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Um, who launched this missile?

post #1 of 51
11/9/10 at 11:58am
Thread Starter 
Missile launched off the California Coast and no one knows who launched it or why (plus, some video footage of it):

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(CBS) A mysterious missile launch off the southern California coast was caught by CBS affiliate KCBS's cameras Monday night, and officials are staying tight-lipped over the nature of the projectile.

CBS station KFMB put in calls to the Navy and Air Force Monday night about the striking launch off the coast of Los Angeles, which was easily visible from the coast, but the military has said nothing about the launch.
Pentagon and Navy are saying it wasn't them. I am thinking SPECTRE or Quantum. Maybe publicity for Battle: L.A. or Skyline.
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post #2 of 51
11/9/10 at 12:02pm
Anyone know the whereabouts of Brigadier General Francis X Hummel?
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post #3 of 51
11/9/10 at 12:04pm
Oh shit! The only question remains: Glas or plastic?
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post #4 of 51
11/9/10 at 2:54pm
Scary. I don't like being uncertain if we're not being given the scoop because something really dangerous and potentially panic inducing happened, or if this was some sort of routine scary missile test that the military feels no responsibility to fill us in on. I'm not sure which is worse
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post #5 of 51
11/9/10 at 2:57pm
Them Chi-coms are acting up again.
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post #6 of 51
11/9/10 at 3:21pm
SORRY. Sorry. Sorry.
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post #7 of 51
11/9/10 at 3:36pm
Tried to pop one off before leaving for work again, Jake?
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post #8 of 51
11/9/10 at 3:39pm
Anybody buy up a lot of real estate along the San Andreas Fault lately?
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post #9 of 51
11/9/10 at 3:41pm
Breakfast?
Breakfast.
Lunch?
Launch.
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post #10 of 51
11/9/10 at 3:45pm
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Originally Posted by Judas Booth View Post
Breakfast?
Breakfast.
Lunch?
Launch.
Bravo, sir. Us children of the 70's applaud you.
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post #11 of 51
11/9/10 at 3:48pm
Geez, I didn't think even Bob Denver remembered that show, and he was in it.
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post #12 of 51
11/9/10 at 4:14pm
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Originally Posted by stelios View Post
Tried to pop one off before leaving for work again, Jake?
"Tried"?
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post #13 of 51
11/9/10 at 5:22pm
Obviously, the launch was a salvo against those who might try & steal California's precious bodily fluids.
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post #14 of 51
11/9/10 at 5:25pm
I wonder if it was some kind of test of a private launch vehicle.
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post #15 of 51
11/9/10 at 5:34pm
Luthor, you're a madman!
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post #16 of 51
11/9/10 at 5:36pm
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Originally Posted by Jake View Post
"Tried"?
I keep forgetting you guys don't have the exact same expression.
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post #17 of 51
11/9/10 at 7:33pm
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The current story is it is an airplane contrail and because of the angle and altitude of the helicopter is the reason it looks that way.

Yeah, not buying that one.
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post #18 of 51
11/9/10 at 7:39pm
No way. Airplane trails are nowhere near that big.
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post #19 of 51
11/9/10 at 7:47pm
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Originally Posted by Bluelouboyle View Post
No way. Airplane trails are nowhere near that big.
Shhh! Yes they are.
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post #20 of 51
11/9/10 at 7:51pm
Where is Frank when we need him?
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post #21 of 51
11/9/10 at 7:52pm
Tony Stark: Now are you going to come by and see what I'm working on?

Rhodey: No, no, no, no, no, no, the less I know, the better. Now, what am I supposed to tell the press?

Tony Stark: Training exercise. Isn't that the usual BS?

Rhodey: It's not that simple.

Next Day

Rhodey: An unfortunate training exercise involving an F-22 Raptor
occurred yesterday. I am pleased to report that the pilot was not injured.
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post #22 of 51
11/9/10 at 7:55pm
Nah, this page does a pretty good job explaining it.
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post #23 of 51
11/9/10 at 8:03pm


That article is insane. I don't see any contrail going away or coming towards me. I see a rocket going straight up and to the right.
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post #24 of 51
11/9/10 at 8:13pm
I buy the Jake pulling a Gravity's Rainbow theory.
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post #25 of 51
11/9/10 at 9:47pm
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Originally Posted by TzuDohNihm View Post


That article is insane. I don't see any contrail going away or coming towards me. I see a rocket going straight up and to the right.
I want to believe.


ETA: Just for clarification, Jon Favreau retwitted the following one:
http://twitter.com/#!/SullivnsTravel...06659249852417
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post #26 of 51
11/9/10 at 10:58pm
So will 'up and to the right' become the new 'back and to the left'?
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post #27 of 51
11/9/10 at 11:01pm
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Originally Posted by The Rain Dog View Post
So will 'up and to the right' become the new 'back and to the left'?
That'll teach me to not trademark my posts like PK.
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post #28 of 51
11/9/10 at 11:03pm
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Originally Posted by Casey Moore View Post
Missile launched off the California Coast and no one knows who launched it or why (plus, some video footage of it):



Pentagon and Navy are saying it wasn't them. I am thinking SPECTRE or Quantum. Maybe publicity for Battle: L.A. or Skyline.
My brothers started the Cripple Revolution?
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post #29 of 51
11/9/10 at 11:14pm
I think this is finally happening.
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post #30 of 51
11/9/10 at 11:19pm
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Originally Posted by Greg Clark View Post
I think this is finally happening.
Awesome. Haven't seen that in ages.
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post #31 of 51
11/9/10 at 11:24pm
Um in all seriousness tho, is there a single person in this thread that believes the US military's story that they have no idea who fired this or why?
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post #32 of 51
11/9/10 at 11:24pm
Somebody cue the Media Break intro.
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post #33 of 51
11/9/10 at 11:46pm
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Originally Posted by Andres View Post
Where is Frank when we need him?
Move along. Nothing to see here. Move along.
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post #34 of 51
11/9/10 at 11:51pm
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Originally Posted by FrankCobretti View Post
Move along. Nothing to see here. Move along.
I expected this in the face of questioning:

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post #35 of 51
11/9/10 at 11:52pm
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Originally Posted by FrankCobretti View Post
Move along. Nothing to see here. Move along.
Hmmm... so they got to you too huh Frank? The bastards!



PS - I miss the days you used to post more around here.
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post #36 of 51
11/10/10 at 1:34am
I just hope Tony Todd is okay and still hating "soft ass shit".
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post #37 of 51
11/10/10 at 4:15am
So airplane contrails, then? Weird, it seems to me more like swamp gas reflecting the light of Venus on a weather balloon.
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post #38 of 51
11/10/10 at 7:23am
How about a nice game of chess?
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post #39 of 51
11/10/10 at 11:33am
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Originally Posted by Art Decade View Post
Obviously, the launch was a salvo against those who might try & steal California's precious bodily fluids.
HA! Dr. Strangelove was on TCM last night.


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Originally Posted by The New York Times
Pentagon releases statement about yesterday's unknown missle launch: "It was a weather balloon."
There you have it.
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post #40 of 51
11/10/10 at 12:16pm
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Watching Good Morning America this morning they were discussing it with Michio Kaku and he said he thinks it is an airplane, but yeah, no one has any definite proof for that.

I love how this has become: well, its an airplane, but radar doesn't seem to say anything and we aren't really 100% sure, but yeah, yall are all okay and it was just a plane.
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post #41 of 51
11/10/10 at 1:19pm
"this was no boating accident!"

We've seen missle launches from Vandenberg before. That is what they look like.
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post #42 of 51
11/10/10 at 2:08pm
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Originally Posted by The New York Times
Pentagon releases statement about yesterday's unknown missle launch: "It was a weather balloon."
Yeah, a really fuckin' fast weather balloon.
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post #43 of 51
11/10/10 at 2:34pm
If it was a registered domestic flight, it would be easy enough to verify. The FAA provides a real time nation-wide flight tracking feed that is utilized by a lot of different companies. if you had an exact time of day and a location you wanted to see flights over a site like FlightAware.com should let you see if there was any registered aircraft activity at the specified time.
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post #44 of 51
11/10/10 at 2:41pm
The link that dontEATnachos posted earlier has been updated twice, and it's pretty conclusive that it's an aircraft. Sorry to spoil everyone's paranoid fantasies.
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post #45 of 51
11/10/10 at 3:02pm
Not sure what you're on about. Neither of those updates concludes anything.
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post #46 of 51
11/10/10 at 3:08pm
The video clearly shows an aircraft in flight, and the gap between where the initial contrail dissipated and then re-started, which happens all the time, every day in fact. This whole thing is no different than UFO believers jumping to conclusions just because something in the sky looks odd to them. I'll trust the civilian scientists who've rationally explained it over the assumptions of laypersons any day.
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post #47 of 51
11/10/10 at 3:15pm
The only clear aircraft in flight is the one that passes from left to right across the contrail. Otherwise there isn't another.
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post #48 of 51
11/10/10 at 3:17pm
Then that's the world's slowest missile. And it stays in the atmosphere!
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post #49 of 51
11/10/10 at 5:40pm
Not much has changed, Singer is the voice of reason.
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post #50 of 51
11/10/10 at 5:56pm
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Originally Posted by Jacob Singer View Post
Then that's the world's slowest missile. And it stays in the atmosphere!
I'm not saying it was an ICBM but it is some kind of single engine projectile not a fixed wing aircraft.
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