Don't eat Turkey this Holiday since Cannabalism is a sin . . .

A startling act of accidental skywriting off the coast of Los Angeles Monday evening has become an aerial Rorschach test where every blogger and ideologue can spell out their own messages with the signs in the sky.

Rox,,,,,guidance systems kick in as soon as a missile is launched. corrections are made the minute its flight starts...And the course corrections shown in the pics and film directly correspond to the sat images of the missile exhaust patterns....Let your eyes be the judge.

of course a rocket contrail would shear as it passed through the different layers of winds aloft...

i would call it a thrust bend. a contrail's gonna be straight. there's a dogleg in the track here, and it's not coming from a crosswind, it's coming because the little gremlin who pilots the missile decided to readjust the thrust slightly shortly after the launch ...

http://spacefellowship.com/news/art23876/it-s-a-bird-it-s-a-missile-it-s-an-airplane-.html

so much for the horizon and the globe...
hey Ron, maybe you can calculate what distance the apparent horizon is as a function of your altitude... maybe not, klimmer couldn't do it

A new report circulating in the Kremlin today prepared for Prime Minister Putin by Director Anatoly Perminov of the Russian Federal Space Agency states that an Arkon-1 military satellite monitoring the western coastal regions of North America detected an “EMP anomalous event” occurring on November 8th at 0600 Pacific Standard Time (-8 hours GMT) that bore the “direct signature” of a YJ-62 subsonic anti-ship missile fired from a Chinese People’s Liberation Navy Type 041 submarine (NATO code name Yuan-Class) [photo 2nd left] known to be patrolling approximately 200 kilometers off United States coast.
Nearly 11 hours after this EMP “event”, this report further says, Arkon-1 then detected a BGM-109 (Tomahawk) subsonic cruise missile launched from a US Navy Ohio-Class submarine operating off the coast of California [photo bottom left] on a “training mission” from its home port located at US Navy’s Kitsap Base in Washington State and was enroute to the largest American Naval Base on the US west coast in San Diego, California.

I just looked at the stereograms, despite my promise to myself to stop reading this stupid thread. I expected the 3D effect to be pronounced as Klimmer claimed. But instead it was barely detectable at all. The visual cues from the nearby clouds were much stronger.

Not at all convincing. A dud.