Who Thinks The Plume Is A Con Trail From A Commercial Jet??

[Procrustes Stretched]

Nigga...please....

Jorbit News Daily - http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/11/09/california.contrails/index.html?section=cnn_latest

Lived close to airport approaches for almost my whole life. That was a plane, not a missile.

 

[Procrustes Stretched]

I think those who thought it was a missle are being fooled by the persoective. You're looking at a 3D event in 2D. On a news someone showed pictures of a jet fly path from two angles, corresponding to the location and time of the mystery "rocket". From one perspective it looked like a missle going straight up, but from the other a more level flight path is evident. Besides, the speed of the object percludes it being a military missle, leaving only conventional aircraft or an amateur rocket as options.

We are not left with what it is... We, those of us that know what a con trail looks like 2d or 3d inclusive, are certain it was not made by any commercial aircraft. I'm a pilot sport. I've seen con trails from every imaginable angle. 2d/3d don't wash.

Occam's razor.

and Arguing over whether it was commercial or not is silly. Focusing on the contrail is silly, as the sunset, pollution levels, angle, etc are all in play. No one is able to see things from all angles. The video was taken by another aircraft? Another angle.

Funny thing is if there were something that weird, most all of the surrounding area would have been freaked out.


speed of the object says lots

 

[Procrustes Stretched]

The main news orgs were trying to pass this off as a Hawaian air passenger jet this evening. How stupid do they think we are?

Stupid? We elected George W. Bush --- twice, and Obama over Hillary.

Stupid?

 

[Baruch Menachem]

Normal contrail from a commercial jet heading from west to east. Also a normal opitical illusion that objects starting at the horizon and going to the top of an image are moving in a vertical direction. This is the way the brain is programmed to interpet that data, as it is the usual 99% of the time correct interpretation. However, human brains when they were formed did not have the problem of an object starting at the horizon at 30,000 feet and crossing over your head at 30,000 feet.

One of the weird thing about the way the mind processes information about the sky is that we think the sky meets the earth in a big bowl (That is how the brain processes the picture, most of us intellectually are more aware than that) Objects at the horizon are also perceived larger than objects higher up. (This is a really cool optical illusion concerning the moon. When it is at the horizon it perceived as huge, when it is at the zenith, it is perceived as small. It is the same size, about the diameter of nickel, in both places. Sometime when the moon is out and full, try this out!)

So definitely contrail.

 

[Procrustes Stretched]

Objects at the horizon are also perceived larger than objects higher up. (This is a really cool optical illusion concerning the moon. When it is at the horizon it perceived as huge, when it is at the zenith, it is perceived as small. It is the same size, about the diameter of nickel, in both places. Sometime when the moon is out and full, try this out!)

I do. It used to freak me out as a kid --- on acid.

 

[editec]

Normal contrail from a commercial jet heading from west to east. Also a normal opitical illusion that objects starting at the horizon and going to the top of an image are moving in a vertical direction. This is the way the brain is programmed to interpet that data, as it is the usual 99% of the time correct interpretation. However, human brains when they were formed did not have the problem of an object starting at the horizon at 30,000 feet and crossing over your head at 30,000 feet.

One of the weird thing about the way the mind processes information about the sky is that we think the sky meets the earth in a big bowl (That is how the brain processes the picture, most of us intellectually are more aware than that) Objects at the horizon are also perceived larger than objects higher up. (This is a really cool optical illusion concerning the moon. When it is at the horizon it perceived as huge, when it is at the zenith, it is perceived as small. It is the same size, about the diameter of nickel, in both places. Sometime when the moon is out and full, try this out!)

So definitely contrail.

Totally wrong.

When the moon is near the horizon the earth shrinks so it doesn't collide with the moon..

The reason you don't realize that is because of the way our minds work.

Since everything in your field of view but the moon is shrinking, you imagine that the moon is larger.

Naturally as the moon moves further away from the earth's horizon, the earth expands back to its normal size.

But again, as everything BUT the moon seems to be the same, the optical illusion is that the moon is shrinking.



Doubt me?

Okay, do stars look bigger on the horizon?

No.

But the sun does, right?

Again, the earth shrinks so the sun doesn't accidently set it on fire.

Impossible you say?

Okay and the universe isn't expanding either, is it?

Tomorrows Science lesson from Editec will be

How to spot a Witch using only a spool of thread, a duck, a small pond and thumb screws

 

[CrusaderFrank]

They're also now saying that the pilot of that plane was responsible for the "Flash Crash" of May 6th when the Stock market plunged for no apparent reason