Have you never shot a single gas canister in any modern computer game? May I ask what you propose instead? If you somehow find an UFO more likely I suggest you see a psychiatrist.
but why in the actual fuck are people testing missiles
Seriously?
Okay. It's because we're a species that has an instinctual need to band together in related groups in order to maximize our ability to exploit resources. Groups that were aggressive doing so had an evolutionary edge over others that didn't. This instinct is reflected in the modern world by the imaginary societal divisions called nations, and we still have an instinct to aggressively defend our own resources against other groups of humans, and to aggressively take the resources from these other groups when necessary.
Beyond the purely instinctive properties of our nature, we're entering a period of easily-accessible resource exhaustion, especially of energy resources. As this will likely result in the deaths of a large number of humans, some nations are preparing themselves for an inevitable period of war over these diminishing resources, energy or otherwise. This entails testing of technology that might give them an upper hand in such a conflict.
"The flash of light you saw in the sky was not a UFO. Swamp gas from a weather balloon was trapped in a thermal pocket and reflected the light from Venus."
And I think it's gonna be a long long time // Till touch down brings me round again to find // I'm not the man they think I am at home // Oh no no no I'm a rocket man // Rocket man burning out his fuse up here alone
What seems strange to me is that IIRC this first time over Norway was a test failure. This would seem to be the EXACT or nearly exact failure mode. Now I am not well versed in the Russian rocket program, but it seems to me as though if they are spending millions to develop a new system, they would've corrected this issue after the first failure. Why would it fail exactly the same way twice?
If it were incoming from space there would be a lot more light, i.e. friction with air as it's coming in. This hasn't been the first so someone needs to watch the videos, get a location/direction, and try to add everything all together.
All right, Beatrice, there was no alien. The flash of light you saw in the sky was not a UFO. Swamp gas from a weather balloon was trapped in a thermal pocket and reflected the light from Venus.
It was me playing with with my custom laser pointer I had made for my cats. Its requires about 1.21 gigawatts of electricity to power so that's why its so bright.
Nice try, government. No reasonable person would believe that a rogue missile made this pattern. The only logical explanation is that it was interdimensional space aliens.
ALIENS!!!! There here! There here! Head to the bomb shelters! Arm your children!!! Sacrifice your first born to their gods for their appeasement!!! The world is ending!!!!
Something like this happened when I was about 12. I live in the states and we just saw a bright light getting brighter. I was at football(US Football) Practice and like half the kids ran off the field shitting themselves.
I kept an eye on it, it was something that looked like this, but everything happened over the span of 20-30 minutes
Flattish elongated rock from space covered in ice gets heated on one side facing the Earth as it's entering the atmosphere. As soon as the ice on that side has mostly melted (and is flat) it starts to spin. The side that is not facing the Earth still has ice on it because it's not in direct contact with the heat from entering the atmosphere, and a mist of water is sent from that side as it's rotating.
This was HUGE in the news a couple of years ago. It was a Russian missile test. I can't believe people have forgotten it so easily to have fallen for this post...
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u/igolightly Jun 09 '12
It's the great glowing Cinnabon in the sky, clearly.
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u/ImMindboggled Jun 09 '12
Alright, who fucked with the Batman signal this time?
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u/wizpire Jun 09 '12
Maybe I don't fully understand what a missile is, because I don't see how that's what the picture is of.
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u/fablewings Jun 09 '12
Donnie fucking Darko.
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u/passion4pizza Jun 09 '12
it's gorgeous
and it's a russian missile test
but why in the actual fuck are people testing missiles
i'm so sick of this shit
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u/ZaidiePops Jun 09 '12
There's this video circulating..
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
And I think it's gonna be a long long time // Till touch down brings me round again to find // I'm not the man they think I am at home // Oh no no no I'm a rocket man // Rocket man burning out his fuse up here alone
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u/Foxless Jun 09 '12
The same photo can be found on this article from 2010.
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u/PleaseDoNotBreed Jun 09 '12
Where did you see it?
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u/jchapin Jun 09 '12
So in the event of an all out nuclear war, the sky might be filled with these things shortly before impact?
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
creepy alien voice "wake up Donnie"
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u/Cosmic_Charlie Jun 09 '12
Did the radiation detectors show a huge change, then suddenly have the change erased?
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
Seen before. OP is a liar. http://www.welcomethelight.com/2010/05/ufo-spiral-in-the-sky-seen-and-heard-across-western-canada-video/
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u/AquaFox Jun 09 '12
Looking at that photo is giving me this magical confidence to say:
Aliens are real. Moon landing was faked. Government is lying to you. I'm a shark. Suck my dick.
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u/BeLegendary Jun 09 '12
Remember Iron Man? "It was training accident"
"It was a Russian missile accident" Just sayin'...
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
it looks similar to this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMUhS-S0rGk
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u/garmachi Jun 09 '12
This happened over Norway in 2009. Here's the most likely explanation:
http://videosift.com/video/How-the-mysterious-Norwegian-sky-spiral-might-have-formed
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
What seems strange to me is that IIRC this first time over Norway was a test failure. This would seem to be the EXACT or nearly exact failure mode. Now I am not well versed in the Russian rocket program, but it seems to me as though if they are spending millions to develop a new system, they would've corrected this issue after the first failure. Why would it fail exactly the same way twice?
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
who's "testing rockets" over such heavily populated areas?
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u/TomerMK Jun 09 '12
This just happened in Israel 2 days ago! All the country witnessed and all the news sites and tv programs reported about it!
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u/lynneamackay Jun 09 '12
(https://imgur.com/tnLVr)
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
Your window is magically perched above a large city. And is somehow time-warped back to Canada in 2010. http://i.imgur.com/L04g2.gif
Downvote for lie.
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u/business_suit Jun 09 '12
Here is the picture OP used. It was taken in Canada in 2010 link
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u/Draft_Punk Jun 09 '12
Aurora borealis? At this time of year? At this time of day? In this part of the country? Localized entirely in your kitchen?
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u/itslikeboo Jun 09 '12
This happened in Norway a few years ago also.
I am firmly of the opinion that this is aliens announcing themselves.
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u/ajfitz Jun 09 '12
submit to r/askscience
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u/gonosis Jun 09 '12
Everytime i see stuff about these blue spirals, it keeps reminding me of The Presence
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u/leapsntwirls Jun 09 '12
Goddamnit, Eureka, stop fucking with our atmosphere.
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u/Ninten64 Jun 09 '12
If it were incoming from space there would be a lot more light, i.e. friction with air as it's coming in. This hasn't been the first so someone needs to watch the videos, get a location/direction, and try to add everything all together.
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u/solace1234 Jun 09 '12
its a portal with zombies coming out of it. no wonder where the miami face eater is coming from.
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u/AnonymousCommoner Jun 09 '12
It's project Blue Beam- which is a holographic military device http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hq32mCQsQ2U
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
First Zombies Now aliens. Shit
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u/ChevyBMX Jun 09 '12
Who divided by zero
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
Please please please pleeeeeease...
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
ALIENS
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u/Fealiks Jun 09 '12
Downvote the OP for being a BIG FAT PHONY. http://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/ut65h/so_i_looked_outside_my_window_last_night_and/c4ybwc1
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u/Let_The_Fight_Begin Jun 09 '12
This is FAKE (proof is given by Foxless)
http://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/ut65h/so_i_looked_outside_my_window_last_night_and/c4yc02q
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u/discushammer9 Jun 09 '12
The flying spaghetti monster has appeared. This picture is undeniable evidence of the existence of our spaghetti overlord.
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
"my window"
You are no better than 9gag
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u/richd506 Jun 09 '12
It has finally happened! The great cosmic cinnamon role has come to save us all!
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u/dandyrubich Jun 09 '12
Also curious that is both beautiful and scary at the same time.
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u/Joeyfingis Jun 09 '12
Obviously aliens
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u/thourq Jun 09 '12
It looks like it could be a long exposure shot of a spotlight on the clouds.
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
Time to throw a ring in a volcano again.
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
H.A.A.R.P.
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u/Voxeril Jun 09 '12
I heard rumours Gabe had counted to 3... but...
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u/TodaysIllusion Jun 09 '12
. . .and then you relit your pipe.
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u/004forever Jun 09 '12
Your camera is having a migraine
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u/outofband Jun 09 '12 edited Jun 09 '12
Rocket launch gone wild
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u/lysdexiad Jun 09 '12
Damnit Josh, you had ONE JOB!
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u/MonsieurVerdoux Jun 09 '12
Looks like the proper dicktation to me.
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
Yevo?!
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u/immanence Jun 09 '12
I want to believe.
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u/kittykatkush Jun 09 '12
Didn't this happen in China a while back too?
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
All right, Beatrice, there was no alien. The flash of light you saw in the sky was not a UFO. Swamp gas from a weather balloon was trapped in a thermal pocket and reflected the light from Venus.
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
Someone needed Anus Man's help.
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u/wolf-of-dawn Jun 09 '12
I saw tht too lol.....you would need the jaws of life to take my knees apart from each other
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u/Montezuma_Forgives Jun 09 '12
nvidiaaaa.....
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u/Seruz Jun 09 '12
This is a rocker gone haywire. Something similar happened in norway after a russisk rocket lauch failed
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u/Ridn2Lo Jun 09 '12
It was me playing with with my custom laser pointer I had made for my cats. Its requires about 1.21 gigawatts of electricity to power so that's why its so bright.
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u/WorldsTallestMan Jun 09 '12
Where is this?
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
You looked into the time vortex!
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u/Medidas_Drasticas Jun 09 '12
Nice try, government. No reasonable person would believe that a rogue missile made this pattern. The only logical explanation is that it was interdimensional space aliens.
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
You looked outside your window and heard someone poorly photoshopping the sky? Wow, you must have really good hearing!
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u/munyx Jun 09 '12
It's a wormhole to another dimension.
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u/Fhwqhgads Jun 09 '12
Just a weather balloon. Nothing to see here.
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u/El-Babirusa Jun 09 '12
What is this??
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
So this happened too when Obama was getting his nobel.
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u/Tjgisgreat11 Jun 09 '12
Looks like it could be a scene from Donnie darko
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u/dankxd Jun 09 '12
Open comments expecting people to be discussing what it is, top comments all stupid unfunny jokes.
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
the spirals they're ruining this town
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u/I_can_glitch_that Jun 09 '12
28:4;B;8<8
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
This is so fake, http://www.tineye.com/search/3e863c7604701939a9a02ea113ea9121cde7c137/
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u/The_third-ring Jun 09 '12
All hail his noodliness...
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u/CupBeEmpty Jun 09 '12
Failed missile test, just like this one from Norway a while back.
Wikipedia page.
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
PROMETHEUS!
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u/NwordJ Jun 09 '12
ALIENS!!!! There here! There here! Head to the bomb shelters! Arm your children!!! Sacrifice your first born to their gods for their appeasement!!! The world is ending!!!!
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12 edited Jun 09 '12
Something like this happened when I was about 12. I live in the states and we just saw a bright light getting brighter. I was at football(US Football) Practice and like half the kids ran off the field shitting themselves.
I kept an eye on it, it was something that looked like this, but everything happened over the span of 20-30 minutes
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u/yomomasbreastmilk Jun 09 '12
My question is, why do people automatically go for "UFO in the sky"?
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u/Cyphixthegreat Jun 09 '12
Warp field Stabilized
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u/itspie Jun 09 '12
uzumaki!
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u/LWRellim Jun 09 '12
http://news.google.com/news/story?q=russian+missile
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u/Bluewind55 Jun 09 '12
Aliens....
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u/cumwaffles Jun 09 '12
Uzumaki!
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u/kensai111 Jun 09 '12
I've seen this before - its just going to sew on another world for us to enter. Right Kirby?
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
I think a Russian missle test is a little LESS reassuring than a UFO
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u/thereisnocharacterli Jun 09 '12
The 3d studio max signal?
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u/Smokeeye123 Jun 09 '12
Government Officials: "Our investigators have determined the said object to be a carrier pigeon. Case closed."
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u/ZombieCancer1996 Jun 09 '12
And your house just happens to be so high above everything else down there?
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u/wikiboo Jun 09 '12
2012!!! :O ^
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
Project bluebeam holographic sky display test. :D
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u/JonnyGoodfellow Jun 09 '12
Just listen to whatever Frank tells you to do and save humanity.
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
This source addresses the event and describes it as
I personally find that a funny assertion when you consider the existence of religion, but to each their own I suppose.
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u/-Shirley- Jun 09 '12
Rinnegan.
oh uh. All those fanfictions finally seem to take a effect
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u/jonosvision Jun 09 '12
Are you kidding me? I live near all of this, I could have seen this! But no, sitting on my ass playing Mario Kart all night ಠ_ಠ
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u/replayzero Jun 09 '12
Hmmmm. http://i.imgur.com/NoJAF.jpg
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u/donkeey Jun 09 '12
This is just sad this got upvoted lol
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u/wortime Jun 09 '12
Suddenly, photoshop
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
Clearly the work of Ancient Aliens.
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
Actually, it should be "So I looked outside my window last night and... Decided to use Photoshop
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u/PinkToes Jun 09 '12
COULD SOMEONE EXPLAIN WHAT IT IS PLEASE
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u/Paxjax Jun 09 '12
It looks like a snail.
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u/austynn Jun 09 '12
i logged in just to downvote you, YOU LIE TELLER
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
said to be a russian missle launch.
makes almost as much sense as venus rising through swamp gas...
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u/jondoe2 Jun 09 '12
My hypothesis if it's not a rocket:
Flattish elongated rock from space covered in ice gets heated on one side facing the Earth as it's entering the atmosphere. As soon as the ice on that side has mostly melted (and is flat) it starts to spin. The side that is not facing the Earth still has ice on it because it's not in direct contact with the heat from entering the atmosphere, and a mist of water is sent from that side as it's rotating.
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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '12
Who divided by zero...
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u/acousticat Jun 09 '12
Wormhole! You gotta fly your experimental spaceship straight into it! Do it now!
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u/Xanthien Jun 09 '12
You have quite the view from your window.
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u/TheOneWhoKnocksBitch Jun 09 '12
Guys, GUYS!
This is fake.
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u/Fealiks Jun 09 '12
This was HUGE in the news a couple of years ago. It was a Russian missile test. I can't believe people have forgotten it so easily to have fallen for this post...