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Russia Confirms Failed Missile Launch Caused Norway's Light Show
Ch_Omega writes "According to this article over at BarentsObserver, the giant spiral seen on the sky over Norway Wednesday morning local time has been confirmed to be the result of a failed Russian missile launch. Russia now confirms that '...the missile was launched from submerged position in the White Sea by the nuclear submarine Dmitri Donskoy. Studies of the telemetric data from the launch show that the two first stages of the missile functioned as they should, and that a technical malfunctioning occurred during the third stage.' There is also an article on this at The Daily Mail."
It was happening at quite high altitude, visible from vast distance, so it wasn't really at the doorstep of Norway, probably.
Plus Russia doesn't have exactly that much of a coastline as the first glance at many typical maps would suggest - the northern regions are quite close to the north pole, so they end up heavily "distorted" in certain map projections.
One that hath name thou can not otter
This is a really cool new kind of fireworks. I've never seen one do this before.
She was like chocolate when she drank... semi-sweet at first and then increasingly bitter.
...Like in 1986 when it took radiation alarms going off in fucking SWEDEN before they admitted that they had literally nuked a city or two...
I thought Vietnam was mainly a China vs US gig?
Can't help with the reason for why it's relevant to USSR's coastal access, but in 196x China wasn't exactly in a position to sponsor a proxy war, having just taken a bit of a misguided jump. The proxy war was still between the USA and USSR.
Man who leaps off cliff jumps to conclusion.
Imagine though how freaked out one would be walking outside and suddenly seeing a giant spinning spiral with a sci-fi-ish blue trail passing through the middle. Based on the youtube vids I saw, one could actually perceive the spinning motion.
And double freaked out if walking out of a movie theater after seeing a scary movie. That's just one goddam weird pattern.
Table-ized A.I.
Russia was shooting at Kura polygon on Kamchatka. Of course, one would want to shoot from north-west: the rocket flies the longest distance possible, nearly exclusively over Russian territory (this time it seems to be launched from neutral waters), and mainly over polar seas and eternally frozen lands. Given that the Bulava rocket was never built correctly (not for sea launches, at least), not flying it above heavily populated areas seems like a good idea...
Russia doesn't need to do anything to bring down the American economy. America did a fairly decent job of that itself not too long ago.
They hate us for our big-box retailers.
"I assumed blithely that there were no elves out there in the darkness"
But this story is in the Daily Mail. Since I don't believe anything they say maybe Russia *hasn't* denied it?
It's all fun and games until a 200' robot dinosaur shows up and trashes Neo-Tokyo... Again