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Russia Confirms Failed Missile Launch Caused Norway's Light Show

Posted by timothy on from the disney-world-does-it-every-night dept.

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."

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  1. At least it wasnt a nuke plant going up... by thaddeusthudpucker · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ...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...

  2. Re:Well paint me surprised: by GigaplexNZ · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.

  3. Re:No Fool by Stuart+Gibson · · Score: 5, Insightful

    But this story is in the Daily Mail. Since I don't believe anything they say maybe Russia *hasn't* denied it?

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