Giant Spiral appears over norway.

[ArtZealot]

As the title reads, a giant spiral appeared over Norway yesterday, or this morning i believe. Reminds me of halflife 2. Probably has to do with the large hadron collider opening up a portal to hell, but thats just my personal opinion...

"It consisted initially of a green beam of light similar in colour to the aurora with a mysterious rotating spiral at one end,"
http://www.universetoday.com/2009/12/09/weird-giant-spiral-seen-in-sky-over-norway/

[Psychotime]

That's...different. I wonder what it is.

[B u r l]

Wow, that's awesome.

[AsaB]

Yeah, I heard about this too. Pretty eerie stuff!

A quick YouTube search led to these two short videos that show it pretty well:

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[Jason Rainville]

Mystery indeed

http://coto2.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/dr-evil2.jpg

[tobbA]

Might be a rocket spinning out of control, or some such...

[s.ketch]

I think the rocket explanation is solid. Its something falling on a curved path. The blue/green corkscrew is the path viewed from gradual 3/4 perpspective and any one who sees the 2D spiral pattern is viewing it from a perpendicular angle.

[Sekino]

UZUMAKI!! D:

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This is what happens when you abuse the Photoshop Twirl filter. Seriously though; that's a very impressive sight!

EDIT: Whoa, seeing it in motion (AsaB's post) is even more eerie. Was it spinning the whole time??

[Hookswords]

I can only assume the Norwegian government did the right thing and assembled a tactical reconnaissance team lead by Kurt Russell and sent them in

[Mordus]

Regardless of portals to hell, LHCs and falling rockets, this is VERY intriguing.
I ahve always dreamed I would be one the people alive and present to witness some momentous change in our world. This could lead to something, if it is what I hope it is.

[neutral.]

Unique sight indeed. It looks like a rocket, but! Perhaps it's a small part of a comet that got separated after an impact in space, and started swirling around until its inevitable contact with the Earth's atmosphere, and then it evaporated. Eugh, but probably not.

[Falchion]

Amusing, but it still must be said...

http://knowyourmeme.com/i/24183/original/500pxShopped.jpg

[Slash]

Man, obama is landing here tomorrow, and the russians are making our skies weird.. What's next? The zombie apocalypse?

[Peter Coene]

Man, obama is landing here tomorrow, and the russians are making our skies weird.. What's next? The zombie apocalypse?

actually, its Valhalla opening its doors to unleash the spirits of the great warriors back upon the world to fight alongside the Valkyrie and Norse gods. Expect to see all sorts of weird mythical creatures such as gnomes and fae showing up with swords made of hitherto unknown metals and bestowing them upon heroes yet unknown.

...or else the sky god decided to goatsie Norway.

[Hookswords]

Man, obama is landing here tomorrow, and the russians are making our skies weird.. What's next? The zombie apocalypse?

That would be a Christmas miracle. I wish for a zombie apocalypse every year, but it never comes.

[Baron Impossible]

Looks like a missile launch. They look nice (unless you're in their way). In this case I think the long exposure smoothed the edges a bit to give that impressive spiral look.

http://www.freqofnature.com/photos/mmiii/P9192034.jpg

http://www.edpadgett.com/blog/uploaded_images/rocket-742730.jpg

[ArtZealot]

Man, obama is landing here tomorrow, and the russians are making our skies weird.. What's next? The zombie apocalypse?

Something that looks like a portal to hell opening...obama visiting soon after...

coincidence? i don't think so...

[Saturns Gate]

Exciting! :)

[kab]

Russia is denying involvement, big surprise =p

[Sorknes]

Most likely it's a Russian rocket that ended up out of control, but the funny thing is that we're getting both confirmation and denials about that from Russia....

Edit: The thing about the denials and confirmations, no idea if that's on any newssites abroad, is that we were warned about a missile launch from a Russian submarine, but that the Russians now say that it didn't happen according to plan - as in it wasn't launched. Experts say it looks like a missile that's either been selfdestructing or taken down by other means by the Russians after they lost control of it - it had some weird movement going on.



Anyway, I just wanted to post THIS LINK (http://www.nrk.no/nyheter/distrikt/nordland/1.6902336) - which is to a newsite in Norwegian, but has a nice set of images at the top there (and a video or two but I don't know if you guys can see that if outside Norway). The photos are taken from quite a distance away from each other, so it's been HUGE... And VERY visible.

Here's some of them, uploaded with the right names of the photographers...

[Randis]

maybe some combination of bored kids+bird+glue+fireworks

[alesoun]

It would have to be a sea eagle! ;)

[Nrx]

ion cannon malfunction :o


pretty amazing, time to listen to the glitch mob and prepare for the apocolypse!

[Jacob Kobryn]

Is this Jebus extracting revenge on those pesky Norwegians for (unintentionally/inadvertently) spawning a Satanic cultural uprising?

[Sorknes]

It seems that it's pretty much confirmed now that it's the Russian submarine «Dmitry Donskoi» (1976), a Typhon Class submarine - one of the biggest ever built and the only one left in its class to still be used - that's sent up a missile that's called a Bulava missile. It's a missile meant to carry up to ten nuclear warheads, have a range of 8000 kilometers, are the maritime counterpart to Topol-M missile which is an intercontinental ballistic missile, and are meant to be launched from the Borei class of submarines.

This was supposedly the thirteenth test, of which nine has gone bad, and therefore it's a kind of a touchy subject for the Russians, as it's a part of renewing it's old arsenal. So they're not willingly to admit anything at the moment, but's kind of an open secret now.

[George Abraham]

The latest in plume technology?

Or perhaps hell's angels being cast down.

Or the newly installed lunar rocket defence system?

http://www.thelivingmoon.com/47john_lear/01archives/Soul_Catcher_Shuttle_files/sts98plume_nasa_1200.jpg

[s.ketch]

During the infancy of the US and Soviet space programs the US spent millions of dollars to develop a pen that could write in space. The Soviets simply used a pencil.

US rockets fly correctly though.

[Duq]

Its clearly Bifrost

[LORD M]

It must be aliens trying to hypnotize the Norwegians.


The latest in plume technology?

Or perhaps hell's angels being cast down.

Or the newly installed lunar rocket defence system?

http://www.thelivingmoon.com/47john_lear/01archives/Soul_Catcher_Shuttle_files/sts98plume_nasa_1200.jpg

That's no moon. It's a space station!

[kab]

Yeah, the russians are apparently admitting that it was one of their rockets now... no aliens yet, just Obama...

[yinteck]

But it look kinda fake.. Interesting indeed.

[ceberae]

I went through a few Russian news sources and they all confirm that this was a Boulava launch gone wrong. That's too bad. I was really hoping for it to be something out of the ordinary. Like a portal to another dimension.

[Two Listen]

This would've been so much more epic if it'd lasted for like, an entire day. It being so brief is a dead giveaway - no portal to hell, just another human screw up.

[Peter Coene]

During the infancy of the US and Soviet space programs the US spent millions of dollars to develop a pen that could write in space. The Soviets simply used a pencil.

Actually, there's a darn good reason that the US DIDN'T just use a pencil and its not that US scientists were too stupid to just think of using one. Pencils create debris; not a lot, but enough for it to be an issue in space.

Not all the graphite from a pencil will stay on the page, and due to having zero gravity in space it will float around without settling. It creates one more thing for the air filters that recycle the air in a spacecraft have to deal with, and in space one of the last things that you want to worry about getting jammed is the air filter.

In the early Russian space program the outlook was "It probably won't happen, and if it does we can make him a national hero and then get more cosmonauts." This might sound a bit severe, but remember that 20 years earlier they were saying "One carries the rifle, one carries the ammunition, if one dies the other picks up his gear."

[velderia]

Wow. That's actually kind of trippy. I like it. I don't know what the heck it really is (conflicting posts?), but I like it.

[ceberae]

In the early Russian space program the outlook was "It probably won't happen, and if it does we can make him a national hero and then get more cosmonauts."
As opposed to the modern day US space program, for example, where foam shedding from the external tank would be safe enough to launch with since it hasn't caused a problem in the past...

[Moai]

I can only assume the Norwegian government did the right thing and assembled a tactical reconnaissance team lead by Kurt Russell and sent them in

"What are those damn Swedes up to now?"
"Norwegians, Macready."

[Blahm]

yea ive seen a few angles of this thing and im gonna have to say, rocket my ass. Unless the thing was anchored in the middle it wouldnt be spinning all static like that. With multiple tails. I would say that it is something originating from the ground along the lines of what HAARP does.

[AsaB]

Still have no idea what this is, but it sure is fun reading all the theories!

Because I like videos, here's another one--shows the huge spiral much better, really quite the sight.

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[George Abraham]

It's the Kaboom device. No mess no fuss. Shit load of money for 12 seconds of moon rays but it's worth it.

[Mordus]

Russia has apparently confirmed it WAS a failed test of an intercontinental ballistic missile. Oh well. At least it wasnt nuclear. :sigh:

[Peter Coene]

Think of it this way: Norway was provided with an awesome fireworks show.

[squidmonk3j]

Our Larger Hadron Collider beat its previous 7,5 TeV per beam record, that's all.

Carry on.

[kab]

Russia has apparently confirmed it WAS a failed test of an intercontinental ballistic missile. Oh well. At least it wasnt nuclear. :sigh:

...yet.

:p

[jakobweiq]

i don think so...

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rough translation:
The guy was an enviromental engineer, on 1988 aug 25, 9pm, he was chatting with colleagues in the dormitory and saw northwest sky appeared a bright spiral. it from small become big (same as norway) , it ends with clockwise then anti clockwise.
*spiral video* This is the footage of Heihe (a china province) enviromental centre dearly kept for 20 years. A bright spot was araise from ground and rapidly dispense itself. there 's a moment when the direction change from clockwise to anti clockwise. This is something that can't be seen from photos, not even from CG simulation (!!)
*engineer talking* he say that the spiral appeared not once, but 2nd and 3rd days until the 5th day. People were speculating Russia disposal of nuclear warheads.
*host talking* 1988 was the year USSR ending the cold war.Indeed USSR had disposed of the nuclear warheads, but, not in the way that, "lets shoot it up as fireworks to dispose it". As even explosion in the sky will be endanger to all USSR and China. And international will able to detect it. Disposal of warhead had to dissemble the warhead, neutralise the nuclear reactor, and buried deep underground. Lets take a look at the video again. It was so beautiful and erie. And no one could understand what kind of matter create the anti-spiral effect. There's still no answer for 20 years.

[ArtZealot]

This would've been so much more epic if it'd lasted for like, an entire day. It being so brief is a dead giveaway - no portal to hell, just another human screw up.

You almost sound disappointed that it wasn't a portal to hell.

[VirusArtist]

HELLGATE: OSLO (you know its true ;)

[Krato]

Oh my god, the Christians were right the end of the world IS coming! I need to convert :O

[Two Listen]

You almost sound disappointed that it wasn't a portal to hell.

...well...I don't know if I'd say that. I didn't necessarily want HELL I just wanted...you know. Something that wasn't humans screwing up.

Again.

Could've been chinchillas screwing up something, at least that would've been different. And adorable cuddly soft.

[richarddoble]

whoa! I'mhttp://www.trippinballs.com/tripb_logo.gif

[Elwell]

HELLGATE: OSLO (you know its true ;)

In that it looked really cool, but sort of fizzled out?

[Slash]

OH SNAP! :P

Too bad really, i really looked forward to that title. :(

[BlightedArt]

To be honest. I think it's martians flipping us off.