[kj] Fresh Fever From The Skies

[bongo]

nice, thanks!

=)



"due to a lack of trained trumpeters, the end of the world has been
postponed indefinitely..."


On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 12:19 PM, The Mighty TB <planetary at socal.rr.com>wrote:


> The video near the bottom of the article is pretty wild:

>

> http://tinyurl.com/y8ctp7g

>

> This was a test firing of a next generation Bulava missile designed to

> deliver nuclear warheads that went wrong. The first two stages worked

> normally and apparently one or more of the third stage's (which has a

> previous history of failures) reaction control rockets got "stuck" in the

> firing position causing the missile to spin wildly out of control through

> it's ascent until it was either destroyed by remote control from the ground

> or blew apart from the stress.  The chemical makeup of the fuel freezing in

> the atmosphere coupled with the lighting conditions being just right along

> with the angle of the rocket's launch in relation to the area as it spiraled

> in perfect widening circles before exploding caused the unique and fairly

> long lasting effect.

>

> T.B.

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