Mystery 'Missile' Identified As US Airways Flight 808

[CreekDog]

"The mystery missile discussed on Slashdot Tuesday? It was US Airways 808 from Honolulu to Phoenix. An amateur sleuth checked the time against airline schedules, then the following day, checked out a webcam that was trained in the appropriate direction. He found the exact same contrail at the time AWE808 was coming over. The author deals persuasively with a number of objections to his argument

http://news.slashdot.org/story/10/11/11/191221/Mystery-Missile-Identified-As-US-Airways-Flight-808

http://blog.bahneman.com/content/it-was-us-airways-flight-808

Occam's Razor has me mostly agreeing. Oddly shaped contrails are far more common in metro areas than errant missile launches.

[haifa lootin]

1. You dirty killjoy, I bet you tell children there's no Santa Claus too

:D
:rofl:

[Sanity Claws]

2. It was an alien spacecraft

They leave contrails too, don't they?

[SidDithers]

3. K&R...nt

Sid

[RZM]

4. K + R

Not surprised here. Occam strikes again :)

[nadinbrzezinski]

5. Somebody add civilian craft to this chart

Oh never mind, I got to admit, it is funny.

On to the next time when they again do this and look for something that will make sense to most of the people...

LOL

Living in SoCal we are used to this...

The B1 was a figment of our imagination for decades.

[sarcasmo]

6. Great chart, when in doubt it's a weather balloon. Funny stuff.

[haifa lootin]

7. No silhouette, but...

[nadinbrzezinski]

18. That works

[FSogol]

8. Queue someone saying: "that's just what they want you to believe."

:popcorn:

[haifa lootin]

12. Cue

;-)

[FSogol]

15. My dictionary sez:

queue /kyu/ noun, verb, queued, queu·ing.
–noun
1. a braid of hair worn hanging down behind.
2. a file or line, esp. of people waiting their turn.
3. Computers . a FIFO-organized sequence of items, as data, messages, Jobs, or the like, waiting for action.
–verb (used without object), verb (used with object)
4. to form in a line while waiting (often fol. by up ).
5. Computers . to arrange (data, jobs, messages, etc.) into a queue.

Origin:
1585–95; < MF < L cauda, cōda tail

—Related forms
queuer, noun

—Can be confused:  cue

;-)

[Scurrilous]

9. K & R

:thumbsup:

[JoePhilly]

10. The entire flight is FAKE !!!!!!!

Geeze ... how stupid are we ... ??

Look, you want to test missiles ... so you create a phony commercial flight that no one is actually on, it takes off, and then you fire your test missile.

If anyone screams, you blame the fake commercial flight!!!! Its a perfect decoy!!

This is SOOOO obvious!!

[haifa lootin]

11. Wow, I REALLY need to get my sarcasmometer recalibrated

:spray:

[JoePhilly]

14. Bwahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I love the creation of new words!!!

"sarcasmometer"

:toast:

[Initech]

13. I like Jon Stewart's "giant space dick" theory better.

:rofl:

[Jamastiene]

16. Party pooper!

We were enjoying the "what if" scenarios. :P

[The Straight Story]

17. What is sad that all that money we give the govt and they could not tell us that?

First it was 'we don't know' then it was 'it is a plane, we don't know which one or any other info'

And they want to pat folks down and xray them at airports?

How about this "We check records and radar, and at that time flight x was in the air at that location'.

Naw - but they sure can tell what time you made a call, see your text messages, and know what you look like under your clothes, etc.

If true, they look like total idiots for not knowing and having real answers.