is your proof that is a contrail? Scientific fact guy?
How does the date a member registered with the site have any bearing on the validity of his argument?
Originally posted by Grifter.be
I think Gerizo needs to lay of the dope :p at least for a day or two :d
No, just kidding. I still think this is a regular contrail lit by the setting sunlight.
Originally posted by Gerizo
Originally posted by Grifter.be
I think Gerizo needs to lay of the dope :p at least for a day or two :d
No, just kidding. I still think this is a regular contrail lit by the setting sunlight.
Well im not sure I how gave the impression im on dope....are you a clairvoyant in your spare time?
No worries, just kind of a rude response. I respect that you think it is a contrail, I disagree. See my brain allows me to think freely, and I know that a contrail would not remain in the sky for consecutive nights therefore there must be a better explanation.
Originally posted by pazcat
It is not comet Elenin, that much is certain.
By the two trails on the zoomed in picture it is probably just a planes contrail being reflected by the sun.
Cool effect.
Originally posted by RisenAngel77
I don't know what this is. I was searching for updates on Elenin and saw this video on youtube. According to him, the sun had already set.
Any thoughts? For some reason, Im thinking maybe yesterdays solar flare fractured the atmosphere a bit?
edit on 31-3-2011 by RisenAngel77 because: clarifying that the video was found on youtube and that i didn't film this