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Russian Missile Test Seen and Photographed By ISS Astronauts
The Bad Astronomer writes "It sounds like a scene from Gravity: Astronauts aboard the International Space Station Thursday saw a weird, glowing cloud of light in the distance, most likely caused by a fuel dump or leaking fuel from a Russian missile launch. The extended life of a Topol missile was being tested in a ballistic launch to a test target in Kazakhstan, and the astronauts were able to take pictures of both the launch vapor trail and the glowing cloud. This event is similar to the eerie spiral lights seen over Norway in 2009 caused by a Russian missile launch as well."
Probably not as creepy as norway.
Is there something important about it?
Both the light and atmospheric pollution are pretty crappy looking.
I want to delete my account but Slashdot doesn't allow it.
Wonder what it would look like if the world launched all its nukes at each other...
"The International Space Station silently orbits the Earth, black of space above, blue of ocean below. An astronaut floats in the cupola, a dome of glass and steel that faces the planet underneath, smiling to himself as he takes one photo after another of our home world. What he doesn’t know is that a Russian missile is about to make his life very interesting."
Because I imagine that the life of an astronaut is otherwise boring, on par with that of a rock farmer.
...you don't fire missiles. Missiles fire you!
God help you
Two to keep the rest of the crew absorbed in conversation, one to wipe the camera SD card of those flagrant violations of Russian state security
Didn't I just see this movie in the theater? Is this a viral ad for Gravity?
Wowee wooo wee
The Topol is a solid fueled rocket so fuel dumping,leakage is probably not the cause. I guess they will have to come up with another theory. The article has been updated to reflect this.
Notice how many NEGATIVES this zionist stooge works into his words.
-Comparison to the film 'Gravity' where the Russians are responsible for a disaster in space.
-The use of emotive words like 'weird' - implying unnatural or wrong
-"fuel dump" or "leaking fuel" to imply the Russians are irresponsibly polluting
How would that pathetic stooge 'Bad Astronomer' have described the crew of the ISS witnessing a US missile launch? This nasty goon thinks you are so very stupid, he can manipulate your thoughts and emotions so crudely. Smarter kids in better US schools are commonly shown how this trick of distorted media reporting works. They are given one set of facts, and then asked to write a brief newspaper story spinning the facts in various directions.
Slashdot is posting a constant stream of anti-Russia, anti-China, anti-Iran, and anti-Syria propaganda, laced with the usual pro-Israel garbage. And yet this is NOT supposed to be a political site- yeah, right.
Unicorn farts are even scarier.
http://www.tor.com/stories/2013/09/equoid
Maybe a version with a liquid fuel second stage?