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Missile Test Creates Huge Expanding Halo of Light Over Hawaii

Posted by samzenpus on from the looks-like-progress dept.

The Bad Astronomer writes "A Minuteman III missile launch from California early Wednesday morning created a weird, expanding halo of light seen from the CFHT observatory on Hawaii's Mauna Kea. The third stage of the missile has ports that open and dump fuel into the near-vacuum. This cloud expands rapidly as a spherical shell, shock-exciting the air molecules and causing them to glow, creating the bizarre effect."

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  1. Cue conspiracies by O('_')O_Bush · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Cue conspiracy theories about alien technology and/or chemtrails in 3... 2... 1...

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    while(1) attack(People.Sandy);
  2. Re:Is this how they are covering up airbursts? by Kreigaffe · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You can't cover up an atmospheric nuke, you can hardly even cover up an underground one. people will find out. we're good at spotting the radiation and fallout and unique shockwave if it's underground.

    the rest of the world wouldn't agree to stay quiet about things

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    ... still waiting for this free-as-in-beer free beer I keep hearing about. :|
  3. Not fuel, and not a Minuteman [CONSPIRACY!!!!] by EmagGeek · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It's chemtrails. It's your government putting mind control chemicals into the atmosphere, and rainbows in your sprinklers.

    Hah...