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Awesomely bizarre light show freaks out Norway
- RiderOfGiraffes 17y agoMuch discusson: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=986967 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=986967 Also lunk to: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=986075 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=986075
- lovskogen 17y agoI'm in Norway, not freaked out. Altho I enjoyed Adam Curry's crackpot theory on it being related to the large hadron collider and the Obama visit.
- Deestan 17y agoI'm in Norway and not freaked out either, but I'm mildly entertained by the news coverage: - The TV2 news' only comment from the locals, paraphrased as "What the fuck was that?" ("Ka i hælvete va det?") - UFOologists claiming that "this defies physics as we know it". - Russian Military Official A claiming that this was definitely a missile, while Russian Political Official B claiming that this was definitely not a missile.
- smithjchris 17y agoRocket launch - Navtex warning here: http://www.frisnit.com/cgi-bin/navtex/view.cgi?id=1159919&lan=en&type=24H&message_filter=&search=ROCKET&station_filter=&date=2009-12-09&source=a4f7a470329caf85e2488355c7e88328&offset=0 http://www.frisnit.com/cgi-bin/navtex/view.cgi?id=1159919...
- mbrubeck 17y agoThe rocket/missile explanation was the first thing I thought of. It looks pretty much the same as some U.S. military missile tests I saw in southern California. (Those ones didn't malfunction and spiral, but they left the same sort of glowing trails in the evening sky.)
- kolosy 17y agodidn't russia already cop to this being a failed test? http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2009/12/10/world/international-us-russia-missile-failure.html http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2009/12/10/world/internationa...